Spike . Youre going to open up special lines this money. First we want to hear from teachers. If you are a teacher, want to hear from you at 202 7488000. Arenistrators, we know you making the tough decisions on whether to open or close schools. Our number, 202 7488001 parents and students, you are the ones sending your children for school. Parents and students, 202 7488002. If you dont fit any of those categories, we still want to. Ear from you, 202 7488003 remember, you can always text us at 202 7488003 as well. We are always reading on social facebook. Witter and once again, we are in the middle spike and coronavirus schools are making tough decisions on whether they should bring children to school or restart Virtual Learning. In new york city they made the decision this week to in in Person Learning and send Children Home next week. Here is new york city mayor bill de blasio addressing how his decision will affect new york city residents. Here is a quick portion. Be re is going to o
Next, the Wilson Center hosting a discussion on the state of the organization for security and cooperation in europe which consists of 57 european and north american states and was created in the early 1970s to provide security and protect human rights. This is an hour and a half. Jane todays event is sponsored by our tpwhrobal Europe Program under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take overing moring this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki ommission. Dan jones the Wilson Center after holding positions in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responseable for nato, the osce and transatlantic security issue os they have in ordericbaltic and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for
Cspan radio area cspan, your unfiltered view of politics area. This week cdc director doctor Robert Redfield took questions from senators on the us Coronavirus Response and how soon a vaccine might be available to the public. He said a vaccine might not be widely available until next year and that facemasks are an effective way of fighting the disease. Afterwards President Trump contradicted doctor redfield coronavirus treatments on timing for a vaccine. Heres a look at thatsenate appropriations hearing from wednesday. Appropriations subcommittee on labor health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Ri want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today. To provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on the covid19. As we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,000 961 americans have died as part of the pandemic and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process
Reached the peak yet. What does that tell snull guest two things. One, when we hear we have yet to reach the peak, it definitely brings a level of fear because we dont know where that peak is going to be and weve been talking a lot about testing and i should caution that all the numbers that were talking about have a big asterisk next to them because we really dont know that the number of confirmed cases reflects anything close to the number of cases that they there actually are in our communities. It could very well be given the number of asymptomatic carriers there are that there are far more cases that we currently have. In fact, do i believe there could be smoldering dayses of infections in communities all around the country. We jewels havent picked up on that. The second thing we hear about not reaching the peak. We have to remember that it may not be a bad thing because weve been talking about this concept of flat engine the curve. The flattening the curve, the idea that social d
Featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle School High School middle and High School Students completed videos answering the question what do they want the president ial candidates to address. In the midst of these challenging times, i have some exciting news. A team of talented High School Students from Long Beach Polytechnic High School are the first place winners in cspans National Documentary competition. Studentcam. Cspan partners every year with spectrum for this competition which has dunes create short documentaries about an issue of national importance. 5000 400 students from across the United States participated creating films that reflect their interests and passions. I was honored to be interviewed by the long beach High School Students for their winning film so it is and i am incredibly proud of their talent, hard work, and persistence. Congratulations to hamid, catherine, and pia. Our first prize High School West award goes to hamid torabzadeh,