County reason. Professor of epidemiology says we clearly have Community Transmission and he says testing remains a key way to monitor and manage the growth rate of infection. You dont achieve Public Health goals by not testing the people who are infected, you find the people who are infected, diagnosing them and putting them into isolation and tracing their contacts. Southern california has seen the largest increase. He believes that early bay area stayathome orders may have saved thousands of lives. Today, the governor declared a budget emergency to support the state response to the covid19 outbreak. This allows legislators to dip into the rainy day fund. Reporter monitored the News Conference and has more. It is something to worry about. The governor has always said that we reopen the economy, we will see a rise in cases and that is because the virus is, was and continues to be out there. The rate of positive test for coronavirus has been 5. 1 for the previous two weeks and now has c
American history tv, the National History center hosts a conversation on u. S. Gun rights and regulations. Watch American History tv tonight and over the weekend on cspan3. U. S. Schools are looking at how to safely reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. Educators spoke to members of the Senate Health committee about plans to decrease class size, continue Home Learning and schoolwide coronavirus tests to make sure students and staff are safe when they return to the classroom. Widespread testing not only helps contain the virus, it builds confidence that the schools are safe. U. S. Assistant secretary for health told our committee that there will be 40 to 50 million diagnostic tests available per month by september. Thats four to five times the number of todays tests and todays number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And dr. Francis collins who led the human genome project and leads the National Institutes of health, leads a shark tank enterprise at the nih t
Schoolwide coronavirus tests to make sure students and staff are safe when they return to the classroom. Widespread testing not only helps contain the virus, it builds confidence that the schools are safe. U. S. Assistant secretary for health told our committee that there will be 40 to 50 million diagnostic tests available per month by september. Thats four to five times the number of todays tests and todays number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And dr. Francis collins who led the human genome project and leads the National Institutes of health, leads a shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and accurate and inexpensive diagnostic tests. School covid plans should let the plans last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls warp speed, faster than weve ever done that before, but no one expects a vaccine this august. And the second half of the school year, schools should be bet
makes a difference in this world. i want to sleep. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . you ve seen the video of the brave police officers rushing into a school to save children. tonight we ll talk to an er doctor who was standing by ready to treat the victims, but none of the ambulances he expected ever arrived. some of our politicians today, saying there s nothing we can do about gun violence. doctors disagree. plus the overdose drug narcan will soon be on the shelves of grocery stores, gas stations, even vending machines. do they have it at your child s school? should parents keep it at home? we ll explain what you need to know. and tonight we bring you our next pulse of the people, this one on how technology like artificial intelligence is changing all of our lives. i sit down with a group of gen xers millennials and gen. z is to find out what level of glee or panic this causes now. technology is moving too fast for me personally, i can sa
the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden has started trying to convince voters that a much-needed victory for his agenda is a win for them as well. the senate approving the democrats flagship economic package. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. final passage is expected in the house of representatives later this week. it will be a very big moment for the president. reporter: it absolutely will, wolf, because it s been a very tough few months for this white house. so this is a welcome change of pace for many of the officials, including president biden as they are now cruising into what appears to be the passage of this major piece of legislation. you re right, going to the house later this week and then the white house hopes on to president biden s desk for his signature. while the bill is very different from what democrats were negotiating over just last summer, wolf, it is still something that is we