From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Lets begin with the covid19 pandemic. The virus that show has been to more parts of america than guy fieri. Back in march when we first realized how serious it was, a lot of people were like damn, this might not be over until like the summer. Well, summer is here and it turns out corona might just be getting started. Across the country states are shattering coronavirus records with nearly 35,000 cases yesterday in the u. S. , the highest oneday total in two months. Today in florida a record 5500 new cases, while california has seen a 29 jump in hospitalizations in just two weeks. And in texas the governor sounding the alarm. Houston, Texas Medical Center reports 97 of the areas current icu beds are filled. Nearly three out of ten with covid patients. Texas Childrens Hospital is admitting adults to free up beds for covid patients. Trevor oh lord, its happe
Seth stoughton, and d. L. Hughley, and what its like to be black in america. First lets catch up on todays headlines. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. Announcer from trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show, with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick things off with immigration. Its the reason your food has flavor, and how the president met 66 of his wives. When donald trump ran for office, his platform was that he opposed illegal immigration. And i want people to come into the country, but i want them to come in legally. Trevor thats right, big guy. But after taking office, he began restricting legal immigration, too. And now, thanks to corona, it looks like hes taking it all the way. Tonight, a new round of immigration restrictions from the white house. President trump has signed an executive order blocking entry into the United States for at least four types of visas, including the h1b visa for highskilled work
In phase two of reopening, which means many people can go back to their offices. However, i am not yet going back to the office, because thats exactly where corona thinks im going to go. To beat the virus are you have to think like the virus. In tonights episode we talk to seth stoughton, and d. L. Hughley, and what its like to be black in america. First lets catch up on todays headlines. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. Announcer from trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show, with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick things off with immigration. Its the reason your food has flavor, and how the president met 66 of his wives. When donald trump ran for office, his platform was that he opposed illegal immigration. And i want people to come into the country, but i want them to come in legally. Trevor thats right, big guy. But after taking office, he began restricting legal immigration, too. And now, thanks to corona,
Commission, why you put it together, who sits on it, and then we can talk about your recommendations. Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. This was an unprecedented, historic crisis we were all facing a couple months ago and our president kay james looked at the debate as it was developing and really became concerned that there was this dichotomy between people who are arguing from a Health Perspective and others arguing from an economic perspective. At this point its a little hard to remember how separated people were in terms of Everybody Needs to stay home or people go back to work. We felt like it was important to lift our heads up and look over the horizon and say whats it going to take to talk about this issue about lives and livelihoods. She put the commission together and it was a fantastic experience and great group of people of 17 experts from all across the country in all different areas and walks of life. We wanted it to be something the National
Social media to the morning news, has been Bubba Wallace, nascar, and the noose. Now, if you missed the story, heres how it all went down Bubba Wallace, the only black nascar driver, has been promoting the black lives Matter Movement and pushing nascar to ban the Confederate Flag from its races. Nascar agreed, and Bubba Wallace immediately faced a huge firestorm from people who felt like he was blocking their Southern Heritage and racism. Then, a week after the flag was banned from the races, one of wallaces crew members found a noose hanging in the garage where wallaces car was parked. And so, immediately, everybody was on edge, especially black people. I mean, its a noose. A noose is like the n word of ropes. In fact, i dont even like to say the word moose because its too close to noose. I just call it a canadian cow. So, anyway, after the noose was found, nascar called in the f. B. I. To investigate if this was, indeed, a hate crime, and last night, the f. B. I. Announced their find