Robert next. Announcer this is Washington Week. Funding is provided by life isnt a straight line. And sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new fidelity is hereo help you work through the unexpected with Financial Planning and advice for today and tomorrow. 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. Broadcasting and by public contributions to your pbs ation from viewersike you. Thank you. Once again, from washington, morator robert costa robert good evening. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. United states is quickly becoming the new epicenter of the global outbreak and now leads the worldrmn confied cases. Governors and doctors from new yorko louisiana to Washington State are sounding the alarm about shortages of medical supplies. Joining us is one of the reports, Yasmeen Abutaleb a reporter for the Washington Post.
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The foundation for defense democracies. Good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. My name is toby and im the Senior Vice President for Government Relations and strategy. As many of you know, f. D. D. Is a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for research, analysis and policy options for congress for the congress, for the administration and for the media and certainly for the wider National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or foreign Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about f. D. D. , please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online live stream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which will be live tweeting at fdd. Todays event is hosted by f. D. D. s center on economic and financial power. Cefp provides actionable recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achie
We wou be closer to the twins. Change in plans. Ok. Mom, are you painting again . You could sell these. Let me guess. Change in plans . At fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. Announcer additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams. And koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuen foundation. Committed to bridging culturale dices in our communities. The corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions toour pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again, from washington, moderatorobt costa. Robert good evening. We begin t wighth the rapidly unfolding story here in washington. Leaders at both ends of pennsylvania avenue are now confronting a test to the american system. Uncertainty has gripped institutions ands. Sent health care, the economy, tional security, and politics. President trump declared a National Emergency on friday. Twoays after addressing the nation about the novel ru corona President Trump the action i am takincewill open up t
Good morning. Happy sunday. Thank you for being here. The numbers are still going up. As weve discussed. We watched the other countries trajectory and trying to turn the trajectory. As of now the numbers are continuing to increase. Hard toare working very do is to keep the rate of increase of the spread of the disease to a level that we can manage in our hospital system. We have 53,000 hospital beds available. Now the curve suggests we could need 110,000 hospital beds and that is an obvious problem and thats what we are dealing with. You have the nations role in the situation. You also have the states role. Call anwhat they Emergency Management situation and there are rules for Emergency Management. Who does what. The state governments, local governments manage an emergency unless the emergency overwhelms the capacity of the local government. And then the higher level of government takes over. That happens even on the state level. The city will be in charge. Accounting will be in charg