Three passengers on the grand princess cruise ship to be diagnosed with coronavirus after taking a tenday cruise to mexico last month. Abc7 news was at the port of San Francisco when the ship docked on february 11th to begin that cruise. The ship has been traveling nonstop. Its recent itineraries ranged from fiveday to 15day cruises between San Francisco and mexico and San Francisco and hawaii. Now its return to San Francisco is on hold as several passengers and crew members have complained of flulike symptoms. Anyone who is on both the mexico cruise last month and the current hawaii cruise has been asked to stay in their rooms. Take a look at this. This tracker on c scanner. Com shows the Current Location off the coast of mexico, coronavirus testing kits are being flown to that ship. Lets go live to abc7 News Reporter kate larson with more. Kate . Reporter originally the grand princess cruise ship was meant to come here in coronavirus this saturday morning. Then princess slipped a not
Coronavirus outbreak with california representative nanette berrigan, a member of the Homeland Security committee. At 9 a. M. , reid wilson previews todays primary contests in six states. The primary contest in 6 states. Host good morning. It is tuesday, march 10. Senior Administration Officials will head to capitol hill to discuss the package of emergency economic measures aimed at blunting a slowdown over fears of the coronavirus and plunging oil prices. Major stock markets tumbled more than 7 with the dow jones shedding 2000 points in the largest oneday point drop in history. We are opening our phone lines to ask if you believe fiscal stimulus is needed to respond to the coronavirus. Phone lines split up regionally. Eastern and central time zones, it is 2027488001. In amount or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can send us a text. That number, 2027488003. If you do, include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. N twitter it is cspanwj on fa
Mr. President , today we face a serious Global Crisis with theru spread of the coronavirus. We all know that. The American People, i believe expect us here in the u. S. Senate to set aside politics and set into motion a swift and sweeping response to this danger. Yesterday, was a big step in that direction. Vice chairman leahy, who was on the floor here with me and in conjunction with the leaders on both sides and our house counterparts, introduced a comprehensive plan that provides our experts and agencies on the front lines, the resources that they tell us they need to combat this crisis. The package that we introduced includes 7. 8 billion in discretionary appropriations from the centers for Disease Control. The National Institutes of health, the food and drug administration, the state department, usaid and the Small Business administration. That package, mr. President , also authorizes an additional 500 million and demanded tory spending for health through medicare. Combined, this
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
Bill aimed at encouraging the development of energyefficient technologies for use in both commercial and residential buildings. Senate majority leader harry reid expressed dismay that efforts had failed to yield an overall agreement on amendments to move the bill forward, but he says hes hopeful members can regroup this week to advance the measure. Today theyll also debate and vote on two judicial nominations to the u. S. Court of federal claims. Over in the house, theres a brief pro forma session at 2 eastern, no legislative business expected. A comprehensive Forest Management bill that would direct the Agricultural Department to establish Timber Harvesting zones, also to resize and renew nutrition assistance programs that were not included in the farm bill. Follow the house live on cspan and the senate on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, it was in 2010 that the federal Communications