Germany and scientists are developing an app to improve Contact Tracing in south africa as it races to contain the corona virus. Im sorry kelly wild to the program u. S. President donald trump has threatened to cut funding to the Worlds Health organization permanently unless it implements substantial improvements over the next 30 days in a letter to the director general of the w. H. O. Trump says that the organization gives quote terrible advice for fighting the coronavirus and accuses it of being too close to china the us president has also said that he is currently taking the anti malaria drugs why trucks a cork plant what it does not trump has repeatedly tells of the drug as a treatment for covert 1000 despite warnings. Medical experts about its potentially dangerous side effects but i get a lot of tremendously positive news on the hydroxy and i say hey you know the expression ive used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose your project for about a week for about a wee
News writer thomas frank discusses how clean and the army corps of engineers are responding. At 9 50, representative danny davis of illinois on the pandemic in the state. Host good morning, this is washington journal for april 3. We are showing you footage from d. C. Terryton , Cherry Blossom festival last year. We want to know how you are responding to the covid19 outbreak, particularly in positive ways. Maybe there is a search of volunteerism in your community, or assisting others who are desperate and needy during this time. Tell us your story on two lines this morning. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to tweet us, it is 202 7488003. Make sure you put your name, city, and state if you text on that line. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Even in these dire times, there are several positive stories in the papers across the United States. Just a couple
Welcome to the program our top story the u. S. Federal reserve us cut Interest Rates back to near 0 in an effort to boost the american and Global Economy during the course of this and demick President Donald Trump congratulated the central bank during an announcement at the white house it lowered the fed rate. From what it was which was 121425 and its been lowered down to 020. 24 or point 24 so its 02. 2 for. A big difference its a. Quite a bit of a point. Lets go live to mike hanna now hes in washington and this is really the most drastic step taken by the u. S. Federal reserve since the financial crisis of 2008 i guess it gives you a sense of the shock the coronavirus pandemic is about to cause or is already causing in d. D. s senate also follows weeks if not months of urging by President Trump for the fed to drop its rates virtually on a daily basis the president has been insisting that the fed is airing by not dropping its rates so certainly this now is a major step in terms of cre
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Opposition leader benny gantz to form the next government to end the year when its bills down. So that its only has reported a 25 percent increase in coronavirus deaths says the countrys largest single day up to 368. 00 people died on sunday putting the total past 1800. 00 that is nearly a week after a nationwide lockdown was declared on 60000000 people restricting travel and banning public gatherings italy is the worst affected country outside china so lets get straight to it its been to judea alag now whos a journalist she joins us on skype from proved in central italy julie welcome to the program im sure everybody there is just waiting and praying for the number of cases to drop but far from it we had this 25 percent uptick in deaths. Yeah that is exact we have been asked 1800 deaths today and weve reached 25000 known. People tested positive to corona virus so the situation is quite dire at the moment so tell us about the Health Service the how stretched is it how hospitals can pret