Mr. Biden good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the queen theater. Im here today to talk about a crisis. A crisis being felt across the United States of america. And jill and i have just been briefed, as you know, in this room by our Public Health and education experts about what it is going to take to be able to reopen schools safely and effectively. Backtoschool has always been a special time. It is in your family and mine, but particularly in mine, all the years jill and i were married, she was going back to school, too, as a teacher. She would be the first one to tell you this should be a season of promise for our country. Times when classrooms are crackling with the possibilities of the new year, students hopes, all about the future. But this year, we are facing the most difficult circumstances. We are seeing a lot of heart and grit from our educators, our students, to try to rise to the occasion. But our government has not come up to that bar. Hasnt shown much grit or determination.
A wave of reactions and political debate in sweden including from the leader of the opposition and the Prime Minister. Foreign minister and linda welcome to conflict zone thank you very much you said recently about swedens trust based strategy to combat the coronavirus was working your Prime Minister also continues to maintain the strategy was the right one but today you have nearly 5000 confirmed coronavirus deaths far higher per capita than your neighbors who imposed stricter lock downs early on with such a high death toll how can you say that your strategy is working. Well actually we have the same goals as most other governments that says to save life and health and also to keep the system in the Health Service able to cope with this very strong push on the limits and actually we manage to flatten the curve we have there for have. Problems we getting sick people into the health care. Actually or so we have managed to get our people to follow their recommendation and we have legally
This was not about protest or expressing the First Amendment rights. This was about vandalism and thats simple. Reporter the mayor was not home at the time. He found dozens of neighbors with brooms and cleaners scrubbing off paints at his house. It was so heartening to see a couple of my neighbors dropping everything they were doing and bringing their kids out at 10 00 or 11 00 scrubbing graffiti off the front of my house. It says so much of the character of our community. Reporter ricardo says he supports the black lives Matter Movement so do his neighbors. I understand they are angry but in a way you are upsetting people that are on your side. Thats kind of counter productive. Reporter the mayor says he wanted several mayors acros across he was one of several mayors across california had this happening to. I am hearing this again from Eric Garcetti and the mayor in dallas. Reporter he believes this does not represent the life bla lives Matter Movement. Protest last night at oakland,
Someone the just line they are infected. Reporter the molecules put the coronavirus and a straitjacket. It attaches to the virus blocking it from infecting or multiplying so that it cannot attach to healthy cells and loses its ability to infect them. It only interacts with the protein. And that allows it to be made far cheaper and on a scale that is much larger. Be turned over for initial testing if we can have Clinical Trials in the next few months. Reporter this is one of the most potent weapons ever discovered with the potential to treat other maladies. Weve had three other coronavirus viruses without cures as well as other lung attacking pathogens. We think this could be applied to other respiratory viruses as well. Reporter this will require three phases of human trial. And even if it was sped up it would not be done in two 2021. This is a major breakthrough with a worldwide implications. Tom baker , ktvu fox 2 news. Kaiser permanente is plenty to join a phase three Clinical Trial
And where. You can do it with out someone dying the Trump Administration says teachers should also have flexibility but its unclear how schools with staff classes if many teachers choose not to return in person. In washington. Alexandra le mount. Many College Students will also be returning to school this fall and with the coronavirus still spreading across the country. Safety on campuses now includes a delaying or completely halt in college sports. The big 12 is the only power 5 conference to definitively say it will play its regular fall season. And the big 10 and pac, 12 conferences have postponed football and all other sports. This fall the acc and sec have yet to officially say what theyll do. But many players and coaches want to play. Despite the virus. Wage based upon the medical information that we have and we believe that we have some of the best that are advising us and taking an enhanced medical procedures as long as we have a committed group and our student athletes have be