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An expert all right its time to boost your news i. Struck a deal in the wee hours of the morning to deliver a massive 2 trillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package bill is being held up again the spending bill which is the biggest relief package ever in u. S. History would alleviate some of the Economic Impacts of code 19 such as providing support to businesses and sending out checks directly to families in need but right now there are 3 loud voices against this deal from tax been following all the developments shes joining us now with more to this fair and whats going on so middle of tuesday night as we know in the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer they came together so that they struck a deal they were going to go to their sides of the aisle and get everyone on board to vote this bill and pass it to. Day however 1st it was Democrats Holding up the bill well now its 3 republicans who say they wont vote yes until the changes they want are made now those 3 g. O. P. Senators are was about to come on your screen senator Lindsey Graham senator ben sass and senator tim scott all say that the bill put forth today would give a quote strong incentive for employees to be laid off and stead of going to work because some people could theoretically make more by being unemployed now all 3 say they will vote no until this part of the bill is addressed or the department of labor gives Regulatory Guidance that no american would earn more by not working than by working now last night mail of both the Senate Majority and minority minority leaders they were very happy about what they were able to put in this Coronavirus Relief bill so lets take a look at what each side was able to win in all of this so for republicans 1st their main focus was to help corporations and businesses as well as hospitals now democrats were fighting them on this saying its about the people not corporations so republicans were able to keep those emergency loans again and businesses but also Small Businesses as well and there were democrats and republicans that compromised and actually compromised on this section here so democrats won the argument of strict oversight where corporations will be required to lay out how theyll spend their emergency loan and also make it public not just to congress but to the American People as well democrats also got an Oversight Board to monitor businesses and their federal aid spending now minority leader Chuck Schumer who hes calling this workers 1st Unemployment Compensation on steroids where anyone who has lost their job due to the coronavirus will have their salary plus benefits paid for by the federal government now both sides also agreed on funding for hospitals Nursing Homes and Health Care Workers along with direct checks to the American People now weve been seeing that 1200. 00 per american being thrown out there but as far as who gets what and how much those again those canes are still being ironed out so again its 3 g. O. P. Senators holding this up after the senate was expected to vote and. This 2 trillion dollar stimulus bill this afternoon all an effort to keep the u. S. Economy from going into a Great Depression President Donald Trump says hes now still waiting on and expecting this bill soon so he can sign off it signed off on it immediately manila there thank you for that. And while governments work on plans of action to fight the coronavirus scientists and everyday people are desperately seeking cures from big pharma to fans of Natural Remedies everyone is in on this battle argues alex the highly bitch has that story from laboratories in china to the u. K. Thousands of people around the world are working on ways to fight covert 19 Fast Development of the license facts and she takes many years its quite probable with the accelerated reasons for development for a cavy vaccine that might be shrunk to maybe a year the urgent need for something to be done is being addressed internationally among the Many Companies universities and other institutions working on a vaccine some believe the 2 front runners at this point are china based can sign a Biotechnology Inc and massachusetts based moderna therapeutics which is already testing its vaccine on humans can sino is known for creating the worlds 1st internationally accepted a bowl of vaccine. But besides players like china the u. K. And u. S. The World Health Organization says more than 20 vaccines are being worked on around the world and that includes places like israel singapore russia and canada however the who is cautioning that we need to take our time when talking about vaccines according to the organization there is only one thing more dangerous than about virus and that its a bad vaccine while many see stopping the virus before it hits any harder as a priority its important to remember that we might not get a vaccine at all so developing treatments is equally important and according to experts faster repurchasing existing drugs that work can be done in weeks a possible treatment thats got a lot of attention is rem deaths of ear developed by gilliatt sciences its described as an investigational Broad Spectrum antiviral treatment one of its applications has been to treat patients with a bola gilliatt however received lots of heat for obtaining exclusive access to the potential for the virus treatment and critics are claiming the company is trying to cash in from the crisis. Another possible solution is collecting hiv drug currently being tested and then there is the drug that President Trump has called the game changer clear equipment and antimalaria drug thats been around since 1949 while experts say there needs to be more testing on chloroquine for some the world of science and medicine is just not moving fast enough and theyre ready to risk it all to find a cure and arizona man and his wife