To big business . And in the midst of this pandemic, access to abortion now in jeopardy. The acting president of planned parenthood is here to react. Economic activity is at a standstill and Many Americans are hurting. And there are protests today with people demanding businesses reopen in several states. The protests in maryland was organized by a group named reopen maryland to pressure the republican governor, layer ree hogan, to end lockdowns in the state. Joining me is ali vitali. What are you hearing from the protesters there . Reporter alicia, these protesters have been out here for a few hours. Theyre mostly protesting from my cars. You can see them driving around one of the circles here, protesting for the governor to reopen the state. Now, weve seen these kind of protests before in places like michigan and virginia. Those states happen to have democratic governors, but this seems to be a bipartisan push from a small minority of people in these states. Of course, larry hogan, a
Begins to decrease. But he stressed again that more testing is needed before states and cities can reopen safely. Good afternoon. Im katy tur. As you can see, we are not in my home basement. Were at the aqueduct racetrack in queens where there is a mobile testing site. Officials say they can test 1200 people a day. Just to give you a look at what looks like out here, ive never seen this in person, i imagine many of you havent seen it either. Cars coming through a check point. They line up down here, down this line and theyre hidden bind t behind the white tents. When its their turn, they go into the tents and theyre tested by the medical professional. The test is administered, swab up your nose. Within 15 minutes, theyre out. Like where that mercedes is leaving right now. They get the results within two to three days, 1200 tests administered a day here. There are ten other sites like this across new york city. But none do as many tests as this one does here. It is a good start. But thi
Payoff. So lets break the wall a little bit to tell you how this is going to go, but thats how its going to go. I want to start in 2018, which feels like roughly 35 years ago now, but two years ago, 2018, the country had a big problem with lettuce. There was an e. Coli outbreak affecting romaine lettuce in the United States in 2018. Do you remember that . It was a big deal. Illnesses reported in 36 states. 96 people hospitalized. More than two dozen people got a really serious complication that basically resulted in kidney failure. Five americans ultimately died. When that happened in 2018, the fda and the cdc and investigators in several states, they got together and did the Public Health detective work that needed to be done to figure out what had gone wrong in that outbreak. And those investigators ultimately pinpointed the source of the problem with romaine lettuce. That was both a hard thing for them to do it was very impressive but it was also something that had really practical
Positive for the virus. That makes a total of eight staffers who have now tested positive as a result of the tulsa trip. That number is expected to rise. Having last week bragged that upwards of a Million People had applied for tickets in tulsa over the weekend, the president delivered a meandering hour and a half long speech to a much smaller crowd. Local Fire Departments said about 6,200 people attended. The arena has a capacity of 19,000, give or take. During the president s remarks, he used racist language to describe the virus, had this to say about testing. Heres the bad part. When you test when you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people. Youre going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. They test, and they test. We have tests of people who dont know what its going on. Covid, its this again by the way, its a disease without question. It has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different
Leave the west wing during the demonstrations. Its been one month now since the death of george floyd. Meanwhile, hours from now the president will travel to arizona for a Campaign Event at a mega church amid a surge in new coronavirus cases in the state of arizona. The trip comes as we learned today that two more of the president s advance team members working in tulsa have tested positive for the virus. That makes a total of eight staffers who have now tested positive as a result of the tulsa trip. That number is expected to rise. Having last week bragged that upwards of a Million People had applied for tickets in tulsa over the weekend, the president delivered a meandering hour and a half long speech to a much smaller crowd. Local Fire Departments said about 6,200 people attended. The arena has a capacity of 19,000, give or take. During the president s remarks, he used racist language to describe the virus, had this to say about testing. Heres the bad part. When you test when you do