Sacramento where the governor is expected to make a big announcement on homelessness. Lets listen in. Planes flew them to illinois. One into new jersey, new york area to provide 100 ventilators for the needs of the state of illinois. Those in new jersey, another 100 in the state of new york. Those same men and women, Different Group with in the National Guard ranks, now are deploying additional ventilators in delaware and dc. In maryland and driving as we speak, driving into nevada. 50 ventilators for each of those states. I just want to thank them in particular because the National Guard have provided to do heroic work in n the food banks throughout the state of california and in addition to that, we have 100 of them that just went out on the lines to prepare for this winter, rather this summers fire season that is close upon us. They are doing Vegetation Management for us, management and so i cannot express enough my graduate, my respect, my appreciation to our National Guard. Also w
Good evening. The house will gavel back in tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time to vote on the massive, 2. 2 trillion bill to help americans during the pandemic. So far more than 3 Million People have already filed for unemployment benefits. And now the u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. It is thursday evening, march 26, and this is a prime time in ofition edition washington journal we get the latest on the spending bill, then your calls and questions for the Stanford University medical dean, dr. Lloyd miner, joining us from california. Our phone lines are open. 202 7488000, 202 7488001, we also have a line for medical professionals. 202 7488002, and you can join on facebook. Or good thursday evening. Thank you for joining us for an evening edition of the washington journal. We begin with the numbers from john hopkins university, now worldwide more than 530,000 cases across the globe, 24,000 deaths, the u. S. Surpassing china with more than 8700 cases 8507 confirmed cas
We had three fatalities so far. Reporter there were calls on the World Health Organization for limb change there i wonder what your thoughts are on that . Senator martha mcsally, for example, called for dr. Tedros to resign. Look, this not the time to be doing that kind of change. There will be a lot of time to look back to see how the World Health Organization performed. Meantime what our task is to preserve and protect the american taxpayers, make sure our resources dont go to places that wont deliver on behalf of the American People and the world and President Trump and i are determined to do that. Okay. Follow up . Reporter quick follow up he is a busy man. Reporter china has responsibility to get correct figures. How would you broadly characterize cooperation with china right now. Lots of places weve been cooperating, right . Theyre providing us assistance where we need it. There are places on the ground where we do have access to the data we need. Were deeply appreciative of that
Lauren simonetti watching the markets. Edward lawrence also in d. C. , and Jackie Deangelis in new york, but on the markets, lauren, we start with you. Lauren what a day, right . Oil saw the biggest gain one day ever, up 25 . Closing just over 25 a barrel. Energy stocks rising in a big way. What happened . The president said russia and saudi arabia appeared close to a supply cut, taking oil off the market. We dont know if that will happen, if they actually agree to it or how much they will take off the market and where exactly they will put all of that crude because think about it, were not using very much right now. So supply is certainly out there. Anyway, great day for the price of oil. And with that, some of the big Energy Stocks as well. The oil news helped investors brush aside the news we got an hour before the market opened this morning. That showed last week 6. 6 million americans filed for first time unemployment insurance. 6. 6 million. If you add that to the week before, we
The Public Health Department Said there are more than 1,000 beds available no the 11 hospitals as well as almost 400 ventilators. Other shows how many have been tested for coronavirus and the number of those that have come back positive. Right now that is about 12 . The county wants people to have that information in as close to realtime as possible. We have doing everything we can to make sure we are ready for any surge when it happens. The only way that we can ensure we have the public trust is by being transparent about our efforts. And the governor is now speaking, giving the statewide update encore h1n1 efforts. Lets listen in. Freeenterprise for what it is, a healthy horse pulling a sturdy aginnstochurchill saying them, particularly milli filing for Unemployment Insurance. With the headlines that we have seen as a trend line for the last few weeks and march 12th of this year we started to see applications for Unemployment Insurance here in the state of california skyrocket. Now o