Networks, cspan. Org and with the free cspan radio app. West Virginia Governor jim justice holds everything with reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. He says states his states cases have been lower than average. From charleston, this is about 50 minutes. Hello, everyone. It is friday, may 8. We have got one really good thing to report. I hope several things, but the first thing that is the most important to me, we have not lost anyone since the last time i was here, yesterday. If you will follow the other states, the other states are losing hundreds a day. Every time we lose one, it is not good. Total. Lost 51 people please keep those people in your thoughts and prayers. Yesterday was a really important day, a national day of prayer. I am sure those families and those people, the great West Virginians we lost appreciate you. I am not going to read you through what has happened in week two and three of the reopening plan, which will begin this coming monday. Guidelines f
The seats are starting to fill up. Good. I want to begin by expressing my gratitude to the more than 62,000 Service Members on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus, including over 3500 medical personnel staffing civilian facilities and embedded operations nationwide. Tomorrow marks the start of National Nurses week. We salute all nurses, military and civilian, who have served and are currently serving. Thanks to their efforts, we are encouraged to see the situation improving in several of the most impacted areas. In new york city, the Javits Centers remaining patients were discharged on friday, indicating stress on hospitals is subsiding. I had a conversation with mayor de blasio last friday. He called to express his thanks for what dod provided his city in a time of need and how warmly they were received by his civilian doctors and nurses. I said to pass along to the force, those who may be watching may get a readout from this briefing. Over the weekend, the comfort re
President trump donald trump saying america is winning the war against the virus. Dr. Anthony fauci says at least part of the economy could reopen next month. Over at the capital additional funding for Small Businesses, Congressional Republicans to add 251 billion, democrats looking for more money and a much broader use of the funds. Meantime futures are pointing to a lower open to kick off this week. You have almost 300point loss on the dow futures after u. S. Markets in a short week last week rallied big time. The dow, nasdaq and s p all up more than 10 . S p having the best week since the mid70s. 1974. Deadly storms slamming parts of the United States over easter weekend. The southeast still being battered by horrible weather. We will have a live update. Mornings with maria is live now. Dagen and good morning, maria. Maria good morning, everyone. Dagen, thank you. We want to check Global Markets. This is a big week. Hope everybody had a great easter. Lets check Global Markets right
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[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone and welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue our work and Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to callec for recesst any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resourceson come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to