things will get worse than they are right now. bottom line, it s going to get worse. we have the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. we have already lost 24 of our citizens. . we re heading towards an epidemic in the united states. the question is what the scope is going to be. tom hanks and his wife rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. . to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. all right. exactly one year ago today when the country began to feel the full effects of the coronavirus. march 11th, 2020 was the day the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. and in the u.s., shutdowns kicked in, cities began limiting gatherings. schools began to close. and major sports leagues started to halt play. everything seemed to stop. can you believe it s been a year, joe? i know. willie, it seems so much longer than a y
are sounding the alarm. the university of oklahoma says they have 28 officers available to respond to calls on campus. oupb officer says that number is closer to 20. and adds he hasn t physically trained in an active shooter il is. the university of oklahoma is just going to have to start funding oupd so that we can build our staffing levels to the point that we can actually start training again. reporter: in a statement, the university said it recently raised police department salaries on average nearly 8%. but they note the pay raise is coming from open positions that have not been filled. oupd has also hired three more officers and says they will continue to hire more officers in the coming months. saturdays mean college football. and even with other departments helping on game days how are you doing today?
not. with those payments, they re all funding what their opponents say is the union s political candidates. 100% of what a government union does is political by nature. even president franklin delano roosevelt, who was a strong advocate for collective bargaining rights, strong advocate for union, he was uncomfortable, he was against the power of government aoupb i don t understand. reporter: american lay kwror unions make political donations to democrats up to $100 million every cycle. but some insist they are not inherently political and when government unions are weak, american workers will suffer. you will see a steep and fast decline in our middle class, greater inequality in our country. dana: the court did he visit this issue in the wake of justice scalia s passing but dead locked on the issue. now with trump appointing neil gorsuch on the bench, he is
john kelly, a four-star general now working in this administration, he seems to have given the president his own experience to discuss the military and told all of us how he shared his own the way general dunford informed him about the loss of his son in 2010. and the president seemed to coop that as a way of being able to speak to the johnson family. does the president have the information and the empathy about the military that he needs to be making these calls, in your opinion? in my opinion, i m just i m really distressed, particularly after seeing that tpaoupb about all funeral about all the talk around the gold star family whether it s general kelly or mrs. johnson. my west point class produced more gold star parents than any
the united states wants to be seen as living up to the obligations that it plans to under take from president to president to president. so i think there are ways to say that this deal is in the long run not acceptable. we ve got to focus more on what the iranians are doing in the middle east, the trouble they re making in yemen or syria. but not just to pull out of the deal which i think would have certain effects on our lives. dana: in your book democracy you talk about we re imperfect aoupb i don t understand. there s flash points along the way. in our country you pointed out were the civil war and the civil rights movement. do you think today when we re dealing with the after effects of those when you have the controversy about confederate statues and memorials, but also the controversy with the nfl and the question of whether phraeuers should stand for the national anthem. right before we came on, roger goodell of the nfl put out this statement. he said, like many of our fans,