To get medicaid, but often only in certain states. Health policy researcher dr. Aaron carroll. Weve done almost nothing to try to ease the path or to make it easy. In fact, it appears to be incredibly difficult. Reporter whats worse, he said, many states appear to be overwhelmed. It takes a significant infrastructure to do all of the checking and signing people up and checking to see if they qualify for subsidies during all of that. Its not clear that right now in april, a lot of the exchanges, especially at the state base level or federal, i guess, are actually staffed up and prepared to do that. To me its outrageous in a ou reporter senator mark warner and other democrats are proposing a bill to reopen enrollment for the affordable states where it hasnt yet happened so people dont put off getting care. Somebody god forbid who may be coming down with signs of the virus, should not be afraid of going to the doctor because they cant afford to pay. In this circumstance, that kind of relu
Desperate plight of people losing their Health Insurance, too. And back in the game. The nfl kicks off its first ever virtual draft today. Well show you the other ideas leagues are considering to get sports back on tv. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Deadly tornadoes breaking out across parts of the south. In la louisiana, texas, oklahom. Everything is gone. The trees are gone. Swish. 4. 4 million new filings for Unemployment Benefits. This is about six to seven times higher than we ever saw during the great recession. Thats raising the total layoffs since the virus hit to more than 26 million. In some sense, the numbers are telling us what we already see with our eyes. Protests to reopen are growing. Southern governors are already loosening their restrictions. We have to proceed in a cver careful, measured way. You dont believe there should be distancing . Of course. Carolyn goodman sounding off about reopening the city. Youre talking disease. Im talking
Providers the time they need to understand the dangers and respond accordingly. Reporter the Massachusetts Governor says he can extend that ban beyond the four months and other states are taking similar steps. Neighboring rhode island is now banning all flavored vaping products, and norah, california is urging its residents to not vape at all. Wow, don. Interesting details. Thank you so much. Now an extraordinary warning for the fbi about possible attacks at theaters shong the upcoming movie joker. Officials are concerned a drastic retelling of the villains story could incite violence. Barry petersen tonight is in aurora, colorado where there was a mass shooting during a batman movie in 2012. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as joker . Reporter extremist media posts about joker prompted the unusual national alert. Cbs news has learned authorities are concerned about the new movies plot inspiring someone to commit a mass shooting. I have a negative thoughts. Reporter in the a
Was discovered in his vehicle, dead from an apparent gunshot wound. 19yearold ethan stuart took his life on the very same day. Five days earlier, sailor vincent forlines death was also ruled a suicide. All three served on the Aircraft Carrier uss george h. W. Bush based in norfolk, virginia. James sheltons wife jennifer said she thought he beat his depression. I know it felt dark where he was, but he was so close to getting better. Reporter the navy said the suicides, which didnt happen on the ship, were not connected. The ships Commanding Officer said there is never any stigma or repercussion from seeking help. Still, Jennifer Shelton said her husband was afraid hed lose his job if he revealed his illness. As father of six, he needed every dollar that he was making. So he was concerned about taking medication for his depression because he needed every dollar. Reporter there is about a increasing problem with suicides across the military. 325 active duty members died by suicide in 2018
Generals letter cited a phone call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky as a potential violation of federal Campaign Finance law. Jeff, this was a july 25th call. It was about 30 minutes in length. What did you see in that transcript . Yeah, we didnt get a lot of time with the transcript. We werent allowed to take it out outside of doj but we took some inserts. We took notes. This was a fivepage document and, you know, as you might imagine, it starts out like any other call with a foreign leader would start. Theres a congratulations on the election victory, but President Trump did allude to europe not doing enough to help ukraine. But then he seems to veer into the dnc server. He mentions crowd strike, a company that investigated the russian hack of the dnc server. And then from there he progresses to ask the ukrainian president about joe biden. Let me put this quote up on the screen for you to see. This is what the president said, according to the transcript, which according