both in their sixtys in just a fish Tank Cleaning out a diff made with chloroquine phosphate they thought it would be a good way to keep the coronavirus at bay the man died and the woman was hospitalized but is expected to recover the European Union which has been hit hard by covert 19 is urging people to be wary of quick fixes according to our European Union agencies. The amount of cyber crime in the European Union has increased and the number of fake medicines disinfection sprays a miracle cures sold online is staggering in the meantime russian scientists have taken the 1st microscope images of covert 19 information is welcome to mediation in the fight to developing vaccines and drug treatments that will be effective against the coronavirus for r t r x my heart of which. They saying to fit community is working around the clock on prevention and treatments against the kobe outbreak American Company sin bio beta is partnering with baird to bring awareness on the private efforts to develop and tracks and that of biology solutions impacting both preventative measures and future treatments of this virus there are currently 66 programs working on 3 different approaches 7 companies on repurpose saying of existing drugs as the 1st line of defense and 16 organizations working on antibodies that can be manufactured and used on patients to reduce infection and then 43 entities are currently developing a vaccine so to discuss these therapies and initiatives we are being joined now by dr john cumbers new c. E. O. And founder of sand bio beta thank you so much for being with us dr cumbers so 1st lets talk about private Companies Joining you know federal governments on what seems to be a parallel fights to respond to this pandemic how are these efforts different or do they align at all. Thank you for having me as an alignment because the government has actually seen this coming for many years now weve seen this with songs with as we did ola and one of the most initiatives that came out after it was something by the department of defense a Pandemic Preparedness Program and that aligned with companies and universities this exact thing and they ran a competition to try to develop. And antibodies against such things as saas over the last 11 weeks so they did this as a demo last year and they actually did it in real time this year with scientists at Vanderbilt University who took blood from patients in seattle who covered and searched their blood to find the b. Cells that produce these antibodies that would attack the virus wow so theyre already moving forward with that with with the blood from the recovered patients that is absolutely fascinating and now private efforts they are focusing on Breakthrough Technologies can you 1st tell us exactly what Synthetic Biology is and how it might accelerate the process to developing these antibodies and treatments against. Synthetic biology is a movement to make biology easier to engineer youre seeking these Rapid Advances in the ability to read d. N. A. To write d. N. A. And d. N. A. And thats enabling all of these new applications in terms of designing building and testing cells that perform particular functions and that could be anything from the food that we eat to the materials that we wear to consumer goods to some of the most pressing issues around how we can fight off infection and improve health care by making drugs and actually living medicines that can fight off some of these viruses and since youre working on this sort of technology how does it accelerate the process of developing antibodies and things of that nature. So antibodies are the 2nd line of defense if you look at the info graphic that weve published this morning with leaps 5 it outlines the 3 lines of defense that people are currently taking and the timeline that its going to get there the 1st as you showed in your report just now is using drugs that have already been approved to re applying them to this virus the 2nd is creating. And he wanted these antibodies you and i make them all the time against the common cold against infections that get into have bodies the trouble with this Novel Coronavirus is that we have not seen it before and have bodies do not have those antibodies to be able to fight it off so there are a number of ways that we can get to these antibodies and we showed that on the info graphic the 1st way is that we can take the blood from patients who already had covered 19 and theyve recovered that means that their bodies that the cells of producing these antibodies a gun a neutralized that is kill the whole or not let into your body that saz kovi to virus which causes convict 19 the 2nd way is by taking mice and giving those mice a human immune system after you give those genetically engineered mice a human immune system you can inject the mice with a virus and all with all with a small amount of the virus and the mouse starts to produce those antibodies against the against the 19 virus and the 3rd way is to take existing antibodies that have been developed against previous versions of the virus so saas wand that we had this is now science to that were having coded 19 is a disease thats caused by this virus and there are enzymes and bodies that weve already created against the 1st virus and there are companies out there out there like distributed io thats now evolving those existing antibodies and treating them against the new virus wow and dr converse gene editing and Crisper Technology has in the past theyve proven effective for example in a case 2015 where young girl was cured of leukemia for example can gene editing be applied here to this current outbreak. Absolutely so there are 2 mischa divs that i know of where they using crisper and geno getting in some. Way against this current outbreak the 1st is an Amazing Company and an Amazing Technology mammoth i a sciences here in the bay area and theyre using christmas as a diagnostics