Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
York times in the newspaper, despite timely alerts, trump was slow to act. Usa today has a very similar story in this mornings paper, online, obviously, and the online headline is golf and maralago conga line squandered week highlights trump slack of covid19 focus. There is no escaping the fact that the spread of a Novel Coronavirus would soon up and american life, there were confirmed cases in two dozen states including washington where a state of emergency had been declared after a least 10 people died in the previous week in connection with a single nursing home. New york city was experience an alarming trend upward in cases, the crew should carrying infected passengers idled off the california coast waiting for a port to 11 to disembark, hospitals, Nursing Homes and Health Officials around the country worried over a lack of testing capabilities and a shortage of medical equipment. The annual Music Festival southbysouthwest was cancel that day. Joining an array of scotland movie rel
We have at least 119 people who have lost their lives in the pandemic here in the bay area. Santa clara county remains the hot spot in the region with more than 1,400 cases. Both Alameda County and San Francisco both have more than 700 confirmed cases. Further north lake county has three confirmed cases in mendocino county. Three of those patients gratefully have recovered. With less traffic in oakland because of the stayathome o order closing 74 miles of residential streets to cars. Calls the emergency oakland slow streets. Provides 10 of roadway for people to safely ikn freshair. H beus of the shelter in place will unfortunately mean cuts. Ridership is down a ohis week. We know were going to have to cut. We are going to have to cut some things and were going to have to become more lean and nimble and we cant expect taxpayers to fill the whole hole of 246 million to 240 million in revenue lost. B. A. R. T. Is losing 9 million every week. It started running trains only once every 30 mi
Believe the job that we have done. They cannot even believe it. I give tremendous credit to the military, theres been a military operation with private people, wait a minute. I give tremendous credit to our military, the army corps of engineers, fema, these people, the job that they have done is incredible. And you should not be asking that kind of a question. Jim honestly i really dont believe youre that bad. You should not be asking that kind of a question. You should say, you know what, it is been really incredible what has been happening. Jim, nobody is asking, what governor, let me ask you this. What governor, we have more test than anybody in the world we have virtually every country in the world calling us, asking us, how do we get these tests that you have, your testing is the best in the world, how do we get it, theyve done a fantastic job and when you ask a question like that its very insulting to a lot of great people. One more. You may have seen how sweden has responded to
Your reaction to the seemingly good news. We are not out of the woods. But it seems like its good news. The goal is to defeat the models. You saw the models in other countries where it went right up. We were trying to stay under that and keep our Healthcare System in check and not overrun. This is good news because thats what we have been after all along. We are starting to see the trend go down. Liz do you think the United States finally answered the wakeup call . The government has been warned about and deputy nicks sars, mers and ebola and zika. Americans may wake up to a brandnew word of having to wear masks to go into work and maybe tested for coronavirus. New apps on their iphones and phones to rack them . Do you think congress and the government has answered the wakeup call, that we arean and i of a jet stream of viruses going around the world . If we dont learn lessons from this, i dont think we ever will. We need to know whats coming across our border if we are going to protec