Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
Governor newsom gave several updates on californias fight against covid19. Among them the number of desperately needed shipments for testing kits and medical masks. I want folks to know that we have already distributed 24. 2 million n95 masks in the state of california. That is significant number. Its still insignificant to meet our needs. Here are some other headlines from the governor. The state has secured 100 million new n95 masks to be sent out asap. 100 million. As well as other gowns and face shields. 150,000 new test kits are being sent out from state labs. California has tested nearly 67,000 people. Of the more than 2500 positive cases, 51 of those are between the ages of 18 and 49. And more warnings from San Francisco officials for people to continue to stay home to stop the spread of coronavirus or slow the spread. Mayor breed sent letters to Governor Newsom and Vice President pence asking for more personal protective equipment, ventilators and hospital beds. We estimate tha
Today, we have taken a number of have received 400 ventilators from the Strategic National stockpile on tuesday. They said more on the way and we are grateful, but we still need a lot more. We recently announced that detroit will be one of the first cities in america to receive five testing machines and 5000 kits. Used to testill be police and fire emf workers. It produces results in 15 minutes and that is fantastic. Each machine does one sample at a time so detroit will have the 050 results per hour and that is why it has to be focused on the frontline. President trump granted my request for a formal mission to allocate 3000 members of the daysgan army for up to 90 to perform humanitarian missions across the state. Helpwill do things like run a mobile screening facilities, distribute food and medical supplies, insure resiliency and supply lines, disinfect public spaces, and support Public Safety when required. Formally declared a state of disaster and sent a letter requesting a concur
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
To be picking up on much rainfall potential today watch out for a couple of scattered showers possible this afternoon for areas like san jose palo alto and Mountain View nothing really much further north and entered temperatures by the afternoon were talking 60s for your daytime highs pretty similar to yesterday a little bit warmer and a little bit clear though. Robin all right, thank you john lets check in on the morning commute which is off to a fantastic start very quiet into San Francisco, heres a live. Look you see that back up over there the cash lanes on the left its been like that. Throughout the morning just stocking up really off and on so from the bottom of the maze through the tolls and off to fremont street its going to be easy 6 minutes. We dont have any problems on 92, but its one of our busiest bridges we have a crowd here west of the tall plaza, its already sluggish on the flat section but overall a nice trip to 13 minutes to the peninsula. Thats the message to everybo