As we commemorate the profound and lasting expression of political convicted and took shape in this room exactly 106 years ago today. [applause]. As you saw in the video a moment ago, there is an important place in the fabric of our city. Sitting here tonight, youre not only occupying a seat on this day in 1860, new yorkers the send it to a statesman from illinois. The liver to speak would not only alter the course of the his life, but would impact the future of our nation. Since that day, scores of individuals have field your seats. Eager to explore the issues that define who we are as a country. And tonight, you have a seat to another perspective on americas next chapter. Inspired by the man who ultimately united the country after the most divided. In this history. Laura and preserve the Great American experiment. Abraham lincoln, later viewed that his speech is a turning point in his eventual election to the white house. Here he made an impassioned argument against the expansion of
Virus. A councillor that tested positive discusses his experience. And your text and tweets. Washington journal is next. Us coronavirus cases have jumped. Returns at noon as they return to push a response package totalling over 1 million. Good morning, welcome to washington journal, this friday morning. March 20th. Well open up the phone lines, hearing from you, and your experience, response to the federal effort on the coronavirus. Of you in the central time zone, the line is welcome to your input if you are a medical professional tell us your name and where you twitter, ing from on facebook posts. There is a reporter from the mike baker, mes, stationed in the northwest. Part ofg the northwest the us, mike baker tweeting on the numbers, more than he said on the 132. More than 4,000 new cases in the us. Youll see his number at the there 12,336. When we started the programme 9 4509,450. 9,450. Checking the map. 245,484. 10,000, th toll over with 86,000 confirmed recoveries. 14,250. Us i
Going back to the desk. We are following breaking news in Solano County. Two people are dead. Another is injured after a fight at a home. Sarah joins us now with what we know so far. Sarah . Reporter good morning, pam. Neighbors are starting to wake up in this community. A lot of them that we have talked to said they did not hear anything last night. Of course it is still an active scene out here. Solano sheriffs deputies have been out here going on six hours now. There investigating and they will continue to be out here for the next couple of hours as they investigate this double homicide. We are on hargis avenue, and unincorporated vallejo. The Sheriffs Office said somebody inside the home on hargis called Vallejo Police just after midnight to report a heated altercation. When officers got to the house, a woman was waiting for them. She had been assaulted and had a head injury. A Solano County sheriff spokesperson says both died from gunshot wounds. It appeared to be some type of fig
Overcrossing at the tolls right now. Some usual slow and go traffic on westbound 580 from tracy to dublin, 33 minutes. Elsewhere, pretty quiet. A nice drive through the dublin grade to mission boulevard in fremont. Northbound 85 looking great from highway 101 to cupertino in the sbai. We have new details this morning on changes sfmta is making after that deadly crash on taylor and ofarrell streets in San Francisco. Sfmta met with Community Leaders in the tenderloin to discuss Traffic Safety concerns. Three weeks before the crash, sfmta reduced Taylor Street from three lanes to two and added white buffer zones. There are also plans to widen the crosswalks. One neighbor suggested changing the timing on the lights. Reisdey. Ard it is to walk in a crosswalk, by the time you get to the middle, its already red. Thats not right. Sundays crash killed benjamin dean, and his wife kelly is still in serious condition. The driver Kelsey Cambridge was arrested. For more on this story, you can go to
property. it s essential right now. today is the day to to it. if you wait till tomorrow, it s too late. martha: fox on top of two storms barrelling town. hurricane ian about to wallop the florida coast. and a financial storm walloping folks coast-to-coast. and we have got you covered with will nundley in clearwater. lauren simonetti on a stock market under water. west virginia senator joe manchin on an energy plan that suddenly got him under bipartisan attack. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so many storms, so little time. let s get to it in the sunshine state with will nundley with the latest on the prep work for a big one. will? the mood has shifted here. we ve been covering the past couple days of people taking the preparations, buying gasoline, going to the grocery store. this has been a day of action. i m on clearwater beach, which behind me is clearwater, florida. everything you see under a mandatory evaluation. one of several counties under these orders. we h