I want to discuss the actions that i have taken towards protecting our more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community who have suffered a vastly disproportionate effect of covid19. Years and decades after this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine all of the biological and medical questions about the virus. The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a bright light on what seemed like a uniquely american problem. Have told you what it would highlight as long as it drew a picture. Generations of systemic disadvantages health care of communities in color and black unities in particular are now amplified in this crisis. In the city of chicago, and greater st. Louis, across our state and nation. First, we need more ubiquitous test. We are working hard to expand our Testing Capacity and thinking hard about where and how these tests are available. I have end, my team and worked to set up a partnership in the city of chicago and with more qualif
Join us on washington journal primetime monday night, 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Illinois governor jb pritzker gave an update on how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is about an hour. Good afternoon and thank you for joining todays public update. I am here with dr. Horace smith, dr. Tor and a doctor suzette mckinney, executive director of the Illinois Medical District and the operations lead for our alternate care facilities across chicago and the state, and bishop simon gordon,. I want to discuss the actions i our taken toward protecting more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community, who have focused a disproportionate effect of covid19. For months, years, and even decades after we defeat this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine the biological and medical questions about this virus. Beyond that, we need to examine what americans learned about ourselves. The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a bright lig
Pending is a bill citing Defense Department programs for the next budget year. Live coverage now of the senate. [inaudible conversations] the president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Holy god, who causes wars to cease, bring peace to our nation and world. Let that peace first begin in our hearts. Use our lawmakers to bring a spirit of concord instead of chaos to our world. May they set aside time each day to be still in your presence. Lord, help them to know that time spent with you is never wasted. Permit this daily contact with you to motivate them to exalt you in their lives, as you use them to provide examples of how people can live if they put their trust completely in you. Lord god of hosts, continue to abide with us in sunshine and shadows. And, lord, be especially with the people of puerto rico. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in recit
I know and i said under the marijuana licenses we needed to do a better job. I will do a better job on that. The Health Connector is on its way to being fixed. That was an error and we need to do better with technology. Moderator thank you. Falchuk is easy to describe the things have gone wrong and said i wouldve handled it perfectly, differently if i were the governor. Limited powers and we have been following a model of intrusive Big Government that is doomed to failure. Doesnt matter who is at the top. I am running because the system is broken and i have create jobs that solve the problems. We dont have the technology within the state to do this. We know how to use technology to create efficiency and we would have avoided the website integration issue. There is so much we can do if we break from the status go and we are not doing that. That is why we needed an independent voice. Here we sit a year into this and we have no visibility into what went wrong, what could be done to fix it
We begin tonight with General Motors and its widening safety crisis. The automaker stunned consumers and investors today announcing another huge recall and this one involves more fatalities. Gm is recalling over eight million vehicles, all in the u. S. , after defective parts linked to another three crashrelated fatalities. Now this brings the total number of recalls to 28 million vehicles worldwide. Just for this year. Now on top of that, gm also said it would increase the Second Quarter charge to earnings to 1. 2 billion to help pay for all those recalls. The surprising news came on the same day that gm laid out the plans to compensate survivors and the families of another 13 people who were killed in crashes related to those faulty switches. Investors sold on the news. Gm shares fell nearly 1 . Joining us now to talk about all of this, phil lebeau who is covering the gm crossice fris day one. And also with us, Collin Langdon from ubs. So, phil, let me begin with you. You are just a