Some related the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful 2 weeks mike hanna has more from washington d. C. So at least i can get very soft but indeed saying that mitigation elements fighting the disease by social distances by the lock down is a matter on the mind of death as he put it incidentally its the 1st time in the room i received has actually released projected figures theyve resisted doing so until now they said they didnt have enough data to be able to make a realistic prediction now it appears that they are getting in great to date data far more detailed data across the us states and their prediction is from 1500022400 extension 00 deaths predicted by the models they are looking at and that is even with the bitty gay shouldnt factors that are in place at the moment the lockdown the social distancing keeping people away from interaction with others worst Case Scenarios if there is no mitigation measures taken say the hill thinks but is Someth
Educate people. You know, rather than fighting and yelling and hating, its more important to love, care and support. Were trying to really make a difference and create the foundation i mentioned before to stop all these racisms and xenophobias going on. It requires every one of us to reach deep and show care not only for our own family and our own neighbors and friends, but for the broader community. Thats how we get through this pandemic. Thats how we come out on the other side a stronger community. Abc7 presents race and coronavirus a bay ara conversation. And with that backdrop, a good afternoon. Really glad you are with us. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze. Thank you so much for joining us for this special edition of abc7 news. Instead of our normal 4 00 p. M. Newscast, today were going spend an hour engaging experts and you, our viewers in a virtual town hall on the issue of race and coronavirus. You know, this is a vitally important onehour virtual town hall erring on television
Hello from our studios in new york city where you know weve made lots of adjustments to to get this done so so so tell me as you sit there and i sit here. And you know were seeing how this is affecting the media in so many ways and i guess it 1st started most notably with the c pack in the notification to some journalists that someone had tested positive and jeffrey lord who weve had on the show self quarantine blah blah blah but now its like you know social distancing on all the new shows its commonplace. Yeah everybodys on skype nets or some similar resume or whatever it is whatever were im going to get so i mean. You know what even shes each other anymore i mean i just talk to people on the phone or a its a huge zuma or Something Like that i see my wife occasionally going to her office and theres a. Book mostly mostly we text each other so. Who knows you know if you do species or were going to evolve into something very weird. Well let me ask you this. Yeah ill let me have a little
Rinks being turned into a makeshift morgue or hearses arrived on thursday the death toll has risen to more than 4000 overtaking china. And italy still europes worst affected country to date have been temporarily stored in churches before being sent for commission but army truck in a deserted European Parliament chamber the Commission President urged europeans to show solidarity several a u. Countries including germany and france of the exports of protective gear to avoid shortfalls at home ursula vonda land warns the practice undermined europes joint response to the crisis we all share this responsibility none of us can do it alone and certainly no member state can handle this crisis on their own. And because in this crisis and in our union more generally it is only by helping each other that we can help ourselves. In paris Health Workers are conducting drive through testing in the streets frances death toll rose by 28 percent on thursday tracing the spread of the virus is vital for co
All of this out. Stocks are in and out of touching 7 fall i dont have that would trigger another Circuit Breaker. At the worst we were down 6. 7 . Now down about 5 1 2 . That translates into a dow barely above 20,000. The same drama, surreal one continues to play out across the country. I want to show you what is happening this is new yorks times square, this has been pretty much the youre not seeing many people drawn to the crossroad of america, among some of the busiest thorough fares on the planet. Youre seeing similar situations play out in seattle, washington. Youre also seeing it play out in the likes of hoboken new jersey where the mayor there has, is saying that people should go ahead and obviously selfquarantine themselves, if you will, or selfisolate. New york Governor Cuomo by the way has distanced himself from new york city mayor de blasio who is advocated an across the board crackdown, a lockdown here, that would call for pretty much everyone, at least in manhattan, at lea