tool and i have a column on forbes dot com and you can find an indepth interview that i did with the c. E. O. Of mammoth and you can see how theyre using a molecular scissors which is what crisp air is to the viral genome in a specific place its very specific and you can design these tests for any particular d. N. A. Sequence so you can design a very specific test and 2 weeks ago it was actually went through and showed the u. C. S. F. Medical center with dr charles chu they actually implemented the test and they could cut down the testing time by 4 hours using this new crisp a base diagnostics approach a 2nd way that people are using this is just in a study that came out last week from Stanford University stanley chee has also designed a crisper that can kind of very specifically the saws coby to viral genome and very specifically it can remove up to 90 percent of the viral of the virus that is in human cells so some amazing advances that was seeing in Crisper Technology being applied to this while hats off to you dr john cumbers stand by a beta thank you for doing this work and well be keeping an eye on it and see how this can help all of mankind hopefully thank you dr converse thank you. For these Turbulent Times in the u. S. Are nothing new americans who lived through the Great Depression know about sacrificing and getting through the dark chapters in life were going to discuss that very topic with a special guest next and then sports over the sports page kill regina hands going to share some major moments in this day in history for the right path. Im going to fulfill the repeated promises oh politics to the people i promise to be you know weve all pots to. Be pretty. Much. Anywhere. You want to 1st. Know. All. I can link up my yeah. I can show you my face but im going to teach you my story in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. They could charge kenny with capital murder even though he didnt have the gun didnt pull the trigger didnt intend to kill anybody imagine living in your vast for the week with the son of a 23. 00. I doubt that had to serve to be. Confined within 4 green walls he finds using. To help him to leave dents room. And. As millions of americans worry about how to make ends meet with ongoing coronavirus related layoffs comparisons to the Great Depression loom the great the Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in modern history lasting a full decade from the stock market crash of 1929 up to 939. 00 unemployment was over 26 percent and millions of americans were left looking for jobs that simply vanished with the stock values on wall street in that time a little boy was born to poor Orthodox Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn New York his earliest memories were the stuff of history books that little boy grew up to be larry king and hes here with us now to discuss then and now and how to keep going in the face of adversity so larry for those who dont know your history you had a tough childhood i mean you werent born with a silver spoon in your mouth your family had to go on welfare after your father suddenly passed away when you were just a boy what do you say to the millions of americans out there who are right now unsure about what the future holds for them. Oh you know i would tell them to hang tough. You know my memories of the i was born in 33 which went to the persian really hit i have memories of being 5 years old 1938 i remember Franklin Roosevelt on his fireside chats news an extraordinary president and he kept this at bay he made us all of us to hang tough and i was so important at that time board really solved the depression was world war 2 world war 2 put thousands of people to work other people went into the militia and world war 2 in fact many accuse roosevelt of starting the war of going using pearl harbor to go to war with europe and germany to force see what was coming because nothing can be nothing can beat a depression like a war and i dont advise you were going to do that today out of the who would require a war against but they were tough times in my file as you said my father did died we were put on a program call relief i guess naive called welfare which inspectors came and gave my mother certain amount of money every month to pay the rent. It was not easy. And how would you compare then the Great Depression to what might be happening today do you think were were facing another depression. As well im an economist but thats what condiments tell us that as long as this keeps going more people are out of work going to have to feed them were going to face a recession so i think ill go with what they say theres a strong possibility of that because it weve i dont think weve got a cure right around the corner i dont think well have a cure by Easter Sunday and as long as that cures stay. Away and the chance for recession a greater im told and larry how do you think growing up poor shaped you into the man that you have grown up to be i mean what lessons did you learn growing up. You know mom im more real im a know ive often thought about that. What are you growing up poor teach me well it taught me to be resourceful. I was unable to go to college couldnt afford it my mother finally have to being on relief for 2 years had to go to work sort of talk they was big breaks dont always happen and often you gotta make your own breaks you know times are tough youve got to grab a hold of it and make i have a younger brother he managed to get through college go to law school. I remember my 3 we were 3 we were in a apartment. I was on the 3rd floor of a private house there where we rented the floor my brother and i had to sleep in a little room with a little attic like this some member looking up to my mother would go out the window with that attic put you know what and what was funny. Miller we didnt think we will pour. We thought we well we did times are rough but theyre