A Trial Program for its Digital Currency were going to discuss all that and more coming up all right its time to boost your news i q. 1000 continues to take the world by storm with cases now topping well over 2000000 the latest number of cases now 2 and a half 1000000 with about 175000 reported deaths here in this country in the United States 814000 total cases with about 43000 deaths more than one 4th of that total number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Come from new york state alone now new york continues to be the epicenter of this outbreak with some 242000. 00 converge cases and now the governor and. Requote cuomo is meeting with President Trump to discuss the States Coronavirus response with more on that anticipated meeting and how the federal government could help out new york heres arties Trinity Chavez with more. As the states across the country begin to reopen Governor Andrew Cuomo says in order for new york to get back to business a drastic increase of testing is needed but with over 90000000 residents in the state of new york he says were going to need the help of their own government and hes taking his concerns directly to the white house for many new yorkers getting back to some type of normalcy is still a long road ahead i know everyone in new york is so anxious to go back but we have to take things slow and. Slowly take. More time we have to. Go back to work in a safe environment. Say the number of deaths have been down for 6 consecutive days the number of people dying is still horrifically high in the state we lost 481 people new york cemeteries racing to keep up with the mounting death toll this past friday. Summer mariels. President of penn burials in new york city freezer trucks lined the empty streets full with bodies of colvin 1000 patients so many families unable to say goodbye to their loved ones we have strict visitor requirements so so often a patient will be on their death bed dying alone and its been incredibly painful to see the suffering of family members who i call from the i. C. U. Hearing their tears crying with them on the phone while the number of new cases are the lowest they have been in a month there are still more than a 1000 new coronavirus hospitalizations a day rather a very busy day harvest season both sides of the year at new york city officials preparing for the disease to rebound setting. The Strategic Reserve for the production in stockpiling of medical equipment while coronavirus testing sites open in hard hit communities all of. You were struggling theres theres theres theres theres were never no no no no to do this while a large scale Antibody Testing trial begins in new york the goal to test 3000 people randomly across the state a small number in comparison to the 19000000 new york residents who would need testing to reopen the state now Governor Cuomo has repeatedly called on the federal government for help who are supplying needed to ramp up testing here in the state and now today he has the opportunity to talk about all this and more. With the president reporting from home in new york trinity. Meantime it appears congress and the white house have reached a deal on a 2nd cope at 19 relief bill the senate is expected to vote and pass the 480000000000. 00 relief bill sometime today aimed at helping Small Businesses and hospitals as the latest bill comes a week after the initial 350000000000. 00 Paycheck Protection Program ran out of money you know while several states are starting to reopen including tennessee texas South Carolina and georgia. Theres no doubt coburn 1000 has impacted just about every industry including the transportation sector here in this country with fewer cars on the roads you would think now would be an excellent time for those badly needed road repairs right while thats not really the case are to correspondent natasha sweet takes a closer look at how this industry depends on so many drivers mainly on the drivers wallets less traffic in the 2nd largest city seems like a good thing expression for commuters but according to Industry Leaders but in the Transportation Industry they state that this demick have halted projects by the. And maybe people wanting to use Public Transportation a whole lot less stay at home orders keep the majority of americans off the roads some of the busiest highways are barely recognizable and while this may be saving consumers at the pump transportation Officials Say this could have a long term detrimental impact on infrastructure according to the american percent fewer writers than usual the remaining writers are mostly essential workers which include janitors grocery clerks and nurses these 30 percent account for roughly 2800000. 00 people less writers means a big slash in profits the Transportation Industry is expected to be hit hard with a lack of revenue from fares sales tax adds and parking fees as a francisco Municipal Transportation Authority is already seen a 200000000. 00 quarterly loss new yorks metropolitan Transportation Authority is estimating a weekly revenue loss of 142000000. 00 while washington d. C. Metro is losing 2 point 5000000. 00 each weekday and in compliance with social distancing and stay at home orders most have already cut back on operations seattle has cut 103. 00 bus routes and is running fewer affairs miami has cancelled express buses and plans to outsource overnight service to oberoi and lift and despite the efforts many workers are still becoming ill in new york 2269 transportation workers have tested positive for the crown a virus 59. 00 have reportedly died as of last week to help make up for the losses the 2 trillion dollar federal stimulus package included billions for these Public Transit systems however nothing was allocated for state highways or bridges and as a result many projects have been halted in Washington State where the 1st case of the crown a virus originated in the u. S. Dropped 92 of its 100 active highway projects vermonts 200000000 dollars Road Construction plan for 2020 is now completely on hold in San FranciscoBusiness Leaders were hoping to put a one cent tax on the November Ballot that could raise 100000000. 00 over 40 years for transportation. Projects throughout the region but the pandemic interrupted the work needed from state legislators to get the measure on the ballot Officials Say for voters who do want to get on board for finding state highways and local roads can do so come 20222024 but it made all the plan on the Economy Consumer confidence and just how quickly things can get back to normal reporting in los angeles because the streets are too. And Chinas Central Bank is now introducing its own Digital Currency in a Pilot Program that will be 1st instituted across just 4 cities now internal tests of the Digital Currency are being conducted in shenzhen suzhou 0 chandu and shown on the Satellite City of beijing to improve the currencies functionality so joining us to discuss and probably explain boom bust cohost investigative journalist ben swan ok ben so explain this to us this is a Digital Currency it sounds a lot like crypto currency like bitcoin is it is it or is it different. It only sounds like it in every other way other than being a Digital Currency its nothing like crypto currency its more like Facebooks Libra because thats also not a crypto currency and the big differences clearly the fact that you have the peoples bank of china which will be issuing this they dont even have a name for it yet theyre calling it d. C. For Digital Currency or e. C. For electronic currency and essentially it would you know be set up as a Digital Currency but theres no privacy theres no way of not being tracked through it in fact the Chinese Government would not only be able to track everything youre doing with it but would