Statistics. The United States now leads the world in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus with more than 1. 5 million. Another 2. 4 million workers filed jobless claims this week, joining the more than 38 million americans have applied for unemployment assistance since the crisis began. Veryl soon our country will reah another grim milestone. We are fast approaching the day when more than 100,000 american lives will have been lost to covid19, the size of a small city erased from the map. Speaker pelosi and i have sent a letter to President Trump this morning requesting that the American Flag be flown at half mast on all public buildings on the day the total reaches 100,000. As families all across the great country mourned the loss of friend, colleagues and loved ones, flying the flag at half mast would be a national expression of grief. And of course this weekend is also memorial day, where we commemorate so Many Americans who through the centuries have lost their lives for
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The country that bore the heaviest toll in the crash in eastern ukraine. A day of National Mourning as the first bodies from the disaster will flow into the city. The rest of the bodies are awaiting transport over the next few days. Two military aircraft carrying the bodies of 40 victims arrived in the netherlands from the ukraine this afternoon. King wilhelm alexander led the dignitaries on the tarmac. In all, 1300 people were there including many relatives of a adams. Some of the victims. They observed a minute of silence at 4 00 p. M. After leaving the air base, they carried individual coffins to a military facility in the north of the country. It is their teams of experts will attempt to identify the remains. It was a chance for them to pay their respects to the first of the victims to return to the country. The rest of the netherlands also came to a standstill for one minute. Flags flew at half mast on a national day of mourning. Many are still trying to make sense of the disaster
And the Costa Concordia is total wafer scrap. It has been a terrible few days for the people of the netherlands. The country that bore the heaviest toll in the crash in eastern ukraine. A day of National Mourning as the first bodies from the disaster will flow into the city. The rest of the bodies are awaiting transport over the next few days. Two military aircraft carrying the bodies of 40 victims arrived in the netherlands from the ukraine this afternoon. King wilhelm alexander led the dignitaries on the tarmac. In all, 1300 people were there including many relatives of a adams. Some of the victims. They observed a minute of silence at 4 00 p. M. After leaving the air base, they carried individual coffins to a military facility in the north of the country. It is their teams of experts will attempt to identify the remains. It was a chance for them to pay their respects to the first of the victims to return to the country. The rest of the netherlands also came to a standstill for one m