Me represents a covid patient who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. We have about 40 hearts. We hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. I want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us. And without your help we wouldnt have been able to do this. So thank you very much, and im going to introduce governor edwards now, who will have a few words of encouragement. Thank you for all of us, and perhaps a little bit of a briefing in terms of what he is expecting in the coming days. Thank you. Gov. Edwards thank you, and thank all of you for coming out this morning. Its a pleasure to be with you, although we all wish we were not here in these circumstances. And i want to thank all the people at baton rouge general, at this facility and at the other campus and for the work that youve all been doing for
Watch ondemand anytime, unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Announcer next, louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards updates his states response to the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Edwards welcome to midcity. Welcome. And i want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can share a little bit of what we are doing here today, along with the collaboration with the state government, the local government , and with the military. Each one of these hearts behind patientsents a covid who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. We have about 40 hearts. We hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. I want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us. Without your help we would not have been able to do this. So thank you very much, and im going to introduce governor edwards now, who will have a few words of enco
. search coverage of news conferences and remarks from congress, use the interactive gallery of maps to follow cases in the u.s. and worldwide. go to c-span.org/coronavirus. at the white house, president biden marked international women s day by nominating two women to lead u.s. transportation command. vice president harris and secretary lloyd austin also took part every this event runs 20 minutes. mr. president, madame vice president, i am honored to be here today representing the more than three million women and men in the department of defense. thank you for welcoming us and for making these historic nominations. both of you lead by example. the example you said in all things is one of inclusiveness. you know that diversity of our nation makes us strong. diversity in our military ranks make us makes us better at defending the american people. just as critically, you know leadership does not come conveniently packaged. you know it comes from lived experience, everyon