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7488001. If you are recently unemployed, special line for you this morning 202 7488002. You can also send us a text, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good friday morning to you. President trump released his new guidance yesterday as the Labor Department announced another 5. 2 million americans have filed for unemployment last week as the Washington Times notes that raises the jobless claims for the month to about 22 million. Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s have so many people been thrown out of work so quickly. Reason, the white house argues, to get a plan in place to open the economy. This was Pre ....
We have increased tremendously. We have done over 225,000 tests. Probably by the end of the day we will be 200 35,000 completed tests with results. One of the things we wanted to do early on was provide easy access for testing for folks. The first place we worked in conjunction with the Florida National guard and local officials was in Broward County when we did the first drivethrough testing site. One of the most successful sites in theyone has done country. We will have leaders from the National Guard, and watch to see the best practices. Uniformly they say this is one of the best. It has been incredibly successful. All of the drivein sites throughout florida have done 56,000 plus tests just in those drivethrough sites. People are being tested in the hospitals. They go to their doctor, the doctor will send it to a la ....
[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. He clerk the speakers room, ashington, d. C. , april 17, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable William Lacy Clay to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Us pray. Conroy let god of mercy, thank you for us another day. To sk you, o lord, to come our aid now in the midst of the global spread of the coronavirus may experience your healing love ....
The Virtual Press briefing is an hour. The springto meetings 2020 Virtual Press bankrence with world president david malpass. President malpass will give weef opening remarks and will turn to your questions. Thank you to all the reporters from around the world who have been submitting questions. We may have to group some of to get through as many as we can and we may edit for brevitys sake. You send in questions, please submit only one per outlet. With that, president malpass, over to you. Malpass thank you and good morning to everyone. Im happy to speak to all of you. Wish the circumstances were not as grim. I would start by saying i hope you and your families are healthy and coping in these challenging times. To express my deepest condolences to the millions of around the world suffering from covid19 and who one to the loved pandemic. I just concluded a very virtual dialogue, ....