Continue to do our partat kron 4 with social distancing here in the studio and of course heth officials want us all to do worldwide there are about 596,000 cases and more than 27,000 deaths. In the United States alone there was a surge of more than 21,000 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours. This came after the us became the country with the highest number of cases tonight. There are more than a 104,000 cases while 1700 people have died. In california. There are more than 4700 k a coronavirus cases and 94 people have died. The Us Navy Ship Mercy with is 100 hospital beds arrived in Southern California today and a somber warning from los angeles today as the city of angels prepares for what is expected to be a significant surge cases of covid 19our kate ronan has the latest on developments there. With 257 new confirmed cases in los angeles today and 5 new deaths la is readying for an even greater pected surge in the coming days, yesterdays would of course have a 50 doubling rate of les
We will be speaking to. When we could start to get a vaccine. We hear there are some in clinical trials, wondering if perhaps that is the next hope to look forward to. Francine from the conversations i have had, and they are very preliminary, it looks like a vaccine will be a couple years away unless they can speeded up. But there seemed to be three drugs that are working and fighting it off once you catch the coronavirus. We will delve deeper and see if it will make or break drug companies. Lets get to first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with President Trump, who did a 180 on the coronavirus p he now says it is so bad, it may drive the economy into recession. He tried the president spent weeks minimizing the impact, which led state and local into the initiative to take a response. The republicancontrolled chamber will take up a house bill. It includes paid sick leave and now to the french president , Emmanuel Macron, who told the french people, we are at war. The fr
Later. The university and the city were founded at the same time, so when this area was selected for the university, there was no town or village here. There were a few neighboring farms. There was an anglican chapel on the siten what is now of the carolina inn. They had an auction of town lots. So, they understood that there needed to be a town to support it for businesses, places for people to live. They were, in essence, born on the same day. The university was chartered in 1789. The ground broke for the first 1793, and about a year and half later, 1795, the university opened. They had events on campus here. No student showed up. It took another few weeks before the First Student arrived. He came 100 miles off the coast of North Carolina. He was the entire student body for about two weeks before more students drifted onto campus. For the first century, it was a school for white men only. It was only in the 1890s that women were admitted to the university, and the university did not
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And the Health Ministry now he said he puts the number of dead from the virus at 50 now he acknowledges not within maybe from the krona virus but he says that the governments performance on the issue has been 0 he says that nurses dont have the correct uniforms on are scared of treating patients he says that the government isnt really concerned and the virus has been present in iran for 3 weeks but their names meant was delayed by the government he also said that he knows of 2 children that have been infected by the virus and has called upon the Health Ministry to impose a curfew on the city of call now the Deputy Health minister has has denied that figure of 50 and said that even if it was half that number he would submit his resignation now about the responded to that and he said he sent the names of those that have died from the virus to the Health Ministry and he expects a resignation now the Health Minister has come out in response to all of this and he said that the government is