pieces that closest associates longtime confidant roger stone is one of nearly 50 felons granted clemency. guaranteed virus free father frost in the home and detainees putting a smile on children s faces in russia. i m phil gal welcome to the program. after months of uncertainty britain and the european union have finally struck an agreement on a post bracks a trade deal the 2 sides patched up their differences at the 11th hour 2 of time encroaching crisis as the end of the 12 month transition period approach speaking in brussels commission presents us with a from the live hailed the last minute compromise and maybe even gentleman at the end of the 6 for negotiations journey i know only. but today i only feel quite dysfunctional and frankly speaking really. i know this is a difficult day for someone and to our friends in the united kingdom i want to say our team is. our own but to use the line on. what we call the beginning over the end and to meet the man. to make. it so to
you can also send us a text this morning, (202) 748-8003. if you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. that is facebook.com/cspan and @cspanwj. a very good saturday morning to you. you can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. as you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d.c. that have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. the exact number of essential by.oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the brookings institution that relied on department of homeland security designations of essential. atut 7 million employees grocery stores, pharmacies, and big-box stores. when it comes to the state of california, the public policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of california s labor force is employed in essential operations.
join us on washington journal primetime monday night, 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. illinois governor jb pritzker gave an update on how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. this is about an hour. good afternoon and thank you for joining today s public update. i am here with dr. horace smith, , dr.tor and a doctor suzette mckinney, executive director of the illinois medical district and the operations lead for our alternate care facilities across chicago and the state, and bishop simon gordon, . i want to discuss the actions i our taken toward protecting more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community, who have focused a disproportionate effect of covid-19. for months, years, and even decades after we defeat this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine the biological and medical questions about this virus. beyond that, we need to examine what americans learned about ourselves. the data accumulating over the last few weeks has s
governor andrew cuomo on the state s response to coronavirus. you are watching live coverage here on c-span. gov. cuomo: let s go through where we are right now. is, the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. a number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex. the apex of players appears to be a plateau, which is what many of the models predict. you plateau for a. of time a period of time. the hospitalization rate is down and that is important. we have more people getting infected still. we have more people going to the hospitals, that we have a lower number. that is all this is saying. fewer people are going into the hospitals, still net positive. the three day average, just what we look at, because day-to-day can be somewhat deceiving, especially when you get towards the weekend, because the weekend reporting gets a little different, but all of the numbers are on the downward slope. still, people getting infected, still people owing to the hospital, but a
contracting recovering from the disease. join the conversation on washington journal primetime, monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. new york governor andrew cuomo gives an update on the pandemic response in his state from earlier today. this is just over 45 minutes. gov. cuomo: let s go through every right now. the good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. the number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex and the apex appears to be a plateau. which is what many of the models predicted. it was going to be straight up to the top number and then you plateau and that looks like what we are doing. the hospitalization rate is down. that s important more people getting infected still. more people going to the hospitals, but we have a lower number. people are going to the hospitals still net positive. the 300 average, which is what we look at because day-to-day deceiving, especially towards the weekend because we can reporting gets a little