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Conversation. The phone lines are open. The death toll is now at 143,000 around the world. Total confirmed cases, 2. 1 one million. Over 675,000 cases in the death toll is over 34,000. We want to introduce you to dr. Peter li from the university of houston. He is an expert on east asian politics and wet markets, which is one of the reasons we invited you one. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate the photos you sent us. You have been to the socalled wet markets, believed to be the source. What are they . They are a small section likee regular marketplace, the Seafood Market. It is a 5 of the business space. Live where you can find chickens on live ducks and they slaughter them for you. It is where you get warm meat. Traditionally, these are everywhere but in the last 40 years, they have been going down. Arisen,w wet market has which is water wet market. In china in the 1980s i never saw these. It is new. , the Seafood Market has a huge marketplace where you can but one corner is call
Announcer live now to ohio, where governor mike the wine ise the wine mike dewine giving everything. About voting. We all know that we are voting by mail now. Hopefully we all know that. The date thatate, they will count these mailin ballots is april 28. In your ballot has to be by april 27. To make sure everybody understands, there will not be any in person voting other than for people with disabilities, which you have to contact your local board of elections and make those arrangements. But there is not and will not be any imposing in person voting for the public in general. And we need to make sure that you request your absentee ballot, because there is a lag time here. You have to get your absentee ballot application that has to be sent in, then they have to send you out your ballot, and then you cast that ballot, put it back in the mail, and make sure it is postmarked by april 27. You can find all the details for this process at vote ohio. Gov. The deadline to request your essence
Conversation through our washington journal program. Cspan, created by private industry. As a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. The u. S. Senate gaveled in this morning. Mitch mcconnell attempted to approved by unanimous consent and increase to the Paycheck Protection Program. The ranking democrat on the Small Business committee objected and said the majority leader had not negotiated with democrats on this package. Senator Chris Van Hollen also the floor and tried to call up another Small Business bill. This is about half an hour. Our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have00 tested positive. Nearly 15,000 have lost their lives. Emts areoctors, and fighting this disease literally day and night. An important important Public Health measures are creating economic catastrophe. This morning, we learned that 6. 6 million more americans filed for unemployment in just the last week. That means, mr. President , more than 16 million amer
This situation. Since ween 18 days closed down new york. I know it feels like a lifetime. I tell my daughters every day. Only 18 days since everything closed down. 39 days since the first covid case in new york. It feels like a lifetime. Firsts since we have the covid case in the united states. 80 days. Lifechanginge, 80 days, but thats what it has been. When we started this situation that we are still in the midst of, before people get march,ent, the end of the White House Task force was still talking about 1. 5 million to 2. 2 million deaths, ok . Their best Case Scenario with mitigation efforts was 140,000 to 240,000 deaths in the united states, which is breathtaking. For new york, there were a number of models that were put up that we are following. Wasmost frightening Columbia University that said we could have 136,000 people in new york city only who would be hospitalized, not infected. Which the mckinsey model suggested 110,000 people could be hospitalized statewide. We had a se