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History and now Prime Minister just you know is promising more gun control legislation all right its time to boost your news i. Q. Over 1000 continues to live up to its name as a Global Pandemic as confirmed cases worldwide now topping 2000000 the latest count shows 2400000 cases with about 168000 deaths so far taking a closer look at this nation the u. S. Now reporting some 776000 confirmed cases with more than 40000. 00 reported deaths a total of 3800000. 00 people were tested here in the u. S. 600000 of those over in new york alone still the epicenter of this outbreak and where hundreds continue to die every day but today there is growing pressure to reopen some parts of that state parties trying to chavez has the report. 51 days after the 1st case of corona virus was reported in new york to date the state has nearly 250000 infections and more than 18000 people have died but today some good news the question for us is we are we past the apex we have had a number of days that have seen a reduction reduction is of course the board. But while the spread of the virus appears to be slowing down the daily death toll still horrifically high 478 deaths reported just yesterday the lowest number of deaths so far many hospital still full with kovan 1000 patients. Everybody. Oxygen hundreds of doctors and nurses now transferring to City Hospitals to help because of the lack of demand at the temporary hospital at the Javits Center then a wall fishel say the york is beyond its peak there is growing pressure to reopen the state we need to. Get out of it by family heating. So we have to take a rest Governor Cuomo saying before the state can ease restrictions testing of the coronavirus has to drastically increase but he needs the help of the federal government the National Manufacturers will say well its not that easy i cant get the chemicals the chemicals from to come from china i cant make the vials fast enough i cant make the swabs fast enough so i dont know whats right or whats wrong with that National Supply chain question but thats where the federal government could help intense conflict between new york officials and President Trump growing new york city mayor bill de blasio blasting the president over the weekend the president s been silent so president whats going on cat got your tongue youre usually really talkative. You usually have an opinion on everything how on earth do you not have an opinion on aid to americas cities and states how on earth do you think that new york city which has been the epicenter of this crisis can get back on our feet without federal support this says a state rules out Antibody Testing to help determine how many new yorkers were infected with the disease starting today a sample of 3000 state residents will start receiving tests from the state department of health to detect the presence of antibodies produced by people infected with coded 19 but the u. S. Governments top Infectious Disease expert dr anthony found she is urging caution a few countries have taken anybody tests and found out after buying millions of them that they actually dont work so i give it as a cabbie up because. We need to get a test that works and thats thats reproducible dr that even if there was a test that works there are still so many d questions that need to be answered including whether having an empty body means that the person who was infected with coded 19 is immune to the virus reporting in new york city each of those are 2. U. S. Navy sailor is in trouble with authorities now after he was caught on security cams leaving his room at a hotel in guam where he having potentially been exposed to cope at 19 aboard the u. S. S. Theodore roosevelt and the sailor was returned to naval base qualm where he is now subject to disciplinary action by the military sailors and guam are currently required to stay in their rooms for 14 days as part of their orders by rear admiral stuart baker for more on the growing threat on this tiny island we will turn to dr thomas shea hes president of the Guam Medical Association and dr she is also an o. B. G. Y. N. And retired Navy Lieutenant commander so dr thank you so much for being with us today so having served in the navy yourself tell us how serious of in a fraction is this by the sailor who left his room is it fair to punish him given that he along with others who are quarantined at this hotel they have so far tested negative for corona virus oh its a very serious you know being a military for years and i was stationed at the u. S. No but i can tell you that sailor will be disciplined this is not something i was taken seriously not seriously but i think i once picked up and given the order do you stay in place and you violated order i bet youll be undergoing chapmans mass or maybe even more as a Court Martial so hopefully that no more still to be trying to escape from the rooms but i think what well see what happens yeah i imagine they want to make an example of him so that way other sailors arent going to try to do the same thing after getting bored being stuck in their rooms and a doctor you were the 1st m. D. On the island to reach out to the governor of guam to call for an immediate lockdown given that guam has such a tiny population of under 200000 around 12000 of those are u. S. Military members how critical are no measure is there now to flatten the curve. Oh its very critical i think across the country what im going to have a Fragile Health Care System here we have what we have what we luckily what we have here is a flat denial that our island is pretty flat compared to new york city singapore what is charming with 3000 residents in 14 i think its important to note that warmest really simply flat so i think over what that situation but i swore asked the 2nd occur we have to think over the last few days we have 0 positive so thats a good sign but were not just big enough but again across the country were not just big enough but right now i think we have about 136 positives who tested nearly. Now as far as the navy goes i think it tested about 603000 nearly 4300. 