Good morning. Happy sunday. Thank you for being here. The numbers are still going up. As weve discussed. We watched the other countries trajectory and trying to turn the trajectory. As of now the numbers are continuing to increase. Hard toare working very do is to keep the rate of increase of the spread of the disease to a level that we can manage in our hospital system. We have 53,000 hospital beds available. Now the curve suggests we could need 110,000 hospital beds and that is an obvious problem and thats what we are dealing with. You have the nations role in the situation. You also have the states role. Call anwhat they Emergency Management situation and there are rules for Emergency Management. Who does what. The state governments, local governments manage an emergency unless the emergency overwhelms the capacity of the local government. And then the higher level of government takes over. That happens even on the state level. The city will be in charge. Accounting will be in charg
So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
Guy. Reporter its still far from over for that other guy. Bernie sanders went into this as the frontrunner and wracked up big numbers in cora, utah and vermont. Voters came out in droves. Some in texas waiting more than three hours to vote, utah breaking records, and in virginia, turnout was almost double what it was in 2016. Super tuesday was also the first time Mike Bloomberg was on the ballot and while he did get his first delegates, the former mayor failed to win any states and the same goes for elizabeth warren, both are now facing calls to drop out. I know we can do it and you know who else knows it, donald trump. Reporter bloomberg and warren both looking past super tuesday. They spent the night campaigning in states that will be holding some of the big voting contests in a week. Ines de la cuetara, abc news, washington. In the east bay, a lot of people voted at the last minute, that caused massive lines in oakland is several hundred people got in line at the alou rej stgistergi
Joe biden who wracked up the delegates last night. He won nine states. Senator Bernie Sanders won three states, its looking like he will win california after all the votes are counted. Amy hollyfield has the results. President trump is tweeting about the results saying the democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders again and the fact that Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race was devastating to bernie. It looks like Bernie Sanders will win california. It will take some time to officially declare it for him and how many delegates he will win because of californias complicated delegate process. Over other than that, the night belonged to joe biden. Biden did sweep the south last night including the delegate rich state of texas. He also won senator Elizabeth Warrens homestate of massachusetts. Bidens campaign was considered dead after losing in iowa, New Hampshire and nevada. Now he has this surge and he is talking like he will face donald trump. You want a nominee that
Boris Johnsons Brexit bill faces its first vote in the new parliament. I guess with an 80 seat majority , we expect smooth sailing in u. K. Politics on whether Boris Johnson can get this bill through . The vote today is a formality. It is a novelty in one sense for brexit. A debate on brexit and a result that is almost certain. If you contrast that with some of the very touch and go boats we had before the election, election, youhe can see how Boris Johnsons majority has changed everything. Anna what does this mean for the timeline for brexit and where we go from january and beyond . Britain will leave the eu on january 31. Oft will set up 11 months the adjustment period. During that time, britain and the eu will have time to negotiate a trade deal. Anna we will keep our eye on th at in 2020. What is the significance of president xis visit to macau . Anniversaryhe 20th of macaus return to chinese rule, but also to inaugurate the new chief executive under what has been a pretty stable s