The coronavirus crisis, flocking to parks on a beautiful spring day with the weather looking good again today. Shoppers across the south, meanwhile, heading to the malls from georgia to texas. But in other places frustration and anger as pockets of protesters fight the restrictions imposed in their states. Here is the latest this morning. Seven more states will begin to partially reopen for business. They are arizona, florida, indiana, minnesota, missouri, nebraska and new hampshire. All roads into and out of the city of gallop, new mexico, have been blocked as the governor says the coronavirus is, quote, running amuck there. Meanwhile, there are now 1. 1 million cases of coronavirus in the United States, and more than 66,000 deaths so far. Much more on those starts of the story in a moment. Plus, with scientists now focusing on more than a dozen possible vaccines, we will talk to the man who helped to develop a vaccine for another deadly virus about how soon we might see one now. Late
Modifications are made, people can start reopening with those modifications in these particular set theres as early as friday. Its too soon for offices, dine in restaurants and shopping malls. Those will stay close for now. Of the modification that will happen are a result of the data we are ready. Californias Health Report card released monday indicate key metrics are on schedule like inventory of personal protective equipment, healthcare surge and contact tracing. Plus hospitalizations are stable. It looks like it might be going down a little bit. Thats cautious optimism. Regardless has been stable and that supports making the decision. Counties can move quickly through stage two and on the other hand he is not forcing counties to comply with the modifications if they have stricter guidelines. The bay area is an example. If they choose not to come with the state guidelines, they have that right. This is an optimistic day as we see a ray of sunshine on the horizon. Newsom is not nacve
At protesters who were throwing rocks at the Lebanese Parliament on saturday nearly 400 people were injured in similar protests that descended into writing frustration is growing over a financial crisis and the failure of politicians to form a new government has more now from beirut. Its the 1st night of violence since tuesday we are outside Parliament Square but the Security Forces the antiriot police have managed to push the antiestablishment protesters away from Parliament Building this was the security cordon that was protecting Parliament Building it was really the front line behind the steel barricades the riot police they were using Water Cannons they were using tear gas they were using rubber bullets the Lebanese Red Cross issuing a statement saying that they have taken at least 30 people to hospital people who suffered injuries as a result of the confrontation hundreds of people were converged outside the. Parliament building hoping to try to storm the building its really a sh
On the cookie monster look at the global success behind the iconic childrens show sesame street. But its being counted in spains general election and whats shaping up to become a battle for power between the countries fragmented left and right this is the 4th time despondence have gone to the polls in 4 years after socialist leader and acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez failed to form a Coalition Government but sundays vote has been dominated by fears of a far right surge and a renewed push for Catalan Independence well al jazeera is jonah hol is following this story for us from the spanish capital madrid and jonah polls have now closed always getting an idea of whats happening. Thats right 8 pm polls are closed we dont have any official exit polls they dont do that sort of thing here in spain there are opinion polls that are conducted throughout voting day that give us some highly unofficial but sense of the direction of travel we can at least talk about those itll be a couple of hou
Which i absolutely love my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways is very different from what we do, from what im used to. Im a scholar here at aei and we are a private institute for Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland but in a way that highlights what we have in common to the section that goes after how nationhood in the modern day is often well ill put it like this a nation today in a modern way of thinking is at best problematic. It is at best problematic a useful administrative unit. That section is tipped off by the author Michael Daugherty talking about singing to his newborn baby over and over again the same songs. The foggy dew, the wind that shakes the barley and even the patriots game which i tried to sing in that lullaby way. This is familiar to me because i also sing my children to sleep with irish songs. I mostly use irish rebel songs because t