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 in if that censorship and bias against 3rd Party Candidates and its a real problem. Yeah i mean youre clearly not alone in having this happen to them number of non Mainstream Media journalists some activists and just voices that dont tend to toe the mainstream narrative have also had their accounts eliminated and mind you i say eliminated not suspended because you know being suspended means that theres a chance that you can come back these people just been wiped off the map why do you think this is happening. Right now. I really dont have a good idea. If we can speculate you know i think about people like politicians like Elizabeth Warren and donald trump they have personal twitter accounts and campaign to it or else its what i had they just wiped out my Campaign Account you know we want were looking for answers we dont have a while so no ones gotten back to you and youre absolutely right on that there are you know celebrities even not just government officials but mainly government officials you see them having Campaign Accounts and personal accounts some of those are private and then some of them are public accounts but people are allowed to have more than one account from what i recall and the terms of service but how we have about this on the flipside platforms like facebook or twitter. Though they are traded on on the stock exchanges people would argue that theyre still private companies. That they have the right to ban who they want because they are not a public utility to that you would say what. Maybe they should be Public Utilities you know these Network Platforms once most people get autumn everybody wants to be on it because its where everybody is this where the information is so facebook as a status twitter is instead is amazon has its status in maybe they should be publicly all regulated democratically by the public to serve the public rather than the private profits of shareholders who can through their management decide theyre going to exclude some people for their own reasons so i think this raises the whole question of whats the proper Ownership Structure for these platforms they tend to are a monopoly because everybody wants to be on a platform where everybody is right a lot of people would would agree with you that this is the New Town Square right everybody is on twitter and thats where us as your opinions so given that they took away your. Campaign profile what is next for you for the campaign are you going to post up another one and how much damage has been done you know theyve gotten rid of all your followers youve got to go out and find new followers. Well my personal account is what were using right now in because i ran 3 campaigns for governor your phonetic count we actually had more followers on that although the other one was growing by leaps and bounds after Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign so hopefully those people who find my personal account you know i think you know its not just its more like rather than the town square its like the phone lines or the sewer system i mean this is what everybody uses things like Twitter Facebook and amazon so theyre natural monopolies in the classic case republican ownership is natural monopolies. All right we will leave it right there we wish you luck and i hope when if you find out what happens from twitter what they say to you you know theres got to be some story answer i hope thats not the end of it but please let us know how we hawkins from the green party thank you so much. Thank you. And other news around the world raging flood eastern congo killed at least 25 people 45 others confirmed injured about 3000 homes have been destroyed by floodwaters that the river system crested near the city of vera currently the red cross is trying to recover some more victims. And now much of the world may still be on lockdown but theres one place that for sure is it and thats outer space nasa and space x. Have announced may 27th will now be the date to resume astronaut launches out of the u. S. Together they plan to send 2 astronauts to the International Space station because for the past 9 years the United States has depended on russia to help launch astronauts to the i s s and then return them safely to earth. Lets go over to regina hamm of the sports h. Q. Were going to Tokyo Olympics looks like they found a plan to make the games happen in 2021 for 2020 but now theres a fight cost it seems like its an ever rolling like cheese ball down the hill no there is more and more that comes out because there are still a lot of questions that remain about how the tokyo summer games will take place in 2021 and the debate of who will foot the bill is becoming one of the biggest issues for organizers japanese government said that they and the International Olympic committee do not truly agree that the cost of postponing the games why is a big point of contention officials made the announcement about the games little over a month ago and details are trickling out still very uncertain the year old delay is it expected to cost between 2. 00 and 6000000000. 00 but neither side has offered official numbers the 2 do agree it will be a massive financial. Undertaking there is a rift on who will foot the bill originally Prime Minister shinzo obviously japan to pay but to complain of the i. O. C. And they removed any reference to japans financial obligations. Many athletes are forced to find a way to get creative to keep up training regiments during their quarantines want to. There she doesnt let the current virus get in the way of her a live picture ians. Is one of many athletes forced to keep up their tough routines in interesting conditions 27 year old is a triathlete that took her roof outfitted with a kids training pool and resistance bands she had the stationary bike after the pool to simulate the cycling portion of the event im not became a triathlete at the age of 15 after starting off lot of courage really as a synchronized swimmer normally im not trained outside of that in a gym but with her coach and the kind of hours they have finding new ways she has no access to a normal routine nonetheless she is determined to represent her country at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and the of quarantine even 6 super bowls can save tom brady from getting a bit of hot water the former new England Patriots quarterback now Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback was asked to leave a tampa park after he was spotted working out the 42 year old left without an issue of course to the parks are closed in an effort to stop the spread of the current virus however the city took a moment to ask them fun of tom on twitter saying to clear up any confusion bucs Quarterback Tom Brady was cited in one of our 994 beautiful parks he was not cited and given a citation as some Media Outlets reported we are excited to welcome tom and everyone back to all of our parks once we have punted the coded 19 down field and leave it to city social media to get a joke in but interesting enough will in the past hour weve had some breaking news about tom brady and robert grant koski those 2 will be reuniting in tampa apparently grant got sick of the already hes now going to come back they traded a 7th round pick and grant from the patriots to tampa bay and the patriots are receiving a 4th round pick for the draft but you know its. Rank is coming grog is coming back hes back back again you know it all right thats grandstand coming no one did and i think the interesting thing the n. F. L. Draft is this week tampa bay is expected to look to fill in their offices and decent defensive positions but i guess grant is a you know what i got on one of those very intrusive what could be an interesting year for tampa bay so well see ari thank you for that regina and weve got some breaking news for you just moments ago the senate has approved the nearly half trillion dollar additional stimulus package heading over to the house right now as we speak the senate did approve it with some criticism from republicans however it did float through unanimously everybody approved it trump is expected to sign it well have more on this coming up at 7 and speaking of some oclock with every tragedy sadly theres always some type of scam. Recent stay at home orders due to this pandemic have had more people online and that means scammers are waiting for their opportunity to strike at 7 pm rick sanchez is going to tell us about what you can do to avoid falling prey to one of the traps and with that all that or more coming up im going to watch man stick around some oclock will be back. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. High salacious unity. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. After a lackluster prime. The democrats and their media friends have decided on joe biden as their Party Nominee which is the electable will the progressive fall in line with his joke offering voters and will the d. N. C. Experience buyers remorse november. And. Do no harm and old shattered by digital billboards up the. 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