Association of American Railroad president on Railroad Freight and passenger travel during coronavirus. President trump is expected to name a commission on reopening the u. S. As the coronavirus abates. Plans are in place to coordinate reopening. Good morning. Welcome to washington journal. Who should take the lead in the reopening of the u. S. Here are the lines. Mountain and pacific, send us the reporting this morning of the wall street the two groups of governors said they would coordinate efforts to gradually sociald as this is andes distancing. President trump said he had authority on restarting the economy. This comes after a decline in daily infection rates, propped officials to express cautious optimism. The same reporting in the Washington Times. Control of the reopening. West coast box trumps claim of ultimate authority. They are crafting plans for reopening schools and businesses in their state, putting them on a collision course with President Trump. He said he had the ulti
Gov. Bel edwards good afternoon. Thank you for being here. This will serve as the briefing on the Severe Weather that was and mynced yesterday Daily Briefing on covid19. Local to thank all of the officials who joined us today. I know we have mayor Stacy Albritton mitchell and other elected officials including senator katrina jackson, senator jay morris, representative mike echols. We also have representative jones, i think. We do, right there. It is good to see you, fred. After i speak you will hear from congressman ralph abraham. We also have with us, as i have aen every day in baton rouge, doctor from the department of health and he can answer specific questions when it comes to covid19 testing and other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed. Thatain one was an ef to had a wind speed up to 120 miles per hour. I want to thank everyone for wearing a mask. It is critically important you
Guest good morning, sir. Host tell us about on the ground in new orleans and louisiana, very hard hit by the coronavirus. How do you view things there . Guest well, it is kind of a study state the last couple of days, but we still have a lot of people who are losing their lives from the coronavirus. Ofhave the capacity in terms hospital beds, but it is still a challenge for the medical people to continue to operate at this high rate of operations, and the concentration is in new orleans with some increase in baton rouge. But the largest loss appear to be in the vulnerable populations, a disproportionate amount in our Nursing Homes and our Veterans Home to that vulnerable population. Host numbers from Johns Hopkins on that from this morning, confirmed cases in orleans 244 deaths. With do you think new orleans in particular, louisiana, has been so hard hit . Guest well, it is the concentration of people. I think most people agreed to the fact that mardi gras brought a lot of people toget
[no audio] click select look at the white house rose garden where President Trump will be briefing reporters on the coronavirus response. We expect Vice President pence and members of the task force to also join the president. The briefing was supposed to start at 5 00 p. M. Eastern but as you can see, it is running late. Until we see the president , here is a portion of todays washington journal. Continues. From batonng us rouge is retired Lieutenant General russel honore, former commander of joint task force katrina, here with us to talk about the Current Crisis and the administrations response and his states response. General, pleasure to have you with us this morning. Thanks so much. Guest good morning, sir. Host tell us about on the ground in new orleans and louisiana, very hard hit by the coronavirus. How do you view things there . Guest well, it is kind of a study state the last couple of days, but we still have a lot of people who are losing their lives from the coronavirus. Of
China this is a situation which is inconsistent with all of the modeling is inconsistent with the reporting that were getting from inside the car and i dont really and certainly it is not consistent with the way this virus has acted around the world so i think that we can say with confidence that china is not telling us the truth about the crime of virus infections why why would they not one of a high and low why would they not tell us the truth. You know thats a great question larry and i think it has to do with beijing trying to give the impression that china has recovered and because of that they may want businesses to return to china they Want Congress inside the country to go back to normal levels theyre just trying get back to where it was before the virus hit and that is the only explanation i can come up with you know the other thing of course is that they want to show that their system is subpoena or to our us a so they want to be able to demonstrate that they were able to lif