To former King Juan Carlos left the country while under investigation for corruption. We begin with the surge of corona virus cases around the walls the u. S. Remains an epi center of the pandemic with at least one 155000 dead and over 4700000 people who are infected despite that President Donald Trump is insisting that schools reopen the call he made once again on twitter on tuesday that push has attracted a lot of criticism teaches marched through new york on monday they are angry at a plan from their bill de blasio to open schools with restrictions. Well democratic president ial hopeful joe biden has tweeted attacking trumps handling of the pandemic he said that at the beginning of july dont know trump predicted the virus was going to disappear but it hasnt spied and also pointed out that more than 25000. 00 americans died last month alone he finished by asking the president to step up and do his job. Correspondent kimberly hawker joins us now live from washington with more kimberly
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Yesterday. The has not shown up on website yet but it will in the next day or two. I want to give an update on where we are with our data metrics. Friday these slides on and they are also available on the department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the seven day moving average. We have seen these numbers going up. That is what we would expect to see. Manycraft shows us how people are being tested each day in the blue bars. Ae yellow line represents sevenday average. These have been trending upward. This slide shows how many hospitals are reporting hortages of p. P. E. This is trending downward, this is good news. Its several days since any hospitals reported shortages of p. P. E. And right now even the trend is at zero. Our adequate supply of p. P. E. And swabs are two of the factors allowing us to test more. Might also mention that we have a warehouse here in virginia of p. P. E. And our supply, our stock on hand, is doing well and looki
Governor northam also spoke about the coordination of reopening between himself and leaders of maryland and washington, d. C. Gov. Northam i hope everyone had a nice weekend. To all of the mothers, a belated happy mothers day. I want to talk about Northern Virginias regional pace to ease restrictions, petersburgs water, the dmv and our elections. 9801 testsported yesterday, which is a great step as we work to ramp up testing. That has not shown up on the website yet but it will in the next day or two. Now i want to give virginians an update on where we are with our data metrics. You saw these slides on friday and they are also available on the Virginia Department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the number of cases and the yellow line is the seven day moving average. While we have seen a slight dip in the past few days, largely these numbers are going up. That is what we expect to see. Manygraph shows us how people are being tested each d