problematic authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. now, that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the new york times or and the washington post, for quote relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election,ru and its connectionso the trump campaign, the president-elect transition team, and his eventual administration. now that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually led the pulitzer board to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. and this week, the pulitzer board has announced the results of those investigations, and here is part of what they said. no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that subsequent to the con fe
Relief package today. Stunned americans will go to their mailbox and find checks to help with their bills. Why . Because the senate stepped up. Right now stocks are on the upswing, the dow up 934. All of this comes as the number of coronavirus cases rises to almost 60,000 across the country. Joining us now, nbcs Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Garrett, can you delve more into what this package does . When you say stimulus, that makes things better and brighter, but what this does is dig out of despair. Some of this is purely stimulus, so you can pay for your rent and your shortterm needs. There is money going to hospital systems, tens of billions of dollars of it, to help them cope with the cost of treating coronavirus. Think of each state spending billions of its own dollars trying to make sure people are treated and taken care of as their revenues are going down. Then theres revenue for businesses both small and large to help keep their businesses open in the long term even if they ha
As soon as they can, at which point the Convention Center in madrid, spain, will be one of the largest hospitals in the entire world. Heres the New York Times international chart of where countries are at in their epidemics right now. This shows the death rates, the deaths over time in various countries. China, of course, is the country that has had this crisis the longest. Thats their Long Navy Blue line there. They obviously had a ton of deaths. That scaled up rapidly, but they have since flattened out their death rate drastically. You see italy up there in the top in europe with the Worst Epidemic now and the worst one by far in europe. Then you see spain close on italys heels. And if you look at the curve for spain, its just on an incredibly steep curve. The total deaths in spain are doubling every three days. And you know what . Our curve is exactly the same shape as spains right now. We here in the United States have a curve that is worse than italys and that is exactly parallel
Payments of 500 per child. The vote prompting a sigh of relief from Senate Leaders and President Trump. The strange new reality has forced our nation to Something Like wartime. A proud moment of the United States senate. And for the country, and were going to win this war. Hopefully we can have ultimately the same bipartisanship. President trump send to bill to my desk for signature without delay. Ill sign it immediately. Sandra the u. S. Seeing its most deadly out break so far. The deaths are past 1,000. Around 70,000 confirmed cases nationwide. We begin with Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. Kristin fisher is standing by at the white house. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in atlanta this morning. Good morning, sandra. New york remains the epicenter of the outbreak in the u. S. Accounting for approximately 60 of new cases. Governor andrew cuomo is urging the federal government to flood his state with emergency medical equipment which then can be passed on to other states afte
1,000 here, the deadliest day so far. New york, by far the hardest hit with nearly half of the countrys cases. Conditions at hospitals at new york and across the country. The conditions are dire. In new york, hospitals are bracing for a surge of patients in the coming weeks. One hospital constructed a makeshift morgue on the street. Nurses at a different hospital resorting to protecting themselves with trash bags because of a shortage of protective gowns. Cnn has learned that some hospitals in the country debating a universal do not resuscitate order for coronavirus patients. There is some reasons for optimism in places. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says there are signs that social distancing is working. Slowly down the rate of hospitalizations that was doubling as of sunday. Its now doubling at a rate of 4. 7 days. Of course, john, this is not just a new york problem. Were seeing many states struggling. Especially louisiana. Cases there have spiked more than 1500. There is fear, of