Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question is the coronavirus morphing from a Public Health epidemic into a full blown social and financial pandemic lets get to the bottom line. Around the world factories have gone off line schools have been suspended and entire cities have been locked down in italy the entire country is now under quarantine and in america critics of President Donald Trump say his administration has been slow to deal with the outbreak and focused on dealing with a Health Crisis as a Public Relations battle more recently however and with 700 cases of Coronavirus Infection in the u. S. The administration has shifted to high gear in fact in the past few days the government set aside more than 8000000000. 00 in emergency funding and started to talk about an economic stimulus package so where is the fear of the unknown taking us now fortunately we have people around the country who have the answers with me here in washington d. C. Our dr ali khan a former u. S. Assistant Sur
Primary was today. Not to be confused with super tuesday which was, i think, 11 years ago [ light laughter ] thats right, the mini tuesday primary was today, where six states held their primaries. So after tonight, we might finally know once and for all whether Tulsi Gabbard can take a hint [ laughter and applause well see what the math says after tonight. President trump told reporters today that he has not been tested for the coronavirus but just to be safe, the virus has decided to selfquarantine [ laughter and applause according to a political analyst, president Trumps Campaign strategy is to paint his potential opponent, former Vice President joe biden as senile what you cant just call your opponent the thing that you are. [ light laughter ] i mean, that would be like saying that Hillary Clinton was crooked. Oh oh, crap, oh [ light laughter ] hes going to win again, oh, no. Thats right, President Trump wants to paint joe biden as senile by highlighting his recent verbal blunders u
A slogan that one of the problems of course. Counting the cost on aljazeera. Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question is the coronavirus morphing from a Public Health epidemic into a full blown social and financial pandemic lets get to the bottom line. Around the world factories have gone off line schools have been suspended and entire cities have been locked down in italy the entire country is now under quarantine and in america critics of President Donald Trump say his administration has been slow to deal with the outbreak and focused on dealing with a Health Crisis as a Public Relations battle more recently however and with 700 cases of Coronavirus Infection in the u. S. The administration has shifted to high gear in fact in the past few days the government set aside more than 8000000000. 00 in emergency funding and started to talk about an economic stimulus package so where is the fear of the unknown taking us now fortunately we have people around the country who have the answers
Talk about an economic stimulus package so where is the fear of the unknown taking us now fortunately we have people around the country who have the answers with me here in washington d. C. Are dr ali khan a former u. S. Assistant Surgeon General who led the centers for Disease Control office of Public Health preparedness and response claudius saw many economists with the Washington Center for equitable growth who has worked at the Federal Reserve board and also the u. S. President s council of economic advisors and in boston we have john gruber an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of technology and a former president of the American Society of Health Economists and in denver we have a very full boat today Kathleen Tierney a professor of sociology at the university of colorado and author of a must read book disasters a sociological approach its so good to have you all with us dr come in we start with you for a minute can you give us a quick snapshot of what the benchmarks on thi
Data that says there is ground water in the neighborhood. We have data that says we have it here, so were starting here and moving quickly. Reporter so as it stands now, you can see Mcclymonds High School closed february 20th through the 21st, and that could also extend into next week. We told you about how parents and students have a lot of questions, so the School District hopes to answer that at 6 00. Theyll have an open meeting at the taylor united memorial methodist church. We expect a lot of people to be there, and well certainly be there as well reporting live at 6 00. Typically we think of high schools as being in residential neighborhoods, that plating business you mentioned, certainly a commercial business that would be more industrial. What is that neighborhood like . Reporter we are surrounded in a residential and commercial area, in fact that plating business is just north of the school, so you might wonder if maybe that chemical traveled south into the ground water. So it