Gov. Abbott first i want to thank everyone from for being here and think everything the people around me have been working on so very much. The chief, who has been one of the leaders in responding to covid19. We have general noris who has done a tremendous job responding to covid19 and to instill a sense of safety and security in our communities to allow peaceful protest to occur, and in particular, the director who has been involved across the entire state in the past week, making sure that our communities are as safe as possible. Also, all of the people behind the cameras who have been manning this Emergency Operations center. For everything you have been working on in the course of responding to covid19. In typical texas fashion, we are dealing with multiple challenges , at one particular time. What we are here to talk about today is the status of this Tropical Storm. You can see the map of it behind me. I will be making references to that map as we talk about the pathway of cristob
That i know so many of you demand and deserve. Reporter we are making progress, but we are neither there yet. That is the message from governor gavin newsom. Good evening, everyone. The governor says the curve has been flattened and hospitalizations and icu numbers have leveled off. Widespread testing have to be available before the state can reopen. Governor newsom has set a goal of 60,000 tests each day, up from the 16,000 that are available right now. He also said President Trump told him the 100,000 testing swabs are on the way, with 250,000 coming to california the following week. The governor said ramped up testing will supporting strong Contact Tracing program to identify people who have been exposed to the virus. The governor did announce one modification to the current shelter in place, hes allowing hospitals to resume surgeries and other procedures that were delayed. Resuming surgeries is a big relief to patients and doctors alike. Hospitals need the procedures for revenue an
Possible easing its social distancing restrictions to reduce the economic strain of the corona virus outbreak. A 2 week quarantine for prisoners across the u. S. As federal jails try to limit the spread of the corona virus amongst in mix. And sport further talks are taking place to discuss English Premier League footballers taking a pay cut a deal is being negotiated that will see players salaries reduced by 30 percent. Spain says more than 800. 00 people have died due to the crown of our assault break and just the last 24 hours but there are hopes infections could be slowing as they try to tell us the numbers have declined for a 2nd day more than 11700 people have now died in spain since the outbreak began the number of new infections in spain continues to rise and nearly 125000 confirmed cases. Meanwhile the u. S. Centers for Disease Control is urging people to wear face masks to reduce the chances of infection or reversal of previous official advice u. S. Government is also promisin
Werent any blacks. There were portions of Southeast Texas where you had large black concentrations. Other places, they were scattered. There might be one. They were very wellrespected. A number gained really fine reputations. Anyone else . [laughter] i was wondering do they face the same kind of discrimination . Mike i cant answer that question. I would say a number of things have changed. I think that probably the attitudes towards black people in general and the population has been modified a great deal. Heres whats interesting. I was talking to some friends a long time ago. These were a couple of young people, white schoolteachers from chicago who were out west. They were in a place with a lot of white cowboys. They started teasing us about living in communities with a lot of black people and stuff like that. This black cowboy walks in. Everybody shakes his hand. When he leaves, hold on, hes a cowboy. I tell you one thing about him. Wearing a cowboy hat has got me into no trouble. I
Stores. W. Every 2 months mile entertainer travels around 6000 kilometers from her native switzerland to the democratic republic of congo in this politically unstable country she can only move around under the protection of the armed rangers. Marlena is an internationally sought after specialist in man trailing which means she trains dogs specifically to track people down. Her services are required in particular in the north east of congo in the National Park where a ruthless brutal poaching is in danger and the animal population. The park director wants to combat the poaching and asked marlena who is a vet for her health 80 years ago since then shes been in charge of developing a special sniffer dog unit for this purpose. For the cold i didnt know anything about congo only as much as the next person i just knew that it was somewhere in the middle of africa and there is a conflict there when i got there 1st email and phone call i thought im not sending any dogs down there especially no