American university in washington dc who served as the secretary of health and Human Services during the obama administration. And later, we introduced one of the very first doctors to use breakthrough education remdesivir. Our phone lines are open. Is the area code in washington dc, host 202 7488000 four western time zones, and for you in the east, and if you are a medical professional, 202 7488002. Would begin with the latest on johns latest from Johns Hopkins university. Good evening. According to Johns Hopkins, 3. 7 million cases around the world. The overall death toll, 263,000 globally. Isning us in washington dc asretary burwell, who served hhs secretary during the obama administration. Let me begin with the learning curve you had as president of a you. And what have you learned about a you and Higher Education in general over the last two months . Secretary burwell like everyone dealing with the uncertainty of the covid19 crisis, we have been on a steep learning curve, doing th
Morning, thanks for joining us on this wednesday april 29th son James Fletcher and im darya folsom and heres a surprise governor newsome says the new school year in california might start early as early as july or august to try to make up for some of the last days at the end of this school year kron fours will tran live in berkeley to explain well. James darya the kids we all know have not been in school for 5 weeks but if the governor and it still decision process processing so its not concrete yet. But if the governor probably has it his way the kids could be back in the classrooms as early as late july, the governor says theres been a noticeable learning loss, especially in many homes that dont have internet and whenever that happens. Its more prevalent and communities of color. And hes noticed that as best as the parents are trying to homeschool its still not the same as the teachers in front of the kids physically in the classroom and in some cases, the parents are not even home b
Unique. Take hiv. E, lets we showed hiv was the cause of aids. This was hard because the virus is hard to find, hard to grow, and the disease does not show up until years later. Establishing strong evidence to get people to say, this is it was not easy. Number this virus, sars 2 it is easy to find. It replicates so much that it is obvious and quick to cause disease. You do not argue about whether this is the cause. They present different challenges. People have said they have never seen anything like this. Yes in terms of the social angle but of course there has been epidemics like this. We just have to broaden our Knowledge Base or just read over the course of history of medical science. The great flu of 1918 was worse. It killed a quarter of the world. Rnae are viruses that carry dna that are subject to more mutation. Infectiousways more so each one is a problem. What is unique . The social impact in our lifetime. The magnitude of it. What is unique it is not unique but what a specia
That the hefed puts out, down severely. We will tell you the sectors suffering the most and no, it is not travel and leisure. As the Dow Jones Industrials fall to about 323 points, that percentage is a loss of about 1. 33 but look at the russell 2000 small and midcaps losing near double that amount. This selloff comes as the u. S. Sees the highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day, 2405. At the same time, President Trump threatening to pull funding from the world health organization. Coming up, one allamerican fortune 500 company is doing the complete opposite. Colgate palmolive teaming up to get its soap to a world absolutely desperate for safe hands. But its the virus antibodies everybody really wants. Coming up, this is the Silicon Valley disruptor that is speeding up plans to launch its lifesaving drones in america. The cofounder and ceo is about to show you, youve got to see this, how they have been delivering blood, plasma and medicine to remote regions in africa for y
To more than 12,000, and confirmed cases here in the u. S. Are now approaching 400,000, although new york says it is utarting to see the curve flatten there. There is also breaking news here in washington. Today, the president fired the Inspector General appointed to oversee that 2 trillion relief bill. The watchdog gone, just as the White House Asks Congress for another 250 billion for small businesses. And, as we come on the air tonight, we are learning the acting secretary of the navy has resigned. His departure comes after an uproar over his insulting the captain of the u. S. S. Theodore hosevelt, who had sounded the alarm about the coronavirus. There is a lot of news to get to tonight, and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. We begin again tonight with mola lenghi, who leads us off in new york city. Mola . Reporter well, norah, as you mention, there are both hopeful and troublesome signs, especially here in new york city. These field hospitals, like the medi