With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific residence, 2027488001. In the line we have set aside for medical professionals. Your line, 2027488002. We would love to hear your experience. You can text us a message. That is 2027488003. We would love to hear where you are texting from, your name as well. Andwitter we are cspanwj post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. There was a briefing yesterday with the Cor
Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. Thats probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on and globaldiseases health through my life and i have never seen anything like this and i think americans should expect in the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Even
Department. They tell me they now believe that this fire started on the second levl above the sleeping quarters. Also today, families have been giving dna samples to help identify the victims. And we have been watching, norah, as the fbi has been carting away evidence gathered at the scene. Norah . So tough to hear those details. Jonathan vigliatti, thank you. Chaos and confusion at the airport in new jersey. A flight attend apt at Alaska Airlines became suspicious of two men last night, and sounded an alarm telling everyone to evacuate. The men were later questioned by police and released without charges. No one was hurt in the race for the exits. Alaska airlines is investigating this false alarm. Federal Law Enforcement sources confirm that the gunman in last weekends mass shooting in west texas purchased his ar15style rifle in a private sale. Now, the search for the seller is underway. Sources say 36yearold seth ator had previously failed a federal background check because ileopl de
Change. Your daytime highs will still be hot inland since still pretty mild at the coast. The golden gate bridge, not really looking at too terribly much fog this morning throughout the course of your evening youve seen patches of fog sifting in here and there across the day nothing thats really resulted in too terribly much coverage across the day. But you are seeing some low clouds and times for some areas visibility shouldnt be much of an issue for most areas this morning. You will see fog hanging out at the coast a little bit longer as you would expect and then going to be seeing some Clear Conditions for inland areas with a touch more cloud cover mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies pushing our way through your tuesday ahead of us your morning temperatures not too bad in the 50s and 60s conquered in oakland each at 63 pittsburgh at 64 right now well, San Francisco berkeley nap and timber on a range of mid to upper 50s to kick off this morning. These 50s and 60s while hanging around
Golden gate bridge gnarly obscuring the view too terribly much looks like people are doing just fine out there and visibility is Holding Strong even at our coastal areas much of what were seeing is streaming in a ride across the bay, not really settling down into it. So youre going to be looking at the clouds when youre looking up not so much ahead of you as you are making that drive into work. Temperatures this morning in the 50s and 60s it is a cooler start to the day than yesterday was at this time, im sure many of you are sleeping at this time yesterday still dont really remember. But it is cool enough for that jacket as youre getting out there later on today wont need the jacket inland were going to be warm yet again with temperatures well into the upper 80s if not back into the low 90s for many areas got more on your forecast ahead rebecca all right, ive got a lot of traffic to talk about because things are getting back to normal after the holiday you can tell right here. The bay