Delivered effectively and with integrity. What does your background have to do . That igs havesays to have expertise in a number of perfections. Auditing and public management. Above all, being people of integrity. How long have you been in Inspector General . Of 2002. December how would you describe the job it agriculture . My job is to oversee the operations of all of the usda programs to make sure that they are being delivered as effectively as possible. Dayt that means, on a dayto basis, is that we, in the ig office, need to conduct audits to make sure the programs are running affectively. That improper payments are not going out the door. And, we conduct investigations when there are allegations of wrongdoing in a program, either by a Department Employee or someone receiving benefits. It is our jurisdiction to one investigations on those activities. How long have you been there . Since 2002. Who appointed you . President george bush. What kind of autonomy do you have . Statute, ar
Effectively and with integrity. What does your background have to be . Well, the statute that created inspectors general stetz that iegs need to have generated expertise in a number of professions, any one of them, auditing, investigations, Law Enforcement, public management, and above all, be people of the integrity. How long have you been the Inspector General for the Agriculture Department. Since december of 2002. How would you drip this specific job at agriculture . At agriculture, my job is to oversee the operations of all of usd as programs to make sure that they are being delivered as effectively as possible. And so what that means on a daytoday basis is that we in the iags office conduct audits to make sure that programs are running effectively, that improper payments are not going out the door. And we also conduct investigations. When ever there are allegations of wrongdoing in a program, either by a Department Employee or by a person whos receiving benefits, its our jurts dic
Activities. How long have you been there . Since 2002. Who appointed you . The president. The president i believe it was president george bush appointed me to the agriculture position. What kind of autonomy do you e . Igsas you know by statute are considered to be officials who must operate independently. What that means is that although we are located within our own agencies and departments, we are under the general supervision of agriculture. We have professional independence to exercise our judgment as to what issues no ed to be looked at, how were going go about looking at them, and ultimately what we report to congress, the president , and the secretary. How many people work for you . Currently we have 530 employees at usaig. Where are they locate . Our staff is located around the country. We have a large presence for washington, d. C. We have a large presence in the major federal cities around the country, chicago, atlanta, california, San Francisco bay area, texas, and kansas ci
Be more contagious that we thought. Which could explain why so many sought out safe havens like gold surging 27 bucks the ounce to a more than seven year high and bonds soaring in price and stumbling in yields that sunk to the lowest level we have seen in years. They are all what they call fear plays as the wall streets most telling fear gauge rocketed more than 40 . But, fear not, word from the white house that help is on the way. And for a president still half a globe away in india very much in tune with every development, were told. More on what the president is planning to address. But, first, with susan li in new york city and how folks are dealing with it and Jonathan Serrie in atlanta on the global fears that are mounting as we speak because of it. We begin with susan. Hi, susan. Neil, depending on how markets settle, we are looking at third biggest drop in the dow. Past 1,000. Also off the s p 500 possibly in the top three in terms of point losses and as you mentioned the fear
Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. Its monday, may 4th, 6 00 here in new york. Erica hill joins me this morning. Erica, youve been doing an amazing job every day reporting from the front lines of this pandemic here in new york. We really appreciate the work youve been doing. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate that. We have a heck of a team at this network, that we do. Breaking overnight, the president with a huge revision in the number of deaths he says he is expecting from coronavirus. He now says 100,000 deaths is a realistic number. Thats a far cry from what he said two weeks ago. We would have had millions of deaths. It looks like well be at a 60,000 mark, which is 40,000 less than the lowest number thought of. April 19th, he was predicting 60,000 deaths. Were already at 67,000 deaths. And the daily death count is stubbornly high. The new deaths being reported every day between 1300 and 2,000 every day. Its worth noting, this is witho