Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Laura i am Laura Trevelyan in washington and this is bbc world news america. Last call at bars and cafes in brussels as they are due to close due to coronavirus. Meanwhile, fires continue to rage in western america as temperatures begin to fall. Six men are arrested in a plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. When iut my hand on the bible and took this job, i knew it would be hard, but i will be honest, i could never have imagined anything like this. Laura and a report from azerbaijan on the escalating conflict in armenia. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. Nearly 338,000 people have been infected with coronavirus around the world in the past day. Case counts and trendlines are looking grim. In the czech republic, a small country, it now has the
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Extension of credit from private lenders. They are designed to support the functions of private markets, not to replace them. These are lending, not spending powers for others, alone that can be difficult to repay might not be the answer in these cases direct fiscal support may be needed. Our economy will recover fully from this difficult period we remain committed to using our full range of tools to support the economy for as long as needed thank you. Thank you very much chair powell i now recognize myself for five minutes for questions. I am very appreciative of the explanations that youre giving, but all of the questions that we have about main street and other facilities each of them can keep the facility as an option in the futu future, and the guam governor urged it be made available to the territories. The Congressional Budget Office director and staff economist for president george h. W. Bushs n council of advisors said the mist try to me is the treasury using half a trillion d
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19 as we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying to build a plane while we were flying the plane, and that is a challenging, challenging thing to de
First, i would ask all members on the webex platform to keep themselves muted when theyre not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of our witnesses. Members on the webex platform are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. The staff have been instructed not to mute members except where a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members on the platform are reminded they may only attend one remote hearing at a time. So if you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting particularly during the question period. If during the hearing members wish to be recognized the chair recommends that members identify themselves by name so as to facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask that members be patient as the chair proceeds given the nature of the Online Platform the committee is using. In addition the chair informs