You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
Join us on washington journal primetime monday night, 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Illinois governor jb pritzker gave an update on how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is about an hour. Good afternoon and thank you for joining todays public update. I am here with dr. Horace smith, dr. Tor and a doctor suzette mckinney, executive director of the Illinois Medical District and the operations lead for our alternate care facilities across chicago and the state, and bishop simon gordon,. I want to discuss the actions i our taken toward protecting more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community, who have focused a disproportionate effect of covid19. For months, years, and even decades after we defeat this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine the biological and medical questions about this virus. Beyond that, we need to examine what americans learned about ourselves. The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a bright lig
Governor andrew cuomo on the states response to coronavirus. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. Gov. Cuomo lets go through where we are right now. Is, the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. A number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex. The apex of players appears to be a plateau, which is what many of the models predict. You plateau for a. Of time a period of time. The hospitalization rate is down and that is important. We have more people getting infected still. We have more people going to the hospitals, that we have a lower number. That is all this is saying. Fewer people are going into the hospitals, still net positive. The three day average, just what we look at, because daytoday can be somewhat deceiving, especially when you get towards the weekend, because the weekend reporting gets a little different, but all of the numbers are on the downward slope. Still, people getting infected, still people owing to the hospital, but a lower rate of incre
Contracting recovering from the disease. Join the conversation on washington journal primetime, monday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gives an update on the Pandemic Response in his state from earlier today. This is just over 45 minutes. Gov. Cuomo lets go through every right now. The good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex and the apex appears to be a plateau. Which is what many of the models predicted. It was going to be straight up to the top number and then you plateau and that looks like what we are doing. The hospitalization rate is down. Thats important more people getting infected still. More people going to the hospitals, but we have a lower number. People are going to the hospitals still net positive. The 300 average, which is what we look at because daytoday deceiving, especially towards the weekend because we can reporting gets a little different. All th
A furious backlash. Extinction rebellion launches a 2 week protest campaign with activists aiming to shut down cities around the world they call and governments to hold the destruction of the environment but how much support actually is there for the movement. What this generation seems to be saying is youve messed things up for long enough youre not really listening the only way we can actually get your attention is actually by civil disobedience Extinction Rebellion is without question britains Fastest Growing religion. Coming live from moscow every hour of the day this is r. T. International from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome. We start in hong kong where 2 protesters have been charged with violating the newly introduced by. On face masks it is the 1st time the laws been applied to having originally been named out defusing tension by keeping people off the streets the activists were a company to court peaceful crowd in stark contrast to the recent violence in the ci