Hello and welcome to bbc news. President trump and his wife melania have gone into quarantine in the white house, after testing positive for covid 19. Mr trump, whos often downplayed the virus and seldom uses a mask, said they would get through it together. The white house doctor said mr trump was doing well and would carry out his duties without disruption. Lets take a look at the events just before President Trump tested positive. On tuesday the first debate between President Trump and joe biden took place. His special advisor hope hicks who has also tested positive traveled with the campaign. On wednesday, the Trump Campaign flew to a rally in minnesota. Again, hope hicks travelled with President Trump. She falls ill and quarantines on the return journey. On thursday, hope hicks tests positive for coronavirus just as President Trump travels to newjersey for another fundraiser. Donald trump then takes a test along with wife melania. Then, earlier today, President Trump takes to twitt
Pennsylvania. President trump still refusing to concede, refusing to drop baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Hes also refusing to do anything to ada smooth transition to the biden administration. We are starting to see daylight between Trump Officials, former and current, who are reaching out on their own to biden counter parts, some quietly because they fear reprisal. Today, president elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris hear from members of the National Governors Association Executive committee. These are governors on the frontlines of the fight against the coronavirus. And while the biden team formulates plans to battle the virus, President Trump largely ignores it, even as the u. S. Is crossing a grim milestone here. Take a look. A quarter Million People dead. There are no tweets from trump about that. Theres no sympathy for the dead or for families. In fact, the president s twitter feed presents as if were not even in a pandemic. We are hearing from the V
If you were than one in every four adolescence gets enough exercise in this country. We have an epidemic across the nation. It cost about 90 million a year direct cost projected to be 190 billion by 2030. We know that physical activity levels have dropped 32 of less than two generations and that between the ages of nine and 15, our physical activity level has dropped 75 . A lot of kids fallout of sports during the middle school years. And we know that there are Many Health Benefits from playing sports, stronger bones, better heart health, lower levels of depression and we know that one study in 2004 out of Penn State University said that adolescents who played sports are eight times more likely to be active in sports at age 24 as adolescents who do not play sports. So in a nation we have a real interesting getting and keeping as many kids active in sports in their teenage years as possible. At the same time, we have another set of statistics we have to contend with particularly as it r
Occurring in the United States which has not happened. The virus miew mutating or becoming more contagious, it has not happened. Mr. Wade would you support more drastic measures compiling a new fly list from getting people from west africa from coming here. Im glad i am the only one on the campaign scene calling for the suspended traffic for the ebolaeffected areas africa. Since then others have stepped up with the same thoughts. We need to put the safety of our your family, all American Families first. Now, my opponent is the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee for african affairs. As chairman he has been stubbornly refused to speak up for what i would call prudent precautions to spend the traffic until the crisis passes. He has spoken publicly and frequently of the need to maintain communications and traffic back and forth and i think that doesnt help us and it doesnt help them. We would have no ebola in this country if it wasnt for passengers coming from that part a of the world. An
The basic problem is really coming up with a bill that will able to get a majority of support within the house and senate and it seems to me that i think they may be getting close to that. As far as getting a more privatestyle of management, it is the sort of a tough not the they are trying to crack. They have several layers now at the Postal Service. I think what they are trying to do in the house bill is to create the idea that you have more of a private the best type of group of managers that could come in within a couple of years if the financial problems are not resolved by the steps that would be prescribed by the legislation that would perhaps be in the future something that would happen. Host the caller mentioned about unions do union see that as a way of breaking up the unions . Guest certainly, there has been there is a lot of pressure on to reduce the size of the workforce. They have about 500,000 workers. What is in the legislation is in sentence, payments, that would be ma