Earlier today south dakota governor kristi noem held a briefing on her states response to the coronavirus. She reported south dakota has 30 confirmed cases. This is 25 minutes. Governor noem serve ready . I want to thank everybody for coming. In i spoke with the mayors earlier today, i want to thank all of them who are stepping up and being calm, using reasonable processes and data, science, to make their decisions. Theyre really working hard on behalf of their communities throughout the state to hand they will covid19 virus as it spreads. And we are so thankful for their leadership at this time. Our projections are that our numbers of infections will continue to go up. Please stay in contact and go to covid. Sd. Gov for all the information updated by noon each day. The good news today is we have two more people who have recovered, so our total is eight of our positive covid i. D. d individuals now have fully recovered. I was on a phone call yesterday with the Vice President of the Uni
Governor abbott first, i want to thank everybody for being here today. As i provide you an update on where we are as of today, as well as some new additional information. First, i want to let you know hat as of today, the Texas State Health Department Says that the state of texas now has tested positive 715 texans, testing positive for covid19. Once again, the number that the state Health Department provides differs a little bit from the figures that are provided by Johns Hopkins. The reason for that is because Johns Hopkins provides some additional cases that may not yet be confirmed. The two numbers are working close and parallel. The state department pronounces 715 people have tested positive. Johns hopkins counts 810. Its my understanding that Johns Hopkins also includes in their numbers those who have been brought into the state of texas from those cruise ships. The number of deaths as of today is now 11. The number of counties affected by this is now 65. And the total number of t
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org President Trump thank you very much. Been a very busy day. I want to thank the American People for the incredible sacrifices that they are making on behalf of our nation and i want to encourage everyone to keep following our guidelines on cial distancing, avoid large gatherings and hand washing that Everybody Knows they are supposed to be doing. The goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we end the end of our historic battle with the in visible enemy. But we will win. I hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality. We will be meeting with a lot of people to see if it can be done. Easter is a very special day for many reasons and for me, a lot of our friends. Thats a very special day. And what a great time line this would be. Easter is our
An assassin asking another criminal with him to film him committing a murder in broad daylight. Were asking the Veterans Affairs secretary for an update providing faster and better care for our vets. We have details. Well ask him about a government watchdog report, alleging that the va spent billions of dollars on new medical facilities with little budget oversight. Im Melissa Francis in tonight for mcdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Melissa get to Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest developments there. Edward . Reporter defense secretary mark esper expects iran to retaliate. He would like a diplomatic solution but has prepared targets just in case. President donald trump keeping pressure on iran but backing off that those targets will include cultural sites. Listen. Theyre allowed to kill our people. Theyre allowed to maim our people. Theyre allowed to blow up everything that we have and there is nothing that stops them and we are, according to a various laws suppo
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 56, the nays are 38. The nomination is confirmed. The senator from missouri. Mr. Blunt mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that with respect to the mcfarland nomination, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer without objection. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Anuraag Singhal of florida to be United States district judge for the Southern District of florida, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate o