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They couldnt get it soon enough or quick enough out there. It remains to be seen how thats going to be solved, that problem is going to be solved in the coming weeks. Again, its a question of resources, getting to states and localities. This is the problem weve seen throughout the pandemic where the states saying they need more help from washington. Washington saying this is the states function to carry out. Also a lot of concern about this new strain thats been detected now in a third state after colorado, california and now florida. Health officials are saying that its more contagious, it spreads more easily, but its not necessarily more deadly and its not going to make people sicker. The big concern is after this long holiday period when so many people have defied the warnings and the pleas not to travel and not to gather with friends and relatives, that the coming months are going to be very, very challenging, very, very difficult before a lot of vaccine can get out to millions of
You both. Steve, ill start with you. The new year is only bringing more troubling news for Los Angeles County as it fights this pandemic. So what are you seeing there . Kathy, its gotten to the point in this crisis where i have to start off with the overwhelming amount of death and what to do with the dead. Private mortuaries and Funeral Homes have now gotten to the point where theyre so overloaded with bodies that they have to turn away bereaved families. The county has shattered its single day death toll, now three days in a row. Let me put it to you like this. The National Guard has been called in to assist with hospitals and in some cases, there are an extra pair of hands for nurses and emts but their primary function in a lot of cases has been to move bodies from hospital morgues because they are so overloaded with the overwhelming amount of bodies to a county storage location, somewhere else where they can free up more room to treat patients. Thats the situation now at hospitals.
Continuing to keep this on the front burner. This has also been a day of mourning and remembering the life of george floyd. He was killed in Police Custody in minneapolis. It is his death, as you know, that sparked this movement. First there, and quickly around the continue and on around the world. Weve seen solidarity marches and disparities really joined by people all over the globe. This memorial drew Civil Rights Activists, members of congress, people in arts and culture, and at the core of it, of course there is still a real family, real loss, a family grieving the loss of a son and a father. Everywhere you go and see people how they cling to him. They wanted to be around him. When you spoke to george, they felt like they were the president because thats how he made you feel. Everything he told us, he was teaching us how to be a man because he was in this world already before us. And he gave us a lot of great lessons. Everybody want justice. We want justice for george. Hes going t
With andrea and now with you. Tell us your most profound memories of nancy reagan and the legacy she leaves behind. Well, i think theres no more. She made Ronald Reagan possible. She made Ronald Reagan presidency possible. We think of her at tas making p popular. When they met in the 1950s, he was at the ebb of his professional career. He came back from world war ii. His audiences in hollywood were not what they were before and she basically stood at his side and brought him back not only as an actor in a few movies and they were together in a movie called hellcats of the navy, the only time they acted together, but she was an essential collaborate never his career. One thing about nancy, when she was alive, it would always say, ronnie, i had a bit part, i didnt have sr. Much to do with this. I think now that shes no longer with us and we begin to learn more and more about that marriage, i think we will increasingly see how essential it was for Ronald Reagans success as a politician an