Straight news i. As the care for those with coded 19 dominates hospitals around the country some cities are looking to utilize facilities that are now empty are to correspondent natasha sweet is in los angeles where one Medical Center is looking to reopen. On centralist county officials are rushing to reopen this hospital to treat cold 19 patients that were closed back in january after the owner declared bankruptcy and officers are using state funding to reopen this hospital a trend that were seeing nationwide hard times are ahead harder than what we saw in 2008 we are today sure your emergency order. That says to wall hospitals you must increase your capacity by 50 percent ask over 1000 patients flood hospitals throughout the country state governors and city officials alike are looking for ways to serve more people for treatment well hurst hospital has had capacity and theres about 545 beds a year and theyre all filled with cold with patients as new york works to take care of the skyrocketing amount of chronic virus patients city governments in other areas have struck deals with owners of empty hospitals city funny and will cover the cost to lease the space during the pandemic the state of california is leasing a hospital just south of San Francisco to care for up to 220 chrono barbarous patients governor given you some said set to Medical Center will be leased for 3 months in los angeles workers are preparing medical equipment as they get ready to reopen st vincent Medical Center near downtown the hospital is opening in phases and will have a Maximum Capacity of 266 beds some of which will be designated for the intensive care unit county Officials Say it will operate as a Referral Hospital with no emergency room and will not accept walk in patients with each bed cost in roughly 236. 00 a night the state will pay a total of 2600000. 00 a month in philadelphia one of the largest cities in the country without a Public Hospital is also one of the poorest the head a Man University hospital shut down in september after the owner declared bankruptcy now philadelphias mayor is in talks with the new owner but reopening the facility with almost 500. 00 beds isnt as easy as residents were hoping the owner is looking to make 100000. 00 a month for the facility and in new Orleans Charity hospital sits vacancies the hospital never reopened after Hurricane Katrina hit the area in 2005 and while that facility stands and operated city officials did open up the new Orleans Convention center. For 2000 patients who no longer require Critical Care but a place for those needing intensive care remains to be seen how these hospitals that are being released through city and state funding are only meant to be temporary until the need to treat those impacted by this pandemic dies down reporting in los angeles to talk to suites our team. And now over to new york we epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak which now counts for more than 258000 confirmed cases the good news and President Trump met behind closed doors at the white house both agreeing that the Navy Hospital ship sent to new york to help deal with the influx of patients is actually no longer needed so this as one Health Expert announces a stark warning arties trinity chobits has more of the story. Today marks the 7th consecutive day that the number of coronavirus cases in new york have decreased Governor Andrew Cuomo president agreeing that the u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort that was sent here to help deal with the drastic influx of patients is no longer needed this sound the alarm on another potential wave of coronavirus after treating a 178 patients the u. S. Sent us comfort is leaving new york and heading home will be bringing in the ship back. At the earliest time and will get it ready for its next Mission New YorkGovernor Andrew Cuomo agreeing to send the ship back to virginia as hospitalisation levels appear to be decreasing the number of hospitalisations statewide dropping to about 16000 more than 2000 below a week ago we are going down how fair well find out but were in a better place. And while the number of fatalities is also down the daily death toll is still horrifically high 474 who just died yesterday when you look at the reality of the situation we are actually in a much better place were not home yet. But were in a better points but Emergency Rooms across the state continue to battle the deadly virus homegrown chilling video shows the moment doctors at st Josephs Hospital revived a covert 1000 patient. Soon after hes placed on a ventilator hes saved at least for now but as the virus curve continues to flatten in some areas of the country a dire warning from the c. D. C. C. D. C. Director Robert Redfield telling the Washington Post theres a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through and when ive said this to others they kind of put their head back they dont understand what i mean were going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time this year the c. D. C. Estimates that there have been around 24000 flu related deaths over an 8 month time period while with kobe 19 there have been over 45000 deaths in just 2 months the pandemic wreaking havoc on hospitals and medical staff around the world its been a nightmare we have. Sick people like