News writer thomas frank discusses how clean and the army corps of engineers are responding. At 9 50, representative danny davis of illinois on the pandemic in the state. Host good morning, this is washington journal for april 3. We are showing you footage from d. C. Terryton , Cherry Blossom festival last year. We want to know how you are responding to the covid19 outbreak, particularly in positive ways. Maybe there is a search of volunteerism in your community, or assisting others who are desperate and needy during this time. Tell us your story on two lines this morning. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to tweet us, it is 202 7488003. Make sure you put your name, city, and state if you text on that line. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Even in these dire times, there are several positive stories in the papers across the United States. Just a couple to show you, this is the Delaware County daily times, showing out of edgemont 10 days ago, six members of the white horse village, all members quilters, are making facemasks. They are being used among skilled nurses and outpatients, and they are working on requests for personnel who work in the mailroom. So far, the quilters have produced 180 masks. Although a large majority have been used at the village, as monomers have been donated to numbereds a small have been donated to fill needs elsewhere. Some residents have friends or family who need them and they may not be available. N outelevision station kwr of birmingham putting out a story there, an officer of the act of kindness. The officer was patrolling a community when she noticed a group of Homeless People outside of a church. Talking to them, she learned that the church had not been able to do with breakfast feeding for the homeless, so that is when she decided to take it upon herself to drive to mcdonalds to buy food and drinks for the homeless. And hand them out herself. That is one other act of kindness. The New York Times magazine, they have a series going on, this is particularly First Responders, how they are responding to this thing, what they are seeing and the other things they are seeing as far as how people have come alongside them. If you go to the los angeles times, two millennials are described, they started a website where they connected members of the Community Together to help deliver groceries, pick up pharmacy needs, that kind of thing. Those are some of the positive aspects of what is going on during our current time as all the nation is dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. Some of you have shared this morning or thoughts on our social Media Channels as well. This is amelia bell off of facebook, saying we are supporting restaurants and small fornesses, putting up signs essential workers, we are distributing food and supplies for those in need, adding and adding in all caps, we are getting each other through. Elaine on facebook, we are offering help to people who cannot get out. People are checking on neighbors who are alone, food pantries are swamped but still open, adding we are worried about the people suddenly unemployed and certainly we worry about the increase in infection and debts. Aaron saying when it comes to activity in his community, describing it as an excellent job. ,arks and schools are empty schools are closed, and there are accommodations for the immunocompromised. Restaurants are providing takeout and free delivery. Churches and local restaurants are providing daily free mills for needy families free meals , all ladiesmilies make masks for the community. My childrens teachers provide educational packets and free access to Premium School online programs for them. Communities dealing not only with the seriousness of covid19, but helping each other cope with that. Maybe you have stories to share of that as well. It is 202 7488000 if you want to call us from the eastern and central time zone. 2027438001 if you are calling from the mountain and pacific time zones. Gary starts us off in new jersey, east brunswick. Good morning. Caller good morning. You made my day. You always make my day. I am 82 years old. You are a great station. Let me tell you what i am doing, but first let me give a compliment to the mayor, brad j east, the mayor of brunswick and an Emergency Management officer. I have an emergency pacemaker in my heart. I utilize a walker because i have a stability problem from two tiny strokes, but i have gone to the gym seven days a week until this incident. This is what i have been doing. I want to give a tremendous compliment to the mill town , newacy in milltown jersey, my next community. I have been purchasing masks and sending them out, distributing them to different Senior Citizens, elderly, and disabled people. Aldie also been going to allowing people to get their fresh vegetables and everything. I want you to do a favor for the Senior Citizen community. I purchase items from amazon. I do not have a computer, so since the libraries are closed, amazon will not take a credit card over the phone if you call Amazon Customer care. They have been very kind to me. They have been extremely kind. They said to send a note to jeff bezos in your own handwriting and tell him please, try to allow your company to take an american express, visa, or mastercard over the phone in able to order. I want to compliment cspan. You are doing great work. Great work. Im doing this in the name of my young daughter, who died 31 years ago. Programs and concerts for children in the by county area. I am grateful, im extremely cohen,l to mayor brad j the mill town pharmacy, and thank you to everyone else in the community. Thank you and god bless you. Contact amazon and tell them to order let people order over the