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You are watching live coverage on cspan. Uomo good morning. Be up withasure to everyone this morning. Cleans. In corona always we are in queens. Theys good to get out of capital and talk to people who are doing the work. I am a queens boy, so this is coming back for me. It was called that before the virus. There is no connection between corona queens and the virus. Let me introduce my colleagues. Pay foy, chairman of the mta. To my immediate left, sarah fienberg, who runs the transit borough. Ga...

Great. Good afternoon. It is great to be in Orange County and i want to thank mayor for reachingemings out about the barbers in the salons. The discussion was great. We were trying to just do things in a way that is state safe, smart, stepbystep. We did not roll it out in phase one but that doesnt mean we are not intent on getting to yes on this. The ideas we heard were great. I will receive written product. We have folks consulting with physicians, working with written product as well. I am not...

Total hospitalizations down again. , we areook at the curve ago. Where we were 21 days 21 days of hell, but we are back to where we were. But we need to find out is when we will be back to the point where only several hundred people showed up at the hospitals every day with the covid infection. Thats what we want to see. Want to know how fast the decline continues and how low the decline gets. We would like to get back to the days of only 400, 5 hundred people showing new infections every day. T...

Data to the department of health for all individuals who have tested positive for covid19. Good afternoon, everyone. Happy earth day. Im joined by the woman on my right who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, someone else who does not eat an introduction. Our state epidemiologist, thank you for being with us. Left, the my superintendent of the state police. Thank you. The director of the office of Homeland Security preparedness is with us. For him. ...

We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the conversation. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grade the federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This pr...

There is a lot of equality in the senate. Most of what we do is on unanimous consent. Anyone of the hundred of us could object and throw the place into a stupor. Every senator has some real clout. The majority leader has more clout in the ability to set the agenda and be recognized first, which gives you tactical advantages. But the house always says we are like a pyramid. At the top you have the speaker. The senate is more like a level playing field, with the majority leader has a little more a...

Everybody. We hope you and your families are safe and well. If you have lost to somebody to this virus or someone in your life is sick or you are one of the millions suffering economic hardship, know that we are in our prayers. Know that you are not alone because now is the time for all of us to help where we can and to be there for each other as coworkers, and as fellow citizens. Seenthe past weeks we have plenty of examples of the kind of selflessness we will need to get through one of the mos...

Laborer jobs. Nowadays, gig work is associated with platforms. Apps. These are temporary jobs that you get through your phone. Host lets look at some of the numbers from the Labor Department to see the trajectory of an unemployment in the country as a result is what has happened with the pandemic. March 21, we had 3. 5 million jobless claims. The following week, 6. 8 million. The week ending april 4, 6. 6 million. Right now, we are approaching nearly 17 million americans claiming unemployment be...

Timing, thetrol the ds controls the timing. I want to be transparent with how we will approach this incredible challenge of reopening segments of our society while living with the virus and how we will maintain healthy communities. Of theearly days pandemic, i had to take action to protect the health and safety of oregonians from the disease. Now as we see these efforts are working to flatten the curve, we are analyzing how and when to reopen each part of our society and economy. I want to work ...

What city . Philadelphia. What were your recollections of the Great Depression . Eating a lot of beans, we were on welfare even back then and we would eat dried beans. We did not have rarely did we have any sort of meat. Sick so heer was could not work. And there were not jobs around at the time until roosevelt started the new deal. Thats one of the big things that sticks in my mind, eating a lot of baked beans. , i had to go out into the woods and cut would to try and i purchased my own close f...