Expressed strong confidence in what they saw as my gifts or emerging gift, i always doubted them. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. United healthcare online at uhc. Com. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill our lead story tonight negotiations in the senate aimed to break the stalemate in washington. The talks came with the partial Government Shutdown now two weeks old, and the debt ceiling deadline just three days away. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. After meeting over the weekend and again thi
Florida Atlantic Coast and expected to turn to hurricane strength overnight with the federal disaster decoloration, issued, the state today is reporting more than 9,000 new daily cases of coronavirus. Thats a fifth straight day. Another member of the u. S. Congress, democratic representative raul of arizona tested positive for the virus. This just days after he attended a Committee Hearing with republican congressman Louie Gohmert who tested positive for the virus and who has repeatedly refused to wear a mask up on capitol hill. Meanwhile, a new very grim projection from the centers for Disease Control and prevention tonight. It now projects an additional 20,000 americans will die from the virus in the next three weeks alone. More than 1,000 americans have died daily over the past five days. Lets begin our coverage right now in florida. A state of emergency in 16 counties while people there wait and watch the storm slowly march up from the bahamas. Cnn chad myers is over at the cnn Wea
Cases a day, a thousand americans are dying every day. This is all wholly preventable and my only plea to my fellow americans is we have to not become immune to this level of suffering, and we have to take more action. I think thats such a great pin point, we cant become immune to the level of suffering, we cant become immune to the numbers. We know theres fatigue out there, out there for weeks if not months. People are tired of having to go through some of these measures, but the reality is, dr. Jha, if we dont continue with them, it will become far worse. Thats the potential. It is absolutely and especially as we head into the fall months, and people are going to be spending more time indoors, the flu season will arrive, you know, i had a chance to talk to dr. Fauci on friday. He said if we do the basic Public Health measures weve been talking about we can go into the fall in pretty good shape. Alternatively we can continue to ignore a lot of them and we can have a really awful fall
Shawn. Arthel hello, everyone, im arthel neville. Despite those staggering numbers, there could be hope on the horizon. Drugmaker pfizer applying to the fda for emergency approval of its vaccine after trials showed it 95 effective. So if all goes according to plan, the first doses could be rolled out by the middle of the month. But a top Infectious Disease expert says this is not the time to let down your guard. My concern is that people are going to continue to behave as if were not in a pan demic and that what were seeing now is that private gatherings, less than restaurants, are leading to infections. And thanksgiving is an excuse for lots of people to gather from all different parts of the country, and this is where theyre going to let their guards down. These vaccines are going to be great. Theres a light at the end of the tunnel, but we still have a lot of tunnel to go. Arthel Christina Coleman joins us live from los angeles with more. Hi, christina. Reporter well, the fda will m
The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 18, 2013. I hereby appoint the honorable doug lamalfa to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Coble. Mr. Coble i thank the speaker. Mr. Speaker, ive heard some criticize the president for having played golf with tiger woods because woods is not a favorable role model. The president s golfing is none of my business, but permit me to tell you what is my business.