To our t. V. Dot com my colleague neil harvey will be here in about an hours time with full of produce this is internet. Hello from rhode island where i live well are all stick in close to home the star of that virus this is the ocean state which means were very well ventilated and thats a good thing because early on in the outbreak we sat on comfortably between 2 of the hottest hot spots boston to the north and new york city to the south so we have been taking this very seriously as our governor gina rimando explains barry are only on in this crisis i took what some would say heavy handed approach i actually did use our National Guard to monitor cars coming in from other states and. Including new york to ask them to go into quarantine if they were coming from a place like new york city that was a hot spot and i did take a little flak at that time for that approach but the truth of it is. Like ive said rhode island the only state in america where weve tested 20 percent of the populatio
Has ordered china to close one of its most important consulates in the United States you see it there in the video the fires burning are apparently the folks there in the embassy burning some of their personal papers the chinese consulate in Houston Texas is shut down and china is responding with an apparent ultimatum already wow this shutdown of the consulate is only the latest sign in a growing trend of countries being punished by the u. S. State department in fact its not just china. As of this writing the United States has a whopping 7967. 00 sanctions in place 7967. 00 sanctions its a somewhat bizarre and almost astonishing list that includes not just countries but even individuals. People stores Small Companies and tire corporations governments types of governments even branches of governments the usual suspects of course on the sanctions list are countries like iran and north korea russia venezuela turkey on and off and now the biggest target of all china but then there are the
A National Record of 59000 cases in just one day one day across the United States one of the worst hit areas by far is the state of florida it is contributing 9000 cases a day. Or put a different way 15 percent of all cases nationally in fact just this morning that jumped to 11000 a day which would make it 19 percent if my math is correct of all the cases nationally 19 percent of all the cases are coming from florida consider this florida is just one of 50 states in the United States so thats a pretty big share there has been a suggestion that large numbers by themselves they dont really matter the president for example he said the numbers are only going up because more people are being tested floridas governor he also minimise the reason for alarm stressing that those that are being infected right now are just young people and young people tend to not need hospital care. Half the cases are in their early thirties or below and in then of the ones that are over that theres a huge bulk o
Discuss the plight of restaurants in the United States as they struggle to reopen it with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the struggles of trying to return to some sort of normalcy amid the copen 1000 pandemic the Airline Industry worldwide has been decimated since the beginning of travel restrictions and stay at home orders but air travel has been steadily climbing over the last month and a half despite searches in cases of the virus in fact here in the United States over the 4th of july weekend more than 2 and a half 1000000 people travel by air but heres that issue according to figures provided by the Transportation Security Administration more than 1000 t. S. A. Employees have tested positive for covert 19 this accounts for roughly 2 percent of the t. S. A. Workforce now the agency says most of them are security workers who work in screen to screen passengers at airports across the country Heidrick Thomas the president of the union that repre
A now queued and this week on a new view i ask the question how many more stimulus bill that do we need and youre exactly are they helping. Back in march there were stimulus checks telling your 270000000000. 00 they were issued to more than 160000000. 00 americans however even today many of those checks still have not been claimed now President Trump says he is even working on a 2nd stimulus check and Even Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is saying he believes the country needs another boost but is this the right course of action to get our economy back on track or are these actions purely motivated by politics well to give us the 360. 00 view that we bring bring in professor Richard Wolffe cofounder of democracy at work and has to be economic update as well as damaged adams whos the executive director at the Rand Paul Institute thanks for joining me gentlemen. Thank you. So i want to start with you credit professor wolf you know president tranfield im very optimistic right now f