Commemoration, today mark, the 25th anniversary of the explosion outside the alfred p. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people including those children inside a daycare facility. The washington journal and our partners at American History tv on cspan 3 spending this next hour looking back at the events from 25 years ago. Joining us in Oklahoma City at the National Memorial and museum is the executive director Carrie Watkins on this 25th anniversary but first from Late Afternoon of april 19th, 1995, these words by president bill clinton his first comments about the bombing. The bombing in Oklahoma City was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. It was an act of cowardice and it was evil. The United States will not tolerate it. And i will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards. I have met with our team, which we assembled to deal with this bombing. And i have determined to take the following steps to assure the strongest response t
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Hello this is Art International from moscow has just turned midday here this wednesday im kevin 0 in well welcome to this 30 minute world news round up 1st these are the latest figures in the covert 19 pandemic more than 860000 cases have now been confirmed globally more than 42000 people have lost their lives and 178000 have recovered here in russia 440 new coronavirus cases have been registered in the last 24 hours with the total number reaching 277720 4 people have died here. Well in developments to brief you on today then a Russian Military aircraft loaded with medical and protective equipment is on its way to the United States to help that country tackle the coronavirus pandemic and once u. S. Manufacturers are able to step up production themselves moscow hopes they might be able to offer help back here in return to russia if its needed later on with the details to get down off. Century russia is following its own pattern of helping those countries that have been by this covert 19
Well bring you expert analysis and later as amazon stock has shined amid the krona Virus Outbreak some of its employees are voicing concerns about their health and compensation of a packed show today so lets go and dive right in. And the world now has more than 800000 cases of the coronavirus and cost the lives of more than 40000 people here in the u. S. The death toll grew by more than 500 in a day for the 1st time since much on monday during his Daily Briefing on the pandemic u. S. President donald trump talked about how important the next month will be to fight in the spread of the virus this is a page you had a duty challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days. And this is a very vital 30 days were sort of putting it all on the line. This 30 days so important because we have to get back. But the more we dedicate ourselves today the more quickly we will emerge on the other side of the crisis and as the u. S. President touted a newly authorized 15 minute test the nations leading
Mr. President , this is a commonsense piece of legislation. It does not saddle Small Businesses, American Business with a new mandate that they dont have a great deal of confidence and then they would actually be funded 100 by the federal government. By the way, the house bill doesnt fund this 100 , it leaves gaps, and it would definitely be temporary and utilize an existing program in the states, sitting on top of it providing federal support for the workers that are going to actually need it as we go through this unprecedented event in our nations history. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor to the senator from pennsylvania. The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey thank you, mr. President. And i want to thank the senator from wisconsin for leading on this effort. I rise in strong support of this amendment, mr. President. The two of us, and i expect most everybody in this chamber, fully support the idea, the goal, the need to provide relief to workers