Many of the jets not currently in service are parked in locations like this. Modern aircrafts share space with vintage planes as well as the still in limbo boeing 737 max. With so many planes grounded, thousands of americans who are stuck abroad are trying desperately to get back to the u. S. The state Department Says an estimated 9,000 americans have been repatriated from 28 countries, but thousands more remain stranded. Abc news caught up with just a few of them. My mom and i are travel buddies, and every year we make sure to do an International Trip together. This year, we planned on going to antarctica. So we went through argentina, down to the end of the world, made it safely to antarctica. Im currently in honduras. I came a little over a week ago to visit my grandparents and my family here. The captain comes over the speaker multiple times a day. Each time he does that, our stomachs drop, of course. And he lets us know whats going on as far as the pearl princess is concerned. We
Good wednesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Thhe fe same day the u. S. Saw a Record Number of deaths. More than 800 people have now died. At least 23 states have now closed all nonessential businesses and miami is the latest city to issue a stay at home order. But President Trump says he wants to reopen parts of the country by easter. Breaking overnight lawmakers in washington have reached a deal on a 2 trillion economic stimulus package which includes direct payments to most americans. The deal comes just hours after record gains on wall street tuesday. But amid the Economic News theres growing concern about young people, even healthy young people falling seriously ill or even dying from the virus. Well get to those details in a moment. But first abcs ines de la cuetara begins our coverage from waingt. On capitol hill finally reaching a deal on that multitrillion dollar stimulus package meant to help revive the u. S. Economy. Its good news for families all across ameri
Supplies left. What am i going to do with 400 ventilators when i need 30,000 . And strict new guidelines are announced. Everybody who was in new york should be selfquarantining for the next 14 days. As more states plead with the federal government, saying they are running out of time. New cruise ship crisis. Dozens of passengers and crew reporting flulike symptoms, stranded on board. Meals delivered directed to their rooms and waiter to the covid19 tests to be brought on board as the ship makes its way to florida. Olympic heartbreak. The summer games now officially postponed. Americas top athletes responding this morning. This moment is unprecedented, and its bigger than any sport. 12time olympic medalist swimmer ryan lochte joins us live. Also this morning, tornadoes hit the south. Devastating damage in mississippi, and a new storm on the move bringing heavy snow to the west. More possible twisters to the heartland. Were tracking the latest. And feeding america. What you need to know
I did have a clear idea of what i wanted the symposium to be. A blend of wellknown speakers. Blended with excellent lesserknown speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. I stumbled on a title and a gimmick using the year 2020. As a way of providing hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our first speaker who was an obvious choice to lead off this conference. Jack davis has been one of the most prominent and accomplished civil war scholars for several generations. He started as a boy, i think. If i recall correctly, his first civil war book, a biography of John C Breckenridge he wrote as a college student. He won the first of four awards. You will find a partial list of titles of his civil war books in your program. Jack was also a longtime editor of civil war times illustrated. And editor of the
Joins me from here in los angeles i want to want to hear what it what are you saying york times strikes you as a koran the koran a virus doubter what are you doubting right and im not doubting anything that im doubting that New York Times got its facts correct because from the beginning what ive been saying is dont let the press panic you the New York Times for instance has been continuing to put the Imperial College of london doomsday scenarios on our front page until well into last week when as a result of what ive been advocating follow dr pao to the advice of all the c. D. C. s advice we will be fine it will be nothing like the doomsday scenarios that theyre painting. Now we are doing what we need to do we are following dr found shape and those ridiculous estimates are being proven to be wrong and based on false assumptions so i was just saying look the panic is going to be worse than the condition and now youve got the president saying something similar the treatment could be wors