Member of the White House Coronavirus task force will be there live starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern to answer questions on the coronavirus pandemic. All month on cspan we are featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. School students created videos answering the question, what issue do you most want the 2020 president ial candidate to address . Our second prize High School East award goes to ava and mia lazar, 10th and 12th graders from Blacksburg High School in blacksburg, virginia. Their winning entry is titled finding the bridge the story of the pipeline. Let me tell you a story. Its a story about community, about power. A story about the wonders of modern technology and the consequences. This is the story of the Mountain Valley pipeline. Natural gasong pipeline being installed in the Appalachian Mountains of virginia and west virginia. Natural gas was cheaper and more accessible egos of a process. Today, natural gases the number one source of Electricity Genera
Sen. Sanders good morning, and thank you very much for joining me. I want to express to each of you, my deep gratitude for helping to create an unprecedented grassroots Political Campaign that has had a profound impact in changing our nation. I want to thank the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who knocked on doors, millions of them in the freezing winters of iowa and new hampshire, and in the heat of nevada and south carolina, and in states throughout the country. I want to thank the two million americans who have contributed financially to our campaign and showed the world that we can take on a corrupt Campaign Finance system, and run a major president ial campaign without being dependent upon the wealthy and the powerful. Thank you for your 10 million contributions, averaging 18. 50 a donation. I want to thank those who phone banked for the campaign and those who sent out millions of texts. And i want to thank the many hundreds of thousands of americans who attended our rallies,
Im julie haener. Im Frank Somerville tonight working from home. Lots of new developments to tell you about this evening. Governor newsom has put out an urgent call for doctors to help treat the expected surge of coronavirus patients. The governor says the number of people in the hospital in california has now doubled and the number of icu patients has tripled in just the past four days. Across the u. S. More than 3,000 people have now died from the outbreak. Among them the first u. S. Service member, a new Jersey National guardsman. Today the Navy Hospital ship comfort arrived at new york harbor to ease the burden on hospitals by caring for people not suffering from covid19. At the White House Health and Human Services secretary alex azar said the u. S. Has tested more than 1 million coronavirus samples, more than any other country. He also says the u. S. Is now testing nearlysamples a day. Experts say the u. S. To test between 100,000 and 150,000 patients a day to contain the virus. S
With infection rates and the number of deaths increasing, it is too early to say definitively how much social distancing is helping. For now, his office is working with other bay area tech counties to develop plans to extend the state home orders. It is far more effective from a regional approach, the order that will be released tomorrow will be another regional approach going forward. It is essential that we collaborate and share information and act together to reduce the spread. Dr. Colfax says he is hoping that social distancing that we are all practicing right now is effective in trying to reduce the patient load going forward. When we face adversity, that is still the best tool that we all have to try to we find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. Protect those among us. Its the small parts that make a big difference. At chevy, we promise to do ours. New developments tonight at San Franciscos laguna hospital were offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis
Financially to our campaign, and showed the world that we can take on a corrupt Campaign Finance system. And run a major president ial campaign without being dependent on the wealthy and powerful. Thank you for your 10 million contribution averaging 18. 50 a donation. Who phonethink those bank for our campaign and those who sent out text. I want to think the hundreds and thousands of americans who attended our rallies and house parties from new york to california. Some of these events had over 25,000 people, some had a few hundred and some had a dozen, but all were important. Let me think those who make those who made the many events possible. I want to think our surrogates, too many to name. I cannot imagine that any candidate has ever been blessed with a dedicated group of people will have taken our message to every part of this country. I want to think all of those who made the music and the art and integral part of our campaign. I want to thank all of you who spoke to your friends