Me represents a covid patient who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. We have about 40 hearts. We hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. I want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us. And without your help we wouldnt have been able to do this. So thank you very much, and im going to introduce governor edwards now, who will have a few words of encouragement. Thank you for all of us, and perhaps a little bit of a briefing in terms of what he is expecting in the coming days. Thank you. Gov. Edwards thank you, and thank all of you for coming out this morning. Its a pleasure to be with you, although we all wish we were not here in these circumstances. And i want to thank all the people at baton rouge general, at this facility and at the other campus and for the work that youve all been doing for
Watch ondemand anytime, unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Announcer next, louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards updates his states response to the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Edwards welcome to midcity. Welcome. And i want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can share a little bit of what we are doing here today, along with the collaboration with the state government, the local government , and with the military. Each one of these hearts behind patientsents a covid who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. We have about 40 hearts. We hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. I want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us. Without your help we would not have been able to do this. So thank you very much, and im going to introduce governor edwards now, who will have a few words of enco
And the report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and Intelligence Committee wednesday july 17th, 9 00 a. M. Eastern. He will testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan 3, online at cspan. Org on listen with the cspan free radio app. Two household and security subcommittees held a joint hearing how fema contracts are awarded and managed. They want to know about a 30 Million Contract after Hurricane Maria was awarded to a new company and tarps were never delivered. They heard from fema, Government Accountability office and Homeland Security Department Inspector general office. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on fema contracting, reviewing Le
To have two men killed. And a miraculous rescue at sea for this fisherman. He survived for two days before being spotted. A warm welcome to the program. The head of the u. N. Mission nighting ebola in west africa has told the bbc he doesnt yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease. He says more help is urgently needed. He praised contributions from britain, which opened a new ebola center in sierra leone on wednesday. He also said that the United States, china, and cuba had all sent significant numbers of soldiers or medics, but he says its still not enough. Talking to our International Development correspondent mark doyle, whos been giving me this update. The essence of what the u. N. Boss here the essence of what he says is that he doesnt yet have enough resources from the International Community to defeat the disease. He says its working as hard as it can. Has some resources but he doesnt have enough medical workers, enough infrastructure, resources and so on to
The first ever sitting head of state to face court. Well be live in the hague. Were keeping an eye on this. The blood moon. Its visible from parts of the americas and east asia. Looking gorgeous. Also on the program, aaron is here looking at the balance of safety and surveillance on the internet. Absolutely lucy. Thats what ministers and leader there is the big tech giants like twitter, google and facebook will try to hammer out. How to prevent terror exploiting the internet. Its the fine line between keeping people and safe and infringing on free speech. Its 1 00 p. M. In madrid, midday here in london, 11 00 a. M. In free town, capital of sierra leone where bodies have been left on the streets because of a strike. They say they havent been paid. We have the latest from the workers. Just to tell you, ebola remains active in the corpses of victims. Only specialized teams in protective e ivive clothing are dispose of bodies. U. N. Is investigating reports some are starving to death becau