have access to your Bank Accounts that youre putting these funds in to be able to monitor those Bank Accounts at all times so its nothing like a crypto currency in terms of privacy or protection ok yet totally not crypto and bad is the the goal i mean whats the point here if theres no there if you can track everything better than you can with with paper money is the goal of this currency to eventually replace all that cash and paper money and for china to become like completely a Digital Currency society. Well look i think the chinese will say and they are saying that its not going to replace all cash you know things with remain the same it would just take some cash out of the system and move it into the system i dont believe that at all i believe that absolutely the long term goal here is to replace all cash 1st of all a lot of the Asian Countries are already nearly cashless societies theyre much further ahead than we are in the west in terms of using Digital Payment systems and outs on their phones to pay for things with this system eventually you get to the point where yet people cant deal in cash at all and by trying to make cash as worthless as possible then you remove the kind of the black Market Element to it people avoiding taxation and government gets to control the currency supply to an even greater extent so i dont believe them when they say they dont want the whole system to go that way look the reality is the positive actual crypto currency is bypassing banks and peer to peer transactions but the negative side of Digital Currency is that government gets to own monitor and control all currency ok ok ben might my next question dont dont laugh but i got to ask this so if chinas going to move forward with this type of Digital Currency then is america as answer to that going to have to be facebooks or what if whats the one that j. P. Morgan chase is working on is going to be one of those that the j. P. Quite know it wont be the j. P. Coin because thats essentially set up to replace the swift Banking System when you do transactions internationally its not a silly question at all in fact its a very serious question because i think that with facebook and ive been saying this is you know for some time that facebooks goal has been to be a central bank tool i think thats what the liberal was originally designed to be Mark Zuckerberg has never admitted that a lot of the groups that were part of the Labor Association have backed out of that but the only way libra ever becomes an actual player in the market is to align itself with the central bank the u. S. Federal reserve. Server of some kind of central bank and then to process Digital Payments that way i suspect thats where theyre headed because otherwise libra cant exist as a centralized currency that belongs to a private company the u. S. Governments not going to allow that so the only path forward for Facebooks Libra is to align itself with the central bank i predict they will be doing that sometime in the next 24 months 24 months thats not very far off and now real quickly i know the u. S. Has a lot of irons in the fire especially with corona virus happening in this country and all over the world but is there any chatter that the u. S. Treasury might be working on its own money i mean i its hard for me to imagine the u. S. Government linking up dont i mean this directly and overly with facebook i do magine the u. S. Government would want to do its own right where you would think that and i would say in the past you were absolutely right but weve seen a very strange kind of quantum leap here in the last few years where a lot of federal agencies and Government Agencies have outsourced spying Data Collection you know privacy violations monitoring of citizens to Big Tech Companies this might just be another thing that gets outsourced to a Big Tech Company i do know this that as of last year when libor was being talked about pretty heavily and Mark Zuckerberg came under a lot of scrutiny over the Labor Association and exactly what libor is in the libor wallet remember he was in front of the sin of the yes there were a couple of comments made that the Federal Reserve had looked at doing it but the u. S. Treasury itself has never really considered it and is so far behind so far behind the rest of the world especially china that the only way to fast track it would be to work with a group like facebook and again thats why i suspect that behind the scenes there are conversations going on where Facebook Says were already way ahead of you lets find some way out to Work Together and as i said its been happening in other forms and i mean let me just throw out there that a lot of government offices here in d. C. Are still operating on like windows 11 so you know thats. Our old use is no there. No well we have a right pair benz one thank you so much for that update. In the. Area other news making headlines today maryland has procured 500000 coronavirus testing kits from south korea this is the result of gov larry hogan and 1st lady you may hogans personal plea to south koreas ambassador to the u. S. Calling this operation and during friendship the price tag on those test kits is about 9000000. 00 and will soon provide accessible testing throughout the state. And National Nurses union protested outside of the white house over the lack of corona virus protection nurses are demanding mass production a p. P. S. For Health Care Workers and better standards under osha rules now members of the National Nurses united union also honored Health Care Workers who have died from this virus. And a Green Party Candidate is accusing twitter of censorship after his Campaign Account was suspended well well discuss this topic with that person himself coming up and then later at the sports h. Q. Regina hamm brings us some news out of japan about the incredible cost of postponing the olympics. Its seemed wrong. Rowles just dont call. Me to be yet to stamp out this day to come to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when shes to look for common ground. Americas got 20 or 30000000 people unemployed now the question is why have they no savings why dont they have a stable thats a very important question that we need to look at. This is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. What happens to her family and daughters in florida the mother daughter is very reminiscent of terri it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the Police Needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court be the. Shock shock as far as aside we feel. We dont know shell just screw. The end of this trial unfortunately you truly will still love no chill just. Green Party President ial candidate how we hawkins recently had his Campaign Twitter account totally expelled along with a number of nonmainstream voices in the media and social activists its a growing trend that seems to be clamping down on free speech as we draw closer to the elections in november so to discuss this were joined by how we hawkins himself so how we please 1st explain to us what should happen to you and your account i understand they believe your account was fraudulent in that you were impersonating yourself. How do you even do that. You know we got a notice that somebody was impersonating but nobody talked to me you know to didnt talk to me we just got the notice and news on the notice a couple paragraphs then it says thanks twitter no ability to feel. Theres a click please tweet tweet to get to complaints it looks like somebody could have impersonated me to say somebody was impersonating but with no ability to appeal is a problem so weve contacted the electronic route was called the freedom from Fear Foundation and asked for help you know hopefully this is just a dumb mistake you know i