And we must accelerate in response. We have a small window of time right now to get our cases under control before we could see the large outbreaks that we are seeing around this country. The mayor pointed the finger directly at an increasingly complacent and growing segment of the population tired of cabin fever. People who are having gatherings with others outside of their households. San franciscans need to change their behavior. Gatherings remain inherently dangerous. At the general hospital, the average age of the person hospitalized with covid19 since july first has been 41 years. We dont have months, we barely have weeks. The mayor demands that private Health Insurance providers step up and speed up virus testing. One key to reopening. Were not reopening us how we get this under control. We are all at risk for this disease and all at risk for serious consequences. We have flattened this curve once and we must do it again. A negative test is not a passport to do what you want. On
Us his story. Plus we have a new account of the incident from his friend who tried to intervene. Inside the family, a damning new book by President Trumps niece says hes blg cheating his way through life since childhood. How the white house is hitting back. First here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Its a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death. Dont get yourself into false complacency. A dire new projection showing coronavirus could kill 2000,000 americans by november 1st. This as the white house is pushing governors to reopen schools. I think its going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed. No way. Brazilianment Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive following months of down playing the virus. The new book by trumps niece with her phd in Clinical Psychology accuses her uncle of being a sociopath. Its a book of falsehoods. The assault of a black indiana man being investigated as a possible hate crime. Its still there, still ugly.
It continues to be sluggish and i cannot give you a reason why that occurred. We are aware that mortgage credit is very tight for a wide range of borrowers and that maybe part of it. We hear about supply constraints builders are facing but i have to say i am surprised. What more do you think the fed can do to help stimulate recovery in the housing sector both for those homeowners who are upside down in the values and those to help new people qualify for homes. Housing prices are continuing to increase. And they have increased substantially and in the markets that saw the worst booms and bust that is the case. So in nevada there are a large fraction of homeowners underwater but if you look at the numbers just the increase in house prices we have seen and i think that is in part reflecting or monetary policy, maybe fewers barrowers are under water. The numbers have declined and i know the Las Vegas Area was one of hardest hit areas. I think we will see greater progress eventually in the
Coverage provisions because those are really just Getting Started now the baseline for the last four years, they dont have those provisions in them. We start with stated that does not have those provisions in and build them and. For Everything Else in the Affordable Care act of our revenue provisions, medicare and medicaid provisions, we just have a baseline that includes the affects of all of those provisions as they unfold. So we cannot go back and do an analysis and any clear way of the fsx those provisions have been an isolated sense. A map is see if we can provide information that would be helpful. Thank you. Several times this morning you and others have said that you have basically two options for addressing this long term problem. One is reducing costs in our retirement and Health Savings programs and the other is increasing revenue through taxation. But it does seem to me that there is a third way that we are not talking about nearly in half today, and that is growing the econ
On the veterans we are here to serve. Fifth, the va has failed to hold people accountable. And last we lack physicians, space, staff, Information Technology and perchase care funding to meet the current demand for Timely Health care. Furthermore we dont have the capacity to quantify the staffing because we have not built resources from the bottom up. We have instead managed to a budget number. As a consequence of all of the failures the trust that is the foundation of all we do, the trust of the veterans we serve and the trust of the American People and their elected representatives has eroded. We will have to earn that trust back through deliberate and Decisive Action and by creating an open, transparent approach to deal with veterans. To begin restoring trust we focused on six key priorities. Get veterans off the wait list and into clinics. Fix systemic scheduling problems, address cultural issues, hold people accountable, establish regular and ongoing disclosures of information, and