Karen bass, and several other members of the black caucus who you will be hearing from momentarily. Thank you for joining us on this emergency town hall meeting, living while black in america, 401 years later after our ancestors were first brought to the shores of america in shackles, we now that while we have come a long way in this country, we still have a long way to go. We are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continued to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. The covid19 pandemic, a twin crisis, both a Public Health crisis and an economic crisis, has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted in an adverse fashion the africanamerican community. In terms of pain, in terms of suffering, in terms of economic dislocation and in terms of death. And then, of course, youre dealing with the continued epidemic at the same time of Police Violence, Police
On cspans cumin day. Joining us from little rock is arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. Thank you for being with us. Guest it is great to be with you any great to be on cspan again. Host new job numbers out today showing an estimated 3 million americans filing for unemployment this week alone. What has been the Economic Impact on this pandemic on your state of arkansas . Guest we have taken a serious hit. Whenever you look at the businesses closed for a couple months, you look at the unemployment figures that go up. Whenever you look at those who do not qualify for unemployment, the barbers and salon operators that are struggling, that has been a hit. Businesses,ditional we were not a shelter in place state. We did not issue that order. Many of our Retail Businesses stayed open. The consumers were careful. Many of them stayed home. They did not shop. The spending took a hit during that time. They are starting to come back. People are starting to have some confidence in going out and spen
Journal. If you missed any of our live coverage, watch any time on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Washington journal primetime. For the next hour, a special evening addition of cspans washington journal. Your questions and comments about the coronavirus epidemic start now. Host the u. S. Death toll as a result of coronavirus continues to increase at a rate of 2000 per day. Tonight, it is approaching 86,000 with nearly a million and a half cases in all 50 states and the district of columbia. For this thursday, may 14, a primetime addition of washington journal. We turn our attention to arkansas appeared Governor Asa Hutchinson will be joining us live from little rock. Later, the chinese response to this pandemic. Well talk to the beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post and the senator from West Virginia. Join in on the conversation. In the eastern time zone. For those of you out west, 202 7488001 shared if you are in arkansas a resident, 202 7488002. Numbers with the courtesy of
A century. The Palestinian Group Islamic Jihad says a cease fire has been agreed with israel in gaza after 2 days of cross border fighting these are live pictures from gaza where calm appears to have been restored egypt has been mediating between the 2 sides there began after a Senior Leader of Islamic Jihad was killed in an israeli airstrike where rob matheson joins us on the phone now from west jerusalem rob so what more details have emerged about this cease fire. Well weve had no official confirmation daryn yet for here in israel that this is for a cease fire in place but it is being widely reported in the media it is expected to have gone in to have begun about all 530 local time this morning we have teams both in gaza 3 d the on board the Israeli Border with the team in gaza has been telling us that since that time theyve have had rockets d and explosions inside gaza the team on the Israeli Border with gaza has been saying that sirens have been sounding in areas which are close to
Across scotland. Parts of Northern England will see that as well. Patchy rain in wales and england. Even though cloud is going to increase after early sunshine, it will stay dry in the south east. Temperatures are higher than during sunday. As we look beyond monday, to the atlantic influence into our weather, so there will be further weather, so there will be further weather fronts. This is weather, so there will be further weatherfronts. This is how tuesday is looking. The cloud is moving on. Outbreaks of rain. The further east you are in england, the likely are you are in england, the likely are you are in england, the likely are you are to stay dry. The temperatures are higher, 2a celsius. Mid week temperatures are coming down again. Why . We have a cold front moving southwards as we go into wednesday. The isobars are starting to turn around into a more northerly direction. A chillier scotla nd northerly direction. A chillier scotland by the end of wednesday. Rain clearing away from