Fantastic. Im alicia acuna in denver. The president discussing several other key issues, talking at length about then coronavirus pandemic and touting his response so far. David spunt is at the white house with more. Reporter good afternoon. Some medical experts would disagree, but President Trump said the reason the covid testing numbers are up is because more tests are being done, thats why the infection rates are up, because there are many more tests that took place now than we saw just a few months ago in march. Listen. Testing is up 37 well, thats good. I understand. Cases are up 194 . It isnt just the testing has gone up, its that the virus has spread. The Positivity Rate has increased of those cases, many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. Reporter and, alicia, those young people will go to school in about a month. Millions of kids and parents are anxious about how they will handle that return to the classroom. The president wants to open schools despite c
By the way, and whether or not he would challenge the results of the election if he would lose in november. We have fox News Coverage on all this. Jacqui heinrich breaks down the new polls out today. Lets go to david spunt on the north lawn of the white house. Hi, david. Reporter quite an interview with Chris Wallace. A lot to unpack in that hourlong interview including the most pressing issues for many in the United States, coronavirus. President trump says there are more positive cases because there is an increase of testing since march. Testing is up 37 . Thats good. Chris i understand. Cases are up 194 . It isnt just the testing has gone up, its that the virus has spread, the Positivity Rate has increased. Many of those of cases are young people that would heal in a day. Reporter President Trump also talked about his opponent, former Vice President joe biden, President Trump alleges that biden wants to defund the police. He pointed to an agreement that biden made along with bernie
Set a number of its record by itself this week alone, a oneweek record for the number of tests carried out, a oneweek record for the number of new cases. Sadly, a oneweek record for the death toll too in the state of florida. At least 25 states now have some form of ordinance that requires people to wear masks, in public, but there is some pushback in states like texas and arkansas, often local authorities not enforcing those masks ordinances. In the meantime, Congress Goes back to work this week. One bill expected, a Coronavirus Relief bill. Thats going to be a top priority, a key item on that will be funding for the cdc, both for testing and for contact tracing. So far the white house has been critical of the role the cdc has played so far how it has performed. In the meantime the fda passed an emergency method on pool testing, allowing pool testing for the first time ever, up to four separate tests will be allowed to be tested at one time. If all four are negative, the people are cl
And studies show that big soda is largely to blame. As a father, i know our families need help when they live in environments saturated with sugary drinks that are aggressively marketed everywhere children and families turn, like billboards on top of peoples houses in the bayview or on our buses, or saturday morning tv. As a san franciscan, i also share our collective desire to make San Francisco more livable for families and to continue to be a city that sends stands strong in protecting the Publics Health and allows all of our neighborhoods to thrive. As a local legislator and a law maker like the left of us, i also believe that nothing we do is more important than protecting our Childrens Health and the Publics Health. Were lucky, as i mentioned, that we have strong coalitions for Health Equity and food access in our neighborhoods, especially in the bayview and the tenderloin. But its growing in many other neighborhoods, too. And theyve been building alliances with doctors, Health E
Folks that have helped to make this a reality. Id like to take a moment just to thank a few of the organizations that have helped us along the way. All of us or none, legal serve is he for prisoners with children, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights National power, coalition on homelessness, hospitality house, coleman advocates, chamber of commerce and Small Business commission, and also there are a litany of neighborhood folks that helped gather signatures for us to continue to move this forward. And i hope that you will join supervisor kim and i in voting favorably for this legislation. Mr. Chair, the rest i give back to supervisor kim. Supervisor kim. Thank you, supervisor cohen and president chiu. Its always important to put a face behind legislation. And todays legislation is for these very individuals. The fair chance act is for an individual named don he will who was fired from his janitorial job whos was fired for failing to tell about a 1974 arrest for transpesting. The fair ch