Raise wages for federal contract workers. The deep south is back in the deep freeze another winter storm slamming the southeast right now. So far were not seeing what we saw in january when ice turned roads into parking lots around atlanta. But the roads arent the only problem. More than 200,000 homes and businesses in that region already without power. The freezing rain, snow, and ice are still coming down. Robert ray is live on interstate 75, robert. Reporter yeah, good afternoon, del. This is a bridge that goes over i75. Big chunks of ice is wherever. So much ice you can see where it says only turn left here this is about an inch below here, its pure ice. Totally unsafe to come on these roads, and thats why no one is out here. One of our producers took a spin around the area earlier. If you can roll some of that video, you can see what it is like to be on the roads now. This is where there was gridlock just two weeks ago. We can take a look at the interstate overhere. This i75 where
Wanted to because the government had decided there were going to control replanting. What he said was a okay, but i can raise we for my chickens. He took it all the way to the Supreme Court and lost that battle. What you recount the story . Because it is a great example on the enumerated powers and what what we find ourselves in the place we are in now . How do we get here . What do we do about it . What other ramifications. The greatest way for the government to make something expensive is whether government to make it affordable. And all you have to do is look at the programs. The average of a shared cost of health care before we created medicare and medicaid . Iran the same as every other aspect of our inflation. In other words, there was no differential between Health Care Costs. Now that we have a Government Program what has happened is Health Care Costs are too, sometimes three times the rate of the average inflation in the economy. So what you did is, number one, you had a Supre
As the virus swept the country. I feel incredibly passionate that no more people should suffer, that no more Health Workers should come to harm. Felix khor has been an nhs nurse for 30 years. This is bbc news. Welcome if youre watching now hes fighting for his life. Here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top stories he loved nursing President Trump says china will be held accountable and he loved people. For the pandemic as soon as Us Intelligence reports confirm what went wrong. Hed use the skill and the knowledge and his own personality to. Make other peoples lives better. They could have stopped it. They are a very brilliant nation, scientifically and otherwise. It got loose, lets say, and they could have kept it, they could have stopped and he was always so happy it, but they didnt. When he felt hed done a good job. Borisjohnson says the uk is finally past the peak of the coronavirus outbreak but warns against lifting the lockdown too soo
Protection standards, as the virus swept the country. I feel incredibly passionate that no more people should suffer, that no more Health Workers should come to harm. Felix khor has been an nhs nurse for 30 years. Now hes fighting for his life. He loved nursing and he loved people. Hed use the skill and the knowledge and his own personality to. Make other peoples lives better. And he was always so happy when he felt hed done a good job. Felix was on the covid front line. He worked in a e. The hospital says all staff had enough protection, but felix didnt feel safe. He was angry because hed been issued with two paper masks for a 12 hour shift and he said, thats not enough, i want a separate mask for every patient i go in to. Felix caught the virus last month. Hes now on a ventilator, in the hospital where he worked. People shouldnt go into work and become ill and be damaged. And thats whats happened to felix. For weeks, the government has been dealing with criticism about stocks of pers
Before, okay . I would wager in the history of Public Transportation in this nation, you never had a challenge of disinfecting every train, every 24 hours. Disinfect, how do you even disinfect a train . You know, we clean trains. But how do you disinfect . This is a whole new process. These are new chemicals. These are this is new equipment for workers. Its new methods. Just think about it, you have to disinfect every place that a hand could touch on a subway car. Every rail, every pole, every door, wherever a hand could touch or coughing and sneezing, wherever droplets could land, right . So you have to disinfect that entire interior of the car, and then you have to disinfect the stations, the handrails, everything that people could be touching. It is a massive undertaking that weve never done before. But that is the right thing to do. That is, as we said, weve never done tracing before. Weve never done disinfecting train cars before, but so what . Thats what we have to do. So figure