Democrats would block it. Heres a look at her comments now. We will show you as much as we can before todays White House Briefing. Pelosi thank you all if you are out here. Good day wherever you are in this holy week, passover. Approaching Easter Sunday and ramadan. The appropriate time for us to more deeply pray for those who have lost their lives and the families that are suffering and those who are sick with the virus. Its a very, very sad time as we awaken this morning to see that the totals are approaching 450,000 people infected. Approaching nearly 15,000 people who have lost their lives. That is the sad, sad part of it all. More than 17 million initial unemployment claims. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the month of march. Now millions more expected in the coming months. The assault on the lives and the livelihood of the American People is one of epic proportion and one that demands congress continue to take bold, urgent, effective action to bring rapid relief to the heal
Coronavirus pandemic. Talks aboutakabas the u. S. Economy and the Record Number of job losses as a result of the virus. Camila dechalus good morning. It is wednesday. Four weeks since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. As of today, nearly 13,000 americans have died of the disease, 400,000 americans have been diagnosed, and a 360 Million People in 42 states in the district and in the district of columbia are living under stayathome orders. We are asking how you are dealing with social distancing . Let us know how it has impacted you, your family and job. We have split up the phone lines by age. If you are under 25, 202 7488000. 2650 years. And if you are 5170 years old, the number is 202 7488002. And if you are over 70 years old, 202 7488003. You can catch up with us on social media. Wj on twitter. And regis on facebook. Reach us on facebook. Call now as we show you the map from the New York Times of the states in which residents have been told the stayathom
We go live now to a response briefing with governor andrew cuomo. Stressful, emotional times as we know. Today is a day in the state of new york with very mixed two verybased on different pieces of information we have. I am trying to work through the mixed emotions for myself. I will present the facts. There is good news and what we are seeing. Wet we have done, and what are doing is actually working and making a difference. Actions. Ramatic new York Pause Program closed down schools and businesses, social distancing. It is working. T is flattening the curve we are seeing that, so far. Curve isthat flattening because we are flattening the curve by what we are doing. If we stop what we are doing, you will see that curve change. That curve is a function of what we do day in and day out. Right now it is flattening. The number of patients hospitalized is down. You dont just look at daytoday, you look at the threeday trend. The threeday average trend is also down. Anecdotally, individual ho
Im not celebrating until i can hug my grand babies. Waiting for that day. Hopefully that will be soon, but thank you. Last night as you know the Senate Passed important legislation. Were very proud of the product. We think it is we did jujitsu on it. It went from a corporatefirst proposal that the republicans put forth in the senate to a workers first democratic workers first legislation. First, lets back up. As i was coming here, i saw nearly 1,000 deaths in the united states. 900 yesterday. I dont know what the numbers are today. But theyre saying nearly 1,000 deaths in our country. Tens of thousands of people are we have tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we havent even since for over 100 years in our country. Its really such a tragedy, so we had to take important action. Had to take action that puts Families First and workers first and thats what we did when we did our first legislation. The first two bills were about addressing the emergency directly. 8. 3 billion
Today is a day in the state of new york with very mixed emotions based on two very different pieces of information we have. I am trying to work through the mixed emotions for myself. I will present the facts and we will go from there. There is good news and what we are seeing. What we have done, and what we are doing is actually working and making a difference. We took dramatic actions in this state. New York Pause Program closed down schools and businesses, social distancing. And it is working. It is flattening the curve. And we see that again today, so far. Meaning what . Meaning, that curve is flattening because we are flattening the curve by what we are doing. If we stop what we are doing, you will see that curve change. That curve is a function of what we do day in and day out. Right now it is flattening. The number of patients hospitalized is down. Again, we dont just look at daytoday, you look at the threeday trend. But that number is down. The threeday average trend is also dow