Estate. We will take you there with live coverage as he explains the plan this afternoon, at the White House Briefing at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Announcer washington journal primetime, a special evening addition of washington journal on the response to the pandemic. An guests include peter lee, expert on Animal Rights laws. He will talk about Chinese Markets into the suspected role in this part of the coronavirus. And robin kelly on the impact of the virus on her district. Join the conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Announcer we take you live now to new jersey, where Governor Phil Murphy is briefing reporters. Host with the heritage foundation. Here with us next to talk about tosident trumps decision withhold funding from the world Health Organization, fred schaefer. Thanks for being here. Can you hear me ok . Guest i can. Surprised by president trumps announcement . I was surprised about the timing. Consideration of cutting funding to the world Health Organization. Decis
I think the u. S. Government could have really taken that and added to that momentum and gotten some significant changes to the world health organization, could have gotten support for a thorough investigation, independent, external investigation into the actions of the world health organization. And the potential influence of china over its decision making. Unfortunately with the announcement that the u. S. Is going to cut funding, now everybody is focused on that. [no audio] good afternoon. Sorry to be a few minutes late. A lot of ground to cover today. We have a video call with the white house and this is a lot of. Round to cover the realities sunday, is meaningful to me, by telephone. Thank you both for being here so we will get right to the numbers. Have positive test results. 5. 317 New Jerseyans ,317 new tested 75 jerseyans who have tested positive. As a 10 00 p. M. Last night, 1800 of 80 were listed as critical or in intensive care. 46 patients are at one of these locations. Ha
Announcer new York Governor Andrew Cuomo extended the new york state coronavirus shut down to may 15. During todays briefing he said hospitalizations are leveling off, but deaths still topped 600 overnight. Morning. O good in case anyone who does not know anyone here today, on my farright to my left, melissa derosa, secretary to the governor. Today. Ive you some facts friday, just the facts, maam. My daughters say nobody understands who joe friday is. That is their mistake. Dragnet was an underappreciated cinematic treasure, in my opinion. Just the facts. Just the facts. Here are just the facts. Hospitalization rate is down. To 17,000. That is good news. Total hospitalizations down. Talk about flattening of the curve, the apex, how long is it flat, when does it start to curve. We do not know, but this is a good sign today. Change ink at the net hospitalizations, it is down more significantly than it has been, so that is positive news. Three day average, which again, is more accurate th
Jeff, i was waiting on you. Are you good . [laughter] , and thank you for tuning in. Obviously anus officer Public Health to take specific questions related to the virus and the disease and testing. We will also be joined in progress by a congresswoman who will be here. I do want to thank steve for the work he is doing and for the entire delegation. The work that they are doing on behalf of the country and the state of louisiana specifically the cares act and other things they have been working on, and i do know that the congresswoman has been appointed to the Advisory Council that the president will work with as he makes decisions about the guidance he is going to issue relative to reopening the economy, and certainly i think that is helpful for our state to have someone on that council. We also have the secretary of economic development, don pearson, who is here. He will be able to answer any questions about an announcement i will be making as part of this press conference around the
Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department of health, kim malsamrysdon, and the commissioner of the Governors Office of Economic Development, steve westra. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text is 9567372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one. Governor, i will start with you. You shared some encouraging news with south dakota during your first conference. You spoke to the number of projected hospital beds that we thought would be needed when south