Infrastructure bill today. Voting procedures will be in effect. Live coverage here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Coronavirus diagnoses and deaths continue to mount throughout our nation. Please bless with healing and comfort those whose lives have been so severely disrupted. Continue to protect and empower those who tend to the sick and those who seek medical solutions to this dangerous pandemic. Unfortunately, there are many other issues pressing upon us. Bless the members of the peoples house whose responsibilities press them to address such seemingly overpowering challenges. Help them and help us all to trust that you have
Welcome you to this primetime edition of washington journal. House Speaker Pelosi outlining a new stimulus plan. The price tag, 3 trillion. Votes this friday. Live on cspan. We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide, the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner
Temporary rules changed change to allow members to vote remotely and lawmakers continue so aan social distancing, link the is expected. Watch coverage friday at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen with the free cspan radio app. From baltimore is dr. Lee to win. She is a visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced that the washington post, and served as the City Health Commissioner in baltimore. Ask for joining us here on cspan. We appreciate it. Happy to be with you. New want to begin with some projections from the university of washington. By august 4 u. S. Death toll could exceed 100 and 47,000. When you see that number and see that projection, what is your reaction . That it is an is underestimate. I hate to say this, because that is so many people. It is unimaginable for where we are right now. If two months ago you had said that we have 80,000, more than 80,000 americans who had died from covid19, im not sure how many people
A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
Plus, protecting the most vulnerable. Nursing homes, ground zero for so many covid 19 deaths. We will ask mark parkinson, head of the nard largest association of lawn care providers about protecting the elegy to elderly. And joe biden steps in it again. Even from the confines of his own basement. If you have a problem figuring out whether you for me or trump and you aint black. Chris we will ask the sunday pan with the perceptive nominee needs to get back on the trail or keep quiet. All right now on fox news sunday. This holiday traditionally marks the unofficial start of summer. Theres nothing traditional this year as coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Near 100,000. As lockdowns ease and americans take their first steps into the new normal, President Trump says he wont close the country again, even if theres a second wave of the virus. And there is some good news about the race for a vaccine. In a moment, we will speak with dr. Deborah birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus tas