Cspan. Org coronavirus. Interviews with two leaders and how they are responding to the coronavirus. Plans to discusses reopen miami speeches and restaurants. Held by the Washington Post, this is 45 minutes. I think it does give people hope and it gives doctors hope also. That is why a lot of doctors want to use it, they want to give all patients the best chance they have. Good morning. I am bob costa, National Local reporter at the National Washington post. We are continuing our leadership during crisis series. Our guests are confronting challenges across their states and cities. Economic carnage, testing, all of those issues confronting them as leaders. But, they lead different parts of the nation. One is a governor, the other a mayor. Both are republicans. First, i will speak with Governor Pete Ricketts of nebraska. Then, mayor francis zamoras of miami, florida. Welcome tornor, Washington Post live. Thank you for having me on. Lets begin with one of the Biggest Issue in your state, m
Journal we speak with the hills reid wilson author on the coronavirus pandemic. Afterwards we discussed key campaign 2020 with cook political reports Jessica Taylor. Journal is next. Host good morning on this monday, may 18. States across the country are reopening economies and lifting restrictions on activities like going to parks, golfing, dining out, shopping, and going to the gym. This is happening while the u. S. Has seen over 1. 4 million cases and nearly 90,000 deaths. We want to talk to all of you about reopening where you live. Do you support or oppose the idea . If you support it . , 2027488000, if you are 2027488001. Ning, at can also text us 2027488003. New york times put together an interactive map that shows states that are reopening in blue on your screen. Those with regional openings are in yellow. Light blue means they are reopening soon. , solid yellow, i should say, are still shutdown. Regional openings have these lines through them a little difficult to see on your
Mike headed up the task force, he worked with cdc. I could ask mike to give you a part of it but i will say that they originally, they had no tests and one of the tests had a problem, very early on but that was quickly remedied. Now we have the best tests anywhere in the world. I think, i give ourselves a lot of that credit, a lot of the brilliant people that worked on testing. A lot of brilliant people worked on ventilators to the point where we have the best testing in the world. We have the best ventilators, distribution of the most ventilators in the world, it is not even close. I cant tell i would like to ask mike that question. Cdc you work with them all the time, certainly much more than i do, mike. We do, mr. President , let me say i think Peter Navarros point was that cdc and our Public Health labs at the state level were operating with an arcane testing system and it was one of the reasons why early on we brought in all of the commercial labs around the country. The president
Bombshell from the department of justice. New documents revealed. Fbi discussed Michael Flynn to lie and get him fired. We have more coming up. Earning season rolling on this morning. After the bell tonight attention turns to amazon and apple. Markets this morning are higher. Take a look at future, indicating a gain at start of trading this morning in about 3 and a half hours. Dow industrials on track for best month since january, meanwhile major averages yesterday snapped 3month losing streak, best month since 1974. Shares of facebook are soaring, ad sales stabilizing, take a look at facebook shares. Eighteen dollars a share. Up nine and a third percent, 212 and change. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria markets are higher this morning. You saw futures on wall street. In europe we are looking at markets searching for direction a bit. Ftse 100 is down but the cac quarante is up 17 and dax index higher by 24. Pandemic taking toll on euro zone economy. Contracting 3. 8 . The ec
Good afternoon. Let me begin by thinking folks throughout florida for all their hard work over these long and eks. Ng we what they have been doing is working. Month and ack a half, we heard a reports saying it was a matter of time before floridas Hospital System was overwhelmed with covid19 patients. There was an article in the miami herald that said this week in april, florida could see 465,000 people hospitalized. , slightly more than 2000. Those predictions have been false. Our work is succeeding. We have flattened her to the curve. Not only did the Hospital System not get overwhelmed, since the pandemic started, available hospital beds have increased in the state of florida. About 1500 beds available, we now have 22,000. We have also dramatically increased icu bed availability. That is what flattening the curve was about, because of the Health Care System gets overwhelmed it is so it is obviously bad for covid19 patients and other people with ailments. Made timeictions were and tim