Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards will talk about the increase in cases in new orleans and throughout the state. Later today, the White House Coronavirus task force headed by Vice President pence will hold a news conference. We will have live coverage here on cspan. And you can also follow our coverage online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on Health Care Workers around the country to the battle coronavirus in his state. Cuomo good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. We have some people with us on the dais today. The commissioner of the new york city Emergency Management department. Let me thank them all very much for being here. We have just had a great meeting, which i will refer to in a moment. Also wish everyone happy National Doctors day. This is a day that doctors are truly busy and truly stepping up to their oath and their passion, and literally saving lives. Inhonor all of the doctors the state of new york to
Is an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal government. I want to thank them very much for what they have done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job thing in and getting things set up as quickly as possible. It will become operational today. We will start to run the facility and we will take it from there. Let me go through a couple of facts. You seee we are today the number of people testing continues to go up. We want to test and find the positives. We want to find the positives so we can isolate and stop the transmission. We tested 14,000 people yesterday. Out and the to go total number of quiches is 66,000 cases is 66,000. Those numbers are daunting, to be sure. It is continuing to move across the state of new york. There is only one county now that does not have a covid case. Anyone who says the situation is in new york city only is a state of denial. You see this virus move across the state. You see it move across the nation. There is no ame
A recent labor report from the Labor Department more than 3000000 people filed for Unemployment Benefits in just the us in the United States just last week breaking all previous records including the one set back in october of 1902 but while millions of u. S. Citizens and thousands of industries are facing massive economic turmoil and hardship there is of course one industry that appears to be immune to the economic followed to the covert 19 pandemic i am talking of course about our good friends in the military Industrial Complex yes the Washington Post is reporting that while stores and factories around the country are shutting down and millions are teleworking from home defense contractors have been by and large required to stay open meaning most of the industrys 2500000 employees have continued to work. Why well according to the United States under secretary of defense ellen lord those businesses are considered Critical Infrastructure because while we may be in desperate need for fa
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