Our guest greg walden of oregon, newsmakers sunday at 10 a. M. And 6 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp participate in in a town hall n atlanta with state and local officials on the states response to the coronavirus outbreak of topics include the Homeless Population, procuring medical supplies, the Academic School year and the financial and Economic Impact on the people of georgia and Small Businesses. He also address coronavirus testing priorities and availability across the state. Coronavirus in georgia. There is no need for people to panic. It change changed life as ww it. Schools shut down. Yes, it is very scary. Stores running low on some essentials. The shells of the into. And medical facilities pushed to the limit. Many of our supplies are running critically low. Tonight member of the Coronavirus Task force and georgias governor answer the most pressing questions and lay out their plans to stop the spread. In this time of need on asking georgians to support the
Ruiz. Nationwide the country has reported more than 100 deaths in a single day, and pushing the total infected 42,000. Lawmakers in washington are at a stalemate over a third economic aid package, this one with a price tag of 2 trillion or more. This is your opportunity to tell decisionmakers how this is impacting your community. Small business owners, 202 7488000. Medical professionals, 202 7488001. Ll others, 202 7488002 send us a text with your first name and city and state at 202 7488003. Twitter orents on facebook. Com cspan. Joining us on the phone is mike lewis for the hill to talk about what is happening in the senate. Lets begin with the negotiations in the Upper Chamber yesterday. Where did they leave things . Guest good morning. It was a long day yesterday. They left with no deal around midnight. They are very close. We dont know quite what that means because they have been saying that for the better part of the last four days. It is a wait and see moment. The treasury secre
The virus. Gov. Cuomo happy sunday. Gov. Cuomo happy sunday. Gov. Cuomo good to see your smiling faces. Some of your not smiling faces. On my right, doctor james, commissioner, to my left, the secretary, to her left, robert, the budget director. Thank you for being here. Let us go through some updates for today. So everyone knows where we are and what we are experiencing. The increase on the trajectory of cases continues to climb. 76, 81. A couple of updates that i would like to make to the local Health Providers. We want to anticipate the situation. We talked yesterday about planning forward, getting ahead of it, that we have been behind on this virus from day one. Rather than be reactive, be proactive, get ahead of it. Local Health Providers should be watching what is going on in different parts of the state and anticipating what is going to happen. This is going to be a phenomenon of a rolling apex. We talk about the rolling apex, the top of the curve. The top of the curve will occu
Bipartisan process we sat down, democrat and republican, in four Different Task forcege on put together the elements of the legislation. As a result, the bill before you tonight, the one were talking about, reflects republican priority t and democratic priorities. And the gore did takendal the te to walk through it and to talk about some ofs those the people understand whats in this legislation. I was pleased to see the democratic leader say at the end he believes we can figure this out over the next several hours. He said 24 hours. I hope its not 24 hours. We cant wait that long. We need to move and move quickly. We see with the marketed and globally. We know with the markets are going to do here. Weve seen with the futures are important we see thehe impact ad our states, among our citizens. Democratic leaders had more money needs to be put against hospitals and states and workers. There is an unprecedented amount of money for all three of those in this legislation, unprecedented. And
Some of your not smiling faces. On my right, doctor james, commissioner, to my left, the secretary, to her left, robert, the budget director. Thank you for being here. Let us go through some updates for today. So everyone knows where we are and what we are xperiencing. As you can see, the increase on the trajectory of cases continues to climb. 76, 81. A couple of updates that i would like to make to the local Health Providers. We want to anticipate the situation. We talked yesterday about planning forward, getting ahead of it, that we have been behind n this virus from day one. Rather than be reactive, be proactive, get ahead of it. Local Health Providers should be watching what is going on in different parts of the state and anticipating what is going to happen. This is going to be a phenomenon of a rolling apex. We talk about the rolling apex, the top of the curve. But the top of the curve will occur at different times in different places. The curve is a function of the rate of sprea