A libyan city reclaimed by Government Troops from fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar. And a fear that manufacturing is on the brink of collapse in the u. K. As thousands more jobs a lost. Book into the program a sudden rapid rise in corona virus infections in parts of africa is worrying the World Health Organization it says the pandemic is accelerating across the continent at an alarming rate it took 98. 00 days to reach 100000 cases its not surpassed 200000 in just 18 days the reason for this is not surging Community Transmission in more than half of the 54 countries in africa the worst affected country is south africa where there have been more than 58000 cases doesnt factions spread beyond big cities and into rural areas there are fears that Health Systems are not equipped to handle a crisis well i mean address says Health Systems across the continent will struggle to cope with severe outbreaks. Report. How. Particularly being. The cases were going to see in these days. And to
Person kelly. Another familiar face, the state epidemiologist christina tam. Another guy who needs no introduction, state Police Superintendent pat callahan. Director of the office of george maples is with us. On thursday we announced a plan by which the jersey shore could reopen for the summer season. I am proud to a downs proud to announce in addition to the goers canur shore enjoy time on the water as well. Today i am signing an executive order that will allow Fishing Charters and other chartered Boat Services and watercraft rentals to resume effective at 17. A. M. Tomorrow, may in both instances we will require specific social distancing and sanitation measures to be followed including the implementation of online or telephone payment lessen to listen direct contact. One of those who require all passenger and customer logs be properly maintained for the purposes of Contact Tracing should that be required. We are confident in taking these steps for getting our state back on the road
House. The measure called the heroes act heads to the senate but as of now they do not plan on taking up the bill. On thursday we announced the plans that we would be opening the beaches. Today i am signing an executive order that will allow Fishing Charters and other watercraft rentals to resume effective at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow may 17. We will require social distancing and sanitation measures to be followed including the implementation of online or telephone Payment Systems to further lessen direct persontoperson contact among other procedures spelled out in my order. One of those will require all passenger and customer logs be properly maintained for the purposes of Contact Tracing should that be required. We are confident in taking these steps for getting our state back on the road for the reason we have been able to take the other steps we have announced to restart our economy and begin our recovery because the data says it is possible. Public Health Creates economic health. Data d
Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Kristin englund from the Cleveland Clinic and later, author Rick Atkinson joins us to iscuss the 75th anniversary of ve day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] host u. S. Workers continue to lose their jobs and file for Unemployment Benefits at a record rate. And in todays report on the overall jobs number for the month of april could be the worst since the great depression. It is friday, may 8, 2020. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend this first hour asking you how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Heres how to joins us. For those of you in the east and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain pacific time zones, thats 2027488001. You can also send us a text. That line, 2027488003. Include your name, where youre texting from. On twitter, were at twitter.
A malaysian airliner in 2014 says theres a strong link between top russian officials and separatists in Eastern Ukraine. Began with a global effort to defeat eisel turkey is continuing to repair a tree 8 captured i saw fighters and their families to their home countries up to 7 german citizens accused of belonging to i saw on their way home another 23 europeans are expected to be deported in the coming days. Our Foreign Ministers from more than 30 nations are gathering in washington today to discuss strategies to defeat i saw it is the 2nd meeting of the Global Coalition this year it was called to review their strategies after the recent death of ice a leader i will becker in baghdad we have correspondents covering both angles of this story rosalind jordan is at the conference in washington but 1st lets talk to dominic cain who is in berlin so don what more do we know on these repatriation efforts. Wise and we know that the 7 people concerned arrived back at spurgeons Tegel Airport jus