Who have lost their lives. That is the sad, sad part of it all. More than 17 million initial unemployment claims. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the month of march. Now millions more expected in the coming months. The assault on the lives and the livelihood of the american proportionne of epic and one that demands congress continue to take bold, urgent, effective action to bring rapid relief to the health care workers, First Responders and others who are suffering, to Small Businesses, hospitals, state and local government and the rest. On tuesday morning, secretary mnuchin called. That would be two days ago. Secretary mnuchin called and asked for a quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. With no data. Just quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. Mcconnellng, leader honored that request i say honored. Really dishonored needs that we have with a stunt on the floor 250e Senate Requesting billion. No data as to why we needed it. When there are outstanding needs. Sit we offere
A rebuilding of Public Health at 1st. A president in denial jaya bulsara as comments rejecting social distancing are deleted by twitter user fears that theyll put brazilians at risk. And the race for a vaccine scientists across the world are scrambling to find a way to make people immune to covert 90. We begin in the u. S. Now the global epicenter of the corona virus pandemic more than one 160000 people are infected and almost 3000 people have died 790 of them in new york city after dismissing the dangers posed by covert 19 in the early stages of the outbreak u. S. President donald trump says that his administration is now ramping up testing in the last 2 hours his claim that the u. S. Is now testing more people than any other country. Today we reached a historic milestone in a war against the. Corona virus over 1000000 americans have now been tested more than any other country by far not even close and tested accurately heres a look at the global picture of the pandemic via the Johns
Has its own battle plan. A simple message for all countries terrorist theres tests. The Global Response to the corona virus pandemic is ramping up but the World Health Organization is imploring governments to test far more people with a suspected infection french fries in demand in michael has declared war on the outbreak and is closing frances borders from 11 g. M. T. On tuesday the European Union has proposed a ban on all nonessential foreign travel to the shang and so on while the British Government which has been under pressure to tough its approach is now asking people to avoid nonessential travel and pops clubs and fear his u. S. President donald trump has issued similar advice and is aging no social gatherings of more than 10 people alan fischer brings us more on the lathe. Spy the u. S. If theres a cure for corona virus this might be it in seattle u. S. Researchers have given the far short of an experimental vaccine developed in record time everybody is feeling so helpless righ
It will restart production of the 737 max in may we will have more on that decision in just a moment. Stocks are higher in the face of thousands of new cases of coronavirus a day here in the United States. We are now approaching 60,000 total in the United States, but there may be some good news coming from italy and china and we will explain it but first, lets go to Kayla Tausche with the latest out of d. C. , as Congress Tries to put the finishing touches on the details of this massive stimulus deal hi, kayla. Reporter hi, tyler and we are expecting a vote at some point today, but now three republican senators are calling for some edits to be made to the nearly final draft legislative language that was circulated early this morning senators tim scott from south carolina, ben sasse from nebraska, and lindsey graham, also from south carolina, saying that there is a massive drafting error that incentivizes people to seek unemployment bonuses rather than working in jobs where they would w
Election meddling moscow says stop the blame game. And i want to say here in moscow my name calling for a welcome to world news from r. T. International 1st the World Health Organization is warning of a potential pandemic as cases of the deadly coronavirus spike across europe and asia italy iran and south korea have now emerged as infection hotspots. This is a time for all countries communities i release and individuals to focus on preparing. We do not believe in a binary black and white world its not either that all we must focus on containment why do we have everything we can to prepare for a potential pandemic. Italy has quarantined a dozen towns in the north of the country after more than 200 cases and 7 confirmed deaths neighboring nations have called emergency meetings to discuss preventing the spread of the virus with concerns that freedom of Movement Across the e. U. Should be suspended heres our europe correspondent peter oliver. Tens of thousands of people a lot down in quara