Welcome to the National Press club. I am lisa matthews. Vice president of the club and Associated Press u. S. Video assignment manager. The killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis on may 25 convulsed the nation in black lives matter protests and renewed an urgent outcry for Police Reform. At the same time, our nation has struggled to contain the coronavirus, which has struck communities of color disproportionately. Today, we welcome Congressional Black Caucus chair, representative karen bass, a democrat from california. She has devoted her decade in congress to issues of crimin al justice and disparities in health care. Representative bass chairs the Judiciary Committee subcommittee on crime and was passed by House Speaker nancy pelosi and judiciary chair jerry nadler, shepherding the George Floyd Justice in policing act, through the legislative process. The act, which passe d the house in late june, bans chokeholds and no knock warrants, as well as lowering the legal barriers
Ebola, sica, and now covid19. He is the winner of the president ial medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. We are grateful for his lifetime of Public Service and particularly for his candor and expertise during this critical time. Let me ask you for a broad overview of the pandemic, where are we now . We are in a difficult situation. We have a large outbreak, there have been close to 140,000 deaths and several million infections. That is sobering news. We have some bright spots, areas of the country like the new york metropolitan area which has been through a difficult time, probably worse than any other regional area but turned it around and come down but as we see now if you follow the news carefully which is pretty obvious that there are sections of the country, particularly a group of Southern States particularly california, florida, texas and arizona and others that are seeing a resurgence where we are seeing where we had a baseline of 20,000 cases a da
Coronavirus scams. At 9 00 a. M. , middle State University professor Sidney Mcphee discusses Higher Education during the pandemic and his participation in good morning, its friday, july 17, 2020. We begin today on the issue of requiring face masks be worn in public. As new coronavirus cases continue to spike around the country, more than half youve u. S. States have made mask use mandatory. Governor of georgia is fighting municipal mass clause in his state, in an effort to continue to allow mask used to be optional. Should mask wearing in public the mandatory . F you think yes, 2027488000 if you think no, 2027488001. If you arent sure, 2027488002. You can also send us a text this morning. That number, 2027488003 please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A good friday morning to you. You can start calling and as we show you some headlines about what is happening in states around the country when it comes
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Getting a quality education, and allowing us as parents to get back to work, where we are able to, and to make sure that we are attending as we anticipate this every year to so many other responsibilities as parents and caregivers. Today, i want to talk about what we are putting out in terms of guidance and guidelines for education in the state of california in the context of covid19. We will go through a list of specific recommendations, specific guidance as well is updating you as we do on all of the information related to Positivity Rates, hospitalization rates and icus. Lets begin with the found ocean framework lets begin with the foundational framework. It is nonnegotiable that schools must provide meaningful instruction during this pandemic, whether they are physically opened, the schools, or not. That is what i want to talk about specifically today. Our students, our teachers, staff, and certainly parents, we all prefer in class instruction for all of the obvious reasons. But on