00 right now its going up to 672. 00 thats positive so were testing and i think the key is to isolate clementina nicely and the lockdown is happening but i think there are some but theres here a bit and across the country as well. And given your experience and expertise and up to tricks how concerned are you about the spread of the virus among the pregnant women on the island and the risk that miss virus can pose to the fetus or baby. I know that the china will haunt us clima narry but i think theres a few cases that they say that there is sort of a transmission transmission from the mother to the baby so i think time will tell time will tell d whats going to happen here certainly theres no universal testing that we have doing for the mother so i think right now what we still trying to do is trying to some way to cope in 1000. In the emergency room and i. C. U. And also d in the urgent care yes i think were doing a pretty good job as far as isolating its just in goes a screening on the right now we dont really have any moms per se that we have tested positive but again 1st of the transmission the deadest preliminary and were going to see months down the role as what he feels and how do you predict the virus shaking out among the military population as a whole will the numbers match up to the civilian population or will they be higher will they be lower. Or i expect. The number to be much time to 72 if you think about it a ship its a tight quarters and a u. S. Naval ship with 4005000 sailors on board they have about 2. 22. 5 percent positive thats 672. 00 so far and nearly 4000. 00 tested negative know what your view of them were asymptomatic that these are healthy sailors theres so uncertain if they if youre asymptomatic theres a positive that has a concert and thats the date of this coming out of elsewhere in the state as well but the concern of spars the military in the community i dont think were dead concerned because the military is doing a very good job isolating it pointing them in the hotels d so well see what happens the next week or so because i think its up to weeks now that the steelers have been pointing. Yeah absolutely the military can punish everybody for not following the rules unlike the civilians out here so we will leave it right there thank you thank you so much for sharing your insight and expertise with us dr thomas shea from guam thank you. I canadas worst mass shooting took place over the weekend a gunman posing as a Police Officer shot and killed 19 people in nova scotia the suspect was eventually killed in a shootout with police today there are many questions but very little answers are his alex the highly bitch is joining us live from toronto with an update to the investigation alex whats going on. In eliza mentioned theres a whole bunch of confirmed deaths in the province of nova scotia thats on the east coast of canada after a lone gunman went on a rampage starting later in the day on saturday and lasting into sunday morning now we do have video of the gun minute hearing is this is a 2014 interview of him hes 51 year old gabriel workman dentures so somebody who makes dentures in the hes from the city were just outside the city of halifax which is the biggest city in nova scotia as you mentioned he was disguised as a Royal Canadian mounted Police Officer he himself had 2 cars that were out of commission from the police that he really did and he used one of these vehicles so for civilians that were caught in the in this whole fiasco they did not know that this man was not a Police Officer he was very convincing in uniform and with a police car now he did change to another vehicle at one point but for much of the time he was in this Police Vehicle and now the what happened here is its basically 60 miles between halifax and a place called port of peak puerto peak is a small town of about 100 to 250 people in nova scotia this is where they say the killings began the whole fact of the matter is at this point they believe when he stored it in port of peak that these were actually people that he knew and then he moved on from there just to some random acts of violence after that now warman himself and he was a type of individual that many say was obsessed with Police Services and what policed. Did it took Police Almost 12 hours to hunt this guy down and what theyre saying is as i mentioned some of these victims were deliberately targeted but by the end of all this even after the rampage and killing a lot of innocent people along the way police did catch up to him at a gas station where they say he was shot dead. By obviously still a lot 10 best agape i can only imagine our condolences to our friends up north. Alex what do we know about the people that he did kill. What we dont know a lot about all of them but we do know and we do have some information about some starting with an r. C. M. P. Police officer this is canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his comment about this constable stevenson protecting others she was answering the call of duty something she had done every day when she went to work for 23 years. So as mentioned a 23 year veteran of the force stevenson has 2 children one in grade 61. 