We continue to plead for more trusting still has not come any anywhere near the numbers that we need. To call for help from the mayor of new york after the us records more deaths than anywhere else in the world its also Global Leaders have agreed to major reductions in Oil Production as demand for its because of the pandemic. An empty church pews around the worlds coronavirus leads to an easter celebration unlike any in modern history. Everyone china has released new figures showing just over 100 corona virus infections across the country in the last 24 hours that number is actually the highest number in 6 weeks so there are some concerns about a possible 2nd outbreak well look at that in a moment but 1st the global picture more than 114000 people have died from cove in 19 there are over 1800000 infections in the u. K. Alone the death toll has now gone past 10 thousands Prime Minister barr stunts and though he is recovering from coronaviruses out of hospital after several several days
[please stand by] virtually no cars, no motorcycles, no anything. Things that would normally be taken care of, we dont see anymore. The ship is ready, but it has to, if we need it, needed for the virus, we would be using it for that. We would prefer not but if for any reason they need it, it is ready, willing and able. We have the we have the best logistics officials anywhere in the world and we are orchestrating a massive furlough response federal response unlike our country has ever done. More and more we are using medical people because of the states, iniction particular, new york, new jersey, long island has become a hot spot, part of new york. Sending a lot of things and now personnel where it is needed, military personnel. As of tuesday we will have deployed over 3000 military and Public Health professionals to new york, connecticut and other parts of the country. The number is going up. Off in we see a leveling the hottest spots of them all. You will see that over the next few d
One city is a vicious serial sexual predator. Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein taken straight to jail after being found guilty of Sexual Assault and 1st degree rape. Both rest in peace have fun in heaven tell me again when de passionate words from kobe bryants widow at a memorial for the basketball legend and her daughter. The World Health Organization says its deeply concerned by the sudden increase in corona virus cases outside china 3 main task as of infections are growing in the middle east europe and asia in south korea the u. S. Says its considering scaling back joint sizes with south korea juda concerns about the spread of the virus 809. 23. 00 cases of now being confirmed there at least 8 people have died iran has confirmed 12 deaths and has denied reports the toll could be much higher quade is also among several countries in the region reporting their 1st infections Kuwait Civil Aviation Authority has announced its temporarily barring flights from divine charger suppo
Luther king jr. Was arrested in my hometown of birmingham, alabama. His crime, leading a peaceful march to protest the indignity suffered by the black community and the jim crow era. He had violated the ban on public demonstrations which targeted the growing resistance of africanamericans to the injustices they were insuffering. While in solitary confinement in birmingham, dr. King wrote what became known as the letter from the birmingham jail, a stinging response to a group of white clergy in alabama who had denounced his tactics and questioned the wisdom and timing of his arrival in birmingham. They insisted he was an outside agitator coming to alabama to instigate trouble. Dr. King responded famously. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. In his letter he rejected the idea that africanamericans should be more patient for change in the face of the daily indignities inflicted by segregation, in the face of threats of violation. There comes a time, he wrote, when the cu
Washington journal, live at 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion. Joining us to take to talk about her book one person, no. Ote is the author why did you write this book . The book emerged out of two one was the 2016 election and there i saw the pundits keep talking about people just didnt show up. Up andople didnt show hillary lost because black people werent feeling hillary. That and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Rights act. It began to deal with the massive disenfranchisement happening particularly in the south. Where you had counties that had a majority black population, but zero africanamericans were registered to vote. What the Voting Rights and did was have a prov