Broadway musicals and can we see you on washington d. C. Stages . As to whether i will appear on stage, i know my wife is hoping very much not, that we will not be appearing on this stage. She was a performer in her earlier life, and she put up with me as we did annie and a piece from guys and dolls. There were some others. We did a great jazz song fever. [laughter] would you like to come up, lau ren . No. My love for musical theater came from lauren. She introduced me to the classics. It has been a great part of our time together and it was a gift that was given to me by my wife. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you, chairman adams. I have to say, thank you all for coming today. We are adjourned. Next, indiana governor gives his state of the state speech. Then, president obama and Steve Russell with the weekly addresses. After that, president ial nominee mitt romney speaks at the Republican National committee winter meeting. On newsmakers this weekend republican senator of north
Do it. When we go into these situations, were not thinking very much about what life is like when we come out of them. And now that were coming out of them, we are confronted with these very complicated questions about veterans, about their lives, how they get reengaged in civilian life. And those kind of questions need to be on our minds at the beginning as well as at the end. We are almost out of time. But before asking the last question, we have a couple of housekeeping matters to take care of. First of all, i would like to remind you about our upcoming luncheon. On january 27, chairman of the federal Energy Regulatory commission will speak about the challenges her agency faces to maintain the reliability of the nations electricity grid and reasonable prices for consumers. Next, i would like to present our guest with the Traditional National press club mug. And the last question, on a lighter note, you and your wife were known to have taken to the stage while you served as president
Lets take a look at the numbers. The new total of positive reported tests since yesterday, 11,458. The previous high was set earlier this week on thursday. Thats about 1300 more cases than the previous high. Testing was also up. About 65,000 tests yesterday. But researchers look at that Positivity Rate and, again, yesterday they saw about 14 of all tests coming back as positive. Thats a number that troubles scientists when they want to see that number at 5 or lower generally. They reported 18 more deaths yesterday. Far down from the day before so thats a good trend, day over day, however, over the past couple weeks deaths and hospitalizations have also been trending up. So some concerning news in the state of florida, florida now at 190,000 total cases or a little more than that making it the third highest state in the nation for number of positive tests behind california and new york. There have been many democratic lawmakers here in florida calling for the government, governor to put