Agreement on an appropriate package. The House Appropriations chairwoman told us today that they will be working through the up. End to wrap this she says they were pretty confident that lawmakers will be able to finish a bill by the end of the weekend and the house is preparing to pass this next week. It also appears as though the senate will take it up the following week. It is very fastmoving. It appears we are homing in on the number around somewhere in the range between 6 billion and 8 million, but again, it seems as if theres a good faith, bipartisan effort to get this done quickly and is couple of days. Host the white house of course sent its request earlier this week. How much was it for and where was that money going to be coming from . The white house on the us for 2. 5 billion. What is interesting about that request is only half of that would have required new funding from congress. The other half relied on a funding transfer. Taketially, they wanted to hundreds of millions
At Johns Hopkins here to talk about the coronavirus and the response. Lets begin with this virus. Itt exactly is it and how is that it became something that went from an animal to a human . Guest it is a respiratory virus. There are coronavirus is that circulate and are a frequent cause of the common cold, but this is a new one and people do not have immunity, and seems to be reducing more serial beer severe symptoms. It originated in animals and jumped over to humans and became capable of being transmitted to humans. When that occurred, we dont fully know. The initial outbreak was detected in december and it is likely it started a month before then or earlier. Host how does this jump from animal to human . Guest the mechanism is not known but likely a human came in contact with an animal that was infected and the virus mutated so it could live in humans, and became adapted to living in humans and could spread between humans, got the right receptors to bind to the lungs. Host is it ing
China to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us at least 2 people have died in a fire at an overcrowded greek migrant camp the dead are reported to be a woman and the child that plays struck the morea camp on the island of lesbos who was later put out but residents of the camp angry at what they say was a slow response clashed with police now conditions at the camp are at a breaking point after a sharp spike in migrant arrivals from turkey. Misery upon misery on the greek island of last boss migrants scramble to escape a crowd of tear gas fired by police as a tragic chain of events unfolded at the marianna town. The fire broke out inside the camp quickly spreading through containers used to highways residents there are conflicting reports about what happened next and then go working in the camp says a group of migrants rushed to extinguish the blaze and Police Used Tear Gas to chase them away. Police say they fired tear gas to dispers
We were on the scene just minutes after this fire broke out. Reporter good afternoon to you. Firefighters have been in operations for most of the afternoon. There making sure that there is plenty of water doused onto the fire scene so that it does not reignite. They have two sources, and the ground and in the background with Running Water directly down into the fire scene. No loss of life here. Good news. One confirmed minor injury. Worker tried to escape, jumping from the scaffolding, and he sprained his ankle. The property a complete loss. Late friday morning in santa clara, a massive fire of town homes under construction and for sale on el camino real. It seemed like the workers were just running, nervous and scared. And then when i looked outside, it was like a little, little fire. And then the whole building just went up in flames. Reporter in the blink of and i, a little fire grew into a big fire. Sky fox circled overhead as flames billed old into the air with a four alarm fire.
they waited for more than an hour to get a quick peak of the motorcade. i knew we were expecting something, but not the i can t there s helicopters. it was quite the entourage, i must say. reporter: the vice president will be delivering clear messaging, especially following the recent court decision. their plan to protect roe v wade has been to not let it die. that seems to be there same plan . just elect more democrats. the voters are clearly making a sign that they want more concrete messaging. reporter: the court s decision shows just how important the upcoming midterm elections are for the party. they will be meeting with voters in the community. yes, the democrats need to step up. we saw the motorcade just drive by this way about 20 minutes ago. it is now headed to san francisco for the second stop. another high dollar fundraiser that is set to begin at 6:15. a history making day in washington with the first black woman to sit on the supreme court is swor