rough for everybody so we i never walked around like a poor kid my friends generally had a little more money than i did and never saw a 20 dollar bill to the i delivered groceries. But you know what you come through it you know what you manage you know what you could make it. And larry you touched on world war 2 changing the direction of the country putting people back to work and i mean we have a lot america has a lot of fires a lot of. Fires burning all over the world i would say i mean i think its a tinderbox at this point and all the years that youve youve been a journalist and youve talked to all these people you also brought up f. D. R. s fireside chats that you recall as a kid how do you think the president is handling this right now do you think hes speaking the way f. D. R. Was or is he is he doing anything that to bring us together. Hes an old friend i known for 40 years he does not have in my opinion the leadership skills that f. D. R. Had which were. F. D. R. Brought the country together use the radio talk of vision was around he made the radio very effective trump is not that kind believe that hes a businessman hes a hotel magnet. You know hes struggling i think with his presidency didnt expect any of this to happen but can he lead us through this. Big question mark those who heard rose of old would say he has no he doesnt compare in the slightest rose will had a way and i guess you are born. You know when rose when rose was president yet but he had a way. He had a way of bringing people together he would come out and we gather around the radio again we had no television we turn on the radio and he would do these chats like every 6 months and he helped build us through he he could you are can you imagine trump coming up with the only thing we have to fear is fear itself now 1000000 years no we dont have that kind of leadership but you never know well you know hes known for your youre fired but i dont think you can do that to the fire larry i think you cant fire the fire or you can fire you can fire a virus we will leave it right there larry i appreciate your wisdom being shared with us today larry king a legend thank you so much. Thank you. All right lets head over to the sports h. Q. Regina hamm is there. Are a lot of active sports going on right now so that you know theres not a whole lot of it so what are you sportscasters doing theres a lot of these you can do you know these are the best of our lives word since they are mostly postponed that gives us a chance to take a trip down memory lane to see what happened on this day in sports thank you 72 u. C. L. A. Bruins defeated Florida State 817062. 00 in the end title finishing a season with a 30. 00 and 0 record 45. 00 win streak their 2616 year old kitty meissner pulled an upset win at the World Championships in Calgary Canada she made a whopping 7 triple jumps to be teammate sasha cohen who placed 3rd 2008 tennessee Womens Basketball coach pat summitt and her 108 win with a 7852 rout of purdue putting them in the Regional Semifinals some of the all time winningest coach of Womens Basketball and is regarded as a pioneer of the game. Major league baseballs 2020 season is currently postponed with officials stating it could start as early as mid may but for new york mets they find themselves with one of their pitchers gone before the season begins in a statement to the media the Mets Organization said that right handed pitcher Noah Syndergaard will undergo almer clady a ligament reconstruction surgery or tommy john surgery on his right elbow on march 26th syndergaard also nicknamed thor was expected to be a key member of the mets rotation with his surgery the 27 year old who missed the entire 2020 season with a potential return in april 2021 center guard is one of the hardest throwing guys in the game with a career high 197 and one 3rd innings pitched last season but a career worst 4. 28 year a who he was an incident during his rookie season in 2015 regularly reaching 100 Miles Per Hour with his fastball striking out 166. 00 batters in 150. 00 innings the worst tommy john surgery is the 2nd announced by a high profile pitcher in recent days the Boston Red Sox all. So announced that ace lefthander chris alles also needs to go undergo the procedure and measure in running a race in your apartment because you couldnt get outside to do it thats a chinese sports and that is why i did all in isolation show up at 5 am one morning and ran 10 kilometers at 6 point one miles all inside her apartment residence of the house are allowed outside as part of the chinese restrictions regarding the current of ours. Made sure she kept up her exercise with bridges and plans to stay active zuma certified instructors that only took about one and a half hours to complete the 10 kilometer kilometer run she hopes that once your chickens are looked at she can start training one day for a marathon. That is a lot of running to you in your apartment i would never want to do that you know not my thing either not my you know your little thats pretty clever if youre a runner i guess you wrote what else you do all right thank you for that regina all right thats all we have to right now but well be back at 7 pm eastern make sure you keep up with everything in question i dont mind by downloading our brand new free app horrible t. V. There 1. 7 ill be back in just a little bit i mean what have you. From donald trump in 2016 to 2020 there is part of the electorate that responds to antiwar anti interventionist rhetoric in fact there is evidence this significantly helped get trampled elected but the fact remains the establishment is keen to downplay and even demonize any candidate who questions all supported options. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond sure we can to get us out of the world of politics. Im sure ill see you then. According to u. N. 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