The milestone comes as officials caution there may be a possible shortage of hospital beds for covid19 patients. The Health Ministry released data on wednesday showing that tokyo and the prefectures of aomori, fukushima and okinawa hit stage three on hospital bed availability. That is the second most serious stage. It means major problems could arise in the medical system. The numbers were current as of october 20th. Officials in fukushima said later they had enough beds as of tuesday. In another troubling sign, the Positivity Rate for pcr tests in aomori hit 10. 7 pour the week through october 18th. Translator the situation is different prefture to prefecture, but it appears the number of new cases is steadily increasing in some areas, so we have to be on our toes. The pad is also affected myanmars general election. Citizens aged 60 and over can vote early to reduce the risk of infection. One w did that is the countrys de facto leader awning sung suu kyi who is 75. She went thursday t
Longterm commitment to bring you live gaveltogavel coverage of congress. Coming up, the house will debate Foreign Affairs pills with votes late they are afternoon. This week theyll work on an emergency funding bill to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Live coverage of he thousands of the house here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father con you. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of mercy, thank you for giving us another day. Quicken our spirits so that we will know the blessings of living together in unity and peace. Grant that we might know the satisfaction of sharing our Common Concerns and experiencing the joe of mutual accomplishment. Bless the members of this peoples house with success in bringing fruition to all e
22,000 acres near geyserville, 34 quer miles. It is only 5 contained. Here is katie live in geyserville with it latest on the fire. Katie. Reporter yes. Kenny, today firefighters are trying to take advantage of the relatively calm wind toss try to get more fire lines around this kincadefi. Force knees evacuated residents, there is nothing they can do except wait to see if the fire lines will hold when the predicted strong winds pick up this weekend of the it is hard. It really is. Reporter madonna, her husband victor and their two dogs are at the Evacuation Center waiting to hear when they can go back to their geyserville home. Im just taking it one day at a home and hope to god that everything is standing there and everything is okay. Reporter the kincade fire is still threatening their community forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people. As it burns out of control in the hills above alexander valley, cal fire dough zer operators and hand crews are trying to cut as many fire breaks as po
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