Healthcare community including hospitals. This morning i spoke to the president , speaking on the almost daily basis, sometimes several times a day im a and asked him about the state of the situation in her home state of illinois. Unfortunately, there still desperate for testing kits. Illinois has about 5000 more kids that were provided yesterday by private company. In the printing of our government but weve never seen the number of test kits that we believe are necessary to measure the current state of this coronavirus in her home state of illinois. The official count, and i might add that word official, is that we have had88 288 billing audiee infected into one totality. I believe the number of infections in the official report closely understates the in my home state of illinois. And once more tests are administered and we received results im afraid we are going to see a dramatic increase in the number of reported state. These cases yesterday, one to eight new cases were announced h
Chairman and the Ranking Member, the whole committee here, senator barrasso, senator carper, you have an introduction to make also. We will do that. Lets recognize senator carper because he will be coming back and doing his a little later. Very briefly, welcome to this important hearing, i think the chair and Ranking Member for putting this together and giving us a chance to say something, i ask unanimous consent him if i come back and give it live later this morning i will do that, good to see you, thank you for joining us this is important stuff. I want to thank all of you for being here today, thank you for your help in getting this together. I have taken counts, the last one other than you and me, retiring this year, that means you and me. I hope that is not a message. We did coming, working together in a bipartisan way of accomplishing things, looking forward to working with my colleagues who worked in legislation benefiting users for Transportation Networks and the economy. Since
Things are lining up now and it should be running smoothly by the end of november. Cities across america are voting for mayors, and some states are voting for governors. For more we invite you to go to www. Aljazeera. Com where youll find stories on the key races. It updates the voting and later this evening results as they come in. Those are the headlines at this hour. Real money with ali velshi tonight with David Shuster is up next on al jazeera america. The cost of your Health Insurance premiums may be less but had t has nothing to do with obam obamacare. And im David Shuster in for ali velshi. This is real money [ music ] this is real money, and you are the most important part of the show so join our live conversations for the next half hour and twitter at aj real money. It is november and every year at this time millions of americans enroll and renew their Health Coverage provided by their employers for the next year. And every year at this time they get a first glimpse of how muc