Its the exact opposite. It says that would be a king. Robert next. Annocer this is Washington Week. Corporate funding is provided by life isnt a straight line. And sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Delity is here to help you work through the unexpected with Financial Planning and advice for today antomorrow. Aughter] announcer additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams, and koo and patricia yuen, through the yuen foundaon committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. Theti corpo for public broadcasting and by contributis to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thanu. Once again from washington moderator robert costa. Robert good evening. It was a critical week for the trump presency. At its core it was about his decision to encourage the reopening of america. He veered from claiming total authority toultimately leaving it in the hands of states. But theres no doubt about where he stands. Earlier friy, te president tweeted
University of washington that shows in 14 days. There will be more than 2200 deaths in one day the white house says it is because of these sobering numbers said the social distancing guidelines were extended through the end of april. The reason why we feel so strongly about the necessity of the additional 30 days is that now is the time whever youre having an effect not to take your foot off the accelerator and on the break but to just press it down on the accelerator and thats what i hope and i know that we can do over the next 30 days. The White House Task force is reminding the public that there is no magic vaccine or therapy that can stop the spread of the virus right now currely more than 262 million americans are sheltering n place under those shelterinplace orders across the country thats about 80 of the population, right now social distancing is the best way to curb the spread of covid19. This warning to keep social distancing comes as the United States death toll it clips chin
News writer thomas frank discusses how clean and the army corps of engineers are responding. At 9 50, representative danny davis of illinois on the pandemic in the state. Host good morning, this is washington journal for april 3. We are showing you footage from d. C. Terryton , Cherry Blossom festival last year. We want to know how you are responding to the covid19 outbreak, particularly in positive ways. Maybe there is a search of volunteerism in your community, or assisting others who are desperate and needy during this time. Tell us your story on two lines this morning. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to tweet us, it is 202 7488003. Make sure you put your name, city, and state if you text on that line. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Even in these dire times, there are several positive stories in the papers across the United States. Just a couple
Near paso robles, but it is not confirmed. They contacted the illness on the island princess docked off of the coast of japan and they and 300 passengers took two charter flights back to the United States and one landed in travis and another in Lackland Air Force base in san antonio, and in this video posted by the husband and wife there to travis, it shows everyone in face masks and the medical personnel in fulllength protective gear and also an Isolation Chamber for those 14 case, and the passengers decided to leave the cruise ship where there are 99 total confirmed cases, and this is after the u. S. Officials came on board and encouraged them to disembark and come back home. And any of you guys want to go back to the u. S. . Isrit . You are much safer getting off of this ship. Okay. I would not stay on this ship if i were night will be quarantined on the base for the next 14 days. We spoke by phone with Matthew Smith of sacramento and he and his wife decided to stay on board of the
The among Community Airport in tehran. Again this comes after iran launched Ballistic Missiles said to us air bases. In iraq and following the attacks, the f a a band, us pilots and airlines from flying over a rocky, iranian and Persian Gulf Air space citing the heightened tensions in the region. That plane was headed to ukraine if we learn more about that part of the drama going on in iran tonight, we will certainly bring it to you throughout this broadcast. The other big story in iran and the big story all day before that plane went down. The missiles that iran fired at 2 air bases in iraq for us troops are stationed, this is the retaliation after the us took out the second most powerful man in iran. Last week iran launch more than a dozen missiles today at the al Assad Air Base and that american and Coalition Forces in the iraqi town of herbal this video according to iranian tv shows the al Assad Air Base getting hit. Again that base houses us troops other we havent confirmed dead i