Around the world. And keys in the clouds. A mystery we dont fully understand. Come along on an adventure as we soar through the skies and travel through the seas of the caribbean where scientists hope to learn more about the effects of clouds our climates. First, we begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The action i am taking will open up access to up to 50 billion in our shared fight against this disease. Reporter the president declares a national emergency. A national emergency. Two very big words. Reporter the house has passed a bipartisan package to provide relief to americans coping with coronavirus. Said we were going to do put Families First. Reporter a surge ofnfiden it after aru ts laringle day08. Congratulations, t ihe most volatile market ever. Reporter President Trump now says he will most likely get tested soon for the coronavirus. I didnt say i wasnt going to be tested. Reporter are you going to be . Most likely, yeah. Reporter microsoft founde
Changing. We want to provide you depth and understanding during this pandemic. The full scope of the coronavirus outbreak is coming into focus, and it is a bleak picture. Schools in entire cities and states have been ordered closed, including in ohio and maryland and in the cities of atlanta and san francisco. Millions of students will now have to stay home, and wall street had its worst day since the 1987 crash. Nearly all major sporting events have also been called off, including march madness. And tonight the death toll in the u. S. Now tops 40. More than 1,500 cases have been confirmed in nearly every state and washington, d. C. And then new york city, which is home to more than eight million people, just declared a state of emergency. Meg oliver leads off our coverage just north of there in new rochelle where one of the largest virus clusters is located. Meg, i know you have been reporting there for several days. What changed today . Reporter a lot changed today. The National Guar
Oliver in new york. Reporter america is shutting down as cancelations multiply across a wide swath of life. Professional hockey, soccer, and baseball stopped operations, joining the nba which suspended its season after a player was confirmed to have the virus. Cruise lines, princess and viking, are canceling upcoming sailings. Broadway is going dark through midapril, and disneyland parks in california will close for the month. Hundreds of thousands of students are out of school, and more soon will be. All Public Schools in the state of maryland and ohio will shut down next week. Its even a new world getting groceries. This is the line outside a costco near los angeles. Dr. Anthony fauci of the nih says were even failing to get people properly tested. The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, were not set up for that. Do i think we should be . Yes. But were not. Reporter so far only 11,000 tests have been done in this country, while south kore
Suffering, including during this, yet another christmas season. Please work harder. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is lisa. Im a proud district 5 resident. And im here on behalf of my friends and neighbors and as a board member of the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition to thank supervisor brown for her Wonderful Service for district 5. She has always led with her heart and with her head as a pragmatic progressive. We are so thankful for everything shes done for our district, for district 5 and advocating for the people who are most vulnerable in securing Affordable Housing for those who need it and honestly, every weekend and weeknight, just picking up the trash and cleaning up graffiti, talking with everybody and really making connections with everybody in our district. We are so appreciative. And we will really miss supervisor vallie brown. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Next speaker. My, im kathy. Im coming to talk about city colleg
Im a long time resident of district 5, i to california in 1947, and i watched all the things that have happened over the years. Met anyone who cared so much to pick up the garbage, to pick up the people, try to find places for people to live, try to help all of us to develop new relationships and understanding here in our district. And i would like, again, to thank you so very much for what you have done. I want to say, im with you all on the city college. But i came here to talk about the Reparations Initiative. And i also came here to not necessarily talk about racism and those type of things, but to talk about acknowledgement and being overlooked. Most of the time when black people are hired, you know, except for franklin, most of the time when black people are its about us struggling against something and fighting some oppression, but you never acknowledge this, and i understand the city, you never acknowledge this for our contribution. We actually contributed to the fabric of this