you cant believe in one shift i pronounced 6 people possible simultaneous outbreaks posing an unimaginable threat to the Health Care System now york city officials are creating a Strategic Reserve for the production of the stockpiling a medical equipment so they are better prepared if the buyers does in fact rebound meantime Governor Cuomo says the key to moving forward is testing trees and eisley and now with the backing of the president he is able to ramp up testing throughout the state from about 20000 tests per week to approximately 40000 reporting from home in new york trinity shots r. T. And other news making headlines today calls for a vote by mail have intensified across the nation after 7 confirmed cases in wisconsin have been linked to aprils primary election according to. State Health Officials the cases include 6 voters and one poll worker and they expect those numbers to grow the governor of wisconsin if you recall tried to delay the primary but got overruled by the state supreme court. And you might be soon able to check your own code 19 in the comfort of your own home thats because the f. D. A. Approved the 1st in home test kits the f. D. A. Recently gave emergency clearance to lab or for those nasal swab kits which will 1st be made available to Health Care Workers in the coming weeks the kits which run about 101000. 00 will be available to the public. It is a tale of blackmail spying babydaddy switcheroo and of course american efforts to off someone deemed anomie of the state were of course talking about Julian Assange and today the world knows the name of his fiance and mother of his 2 sons as 37 year old Stella Morris now ms morris revealed her identity just days ahead of a Spanish Court because they were expected to do so because of the court case against a Spanish Security firm you see global for more on this we will go to former u. K. M. P. And friend of Julian Assange mr George Galloway so 1st george allow me to say how disgusted i was learning the details of this sordid and sick story because as a mom to a baby similar in age to julians boy gabriel who was being spied on you see global was lets explain to the viewer the Security Firm guarding the Ecuadorian Embassy during julian stint there not only did they secretly taped julians movements in his quarters but they also began to grow a fascination with little baby gabriel now julian and stella were clever enough to have an actor friend named stephen who bring the baby in to the embassy for a visit posing as his father but then you see g. Did a deep dive on mr hu as well and figured out that gabriel was not his son. And wasnt that julian sun so george why all of this. Well when the history of the United States empire comes to be written and when its all over it may be that this will achieve iconic status rather like nero fiddling i was wrong burned all the the partiers and up before. The book in or are up to it is semino in must represent the lowest form of spying that the United States has ever been involved in because it literally involved combing through the contents of the babys nappy or. You called it and only when the company was informed that d. N. A. Obtained from a nappy and the contents of a nappy would not succeed in a paternity case then hatched a plan to steal the babys dummy its pacifier so that they could from the saliva there on a stop blish the childs d. N. A. I know i know that the United States doesnt like Julian Assange but didnt really hate them that much to require their agents to get so down and dirty because lets make no mistake about this mr maher outlays whos on trial now in spain was an agent of the United States government he traveled every single month with the videos taken from the illegally secrete the secret cameras that were filming everything that julian our sons did and it turns out even stealing 6 for 2 graphs of an ecuadorian diplomat who is known to me. Very intimate private photographs stealing them and taking them to the United States. This is just about the dirtiest story outside of porn lab to be found on the internet today and george speaking of him david morality so the viewer is up to speed the hes the owner you see global hes being probed by the Spanish National court right now especially because hes also spying or was spying on stella maurices mother who lives in catalonia and its now been revealed as you just said morales attempted to use have photos of an ecuadorian diplomat as blackmail so that the embassy would not cancel their contract with his firm so what do we know what else do we know about this man david morale is who is he. Well nice guy how the most important thing you need to noise that he was you were serving your government not the president but the state of your government this was an entirely fictional contract that he had the Ecuadorian Embassy it was not protected by him it was bugged by him and every movement juliens on lawyers were having to meet with their client in the womens lavatory in the embassy which is a tiny embassy i dont want to have the idea that this was a big u. S. Style embassy it was a fly in a tenement building the lawyers used to meet julian in the womens lavatory moralists was going on them. As ive told you before and even Pamela Anderson having a leak was filmed by this man and all of those videos