4. 8 million numbers worldwide confirmed. 1. 5 million of those cases in the United States. 318,000 deaths and over 90,000 deaths in the United States. 28,000 people have recovered. Look at the righthand side of your screen. You can find this on the Johns Hopkins website. Before we get to your thoughts on the confidence level in the Trump Administrations response to the pandemic we want to begin with the president s comments yesterday that are making making news, what he had to say. Bout taking hydroxychloroquine President Trump [video clip] President Trump a lot of good things are coming out. Many oftline workers, them happen to be taking it. I happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine, you are taking it . Pres. Trump hydroxychloroquine, right now. Ive heard its good. Ive heard a lot of good stories. If its not good, ill tell you right. Im not going to get hurt by. Its been around for 40 years for malaria, lupus. Frontline workers take it, a lot of doctors take it. I think people sho
Who have died and the illness, but on the economic side, we know at this point about 15 of americans are unemployed. Think that is an underestimate. [no audio] inlower Household Income extremely large numbers. You know it has had children particularly because the net the economic destruction is with their parents are at almost one in five of parents with a child under 12 have not had enough to eat because they have not been able to make the food last. That is worse even then in the great recession. We are seeing real tragedy in peoples lives. A Pew Research Poll found, they or someone in their household have lost a job or taken a pay cut. When you break it down by income, 53 of lower income people answered yes to that question. 53 . What does that mean . Means this is very present in the lives of people watching and their communities. The person who works in the grocery store, works in retail, caring for the elderly, we looked at those unemployment numbers send our estimate is about on
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Governor pat mccrory escalate the nations clash about transgender rights and sued the Justice Department which said last week the state had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1954 went passed a law that prohibited people from using Public Restrooms that do not correspond to the gender listed on the birth certificate. The government accused the Justice Department of a radical reinterpretation of the law. They said the loss by the access provision was a bulwark against Sexual Assault but critics many of them demanded a full repeal said that section of the law effectively allowed this commission against transgender people. You can read more about those actions at nytimes. Com. Tonight on the communicators, republican fcc commissioner Michael Oreilly on several key issues facing the fcc like Net Neutrality, spectrum auctions and settop boxes. He comments on the political divide within the fcc. Is joined by Howard Buskirk. The direction from leadership including the chairman to take the most