Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living under a rock you know about mark levitch and his book this town that caused a lot of stir and conversation. Number one New York Times best seller followed up with a collection of his fantastic articles over the years called sitcitizen ci
Andrei cherny formerly of the Democratic Party. [applause] dot everybody can say that in arizona and get applause. But the book readers are what we call the base. [laughter] dot thank you for that. Currently the ceo of aspiration. Com. Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living u
For firsttime Unemployment Benefits just in the last week alone. You can see that all over the place. Relaxed certainty on how many people are getting through. If i add this to the millions of other people over the past three weeks that have been asking for help, we could be talking up to 23 Million People in the space of four weeks filing for firsttime benefits. We are looking potentially at an Unemployment Rate in the United States of 17 . Just imagine what were seeing. Just in the space of four weeks. What that means for the people involved and the worst part of this, alisyn, were not done yet. We know states are struggling to process these claims. In the past hour, ive had a number of freelancers contact me and say in my state, i still cant get through. That could be a further 23 Million People. Weve got another hour and a half to wait until we get the numbers. But devastating, again, for everyone involved is the message. Julia chatterley for us. Please keep us posted throughout th
People need certainty of clarity so they can plan. I need cord maordinated action with the states. One month will continue to close down policies. What happens after then . I dont know. Well see depending on what the data shows. What does it mean . Tell us what our infection spread is. Is it. 9, is it. 7 . Tell me what the hospitalizations rate is and the experts will tell us the best course of conduct based on that data. No political decisions. No motiemotional decisions. Data and science we are talking about, human lives here. As relatively simple and possibility annoying as it seems, wearing a mask is one of the best things that we can do. And i understand i am getting a lot of not happy phone calls off what i said yesterday about wearing a mask in public, but i am sorry if it makes people unhappy. I do not consider a major burden and it really is a simple measure that can save lives. Yes, people say it is a personal intrusion on them. Again, it is not just about you, right . I have
Well, the United States with far and away the most confirmed coronavirus cases in the world is now approaching 41,000 deaths. And that is according to Johns Hopkins university which confirms nearly 760,000 cases nationwide. And you can see which states are the most affected. More than 2. 4 million cases are reported worldwide. On sunday, President Donald Trump said the u. S. Is rapidly expandi expandi expanding its testing which experts say is key to reopening the economy. On cnn the mayor of new york warned against acting too soon. I fear that the president in sort of his endless desire, sort of ra, ra, lets restart, is ignoring the facts, ignoring the science, and hes going to lead us into something that will boomerang back on us harshly. Hes only got one chance to get this right. And governors say they need more tests before they can safely reopen. The white house says they have plenty. Natasha chan looks at the state of the nation right now. Reporter its been 50 days since the firs