As folks are beginning to arrive i will say good evening and welcome to nides on live interview with green light bookstore. We are so excited to host tonights event with bannon presenting her new look troop 6000 the girl scout troop that began in a shelter and inspired the world page youll be talking with the visionary behind troops 6000 gisele and her daughter karina. Therefore it really started just want to say huge thanks to everyone for making this happen all of our participants for being here the publishers and to all of you for showing up. Storefronts are closed and our community is still here. All of us are still here and we really appreciate that couple of housekeeping things. If you are logging in now you can hear the speakers but they cant see or hear you. They can see her name so they know youre here. You can use the shot icon to share comments and if youre in a girl scout troop want to hear what your viewer with that let us know. If you want to ask a question we will have a
Ahead we will be covering all aspects of this health crisis. We want to begin in the first hour with the Financial Impact it is having on you, your family, your loved ones. If you are recently unemployed as a result of the coronavirus, 202 7488000. For all others, 202 7488001. You can join us on social media, we will read your tweets at cspanwj. We are also taking her text messages, tell us your first name and where you are texting from. 202 7488003. A lot to talk about in the next hour. The Johns Hopkins sobering numbers across the years across the world now, 670,000 confirmed cases, approaching 31,000 deaths around the world. Here in the u. S. , close to 125,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States. We want to get your phone calls. Again, if you are recently unemployed, tell us your situation. That number is 202 7488000. The headline from cnbc, the u. S. Economy has come to a. Ndstill host yesterday on fox news, this conversation with Vice President pence on when t
Website and look at how states were prepared or not prepared for this pandemic. As you look across all 50 states and u. S. Territories, where were the missteps . John well i would start by , saying that federal funds have decreased. The funds that provide states resources they need. To prepare for an emergency like coronavirus. After 9 11, we saw a dramatic increase in Emergency Preparedness funds made available to states and local centers for the rest of the country. Over the years, those funds have been significantly decreased. The Public Health Emergency Preparedness fund from the cdc that went to the states and big cities actually decreased by a third. The hospital preparedness money that helped Hospital Systems prepare for an emergency like the one we are facing have actually been cut over the years by 50 . A starting point in terms of assessing how well states are doing is recognizing that they have lost some valuable resources over the years that they need to be prepared. Host i
Everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to our Health Equity round table with mayor Pete Buttigieg. Wed like to welcome everyone to Nicholtown Baptist church and were so happy that all of you are here today. As we all know, leading up to saturdays primary, that Health Equity and health care is a major issue throughout South Carolina, but predominantly in our africanamerican communities. And we have gathered together an esteemed panel to come here today and discuss this with mayor Pete Buttigieg. It has his plans and vision regarding Health Equity for the africanamerican community, if he and when he becomes president of the united states. So again, were very thankful for you to be here. We are going to go around our panel and have everyone take 30 seconds to a minute to introduce themselves, who they are, what they do and why they are here. So we would like to start with the young lady at the end and we will work our way around. My name is alicia edmund. Im a 15year health care profe
Supervisor brown, do you have any comments . I am happy that we have finally worked together and Found Solutions because as, you know, we know when we are talking to everybody on the streets, our constituents this is a top priority. In my district, i used to have the most board and cares in the city. Now half of them have been lost in the last five or six years, which is actually scary. There is one that is up right now we are trying to buy so we can keep everyone there. These are so important we need to make sure that we have places people can go when they need that. I am happy now we are at this place. This is moving forward. It is going to be realty. Thank you. We are going to go to Public Comment now. I have speaker cards. I will read the names. If you can if your name is called please line up on the right side of the room and step up to the microphone. Vivian, jennifer, marcus, connie, jennifer and denise louise. Please state your first and last name. Good morning. My name is vivi