How citizen soldiers from the National Guard are helping to combat the coronavirus. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Every day when i go to work, i feel like a sheep going to slaughter. Confirmed coronavirus cases now top 1 million worldwide. I know you have seen the slope in the United States versus the slope in italy. And we have to change that slope. Certain areas of michigan, detroit, looked like it was doing pretty good and then all of a sudden, it went up. The nations top Infectious Disease expert says the whole country should already be under orders to stay at home. If you look at whats going on in this country, i just dont understand why were not doing that. We really should be. Another historic surge in unemployment claims. More than 6. 6 Million People filed for benefits. A mindblowingly horrible, recordbreaking number. Two cruise ships carrying passengers with flulike symptoms have been allowed to dock in florida. After coming to an agreement wit
In the u. S. County by county. Our webpages are fast and easy way to watch cspans unfiltered coverage of this pandemic. On friday, the house debated the coronavirus, including direct Cash Payments to individuals. To Small Businesses, targeted lending to industries impacted by the pandemic, and funded debt funding for hospitals. Here is the final hour of the debate prior to the vote. The gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. Our country finds ourselves in uncharted waters. For the past two weeks, i have been at home in the First District of georgia visiting with individuals with Small Business owners. I have seen people who are concerned. Concerned about their health in their future. This is something we have to address. I have also seen something i have never seen before, people pulling together, people doing for each other and caring for each other, volunteering at food volunteering and service organizations. I have seen the best of america as well. Our responsibility t
Unusual session but critical. Mr. Speaker, this legislation represents a bipartisan and resolve to meet the coronavirus challenge head on. It represents a focusnt on families and workers with the objective to make them safer and economically supported. That will protect workers as we all doo our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials have made it clear the only chance we have c to prevent our system to be overwhelmed with the pandemic it is threatened to be for his as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary for us to be here, to pass legislatio legislation, to respond on behalf of the American People through this daunting challenge. The closure the large parts of the economy must be temporarily shutec down cause severe disruption for businesses and workers we saw the impact of this yesterday when new Unemployment Insurance claims increased by more than 3 Million People 3 million individuals. Those that rely on them for support of their families and
Indepth program. With author and historian, joanne freeman. Books include affairs of honor,o the essential hamilton, and most recently, the field of blood. Violence in congress and the road to civil war. Joanne freeman you are going to hate this opening question. Spak zero. Trace the art of our nations history from 1783, 21861, the political history. Wow. Okay, the speech. Thats a little i daunting. Tracy r. Im going to do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if you are looking in american politics, from the beginning like through we could even go after the war, talking about paradoxes, and conflict. I tend to focus on is really more the early part of the ark. It is the improvisational nature of that. It is because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy. And you know the United States of republic what that means was it so clear at the moment and people knew they were trying to do something that wasntth that. So were not going to create a monarchy the presiden
Test. Captioning performed by vitac other questions . Yes, sir. My name is zumerisan, the executive director of Public Health for harris county. I just flew in from houston so i missed almost the entire day. Anything i say, if its completely off, i completely apologize. Just wanted to say that up front. I actually have a question for you. Im also associated with the National Association of county and city house authorities which represents close to 3,000 local Health Departments across the u. S. And we are very much interested in really this really Global Learning that really impacts domestic local Public Health, domestic Public Health practice here in the u. S. As were going through this process were learning that a lot of organizations that were getting to are very much very interested in the Global Health space, so they are doing Global Health work, but not interested in Domestic Health, or theyre doing Domestic Health work and not interested in the Global Health aspects. So as we t