every single month were taken to the United States without fail the flight logs make it clear the entire right generous are available to the Spanish Court so nice guy you had working for you i must say hey. It wasnt my decision george but i mean if it were up to me i would say that this case will be thrown out because of the breach between he and his lawyers that should be open and shut and fortunately i got to leave it right there george so much to unpack with this case as always George Galloway thank you. Well its been 20 years since the International Custody battle early on gonzalez the cuban boy found floating in an innertube off the coast of south florida how did this situation play out were going to remind you going to talk about it next and then later at h. Q. Were going to hamm brings us competitive eating a challenge that had american Joey Chestnut going all the way to the finals. Posture a lackluster primary democrats and their media friends have decided on joe biden as their Party Nominee which is the last of bill will the progressive small in line when hes joe offering voters in will the d. N. C. Experience buyers whose last november. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Tyson nation for community. Are you going the right way or are you being led to. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or remain in the shallows. 94000000. 00 thats how much money the Australian Government will spend to begin building up a stockpile of crude oil but that stockpile will actually be stored here in the United States the government says the move is intended to confront australias fuel insecurity which may arise in the case of events such as military conflict but the federal opposition criticised that plan calling it bizarre as their reserves are going to be held overseas. And over to nova scotia canada where the death toll from the mass shooting over the weekend now stands at 22. 00 the rampage lasted 14 hours and ended after the 51 year old gunman was fatally shot by Police Authorities say a motive has yet to be determined but they do confirm the gunman knew some of his victims. All right it was 20 years ago today that americans saw federal agents point an m 5 rifle at a terrified 5 year old boy in florida in order to reunite him with his father in cuba the case of this has been seared into the minds of cuban americans as part of their modern history one of Refugee Status death and parental rights that added to the tense diplomatic relations between the u. S. And cuba now larry king covered the saga and he is joining us now to discuss on this anniversary so larry why was america so captivated with this story this little boy back in 1909. Had such drama he came over with his mother and others the mother died in or out they came over on a little boat from cuba it was 5 years old his father tried to get them to come back to cuba earth already as wouldnt let them he was under protection i think of his cousin the story went viral americans divided on it send them back dont send them back marches the country is divided today on trumped they was divided then on on michigan and young mr gonzales and finally janet reno a good friend of mine who was the attorney general of the United States ordered the American Military to free the more and get them back with us who are there which they did on gunpoint they went into our for good or english staying in in miami got them out and the father took them back to cuba that was 25 years ago or 20 years ago today was a heroic story on the part of the father and the boy a lot of discussion in america it soon died away though yeah larry i mean you brought this up how america is divided how did you see this dividing specifically the cuban americans the refugees that arrived to american soil from how White America saw this case because a lot of cubans believed that the boy should have been granted Refugee Status but then nonhuman saw this as a case of a kid that that should be reunited with his one surviving parent back in cuba. Well a lot of it was similar to as i said today it was similar to conservatives versus liberals read american conservatives want to the borders stay here blue america thought he should be entitled to be with his father janet reno a very controversial figure in a hell of a lady by the way decided along with the approval of bill clinton that the boy should be given to his father may do that gunpoint which made it horrific because there were photographers there and people taking pictures of that to get what agents and during the boys apartment and reuniting him with the picture now you know and that was horrific to Many Americans you know a little 5 year old boy what does he think of this by the way how was he doing today do we know well we know that he was taken back with open arms by fidel castro who was in much Better Health back in those days and hes kind of become the castro family darling now as an adult i think personally i think theyre kind of grooming him to to be a bigger part play a bigger role in their government in the future i mean he still is a very young man now but theres not a whole lot of news coming out from the castro family anyway but were looking at pictures there. With he and Fidel Castros brother through the years and hes as far as we know hes having a healthy but