00 in grade 8 so this is obviously a tragedy that it has been driven home especially the people of nova scotian as you know police when this happens to a Police Officer anywhere in north america the way that we were react the outpouring in the their brotherhood of sorts and of course this is being felt throughout north america also the Elementary School teacher was one of the victims added to that the 2 people that worked at the corrections facilities a couple to separate facilities one male one female 2 Health Care Workers were also killed and you know these are just the numbers adding up these are people that lived in these small communities so you can as you can imagine a lot of people are being touched by this when it comes to gun control here in canada i know one thing is we dont see massacres like this very often the last thing that even comes close to what happened in 1989 in montreal when 14 were women were killed out of college and our country control laws became much stricter at that point now Justin Trudeau has said this is going to happen once again they want to ban any type of what salt styled rifles in canada and it might even go beyond that Justin Trudeau says that this is a promise that he made during his last election and that this is basically been put off because of the covert 19 pandemic and parliament basically putting put aside until things clear up he said that this is going to be a priority of his and you can you most likely will see more gun control legislation in this country as time progresses and i want to say time progresses probably within the next few months. With this sad update and thank you. Thank you. Right to air or not to air that is the question being asked about president trusts have forced briefing after some Media Outlets have refused to air the whole press conference were going to discuss this next with our friend larry king and then later at the sports h. Q. Regina hamm takes us back in basketball in edition of this day and forth history like about you know that is were back. Its seemed wrong why dont we all just dont call. Me old yet to stamp out this day to come as a kid and in games from an equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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 you know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery 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 course b b b b. Shot after shot as far as i revealed. We dont know shell just screw up on. The end of this trial unfortunately due to the will still love no chill just. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Are you may have noticed that government officials both locally and nationally are having more and more of these press conferences in many instances they are daily and the trump admins Coronavirus Task force is no different they are having daily sometimes twice daily pressers that last around 2 hours now this has been going on for the better part of a month its a given that some News Networks are opting to foregoing airing those press conferences but should they so to discuss we are being joined by t. V. Legend larry king host of politicking right here on r t america so larry i got to ask even on the air a long time is it the networks prerogative to air these pressers i mean everybody is airing them should we all be airing the same thing. Maher its a tough call. For how one could make this statement that whenever the president speaks there to do. So we should always carry who the president every time as we should the Prime Minister or the governor of a state if you live in that state if you live in new york. Or in should be our new York Television however sometimes if you watch these groups ignores the president goes a little off the edge and it becomes running for reelection so the question the News Executives face is what to carry in the one to carry it i come down on the side of carrying it i dont think we have a choice. And theyre i mean they make the choice for it really works in this time i think the president should be kerry however many turns it gets a little repair lives some of the questioning is ridiculous some on the other hand is very needy so i come down on the side of caring are right that thats a fair response larry but would you say its a it is a Public Service then to air them or is it a political statement by some networks to not air it. Both but it is of course of course no one on some networks of him as n. B. C. And c. N. N. Cares not to carry it that is their political opinion that this is political fox carries everything you know you dont turn to parks for an example yes it is a Public Service to care youre president now the joy of media is this you dont have the carrier metaphors of im watching and here comes another press briefing of turned into a movie i have choices if i lived in a nondemocratic state where i didnt have choices that would be terrible so as long as we have choices as an audience we can make them do change and was long as 500 stations able to use the air we were we have a wide variety of choices i watch it sometimes and sometimes i dont that is a good point larry we have so many options today i mean i just dont know just just 20 years ago you really didnt have any option you flip the channel and you know mares president our president clinton on every channel you dont have a choice and Monica Lewinsky right back then but but larry some people have argued that that given this being an Election Year that President Trump is getting by far a ton more airtime then his presumption of opponent joe biden but the equal time rule isnt a political to this technically and the f. C. C. Did away with the the fairness doctrine back in 2011 so does that argument hold any water to