On the go with the free cspan radio app. Leaders, there was a recent poll on this topic. It asked what should be done with the statues of confederate leaders. Roughly 2 roughly one third of the voters in the poll expenses should be taken down. 44 said the statues should remain standing, down eight point since the survey was taken down two years ago after the riots in charlottesville, virginia. The poll was done with Morning Consult and politico. A history of some of those bases across the u. S. That have come into the conversation and its history such as for georgia. Ing located in it was established as a training down in world war i and was named after a confederate general who was present at the battle of antietam and gettysburg. Mr. Bragg, named after ragg. Established as an artillery Training Ground in world war i, named after a u. S. Army officer who served in the second aminal war and mexicanamerican war before becoming a Confederate Army general. Located indon, georgia as well,
First responders during the coronavirus pandemic. The house sign space and Technology Committee is hosting. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We can understand more clearly what we are facing. Significant n to local estate tax revenue. And other sources of support for Fire Departments. Facing some departments the hardest decision for firefighters in this crisis. We are in the middle of this health guide trips Health Crisis that at the same time the country is addressing longstanding racism. We are also in the early days of [inaudible] paul. Are not on mute, im sorry . [beep] ok. Thismain in the middle of health and economic crisis at the same time our country is confronting racial injustice. On top of that, we are in the early days of an honest wildfire hurricane season. This is a time of great uncertainty. , people are counting on us to ensure our First Responders have the tools and support they need to do their job well and safely. I look forward to Todays Congress andout help
Where Governor Phil Murphy will update on the pandemic response. This is live coverage on cspan. Our new work toward september 30 deadline for enacting a fiscal year 2021 budget, the challenge we face in balancing our wants and needs are going to be in nervous. Enormous. The revenue losses we can project stemming from the current emergency are drastic. A projected 10 million over the next slightly more than calendar year, through june 30 of 2020 one. Without a series of deliberate measures in place, much of what we will depend upon to lift us simply will not be there for us. We wont be able to support our small businesses. We wont be able to help families get back to par. All the work we have done to put our fiscal house back in order with backtoback surpluses and the safeties we have gleaned inherent in health care, all of that will be swamped. Certainly there are things that can help us mitigate some of this crisis. First we need washington to step up with significant direct physical
Not with opinions, not with politics, not with partisanship, with numbers. Then you just measure the impact. You make sure you do not go above 70 of hospital beds so that if a large enough people get affected, you have the hospital beds to take care of them. You make sure you do not go over capacity because when these people are infected they need icu beds. We learned that the hard way. You have testing up and running of 30 tests per 1000 residents. Where did that come from . That is the White House Coronavirus task force, dr. Birx. Forhave 30 tracers ready 100,000 residents. That comes from the experts and then you watch the infection rate. You make sure that you do not get near 1. 1 on infection rate. It is math. There is a liberation in that. At a time of such division and politics and elections all this garbage this is an exercise in science and math. Share and we can all all participate in. Atncourage people to go look the data and what is happening in your region because that is
Outbreak. Also a National Reporter with the hill. Ebola and the global scramble to prevent the next killer outbreak, what was the scramble like . Guest the scramble has been going on for a couple decades. In the wake of the Ebola Outbreak in west africa that infected more than 128,000 people and killed more than 11,000, the world has undergone a change and they are understanding how pandemics have the potential to spread. We live in a different world than we did back in 1918 when the spanish flu struck or even the end of the 1960s when there were significant flu outbreaks. We are a globalized world. We travel all over the place. Americans travel to every continent in the world and people in every continent travel here. That sort of interconnectedness means something pops up in a wet a planen china is only flight away from the United States. Something that a reps in the jungles of south america is only a short way away from the United States. The american cdc funded a bunch cdcs in 49 c