South africa as a reserve forces are deployed to enforce its lockdown this cape town reports are winds of looting. And the lockdown forces writers and bookstores to find a new way to celebrate stories on world books say. Hello new figures released in the u. S. Paint a picture of an economy devastated by the coronavirus in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out so here are the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits this is the 3rd week the number of new claims has declined so a sign the worst of the shock may be over but it does mean a record 26400000. 00 americans have lost their jobs since the end of march when lockdowns shut down production and led to mass staff furloughs thats more than 15 percent of the u. S. Workforce meanwhile members of the u. S. House of representatives representatives have returned to washington where theyre expected to pass a 484000000000. 00 relief bill to Fund Small Busi
Of people across our urban communities not only for being with us today for the way they have partnered with our ministration and partnered with state and local officials to put the health of all of their constituencies 1st as the president mentioned will you receive a report that our task force received to formally this week from bill bryan of the science and Technology Directorate at the department of Homeland Security he will outline as the president said encouraging news about the impact that heat and sunlight have on the corona virus which will increase the confidence that we feel about the coming summer on the subject of testing at the present moment we have reports d of 4930000 tests having been performed across america and encouraging news as d states have been engaging commercial labs at a higher level across the country yesterday our commercial lab system did more than 100000. Yes in a single day so were beginning to activate all d of the capacity and tomorrow at the presiden
Okay thank you all for joining us this evening tonight on the very eve of the children 50th anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena with a great new book the boston massacre, Family History. As a regular guest notes we pull together small exhibition from our collection that highlights the material we have within our holdings that eliminates the discussion today we have an entire exhibition. We did not need a small exhibition this time. That only to have a small exhibition bar exhibition actually features our speaker this evening. If you do not see it shes on the video monitors upstairs and was also very generous with her time helping us pull in the exhibition and sitting for interview. We certainly could not of done our current exhibition without her help, we owe her a debt of gratitude. Serena is a professor of Early American History and directory of a program of american studies at carleton college. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees her
See light at the end of the tunnel. That u. S. President i want from striking an optimistic tone on the virus but a leading medical official is warning americans the hardest moment of their lives is yet to come and in australia a criminal investigation into whether a cruise ship operator downplayed potential coronavirus cases causing deaths after people disembarked. So the news out of london is that britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken to hospital as he battles a corona virus infection a spokesman said he had been admitted as a precaution because he still has symptoms 10 days after testing positive earlier though Britains Queen elizabeth made a rare address to her nation the 93 year old monarch urged people to remain united and resolute to overcome the virus are in the us the top surgeon there has told people to prepare for. The hardest and saddest week of their lives already more than 9000 people have died and over 1200 of those were on saturday alone which was the hig
Unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. Thank you for joining us this evening. Im gavin, the director of programs exhibitions and Community Partnerships for the massachusetts historical society. Tonight on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor on her great new book, the boston massacre, Family History. As our regular guests know we very frequently pulled together a small exhibition from our collection that highlights some material that we have within our holdings. That helps with evening discussions. Today we have an entire exhibition. We did not need a small exhibition this time. Not only that but our exhibition actually features our speaker this evening. So if you didnt see it shes on a video monitor upstairs and was also very generous with her time helping us plan the exhibition and sitting for an interview. We certainly cannot have done our current exhibition without her help. We owe her a debt of gratitude. Is a professor of Early A