you. Theres a big mistake the fairness doctrine should be in place so as opposed to canceling it are our what i would do in your this current it is a touchy situation it is an Election Year i would offer joe biden. Almost the same amount of time for those the president holds of leaving then we go to joe biden for whatever he wants to say i think that would be theer given both sides of the issue so joe biden can then respond to what he thinks was politico and what he thinks was news and he gets the chance to be on the cameras every day and then we come the biden trump show. It goes on forever now larry very you are you know knocking the ball straight down the center. Youre being very fair here are a part that out of the park right down the center and lastly larry trotted away with his Daily Press Briefings back when sarah had to be sanders was still his press secretary so why stop those Daily Briefings but now inundate us with this coronavirus meeting moments thats the answer its coronavirus i was in when he did away with the Daily Briefing i was assured now respond to watch the wars in the Election Year now year its a whole different ball as number of looks when there were theres never been anything like this weve never had this kind of pandemic we never had it happen in the Election Year this is all of the me air is anybodys guess and its a tough call for these Network Executives every day to sit back and decide what we carry and what do cause at the ne at any minute he could make moves so he could be doing lord sounds like a political speech and suddenly announce by nationally but i am closing all interstate highways. And if you resist that youre in trouble or so youre ill come down on the side of caring lariam im with you you are as fair as they come and voices like you are few and far these days that were glad to have you on our airwaves larry king really right now thank you so much. Thanks well. All right here in the Nations Capital the army corps of engineers is starting to build a makeshift hospital at the washington d. C. Convention center according to officials the Convention Center will soon be fitted with some 1500 hospital beds for coronavirus patients right now washington d. C. Currently has about 3000 cases of infections and about 105 deaths. Ok lets go over to regina ham at the sports h. Q. Were doing a very is one name that Everybody Knows when you talk basketball and if you mention the Chicago Bulls theres one name the only one you can think of because in the late eightys and early ninetys the bull or the dream team of the n. B. A. So on this monday edition of the day in sports history lets take a trip back to one of those most famous names from that squad because 34 years ago in 1960 great Michael Jordan broke the n. B. A. Record for the most point score in a playoff game he not 63 for the Chicago Bulls into the 1st round series against the Boston Celtics while team would go on to lose their series 30. 00 jordans record still stands in the history books also receive the president ial of medal of freedom in 2016 for barack obama but if you go over to the race track 2000 a democrat patrick became the 1st female driver ever to win an indy car series patrick driving for andretti rick green racing won the indy japan 300 at twin ring then 26 year old finish a 200 lap or even a 6 seconds ahead of helio is sure to turn racing in 20 teen. Soccer is alive and well in very few countries and in tajikistan their top Soccer League is already its 3rd week of play and featured a tough battle its global and long and stadiums again but that didnt really stop on bringing the heat early free kick from beyond the box finds its way to strike here part is part. And draws the 1st blood in the 8th minute the shot is a pretty stunning one and by kyle. He has a chip it goes right past the coke keepers of their 31st minute corner from. The equalizer 4 is circle that happens for them were all set up at one and there cheers elance filling the stadium his quick right place right i love just before the end of the 1st half its a chip shot from. And he gives them the lead quick dribble though. Hes going to take it past the post and that is a pretty sweet goal so you have down a man is still not wasting any time how to love converts of even a 2 and that would be all they wrote with a 22 draw. Its fun to watch soccer we love highlights even though i know a lot of our viewers like who is that tajiks town and developers are some of the only countries in the world are actually still playing sports live sports with no fans yeah no fans is the thing that is the thing you know theres also talk of Major League Baseball theyre still pulling that arizona idea around they would have no fans there to and i think anybody just be glad to see a lot of sports yeah but you know what we have documentaries we can watch like that Michael Jordan we do you and its a great want to be waiting for that i dont know if you watched him until i did and i cant wait for sunday i have not begun watching it so it on your list it is on the list for next week when were all exactly thank you for that regina and we will have a lot more news coming up for you at 7 pm eastern here 1st thousands of american station wide are rallying to reopen the economy adding more pressure to end the state lockdowns our panel guests are going to weigh in on that plus Joseph Maldonado posadas who you probably know as joe exotic the tiger king has been granted an extension in his wrongful imprisonment lawsuit well talk about all that and more coming up at 7 pm so thats it for right now i will see you back here make sure you dont feel guilty dont you. 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