Welcome you to this primetime edition of washington journal. House Speaker Pelosi outlining a new stimulus plan. The price tag, 3 trillion. Votes this friday. Live on cspan. We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide, the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner
Temporary rules changed change to allow members to vote remotely and lawmakers continue so aan social distancing, link the is expected. Watch coverage friday at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen with the free cspan radio app. From baltimore is dr. Lee to win. She is a visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced that the washington post, and served as the City Health Commissioner in baltimore. Ask for joining us here on cspan. We appreciate it. Happy to be with you. New want to begin with some projections from the university of washington. By august 4 u. S. Death toll could exceed 100 and 47,000. When you see that number and see that projection, what is your reaction . That it is an is underestimate. I hate to say this, because that is so many people. It is unimaginable for where we are right now. If two months ago you had said that we have 80,000, more than 80,000 americans who had died from covid19, im not sure how many people
We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner from 2014 to 2015. Dr. Wen happy to be with you. Host i want to begin with new projections new 4, the withy august death toll could exceed 147,000.
The Israeli Military kill seven aid workers in gaza, including three britons, the Prime Minister calls it appalling, the opposition says this war must stop now. The israeli pm says the attack was an unintentional tragic incident, but western allies want answers. Why were three clearly marked humanitarian vehicles that had just delivered 100 tons of aid to alleviate potential famine in gaza targeted . And what was already agreed by the Un Security Council as a catastrophic humanitarian situation for palestinians will get worse now as Aid Organisations suspend their deliveries, and an aid ship turns back, amid safety fears. Why did this happen and what will the consequences be . We talk to a spokespeson for the Israeli Government. It looks like there was an accident and a convoy was accidentally hit and a convoy was accidentally hit and that are subject to a full investigation. And an oxfam co ordinator in ramallah. Also tonight. A Special Report on families struggling to access special
Them the next leaders in civilian and military life. But without naming donald trump are really making a direct Election Year appeal President Biden also under scored the values that he has previously said are at risk if his republican rival were to take a second term, for example, protecting democracy and also the nature alliance. Now on that front, the president talked about us leadership on the global stage, including, for example, again, that nato lyon saying, for example, that russian president Vladimir Putin are testing his assumption that nato would not be able to unify and support ukraine from his invasion. Saying quote, putin was certain that nato would fraction of course there speaking directly to the invasion of ukraine and instead, the president said, it is the greatest Defense Alliance in the history of the world. Now of course, President Biden has been a defender of nato, especially earlier this year when former President Donald Trump said hed encourage russia to invade t