Today he announced he is banding together with governors of. We begin a process of establishing what it would look like and how we can begin the process of the kind of incremental release of the stay athome orders, that advanced fundamental, keeping people safe, using science to guide our decisionmaking, not political pressure. The state will spend 42 million on support programs for children. Especially children in foster care to help with certain challenges during this pandemic. The white house says it is seeing progress in the coronavirus pandemic, with new infections flatten out across the country. Resident trump also spent time this afternoon pushing back against criticism, by the new york times, and others, that the u. S. Was slow to urge social distancing to fight the virus. This weekend, dr. Anthony fauci set on cnn that if the u. S. Had taken action earlier, it could have saved lives. Today, he said that was in response to a hypothetical question. Mitigation works, and you inst
A sense of desperation today he said that hes just very tired of not having enough supplies coming into his state he said its very frustrating because hes competing with just a few hours after the governor makes that declaration lo and behold a Russian Relief supplied plane filled with medical equipment has arrived at john f. Kennedy airport in new york so there it is were following this story for you as we get more details of this agreement by the way between both governments this is a result of our conversation between President Trump and president putin where putin offered to send relief supplies because he saw what was happening on in the United States what was going on in the United States and mr trump said yes please go ahead and send the relief supplies its obviously important developments also somewhat startling and historic because these are 2 countries that have over the course of the last year been bickering to say the. Released over several things including sanctions and th
In other news. Thats the 50th anniversary of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. It is very much an unknown want to record but the United States now has more corona. Cases than any other country the tally supposing italy for the 1st time on saturday 20000 americans have died from it but the epicenter still in new york but really all 50 states are affected in fact theyre now in a state of emergency for the 1st time which will allow them to use federal funds during the pandemic elsewhere were looking at india where its 1300000000 citizens will continue to stay home till the end of april Prime Minister is expected to announce an extension to the lock down there and in europe the hardest hit countries are now easing some of their restrictions from mondays spain will allow nonessential employees to return to work it is reported a falling death rate there and even if these decided to let some stores open now but were going to start with the United Stat
Curve plus. Returning home hundreds of venezuelans who 5 Economic Hardship in their country are forced to go back because of the pandemic. The u. S. Now has the highest number of corona virus deaths in the world 20000 people its tally past italy on saturday across the country at least half a 1000000 people are infected more than half of the deaths are in 3 States New York new jersey and michigan the epicenter remains new york the surge of deaths there has overwhelmed Funeral Homes and the city is using a mass burial site but the state governor says for the 1st time theres been a drop in intensive care admissions new york city has shut down Public Schools for the rest of the academic year. You can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing at and horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain earlier i spoke to john hendren in chicago and i asked him what the latest death toll means for the United States. Every
From state and federal partners. Oakland police are investigating an illegal sideshow after hundreds of people gathered despite the shelter in place order. This happened yesterday afternoon not far from a Senior Center near bancroft and 55th avenue. Three people were arrested and 14 others cited and 12 vehicles were told. The situation is constantly evolving with this pandemic on Twitter Facebook and instagram. Our viewers have sent in questions. Joining us with those answers is Infectious Disease expert doctor rheingold from cal. On twitter one of our followers asked our our efforts to shelter in place actually working or is it still too soon to tell . I think it is probably a little too soon to tell. In the bay area in San Francisco in particular i would say the preliminary evidence is efforts are beginning to bear fruit. I will be more comfortable saying that in another week or two. Is there an Antibody Test that somebody could take right now . The quick answer is many people are bu