phone. Host gary starting off the morning, telling us about his experience in new jersey. Lets go to south carolina, North Charleston, and we will hear from ike. Good morning, ike. Caller good morning, pedro. How are you doing, buddy . As an aside, i would like to say, we need more stories about what these manufacturers are doing. It would be nice to hear from 3m and it would be nice to hear from the people who make the ands and the faceplates maybe see inside your factories and see if they are expanding. I know they are ramping up. This constant beating on the public with these stories, we know it is bad. We know we are behind. We know there has been missteps. We get all that. But we need to turn this thing around, and to turn it around we need more positive stories, just like what you are talking about. , we hadNorth Charleston a young fellow that just got out of the hospital. He had about with leukemia. , and about six years old now of course everyone is quarantined, so his birthday came up and his parents put a sign out front, which said honk if you go by, for my sons birthday. The next thing you know, they had the entire North Charleston police department, the fire department, and total strangers come by, drop off gifts, bicycles, he has been made an Honorary Police officer, and that is just out of the goodness of peoples hearts. Right now, as i said, we are tired. We are just tired of all this. We are tired of the negativity, bleeds it leads, and all the problems. I would like to hear from the manufacturers and the workers that are putting out the new machines for the testing and start showing some progress instead of all the negativity, because it is killing us out here. Host that is ike in North Charleston, south carolina, talking about the manufacturing aspect and highlighting a little bit of the Community Effort there. Connectedent in a story invoking the defense protection act, particularly when it comes to 3m, saying we hit 3m hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks. To manya big surprise in government who were doing what they were doing, and a big price to pay. Is wall street journal, this the effort of the patriot to get masks to his neighbors in massachusetts, and what they have to go through as they flew the patriots jets, saying this was a week long saga that began with the states governor and ended with embassies, private partners, and st successful football franchise. The plane was given permission to land in china to connect the mast collect the masks. The primary issue is getting the right to land the 767. Governor baker had sent letters requesting this permit. Help iner asked this humanitarian mission and said that no one would leave the aircraft, and that the crowd had managed to pay half the cost of the goods. The n95 masks were produced by various manufacturers across the country. Thenolan, who spearheaded logistics as the chief operating officer of craft sports and entertainment, we are boots on the ground together the goods and get them to the right place. You can read that in the wall street journal. That is on the large level. What is happening in your community, we go to massachusetts in oxford. We hear from carl. Hello. Caller thank you for cspan. I want to encourage people, you go into a store, you have any kind of a transaction, go to the bank or whatever, always thank the clerks, the people who serve you. They really appreciate it. People, i find people are very polite. Some people dont know how to which isuse, you know, understandable. I guess there are some people there who are nasty. They take it out on the people who serve in the stores, the clerks in the stores, and it is not a good thing. Tell the people you appreciate them. You will make their day. Can i make a quick comment about cspan . You do that, when you tell people that, what is there exact reaction from those in the Grocery Stores, when you do that and give those comments . Caller they really appreciate it. They respond. I was in a conversation with a young woman in the drugstore, and we were talking. You know, one Silver Lining out , youl this is that people appreciate people. Not just the doctors, nurses, medical people, but truck drivers, people who do the cleaning, you know . Everybody, you appreciate the simple things that you dont even think about in normal times. Thats basically what i have to say. Can i make my quick comment . Host if it is quick, yes. Is there anyway you could change the 30 day rule for calling . Host the 30 day rule has been in existence for as long as i have been with this program. We generally find that it works for the most part. We understand people might not obey it all the time, but generally it works for us as far as allowing people 30 days from the time they make their calling to the program or not, but thanks for your comments and the comments of the 30 day rule as well. Robert in maryland, waldorf , maryland. Caller thank you, pedro. Here in the state of maryland, our governor has decided to tell home,t we got to stay at but basically suspended our First Amendment rights. We still do have the right to peaceably assemble in this country. I dont understand why people are rolling over and taking this. We are talking 5000 people have died from this . Up aca needs to toughen little bit. If this was a world war, we have lost many more people in wars than this. We lost 50,000 people year to tiresu if you lose two on your car and you need to replace the tires, you do not take your car to the junkyard and total it. Shutting down this economy is destroy wipe out, this country. People need to go back to work in order to save this country. Host as far as maryland, the governor putting those requests in place. You find that people do you find that