you mentioned janet reno i didnt realize you were friends with her i know she is the clinton era a g. She made that call to have agents bust in in this predawn raid to get ellie and there was a quote we have that she says we looked at everything that we could do to make sure that it was done safely there had to be a show of force not a use of force to show that we were in control and what seeing as you were friends with her what did she ever tell you about this decision did she ever have any remorse or regrets about making that. Call. She had no remorse she used to be the u. S. Attorney District Attorney in miami and as for i knew or shes come on my show all the time she started in the Traffic Division a war door way up and clinton was very fond of her made her his attorney general and she had a tough time but once she you know she general was a kind of person once she made a decision that was it that said thats what theyre going to do the right thing to do is to reunite her with his father and on reflection i think it was the right thing to do the father has parental rights the young boy was only 5 the father wanted him to live with the father alone that was the fathers right i think upon reflection was a correct decision the boy looks healthy and happy today. I guess hes a confirmed cuban hes our economy or is it communist we dont know a number here do you hear what hes doing no no i mean we see the photos and we know hes gone to college there in cuba and they dont really say much about what ellie on is doing we can only presume that he is happy and healthy he looks like it in the photos and he shows up to these press events with the castro family and he smiles and waves at the crowd oh we could only hope that mention janet janet made the right decision your friend janet reno i think she did she passed away a little while ago where she made the right decision i think in retrospect all right only time will tell what this young man does with his life larry king thank you so much for sharing this personal insight on this story. Look at this this dark cloud youre looking at it is an actual tornado captured on cell phone video that happened as Severe Weather pounded Central Florida early monday other suspected tornadoes killed 2 people as the storms blasted a wide area across the deep south shattering homes and leaving thousands without power. And this year we celebrate earth day unlike any other year because of this pandemic and the earth while shes getting a chance to breathe a little bit theres less traffic on the roads less human activity that means less Carbon Footprint so clearer skies are reported throughout the world in fact experts say los angeles saw some of the cleanest air of any major city in the whole world followed by if you can believe it india and china biologists and friend of the show dr reese halter shared his thoughts on this years earth day. Has allowed us to pause to reflect on basics breezing access to fresh water ski of us more than one of every 3 breaths of oxygen in the gift 90 percent of cities with daily Drinking Water its time to protect these drippy breathing cathedrals that depend upon it in 6 animals and healthy soils take the earth plage consume less and walk more. All right lets go over to regina hamm with a sports h. Q. Which you know i dont know if competitive eating is really a sport ive debated this many times but this guy he was pretty famous for being a part of that competitive eating community he is and the coney island hot dog eating contest is a staple of the summer end of that Major League Eating community and now its really champion is finding a new way to take part in the sport that is competitive eating american Joey Chestnut b. Mc nick in the bet on my challenge semifinals 10 pounds of baked beans rules are there on the screen you had spillage in time penalties for doing that but you had to consume the number of being the number one ranked eater in the world beating with a time of one minute and 56 seconds just not will now face this guy coming up his name is in ohio in the finals now i dont know if you can see that as not he had to clear both bolt and show proof get in ohio did the same but they do it for good cause 10000. 00 will be given to feeding america you know. And the football world was shocked simply shocked when 6 times chairman tom brady left the new England Patriots for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers now theres even more of a shock as one of his teammates decided its time to come out of retirement the patriots agreed to trade ted and robin county to the buccaneers were reuniting the 2 former teammates new and receives a 4th round pick in the 2020 draft while the bucs receive a 7th rounder in addition to the 5 time pro bowler for those unsure of how grant koski came out of retirement and was also able to be traded the patriots still held on to his rights hell play to try to a season on a one year deal worth 10000000. 00 and already passed his physical with flying colors drawn koski committed previously to being part of the. Most recently won the 247 title during wrestle mania 36 so i guess his wrestling days are over its now time to play football again and the groc train keeps going yeah play football for 10000000 dollars. 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