Its going to be severe larry but i dont think we quite know the extent of it yet we dont know if this is a shoot week shut down at the church you might be out of the economy but wonder if its one or the other up for working men and women into this you know about 58 percent of workers in this country are hourly wage worker this is Food Service Workers retail workers none of those people are getting a theyre all filing for Unemployment Insurance now weve got a whole industry of independent contractors it workers that are going to be able to get paid and cant get an image and we just see if low down in the rest right now weve got school loans being weve got businesses closing and so its important to provide relief as quickly as possible to individual workers who are affected as well. Is it going to get worse before it gets better. You know larry and 14 i think its going to get much much worse and i think depending on how long this goes on itll tell us what the country the problem out to m
For the next hour we will be focusing on one aspect of covid19. Its impact on education for teachers for students for parents through preschool through college. If you are a professor or college administrator. 20288 800 o. For all others 2024788002. Send us a tweet at cspan w. J. Or join us on facebook at facebook. Com. Good friday evening. We thought it would be important to talk about the impact on education. But first we want to begin with the numbers. Courtesy of John Hopkins University which has been keeping track of the vie us are. We are now at 1. 1 million cases across the world. Here in the United States quickly approaching 275,000 cases. And now with more than 7,000 confirmed deaths in our country. His is the headline from the wall street journal as u. S. Employers cut off 700,000 jobs. If we continue with these kind of figures it could show the largest ever onemonth decline. Thanks for being with us on this friday evening. These really are stunning numbers. Yes, they are. Th
But theyre separate from the uk more even just get in the channel and youll be in the uk so again its a decision they made has its ramifications. Well see what the whether its worth the trouble but here that what we can do to go forward for americas working putting Families First with that have and criticism of one of the other things that the president is doing i do think its a not. Leader shimon i said in a comment. Last night. Testing testing testing. Yes, only way youre going to learn about the appeal me at how this is spread i dont use that word because not Everybody Knows what it means. Yes sir. We have check tee shot coming sought to get on. Hopper has said it was a last line of defense. And a line of defense his last the we have been brief i a. Chief Administrative Officer chief of police find that sergeant arms by the. Capitol attending physician. My d a by our leader on the half initiation committee. Joe last grand what. Preparations have been made for him remotely work. And
Thank you all for being here today. m going to go out of order, thank you, mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. I first want to get on the record and thank our subject matter experts. Experts. If theres anything we legislative leaders ought to be doing an more broadly our government leaders, its listening to Public Health experts. Thank you so much and the experts in some of these discrete areas that will be impacted by the coronavirus. I regret that in minutes i have another meeting that pertains to this important topic. I just want to publicly express my intention to submit for the record some important questions i have for you related to the increasingly integrated supply chains that we now have between various enterprises and i guess this is this situation will create certain vulnerabilities uring times of what is now a pandemic. I have some questions related to supply Chain Mapping that im hoping someone will be prepared to answer and lastly, our reliance on foreignma
Has converted operations to refurbish old ventilators. Thank you for joining us today. Im andre senior. Good evening. Im cristina rendon. President trump is also working to curb the spread of the coronavirus on the east coast. Earlier today, the president said he was considering a quarantine of new york, new jersey and connecticut, the 3 states hit hardest by the coronavirus. By later this evening, the president backtracked and said acorns he was not necessary instead implemented a strong travel advisory. This is the number of cases in the United States hits 124,000. In california, now 5000 cases and 120 deaths and 5 people have died bringing the total number of deaths to 25. Governor gavin newsom toward blue manager this morning and said the company is already scaling up operations to manufacture ventilators for severe covid19 patients. Tran wants Leigh Martinez has more on the growing need in california for more of the life saving devices. Reporter governor gavin newsom says the stat