Welcome to the Health Organization press briefing on covid19. We have with us as always the w. H. O. Director general ted, mike ryan, executive director and doctor maria, they take the lead for covid19. Doctor will begin with an update, then when he has finished his opening remarks, i will open the meeting to questions. If youre connected by zoom, please use the raise hand icon to get into the queue to ask her questions, if you connect by phone please hit 9 to indicate you want to ask for questions. I will apologize right now to all those who miss out. We have more than 260 people on the line already connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to announce with our speakers who are meeting the response and can get back to the other demands of their time. I will now hand over to doctor. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll, not just on health but on so many parts of life. Yesterd
This graph. It tracks the outbreak here in california and you can see in february. The numbers were low Health Experts say thats because there was not as much testing look how the numbers climb today there are more than 4800 confirmed cases and 98 related deaths in california and those numbers are expected to rise as a number of coronavirus cases grows across the bay area and the state continues to go up. We are hearing from medical experts about what will happen and what it needs to happen to flatten out the curve. Cases are expected to grow but just how far up will they go before they finally level out kron fours dan thorn has the story california saw its biggest jump in coronavirus cases friday as almost 800 new cases were reported. As the state climbs towards 4,000 casein total what will it take to turn the tide experts say following publi Health Guidelines and continue to stay separated. California remains one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus 2 weeks ago the state had
The who says theres potential. Whistleblower says federal employee who is were sent to quarantine locationed were put in danger of infection by not having the proper gear. The u. S. Navy orders selfquarantine for ships that have been to highrisk areas, more companies as political battles are waging. Infectious disease expert is here from John Hospital kins will be here with what you need to know. What apple ceo ceo is saying about the coronavirus and company, exclusively at fox business. Days from South Carolina primary , senator Bernie Sanders knocking joe biden out of first place. Mornings with maria is live right now. Top story this hour, market sells off, we are off of the louse of the morning and we are looking at a decline right now of 232 on dow jones. That means the market is down 10 from the high, the dow plummeted 1200 points yesterday, largest decline ever. Secrets of wealthy podcast veronica, fox business Dagen Mcdowell and wall street journal Senior Writer Jon Hilsenrath.
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The the clerk i hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Igned, nancy pelosi, speaker perfect house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Aguilar, for five minutes. Today,ilar mr. Speaker, i rise to honor the life of tim husband, devoted brother, son, and teacher. Working to life save the life of another. Volunteer for the intesan countys search andres could you team, tim searche
We play with a. Lot of it. We even sit on a stick its hard to imagine modern life without plastic almost 350000000 times were produced worldwide in 2018 plastic pollution is a serious environmental problem its the life cycle of an ordinary water bottle show. Plastic bottles are made from petroleum the light particle and can be found pretty much everywhere. Globally every single minute of the day a 1000000 are sold. Placed end to end the plastic bottle sold in 2016 would form a chain stretching all the way to the planet mercury. So youve bought a drink in a plastic bottle and finished it what happens next. In an ideal scenario it will be read used some can be refilled up to 15 times if theyre washed properly most are not sturdy though. Many end up in a shredder where theyre ground up into flakes of plastic. These can be used to make products like fleece clothing very nice except for the fact that every time the fleece is washed it releases plastic particles into the water. As for the re