We start off with the stimulus slide, stocks sliding off Speaker Pelosi held a phone call with steven mnuchin. Lets get the latest from ylan mui. Whats going on here they have agreed to talk again reporter thats right, melissa. We know the phone call at 3 00 p. M. Lasted for just under an hour pelosis office sounded fairly positive on twitter, her spokesman said they continue to narrow the difference differences. Now, pelosi and the treasury secretary will speak again tomorrow, and by the end of the day, that 48hour deadline that pelosi imposed, they should have clarity on whether a deal is really possible before the election however, over in the senate, republicans are moving on. Theres not a lot of appetite in the chamber for the nearly 1. 9 trillion offers that the white house has been made to democrats. So one measure will be to extend the payroll protection program, and another one on targeted relief neither is expected to go anywhere, either, because democrats remain opposed on t
Lewis did joy spoke with the Economic Club of washington dc about postal club operations. In the handling of mailin ballots. He also talked about the impact of the coronavirus on the workforce. Let me first now go to our special guest the postmaster general lewis did joy. Thank you very much for giving us your time today. Thank you david for having me and i want to thank the Economic Club of washington for paying attention to me. Thank you for attending. You are the 75th postmaster general the first one is behind you i can see. He was the inventor of the Postal Service. You are a native of new york and you went to college in florida in stetson and then you went back to your familys business and you belted up in greensboro North Carolina and built into the Largest Logistics Companies in the United States. You had been very involved in philanthropic alma mater. Thank you for giving us your time today. O let me just ask at the outset when you agreed to be postmaster general did you realiz
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Got in dean. Q in make. A fully understand where you. Would like to ask for such a timeout period they have been in the front lines for months and exhausted jamelle in durban is in manila she says the government will decide in mid august whether to lift or extend the lockdown. Today marks the 150 of these since the philippines recorded its 1st coronavirus case and after that the country the Southern Region of luzon more than 50000000 people were placed on the rate a lockdown or enhance Community Quarantine for almost 3 months thats already one of the longest most strictest quarantines implemented by any government in the world over the last few months the government in fact lose in its restrictions at the time the total cases recorded were 18000 less than 2 months later its now reached over 100000 what the doctors are asking is for them to for them to be given breathing space so that there is enough time to decongest hospitals now on their full capacity this call came over the weekend
As well as the early human data we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. Well she is being questioned by congress of the u. S. Response to the pandemic mike hanna in washington has more on his testimony. There were confirmation on some very important factors one is that there is a lag and testing this was confirmed by the assistant secretary of Health Services that test results are taking between 3 to 5 days on average to come back and sometimes as many as 15 Health Experts have been adamant that in order to come to grips with this pandemic of the United States more than 2000000. 00 tests per day need to be conducted at the moment that figure is way below 1000000 so certainly theres a shortfall in the testing and in the results of the testing despite the repeated comments from the white house to this particular another point of major difference what was the president trying treated in well try and during the hearing objec