Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
York times in the newspaper, despite timely alerts, trump was slow to act. Usa today has a very similar story in this mornings paper, online, obviously, and the online headline is golf and maralago conga line squandered week highlights trump slack of covid19 focus. There is no escaping the fact that the spread of a Novel Coronavirus would soon up and american life, there were confirmed cases in two dozen states including washington where a state of emergency had been declared after a least 10 people died in the previous week in connection with a single nursing home. New york city was experience an alarming trend upward in cases, the crew should carrying infected passengers idled off the california coast waiting for a port to 11 to disembark, hospitals, Nursing Homes and Health Officials around the country worried over a lack of testing capabilities and a shortage of medical equipment. The annual Music Festival southbysouthwest was cancel that day. Joining an array of scotland movie rel
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Well china for instance reporting an increase of cases and u. S. Officials warning this week will be the toughest yet as hospitals struggle to maintain and eck up and down their capacity. Coming up on todays show, blackstone is donating millions of dollars to support Health Care Workers and First Responders in new york well speak to the ceo about that and his thoughts on this volatile market. Plus, well be joined by the ed of the transports union. 59 minutes left of trade. Lets focus on the big stories we are watching nowful meg with the latest on treatments for the virus. Peter from canter fitzgerald is here with us to talk b about the volatility in the oil market in particular, but first, mike, want to get your take on todays rally and where this puts us a pretty crisp rally, cant argue with that. Where it takes us is one of the most interesting things. A oneyear chart, 26. 30ish on the s p 500. Its exactly where we closed on march 30th so you remember that was that big three day ral
Honor recipient. And he has come here today to talk with us about that battle 75 years ago today. Woody is a farm boy from quiet dale, West Virginia. Kind of a big juks a position of what he went into coming from a place called quiet dale. He was born in 1923 and in 1945 he received the medal of honor. So he was just a young man. So im sure woody will share his story with you. I dont need to tell you what hes going to tell you. So without further ado, woody williams. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that nice welcome. Wow. Thank all of you for coming today. I dont know that ive ever spoken to a larger group than we have here today. So thank you. Today is a day important in my life. I dont know that its any more important than the 70th or the 73rd when we had an opportunity to go back to iwo jima for a visit. It naturally brought back a lot of memories. Some good, some bad. But i am very humbled to stand before you today. Im grateful for the opportunity of sha