Lets head straight to blake urman at the white house. The president declaring a National Emergency over the coronavirus. I love that of a loved the economic message that the president spoke about afterwards as what might come next in terms of help with the economy. First off the National Emergency declaration this flexibility for the hospitals and hhs health and Human Services which as you knows at the forefront of trying to tackle the corona virus but this would allow for increased beds in hospitals. For example the presence that would unleash tens of millions of dollars to the tune of 50 billion as well. We have also heard on the economic side that the administration would weigh several options as they wouldnt need the help of congress for and we got two of those from the president today in his rose garden press conference. First off Student Loans, what do you have a job or you dont have a job whatever your financial situation might be wherever you live across this country its probab
11, Vice President pence will arrive in Washington State to meet with the governor and local Health Officials and they will talk about new relaxed testing protocol allowing any doctor to recommend a test and increase testing capacity, 400 samples can be tested per day in Washington State, now that university of washington has gotten involved. In slow virus, Many Companies tell their. Ies to work from home, through the month of march. Among them amazon and microsoft, between them have over 100,000 worker in the state, also, state and local leaders consider how far they should go to cancel events and large gatherings. All nonessential convened Large Group Meetings will be canceled through the end of march. Reporter a large gathering is anything more than 10 people. Individual schools are closed for a day or two for cleaning, one district closed all of its schools and will begin teaching remotely monday through next two weeks, they call it a transition from the classroom to the cloud. But
Acting office of management and budget are Russell Vought on trumps 4. 8 million Budget Proposal for 2021 before the house Budget Committee. This runs three hours. I certainly welcome the acting director phoned the Russell Vought. Thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 Budget Proposal and i hope todays hearing will provide an open and amistad examination of the party set forth by the Trump Administration so they can get back to passing legislation Appropriations Bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the American People. I will now yield myself five minutes for an Opening Statement just six short months ago the president signed a bipartisan just, can everybody hear me . A just six months ago the president signed it twoyear budget deal into law. It does everything the president s proposal failed to do set rational discretionary lines allowing strong investments in our national and Economic Security and has bipartisan support including the bank member and mys
A lot of fear and anxiety and just worry about whats to come and what customs in amman his assassination is cause fear among iranian americans in the United States. Its just going to tell you im in baghdad 830 in teheran it is midnight in washington d. C. Im kemal santa maria following developments here on aljazeera out of the gulf this wednesday the top line is that iran has launched more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles at 2 iraqi air bases which host u. S. Forces this is in response to the assassination of the iranian general qassam so the money it was killed in a u. S. Drone strike on friday its the analysts that air base in Anbar Province which was hit also another air base in erbil was targeted no wood yet on any casualties but irans revolutionary guard has also warned of a harsh response if the u. S. Retaliates against these attacks and also says u. S. Allies will be attacked if their countries are used for strikes against terror. The other development is that the us a federal Av
Are International News center right here in moscow this is our team news and views going over this our welcome my names even. The u. S. Secretary of state has defended americas assassination of irans top military commander money in a drone strike in iraq on friday mike pompei oh said the Baghdad International airport saved american lives on was designed to send a strong message to tear. I think the arabian leadership understands that President Trump will take action we made very clear that these responses would be swift and decisive i hope that the iranian leadership will see that well see american resolve and the 3rd decision will be to deescalate. The Early Morning raid also reportedly killed 9 others including influential rushdie a lebanese shia militia leaders they are believed to be leaving the europe wouldnt vehicles when the strikes to. The money lead to a powerful force thats in the elite branch of the Iranian Revolutionary guard corps charged with spearheading foreign operatio