They rescued a dog awhile back. We need to understand the depth of the issue and what it would be like to have water or electric. Just the basic necessities. The good news in delaware, donations have been pouring in. It sgl these are our brother and sisters down in puerto rico. They are going to get all the supplies down south. This isnt a one and done deal either. They are going to gather supplies and sending them down there for as long as they see a need. I was talking to my grandparent and he said it was an earthquake that destroyed puerto rico or a bomb that detried the entire island. Happening right now, leaders are addressing the relief and Recovery Efforts in puerto rico. Heres a a live look at a News Conference at city hall. Lawmakers there say they are determined to make a swift and smart response to this crisis. A couple is using their food truck to raise money for their family in puerto rico. They are selling rice and. Beans, chick cen stew. Think started the fundraiser yest
Warning to thank politics and prose and cspan for thinking inform of the series to cover. You dont gate these kind of people in this kind of room without getting the kind of coverage. Want to thank you for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free. Feel welcome, feel at home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer, and i want to, without further adieu, introduce this great, great panel. Were going to do some work from their career, and well get into the discussion, and i will start off with someone who i have such respect for, such admiration, such love for, dr. Mary Frances Berry. She has a list of things she has done. She has been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list goes on and on. She is also the author of the book, five dollars and a pork chop, from which and the corruption corruption in democracy. She has a new book coming out, history teaches us to [applause] next to dr. Mary francesbe
Because healthcare is so complicated now and not really focus very well on coordination that it can often take a tremendous amount of time and energy for this very basic ordinary thing to happen. So for example one of the patients in the book is misdiagnosed, the classic thing that happens, the patient comes into the emergency department. A medical problem is perceived, she perceived, she goes to a medical floor, it turns out she has a very serious surgical problem. I was talking with one of the surgeons involved on my behalf i just felt so angry, and he said it happens all the time. Host i dont think the public really appreciates how complicated it can be. It does cause to even try to work harder to coordination. Guest i dont want to scare people and make them think the hospital is chaotic in a mess. That is not the case. Host right, but it takes a lot of work and a lot of effort. On behalf of the entire team and nurses were there every day. Guest yes, that is what motivated me to wri
Amazon. Cnns nick watt is joining me from los angeles with more on how the country is coping. Nick . Reporter as you say, brianna, it is a question of capacity and supplies right now. We just heard from michigan that one of the biggest Hospital Service providers there is nearing capacity. We just heard from six acute Care Hospitals on long island that say theyre now running out of isolation gowns. New york right now is the focus. It will shift, but for now, new york is the frontline. There are field hospitals in manhattan, College Dorms being converted, upping capacity and Navy Hospital ship coming soon, but new york is still 20,000 beds shy of what they say theyll need. I think were looking at hotels, were looking at former nursing homes. Reporter they had 4,000 ventilators. Bought 7,000 more. Fema delivered 4,000, but new york is still 15,000 short. Were exploring splitting where one ventilator could do two patients. Reporter opening some streets to pedestrians to reduce density in c
20th, 1973, when the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general of the United States under Richard Nixon resigned in protest rather than comply with nixons order to fire the special prosecutor looking into the watergate breakin. Those resignations in protest and nixon abolishing the special Prosecutors Office afterward were ducked the saturday night massacre. Well, on saturday, the Trump Administration orchestrated its second purge of federal Civil Servants having previously dismissed more than two dozen career and mitt calpolitical appointe appointees. The dismissals came after two days of trump loyalists going on cable tv calling for a purge of anyone in government who isnt absolutely, unquestionably loyal to donald trump. For weeks weve been warning you about the deep state obama holdover government bureaucrats who are hellbent on destroying this president , President Trump. Tonight its time for the Trump Administration to begin to purge these saboteurs before its too late. An