Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Reaction from former fbi director james comey and whats next in the case. And Unsung Heroes. We celebrate female flyers from world war ii, 75 years after victory in europe. Original girl power, but, first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Were in a very dangerous position to give up this effort right now and allow this virus to come storming back. As the battle against coronavirus rages on, more states continue to reopen. New york, the numbers are all going down. Many of the other states the numbers are still going up and theyre reopening. That not only violates cdc guidelines, that violates common sense. One of President Trumps personal valets has tested positive for covid19. Thats a little bit strange, but its one of those things. Georgia police have arrested a white father and son in the shooting death of an unarmed black jogger. This whole situation was senseless. It could have been avoided. A woman accusing joe bide
Result of the pandemic. Jared joins us to discuss changes to alcohol laws in several states amid the coronavirus outbreak. Host good morning, it is tuesday, april 7, 2020. The number of coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Is now past 10,000. In new york officials expressed hope that the pandemic is in wisconsin voters will head to the polls despite efforts to cancel in person voting over fears of spreading the virus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been diagnosed with the disease and moved to intensive care. We are giving you the chance to talk about all of this this morning on washington journal. Our phone lines are spit up regional ash split up regionally. In the eastern or central time zone, 202 7488000. Mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. If you do include your name and where you are from. Follow us on social media csp anwj. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. You can go ahead and start calling and now as we show you the front pa
Cspanhe senate live on two. By the seniored policy analyst at the National Employment law project. Remind us what your group does and how you do it. Work to advance the interests of underpaid workers racism,ting structural erasing any quality, and Building Worker power. Nelp. Org for viewers who want to check them out online. 6. 6 million americans filed to run employment last week. Put that number in perspective for us. How does that compare to the worst week of the Great Recession . Guest it dwarfs the worst weeks of the Great Recession. It is worse than the 3 million that came before, which dwarfed the highest weekly claims number in history, which was 1982. In 1982, the number was around 680,000. The Great Recession never reach any of those numbers. Host what are the projections for this coming weeks numbers . Guest i hesitate to gas. It is possible that it could be even higher because a lot of people have been trying to get through and have not gotten their claims approved. There
Martinez joining us live now in the newsroom with the Details Behind todays announcement. Lauren . The governor said were at a point where we can begin a very thoughtful phased in approach to reopening the state of california, and ultimately, reopening our state economy. Were at a point where we can start toggling back and begin a very thoughtful phased in approach to reopening the state of california. No dates will be attached to the announcement of reopening california. But at todays news conference, Governor Newsom did announce a new Advisory Committee of 80 leaders who will work on a strategy to get californians back to work. Its cochaired by bay area philanthropist and former democratic president ial candidate tom steyer. We will try to come up with a Recovery Plan that is worthy of californias past and pushes us to a Better Future and remedies some of the injustices that the covid19 pandemic have revealed in our society. Steyer is the governors chief of staff. Other members inclu
Deaths at a longterm care facility in our country. Our Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities are facing the same challenges as every part of the country. They need testing and ppe and the staff are overworked. The people who live in longterm care facilities are already vulnerable to sickness. And now because of social distancing, they cannot even see their loved ones. But these are our parents and grandparents. We have a special obligation to protect them. In addition to our responsibility to protect Public Health. So today, i am giving dr. Forlano a larger role in leading our efforts to help our Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities mitigate the cases they have and prevent further outbreaks. You all know dr. Forlano, she is that Deputy Commissioner for Public Health at our department of health. She is also leading our covid19 mitigation strategy. She will lead a Task Force Made up of several secretariats and agencies. She will work with our secretary of finance to ensure our