Anniversary of veterans day in america. Originally known as Armistice Day and renamed in 1954, this is a day when we recognize the service of all u. S. Military veterans. We are delighted to mark this important day with a special event designed to salute americas veterans. Im especially pleased that our guest this evening include a fellow north carolinian who is the nations secretary of veteran affairs. The honorable robert wilke. The society of the cincinnati was our countrys first veterans group. So its particularly fitting that the secretary will be providing remarks. You will hear a little more about that in a moment. We are gathered here tonight to listen to a distinguished panel of noted historian who will be discussing the experience of American Veterans since the revolutionary generation more than 240 years ago. I also want to encourage you to return to Anderson House and visit us again and look at our very special Museum Exhibition americas first veterans. Its behind me and be
Now, your health, your safety. This is abc7 news. Now at 6 00, prepare for more businesses. Ts and shutdown today Health Officials are expected to announce they are extending the bay area shelter in place, but the Silver Lining in this, data is showing its working to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Good morning. Its the last day of the 31st. Lets talk about what is going on this last day of march. Its going out like a lamb. Most of us in the low to mid50s, and we have a few 40s out there and a touch of fog out there around petaluma. Heres a look at san jose. 87 and quiet out there. Lets talk about how your day breaks down. Low 50s at 7 00 under a mostly cloudy sky, and then breezes kick up at the coast and that will keep you in the mid50s, and then we will hit mid60s at 4 00 and then we will talk about cooler temperatures on the way coming up in the accuweather 7day forecast. Now, an abc7 news live desk update. At the live desk i am tracking the latest headlines on the coronavirus
I need gowns and i need face shields and i needed them a week ago. The latest on the supply lines just ahead out of work. New jobs report released this morning. The labor market in free fall. The governments unprecedented rescue plan to help Small Businesses set to launch today why some banks are saying not so Fast Breaking overnight back home, cruise ships stranded at sea for weeks allowed to dock in florida sick passengers rushed to the hospital, others cleared to head home were in the living room, it feels fantastic. Sharing their ordeal with us. Those stories. Plus stand and applaud the powerful tribute to firefighters leading the fight as heroes honor heroes announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. Doesnt friday sound good . Hoda, good morning, im working from home once again youre holding down the fort in studio 1a an
Will help us win our war against the coronavirus. On friday, the fda authorized a new test developed by abbott labs that delivers lightning fast results in as little as five minutes. That is a whole new ballgame. Labs for thank abbott the incredible work they have done. They have been working around the clock. Normally this approval process from the fda would take 10 months and even longer, but we did it in four weeks. Willt has stated they begin delivering 50,000 tests each day starting this week. Even before this development, we have been doing more tests than any other country anywhere in the world. It is one of the reasons why we have more cases than other countries, because we have been testing. It is also one of the reasons we are just about the lowest in terms of mortality rate, because we have been doing more testing so we have bigger numbers to look at. Think the general of the army corps of engineers. Us general who is here with will say a few words in a little while. What th
Are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350 Million People in todays world.