A scare in the air as a brawl breaks out midflight forces an Emergency Landing. We have the latest details its monday, may 4th, early today starts right now. Good morning, monday morning. With this week, were mauving into a new fizz of the coronavirus pan dem you can as more states lift lockdown restrictions more than 1. 1 million infections have been confirmed in the united states. The death toll has risen to over 68,000 according to Johns Hopkins university, 180,000 people have recovered from covid19 in the u. S. Some cities might be easing restriction, new mexico is making them tighter. An Emergency Declaration has been extended until thursday it puts a curfew on businesses theres been 73 deaths related to covid19. In arizona, cars lined up for whats being called a testing blitz. Over three saturdays, officials hope to test 60,000 people for coronavirus. The Rapid Testing will help slow the spread now to hawaii where traffic was backed up for hours while people waited for food a com
Dropping . Some of them havesome of them hs much as 30 or 40 . Host thanks for sharing your experience this morning. That will wrap it up for washington journal this morning. We did want to tell you about tomorrows program. Kaiser health news will join us to talk about the latest on the Coronavirus Fight against the pandemic. We will also hear from the Economic Policy director at the bipartisan policy center, talking about the fed and what the fed can do during the pandemic and other Economic News related to the coronavirus. That will do it for this mornings program. We hope you are with us tomorrow morning at 7 00 eastern and for our primetime program. Announcer cspans washington journal live every day with news on policy issues that impact you. Coming on monday morning, the response of u. S. Health Insurance Companies to the coronavirus with julie robin are of Kaiser Health news. And how washington is addressing job loss amid the coronavirus pandemic with the Economic Policy director
She is the first africanamerican woman to hold the position and brings to the role several decades as a physician in private practice. Took office in june of 2019, dr. Harris planned to pledge her work to the front line of the opioid crisis. Toay, dr. Harris is here talk with us about an entirely different Public Health crisis, why in this era of conspiracy theories and fake news she believes we must return to a reliance on scientific facts, data, and trusted sources. Dr. Patrice harris, welcome to the National Press club. Our virtual podium is yours. Thank you, greetings, i am dr. Patrice harris, president of the American Medical Association. The coronavirus pandemic presents a challenge the world has not faced on this scale for generations. Said thatn extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. We are witnessing every day the physicians,ts of nurses, medical workers, Public Health professionals, and the public to manage the enormity of covid19 in our community. Callordinary
Another Staggering Number nearly 3. 3 million americans filed for unemployment last week. Thats more than the population of chicago. And this graph says it all. Since 2,000, weekly claims had been in the hundreds of thousands. Last weeks numbers are off the chart. Today should have been opening day for americas favorite pastime, major league baseball. Instead, tonight the president is talking about reopening the economy, saying the country has got to get back to work. The president says he will be giving states new guidelines on social distancing, getting some people back on the job in places that havent been hard hit by the virus. Our team is covering every angle of this crisis, and Mark Strassmann leads us off from just outside atlanta. , and mark, is it possible that those jobless numbers could be even higher . Reporter well, heres what you have to coder, norah. As grim as those numbers are, the reality is likely worse. Americas latest jobless numbers hit like an overnight gut punch
55,000 vets with only 102 beds. Spikhe va predfe suarketh america shut down, the still on the job inside americas Grocery Stores. What theyre doing to keep workers and you safe. And helping hands. Keeping Health Care Heroes fed while also giving a lifeline to struggling restaurants. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations good evening, and thank you for joining us. We begin with breaking news and something unthinkable just weeks ago. Tonight the u. S. Has more confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus than any other country in the world, surpassing even china and italy. Since we were with you last night, cases nationwide have surged, growing by mor 17,000 in just one day. Sadly, more than 1,000 people in the u. S. Have died. Another Staggering Number nearly 3. 3 million americans filed for unemployment last week. Thats more than the population of chicago. And this graph says it all since 2000ly claims have been in the hundreds of thousands. Last week