This tuesday. We had a vote yesterday evening the first we have had in some six weeks here, as i walked over to the chambers just now, its 4 00 oclock on a tuesday afternoon, from the heart building the only individuals i saw were the extraordinary men and women of the Capitol Police who are here in the building but to suffice to say these are strange, unusual, challenging and difficult, difficult times as we face the covid19 pandemic. W we address the challenges that our constituents, friends, family are dealing withus at home whether it is the impact of the virus itself on our health and health facilities, or whether it is the impact, truly the economic devastation we are seeing in all corners of the nation. So the opportunity to be together as a body to address the challenges was important, its challenging for us as we adapt to this time and situation to be wearing protective masks to be separated from one another to be teleworking as we are. We are adapting, we are facing that chal
Was with bill winters of Standard Chartered who saw first hand what was happening in wuhan. He said the u. S. And u. K. Were too late in dealing with coronavirus. Mr. Johnson, who is still selfisolating at downing street, he has given up doing the daily briefing. He has given that to michael gove. Unprepared andl we watch what comes next. The amount of traffic in london is still quite palpable compared to france and italy when they are in complete shutdown. , i drove around a bit yesterday and it is a 15 of what it once was. A lot of good conversation today, Jeffrey Sachs will join us in moments. We are thrilled to bring you laureate Michael Spence of new ,ork city, and at 12 00 noon david westin in conversation with the Vice President of the United States. Lets get to the first word news. Viviana china accusing the u. S. Of trying to shift the blame for its own coronavirus outbreak, responding to the report that china concealed the extent of the problem. The u. S. Intelligence communi
Quick and necessary action to shut down their fighting and start fighting the virus together. Republican tom reed joins us with all of that. Now the administration ramping up the Pandemic Response as democrats have new legislation now to try to block the president s temporary eu travel ban and other travel bans. Government experts though say they do worse. Even new york city, mayor de blasio agrees with the president s travel ban on europe. He says it is going to work. Cases now explode in europe. We have the new numbers. Well show you how 20 countries are now doing their own travel bans including six in europe. Tonight, dr. Oz will join us too on a new study that says the virus can be contagious as long as 37 days . Another study says it can survive airborne, can last airborne for three hours, live on surfaces for several days. Dr. Oz will break that down. The news that the cdc is talking about does testing in 6 00 u. S. Cities to stop the outbreak. The cdc will not say which cities.
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