Our question for you this morning, what do you think about the Coronavirus Response . We are going to open up a special regional lines. That means if you live in the eastern or central time zone what to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zone want to hear from you at 202 7488001. And we are going to open up a special line for our hardworking medical professionals. We want to hear what you are seeing. Your numbers going to be 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us your opinions at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media. Once again, the coronavirus story seems to be changing hourly and we are going to keep bringing you some of the most Important Information we find. First, we want to turn to donald trump from his press conference yesterday talking about a potential National Lockdown in response to the coronavirus. Think so. Nt essentially you have done that in california. You have done that in new york. Those are two hotbeds
Provider. So nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts held a conference with his response in nebraska. This is an hour. Will thank you all very much for joining us here this afternoon. I am being joined by doctor anton who was a chief medical officer for the state of nebraska. Also jim burke, jim macey for the director for department of environment agency. We are here today to give an update in regard to our coronavirus and Public Health emergency we are having here in our state. We have several announcements, going to talk first and im going to turn it over to the doctor to talk about testing then amended turned over to timber cruising to talk about the steps were taking and finally jim macey will talk about our safe water supply. So, we have a number of things that i want to update you on. First of all, i want to remind people that this is something we need people to take seriously. Youve seen that to the steps weve taken your state, recently, obviously we had our directed Health Measure with
Of space. Im David Shuster in for ali velshi, and this is real money. And were following the breaking news coming from saudi arabia tonight. According to the countrys state television saudi Arabias King Abdullah has died at the age of 90. The king one of the most Significant Players in the middle east and the Global Economy had been in the hospital for several years suffering from a lung infection. His brother is being tasked to be the next king. But King Abdullahs passing is still momentous. Mohammed has more. Reporter he was one of the worlds few remaining absolute monarchs but his years as crown prince might have marked his legacy even more strongly. At the time he was crown prince but a tremendous amount of power and influence. He was known as devout and conservative with strong ties to the countrys bedouin ties. But even then he pushed for change. He has inspired a greater openness in two particular areas, in for women and in freedom of expression. There is an outburst of social c
And were following the breaking news coming from saudi arabia tonight. According to the countrys state television, saudi Arabias King Abdullah has died at the age of 90. The king one of the most Significant Players in the middle east and the Global Economy had been in the hospital for several years suffering from a lung infection. His brother is being tasked to be the next king. But King Abdullahs passing is still momentous. Mohammed has more. Reporter he was one of the worlds few remaining absolute monarchs, but his years as crown prince might have marked his legacy even more strongly. At the time he was crown prince but a tremendous amount of power and influence. He was known as devout and conservative with strong ties to the countrys bedouin ties. Change. He has inspired a greater openness in two particular areas, in for women and in freedom of expression. There is an outburst of social criticism and also of government policy in saudi arabia that has happened with the lets say toler
Republican Pete Ricketts and Democrat Chuck hassebrook. We welcome those joining us on adt television and radio where they can a. G. Web site and also Nebraska Broadcasters Association Member stations carrying us today and welcome to those joining us across the nation on cspan2. We are live tweeting this debate. Use the hashtag and e. T. Debate on twitter to follow us and you can give us your comments during and after the debate on our Facebook Page. For the next hour the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists and each other. The rules are pretty simple. Each candidate will have 90 seconds to respond to the question and if warranted me give a 30second rebuttal. Tonights debate is taking place before a live studio audience. We have asked the audience to refrain from a pausing or cheering because it will only take semifrom the candidates. Before we meet the candidates lets introduce the panel of journalists who will be asking the questions tonight. Fred knapp of net new