The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. He clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , april 22, 2020. Hereby appoint the honorable g. K. Butterfield to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Pray. In conroy let us merciful god, thank you for day. G us another today is a travel day for the members. Of they return to the capitol to assistance onavirus to americas citizens, businesses, and communities. Them safe in their travel infection. Ngers of continue to give wisdom and good americas citizens and inspire the governors of wise ountry to fashion policies. Here are many disagreements in our civic discourse. Ay all be mindful of the responsibilities of good citizenship. Bless those times, whose lifes work is in service safety, be it police, edical professionals, or those p
I will not be issuing any legally binding orders today. But does not mean we will not make legally binding orders. Perhaps it will not be necessary with thegtonians act force of responsibility, the force of the sense that we are all in this together. We remain concerned that some in taking all theot measures necessary to preserve life and limb. Its not hyperbolic to say Everyone Needs to change their behavior, change the way we live temporarily if we are going to prevent significant loss of life. When i say everyone i mean everyone. Because we all are potential transmitters of this virus and we all, to some varying degrees are victims of this virus. If anyone is living a normal life today, we are not doing what we need you to do if we are theg to save lives in state. Behaving as though this is not a mortal threat. Although i have the order to put limits on large gatherings, we are still seeing people ignoring most of these orders and common sense about what it takes to protect our love
And starting saturday march 28 Weekend Service will be cut as well instead of opening at 6 will open at 8 instead of closing it not at midnight the close at 9 this will be the same as well for sunday, all riders must be in the system by a 45 to have a guaranteed ride to their destination part officials are unable to say how long this new schedule is going to be in effect because its really just a day by day thing were were working through here with the coronavirus outbreak learning about more cases and then we still have the sand home order in effect so as long as they see ridership im a ridership decline, im sure theyll continue on with this new because it really is looking like a ghost town at this park station in daly city. For now ill send it back to you darya. All right, thanks a lot of sarah and californias disaster declaration for the coronavirus and that means the federal government, well pay the California National guard to help with our relief efforts here weve already seen t
Continue to do our partat kron 4 with social distancing here in the studio and of course heth officials want us all to do worldwide there are about 596,000 cases and more than 27,000 deaths. In the United States alone there was a surge of more than 21,000 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours. This came after the us became the country with the highest number of cases tonight. There are more than a 104,000 cases while 1700 people have died. In california. There are more than 4700 k a coronavirus cases and 94 people have died. The Us Navy Ship Mercy with is 100 hospital beds arrived in Southern California today and a somber warning from los angeles today as the city of angels prepares for what is expected to be a significant surge cases of covid 19our kate ronan has the latest on developments there. With 257 new confirmed cases in los angeles today and 5 new deaths la is readying for an even greater pected surge in the coming days, yesterdays would of course have a 50 doubling rate of les
Good morning, i am the 113th president of the National Press club. The executive producer of the public broadcasting series. The spread of coronavirus is now affecting everything from travel and major events to the stock market, in addition to the human toll. Government, community, faithbased and corporate organizations across the country and around the world are meeting, monitoring and urging people to take precautionary measures, including washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, social distancing on site and staying home if you are not feeling well. We are here this morning to learn more about how our local cities and counties are preparing for possible outbreaks. Do local Health Officials have enough protective equipment, including masks and gloves on hand . Are Hospital Personnel and First Responders trained up to deal with coronavirus patients . Are tests for the virus readily available . What is being done to educate the public in our local communities . To help answ