people are largely obeying that there . Caller i certainly hope not. Pedro, when they stop your right to go to church, congress should about freedom of religion. Our freedom of religion has been taken from us. Can you go to church and worship on sunday, pedro . No you cannot. Churches are Offering Services online for people who have been affected in the way you are talking about. Caller millions of people have died for the right to protect this constitution. Our First Amendment rights, sir, are being stripped from us. That is what is being done here. For American People to sit back and take that without even getting up and raising holy hell over that amazes me. Host ok. Lets hear from mike, North Carolina. Your community and its response to coronavirus. Go ahead. Caller how are you doing, pedro . I cannot speak for the whole community, only the people i am with y interacting the two organizations i am currently interacting with our the university of North CarolinaHealth Care Services and oncology center, because i am currently undergoing chemotherapy. I had surgery in january. As everyone has said, and i will echo it, the Health Care Professionals in this country are nothing short of outstanding. The nurses, the doctors, they have upped the ante. When i have to go in for my treatments with their precautions, you get off the elevator and they take your temperature immediately. No visitors are allowed, so they are doing just a fantastic job. The other place i have to go to on a regular basis is the local supermarket chain, so that is called harris teeter. As one of the earlier callers mentioned, i go out of my way. I used to be in supply chain and logistics, so i know what it takes to keep those shelves stocked every day. I dont think Many Americans have any kind of understanding of what goes on to get those crops out of the field or get that beef from the ranches and processed and on trucks and have those shelves stocked every day. It is somewhat shocking to see the shelves now somewhat barren, and they are doing their best. I go out of my way, as that person said too. E shopped there for many years. Im not friends with them, i dont socialize them, but i see them all the time, the pharmacist and everybody else. I got up my way to praise them and thank them for their work, and some of them know about what i am going through and they always ask me, can i do anything . Can i bring you groceries whatever. They are great. I think our state is weathering this so far, god bless. We are doing ok in North Carolina. I dont think we have been hit terribly hard yet, so i think in general the state is doing well. Fairlyorth carolina is a upscale Bedroom Community in raleigh. E, thereets are bar restaurants are empty, like everywhere else in the country. It is terribly sad. Host mike in North Carolina, thank you for your comment. If you want to give this bring this on the hyper local level, where you live in the United States, dont be afraid to that. He said he can only speak for where he lives, and that is fine. Share your stories through the course of the hour. The eastern00 for and central time zones, 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. In spite of the dire situation, we have been showing you this chart every single day, from Johns Hopkins when it comes to cases across the United States, with one million plus cases of coronavirus now, almost 54,000 217,000 recovering from it. When it comes to Johns Hopkins in the United States, over 6000 deaths and 9228 cases of those recovered. Those are the latest figures on the medical front. On the economic front, many of the headlines accounting for yesterdays unemployment filings for weekly job assistance, 10 million losing jobs according to the Washington Times headline. Over the last two weeks. For statistics numbers new labor statistics numbers coming out today, with what is going on in the economy and particularly jobs. That he in palmetto, florida, you are next up. Good morning. Betty in palmetto, florida, you are next up. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I am an 88yearold lady and in my community, we have no Grocery Stores, banks or nothing. It is a small black community. Have thext town, i wells fargo bank, where i go to. The door is locked. You have to give them your name standing outside the door, and they open the door as they get your name. They are supposed to open up at 9 00, but you have to wait outside until 9 30 until you get the names of people. Of people. The names you have to stand six feet up from each other. And we have to go to another town to get everything. You can only get one roll of paper towels, one thing of toilet paper. Then the governor, i cant believe i dont live where this happened he had a pastor arrested because he had Church Sunday going on. I cant believe it. I go to another town and we had church last sunday. Our Community Church is closed, but can you believe the governor has a pastor arrested . A white 200 he is pastor, i am not speaking about blacks, but this is a white minister. 400 members to the church. If they had been sick, they could not have went to church, the way i see it. He had to pay 250 to bond out of jail. I think this virus has gone too far. I just hope it leaves. Im 88. I have not stopped doing the things that i do. I am a member of the Historical Society and when i need to go to a meeting, i go, but i just cant believe that they are really having everybody afraid to hardly go anywhere now. Int ok, that is betty palmetto, florida, the governor putting the stayathome order recently in place. Betty is there from florida. If you go to reuters, the website, they highlight some of the acts of kindness, so to speak. One person, this is someone who decided to dress up as the