Now i was doing it for free. Its not right, and you can do something about it if you want to. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight neither side gave ground in washingtons war over preventing a Government Shutdown next week. The senate worked on a bill to Fund Government operations, while republicans in the house kept demanding an end to funding for president obamas Health Care Reform law. Newshour Congressional Corresponden
Exchanges to the uninsured next tuesday. It said Small Businesses and a latino Enrollment Service will not be able to enroll online for several weeks. Well have more on the spending fight and on obamacare later, but first, the other news of the day. The u. S. And russia reached agreement late today on the wording of a u. N. Resolution on disposing of syrias chemical arsenal. The u. S. Ambassador to the united nations, samantha power, said the measure would be legally obligating on damascus to surrender all chemical weapons. The full u. N. Security council is meeting tonight on the resolution. Also at the u. N. , the u. S. And the other permanent members of the Security Council resumed Nuclear Talks with iran. The session is aimed at setting up a new round of fullscale negotiations, probably next month. More on this, later in the program. The death toll from tuesdays massive earthquake in southwestern pakistan kept rising today to 355. People were still digging through the rubble of fla
You get to make new connections and really build your resume. I knew the work i was doing was exactly the same work that i had previously done, except that now i was doing it for free. Its not right, and you can do something about it if you want to. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight neither side gave ground in washingtons war over preventing a Government Shutdown next week. The senate worked on a bill to Fund Government
Ways cant come soon enough, wolf. We have been talking about that for some time. And why do they believe it is going to spread more rapidly than influenza . Well, it is, you know, it seems to be pretty contagious. They are starting to do the modeling and looking at how likely the virus has been in the area, and how many people are infected as a result, and as a result, how contagious it is. And typically, you are thinking of the flu as going from one person to maybe one or two people, and with coronavirus, it is going from one person to two or three people. Itarly on and they have to do more modeling, but you could have more patients with this coronavirus than influenza within a few weeks. What are you going to be linsing for in this news conferen conference . Well, keeping in mind what to expect with the numbers increasing and we expect they will as we will see with the new testing coming in, and are we ready is the question. There is modeling coming from the federal government, itsel
Novel coronavirus or covid19 hour by hour as we work to help americans understand the facts about the outbreak, the scope and the risks. At this moment at least 849 cases have been confirmed in 36 states and the district of columbia. At least 27 people have died in the United States, most of them in Washington State. As the illness spreads, live in this nation is changing in multiple ways. More universities across the country including american university, harvard, ohio state, are canceling classes and moving to online instruction. Several airlines have announced deep cuts in domestic and International Flights as people are discouraged from traveling. First lets start with erica hill in new york. Erica . Jake, good afternoon. As you mentioned, these numbers jumping. It seems almost as quickly as we report them, the numbers change as more states report back. We are now at 27 deaths, as you mentioned. One man in new jersey is the first death in that state, a 69yearold man who didnt have