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Effort to fight the coronavirus and no other country has been worse hits than its elite. Doctors and nurses are working in disaster mode Emergency Centers have been set up because some hospitals can no longer admitting check to patients italy is the country with the highest number of cases outside china. All of it really has been under quarantine for weeks now schools have been closed since the beginning of march but for the students at the German School in rome this doesnt mean they get extended holidays teachers are doing their best to have their students studying from home using smartphones and tablets and the principal at thomas high is being very resourceful in order to keep the young ones motivated italy correspondent visited the school to find out how its all working out. Its a. T. M. And the roads are free almost unheard of at this time of the morning in the italian capital. But nothing is normal in these times of the coronavirus this is the unusual empty parking lot of the Ger
Including some turtles. Thats right. Your tax dollars actually paid for a study that put turtles on treadmills. So here we have our turtles on a treadmill. To no ones surprise, it turns out that turtles are really, really slow. Okay. Thats what our tax dollars went to. In fact, this wasteful study found that turtles moved at nearly the same pace as dead turtles on a treadmill. Arent you glad that washington bureaucrats used your hard earned dollars to conduct this study . Good grief, folks. Now how many of your tax dollars went to this study exactly . Well, folks, your guess is actually as good as mine because there is no legal obligation for most federal agencies to publicly disclose the price of government projects even though the american taxpayers are paying for them. Folks, this is your money, your money. So shouldnt you have a right to know how it is being spent . Its been said before, and i sure believe it, government functions best when it operates in the open. This is the basi
Harris, california democrat and cory booker, new jersey senator. They are scheduled to appear with the former vp tonight as this rally, get out to vote rally, under way in front of tomorrows primary election in michigan paid michigan 125 delegates for the democratic nomination for coverage continuing our 2020 Campaign Coverage continues here on cspan2 and we will have this for you when it gets started. In the meantime, lets go to todays washington journal in a look at the week ahead here in washington. On mondays on washington journal we like to take a look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week were joined by daniel, senior political political reporter with the guardian. Senate reporter, steve dennis. Now that that 8. 3 emergency supplemental has passed and the money is out its way of the door what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus . What should we look for this week on that front . Guest democrats are talking about a sort of