A shortage of protective equipment leaves doctors and nurses afraid to go to work plus the if you own. Tensions high as the u. S. Has precious 3 a 2 trillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package to my. To. Well after more than 2 weeks in lockdown in italy has reporters as biggest jump in coronavirus death since the outbreak began 919 people have died within the last day taking its stats all to more than 9000 spain has reported as another 769 new deaths its highest number in a day and britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the u. K. Health minister have both tested positive for the corona virus this as another 181. 00 people died in the United Kingdom the World Health Organization has warned theres a chronic global shortage of protective gear for Health Care Workers a problem it calls an urgent threat and the most are ticking up around the world with south africa russia and ins in the asia all reporting more than the photos and confirmed cases well lets get more on the situation in ital
The members of the Coronavirus Task force hold a briefing with reporters at the white house. That will be live starting at 5 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Until then, we will show you more debate on the house floor and the to trillion dollar coronavirus economic package. Prevail. Thank you and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from Texas Reserves. The gentleman from maryland is recognized. Speaker, at this time i yield to the gentlelady suburbs, ms. Hia susan wild from pennsylvania. One minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from pennsylvania is for one minute. Ms. Wild thank you, mr. Speaker. S the representative of pennsylvanias seventh district, just an hour and a half from new ork city, i have a unique perspective on this crisis. The two worldclass hospital community, the Lehigh Valley network and st. Ukes university network, are also the biggest employers in my district. Hey anxiously await the spread of this disease to our frontlines. Community, our nurses
Yielding around where it had been. 8 is roughly the mark weve been sitting at. It looks like the 10year is yielding as well i know people are short and anxious. These two days backtoback are we putting in a bottom these numbers in new york look promising like the numbers may not be going up as rapidly as imagined well see. We have a lot of big guests to talk about that. We want to get everybody up to date about what happened last night. The Senate Passing that stimulus bill it now goes to the senate. Steve liesman will cover the potential impact on the economy. First, well go to washington, d. C. Where eamon javers is this morning. I cant think of another major vote that was this unanimous, 960. It would have been even more if it hadnt been for the fact that so many members of congress are back home or suffering themselves from this virus we could of seen a 1000 vote yesterday. Buts that where it handed. What is in the bill . Just about something for everybody in the economy lets whip
Up. We are all in search of the apex. And the other side of the mountain. But we are still headed up the mountain. Number of people tested last night was a near record amount. We tested over 18,000 people. We are testing more people than any state in the country. Im very proud of that. More per capita than china and south korea. Total number of people tested, 200,000. Population of 19 million. Its not going to give you a random sample, but its been helping us track down the positive cases. Number of positive cases, 9,298. Total cases, 75,000 cases. You see the predominance in new york city. Westchester, nassau, and suffolk. Then rockland. You can see that area of density. It spreads out from that area of density. The march of coronavirus across the state of new york continues. We are down to just two counties that dont have a case. The overall numbers, 75,000 have tested positive. 10,000 people in our hospitals. 2,7 i. C. U. Patients. Good news, 4900, almost 5,000 people discharged. Th
White house news. Hillary vaughn on capitol hill. We start with you, hillary. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi says she basically had to do jujitsu to shape the senate bill into something her members could stomach. She spent the past few days while the bill was delayed in the senate pushing to make the focus workers first instead of corporations first but House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy is criticizing pelosi for this delay saying while this bill was held up in the senate for several days while they were back channeling to pelosi, trying to work out a deal with the white house, several, hundreds of people around the country were wondering when they would get muchneeded relief and some of the relief is in the form of cash paid directly to americans who need it most. Anyone making under 75,000 get as onetime payment of 1200. For couples making less than one 50,000, they get 2400 in a payment. Americans waiting for money still have to wait on the house to pass this bill. One way or