It is deepening. What they say they need to survive coming up. All that and more on making money. All right. Right now President Trump meeting with republican congressional members on potential next steps for economic measures. Blake burman has more for us. Lets go straight to you, blake. Hi there, jackie. Good to see you. In his fox friends interview this afternoon we heard from President Trump as that historic jobs report was announced. We heard from the president moments after. The initial reaction from the president this morning, he said quote it is totally expected. Theres no surprise. Right now inside the white house i believe we have that live picture, if we can put it up. The president for the last 50 minutes or so has been meeting with republican lawmakers, his top economic advisors as well. At least as of a few minutes ago when i sat down here, the president in his first public remarks didnt reference the jobs report from earlier this morning. Instead, jackie, he is making th
Trump. This took place earlier today in albany. Good morning. Lets talk about where we are today, in terms of the data. Total hospitalizations ticked down again. That is good news. We will take it. It is better than going up. Again, this is one day, but it flattening, reducing slightly, depending on your point of view. Are you an optimist, a pessimist . A pessimist would say we are basically flat, optimist would say we are starting to trend down. It is a personality test. Net change in total hospitalizations is on decline. The three day average, which is more accurate than any one day number also says the same. The icu admissions is down. Thats not that telling to me, because the entire hospital is now basically an icu ward. The number of intubations is down. That is very good news. Intubations 80 of the time wind up in a person not recovering. So that is really good news. And the counter narrative, counter fact, number of new cases that walked in the door of a hospital is still about
Result of the pandemic. Jared joins us to discuss changes to alcohol laws in several states amid the coronavirus outbreak. Host good morning, it is tuesday, april 7, 2020. The number of coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Is now past 10,000. In new york officials expressed hope that the pandemic is in wisconsin voters will head to the polls despite efforts to cancel in person voting over fears of spreading the virus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been diagnosed with the disease and moved to intensive care. We are giving you the chance to talk about all of this this morning on washington journal. Our phone lines are spit up regional ash split up regionally. In the eastern or central time zone, 202 7488000. Mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. If you do include your name and where you are from. Follow us on social media csp anwj. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. You can go ahead and start calling and now as we show you the front pa
Massive new infrastructure package to boost an ailing economy. How big a package are we talking about and what is the likelihood that it would get passed on capitol hill and signed by the president . Guest President Trump has, for the past week, been calling for 6infrastructure plan at trillion. He is saying this is something that can fix our roads, bridges, potholes. He is talking about ways we can expand access to broadband in rural parts of the country. This is something that the president has been talking about since he was a candidate. However, the money he is talking about, the white house has now put out a document that will lay out the president s vision for this plan. While he is adamant this is something that could create jobs and help with the economic recovery, on capitol hill he does not have support from Senate Republicans and house democrats. Both congressional leaders wants to have an Emergency Response to the crises and focus on infrastructure later down the road. Do t
Things as developing data of cases and criteria for lifting the stayathome order. [indiscernible] good afternoon. Thank you for being here with us this afternoon. Yourforward to taking questions once everybody has an opportunity to give an update. We are in the middle of a fight for our state. It is taking a tremendous cost. Us to pushg all of ourselves beyond what is comfortable. What is fair or sustainable for much longer we stay strong, stay in the fight we can see the finish line but the push to the end requires all of us to sprint. We are at her new the peak in mississippi. This is the most painful time this is the hardest time. It is the beginning of a turning point that we have not gotten past our peak pain yet. I pray every day for an end to this crisis and we are acting together to protect our people. We have been to other trials and overcome. We will come through this also. I know that what is being asked of use is not easy. It is not even close to being easy. We also notice