Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Governor ned lamont, welcome to firing line. Margaret, nice to see you. You are the governor of the state of connecticut, a state that, as you poied out this week, ishe fourthmost covidinfected state per capitac in tntry. You have more than 3,000 cases c id in your state, and that number is increasing rapidly each day. Now, you, along with all of your fellow governors, are workinaround the clock to protect the citizens of your state, a so, governor, i wonder, can you tell me, nere do you think you are in the curve rig . Running like hell and the virus is catching up every day what the federal government doesnt realize is they think about this in terms states and new york has all the fatalities, infections. They target all thpment and ppe there. And we keep trying to say, think about connecticut as ,art of that new york pandemic. And if you do th then youll see that we have the fourth highest infection rate ithe countr
The economy in the next 3, 6, 18 months. Tom it has been an extraordinary recharging of global recession. Germany looking at recession calls back to 2009, really no surprise there. But it has been the additive facts that we have seen over the weekend measuring global slowdown. There is no place you see it more than thiss morning, not only in the price decline of oil, but specifically brent has had worldwide crude has an extremely difficult six hours. Francine yeah, we also have to look at currencies, dollar had quite a move, and dollar of course is now benefiting, or at least moving on the back of the Credit Rating downgrade from other countries. We look at pound, a lot a lot of volatility there. Thats get to first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump wants the public to continue practicing social distancing until at least the end of april and not by easter come as he previously suggested. Dr. Anthony fauci telling cnn if efforts to mitigate t
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Announcer this is Washington Week. Funding is provided by life isnt a Straight Line and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work tough the unexpected with Financial Planning and advice for today and tomorrow. [laughter] announcer additional funding is provided by the estate of adam adams and koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuen foundation. Committed to bridging corporate communities. And contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again from washington, model rator robert costa. Robert good evening. We begin with the latest on the painful economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic with many aricans struggling to pay rent, buy food and cover their health this week the weekly jobless claims jumped to m 6. Lion a Staggering Number with losses in nearly every corner of the economy. And earlier friday the pa ment reported a loss of more than 700,000 jobs in march. Federal authorities prepare for ne
Robert next. Annocer this is Washington Week. Funding is provided by life isnt a straight line. And sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work through thexp uted with Financial Planning and advice for today andro tom announcer additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams and koo and Patricia Yuen through the Yuen Foundation committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. The corporation for public ouoadcasng and by contributions to pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again, from washington, er moderator r costa. Robert good evening. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. United states is quickly becoming the new epicenter ofl the glo outbreak and now leads the world in confirmed cases. Governors and doctors from new york to louisiana to Washington State areth sounding e alarm about shortages of medical supplies. Joining us is one of the reporters, Yasmeen Abutaleb a post. Er