Welcome, everybody, to our hearing. Both those in the room and those that arent in the room. Before we start, i think its important, again, to note whats going on all around us, and that is the acknowledgement of Racial Injustice that has gone on for far too long in our country. I certainly support those who are speaking out and making their voices heard in a peaceful manner to bring about change. While change does not always come easily, i want to remind those watching this hearing today that change is possible. In december 2018, the first step that i first introduced became law. And i worked in partnership with several republican and democrat senators. Senator durbin was the lead person for the democrats. This law is the most significant criminal Justice Reform in a generation. A lot of people didnt think it was possible but we did it by working together, in a bipartisan way. But also working together in other ways to address racial disparities. Such as in health care, the c. A. R. E
Anthony fauci. He spoke with Savannah Guthrie from the today show saying that theres no one size fits all solution here but testing is a big part of it and were seeing more. Beyond 3 million tests, thats really far, far greater than we were a couple weeks ago. Right now theyre developing the capability of even escalating and accelerating that even more so that we would be able to have a significant number measured in the millions of tests each week. Reporter overnight we saw the Washington Post reporting on a draft plan by fema and the cdc on what to reopen first focusing on agencies that service children, schools, and child care and summer camps. President trump has said he thinks some states might be able to start reopening for business before may 1st. Laura . All right. Ill take it from here, tracie. Thank you. A new emergency measure in San Francisco will help shelter thousands of the homeless in hotels. This comes at a cost of nearly 200 a night per room and thats before the addon
The worst is over possible signs of hope in the u. S. Coronavirus at the center but the new york governor warns its no time to relax. And americans line up for miles that food banks across the country trying to feed their families during the virus lock the. Welcome to the program the number of coronavirus case is now nearing 2000000 worldwide but theres some signs of light at the end of the tunnel china has approved 2 new experimental coronavirus vaccines to be tested on humans Clinical Trials are also under way in the United States elsewhere india is extending its nationwide lockdown until may 3rd more than a 1000000000 people there have been ordered to stay indoors and all nonessential businesses have been closed in the u. S. President trump and his top disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci say that. A the number of new infections is not growing as fast as before more than 1500 americans have died in the past 24 hours alone bringing the total number of dead to over 23000 is the highest any
Pandemic disrupts fresh Food Supplies in america some processing factories shut down in part use goes to waste. And its back to work for some italy and spain begins easing a fuel coronavirus restriction. The number of new coronavirus cases is now nearing 2000000 worldwide but there are some signs of light at the end of the tunnel china has approved 2 new experimental vaccines to be tested on humans similar trials are also underway in the u. S. But meanwhile chinas reported 89 new cases in the past 24 hours nearly all of which came from abroad with sarah flock joins us live now from Hong Kong Sara what more do we know then about these experimental chinese vaccines. Well as you mentioned chinas approve these 2 experimental coronavirus vaccines to enter the next phase and thats oversee the Clinical Trials and we know that the vaccines are being developed by 2 operators one its a beijing biased Biotech Company and its in partnership with the will hand biased pharmaceutical group it was ann
Economy reopens the state governors say nothing will change until its safe. Russia has reported another record daily rise in new covert 19 cases more than 2700 infections the government says 170 russians have died the total number of infections now more than 21000 lets go live to neve barker who joins us from london so 1st of all need how much of a long down is being put in place in russia to respond to what seems to be rapidly increasing cases every day. Yes well according to the kremlin the number of cases is going up or at least is expected to go up by about 16 to 18 percent today so yesterday the number of new cases was around 2 and a half 1000 as you mentioned its 2774 thats the figures that we know about lets of course remember exactly how big russia is it is the largest country on the planet its called 11 time zones all the way from moscow in the west of lot of os talk in the far east policing any kind of restrictions on peoples ordinary and daily lives is going to be very very