Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
The deferred action for childhood arrivals, or daca program. On thursday the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration cannot immediately and daca, the Obama Era Program has allowed roughly 700,000 young immigrants who were brought to the u. S. By the parents, to live and work without fear poof dertation. The recipients must pass background checks, and reapply every two years, to continue anticipating in ogthe m. Conservative chief Justice John Roberts sided with the courts liberal members in the 5 to 4 decision. Joining me now from skype is santa tyclara univer school of our professor, professor gula sacrum, thanks for joining us. California is home to the largest number of dreamers. Even though this is a federal progm, are there difference in how states treat dr. Opportunities that ar available to them . There is certainly a huge variation across the uned dates about the types of protections states gave to undocumented people, generally. And then specifically, policy h relate
Any other country in the world both in terms of the road number and also on a per capita basis the most the f. D. A. Is also authorized the 1st coronavirus Antibody Test developed of cell x. A key step that will help identify people who have recovered and to understand their immune response and their immune system meanwhile the number of americans who filed for Unemployment Benefits has surged to 6650000 in one week the u. S. Has become the global epicenter with nearly 250000 covert 1000 cases which has caused massive layoffs our White House Correspondent Kelly Holcomb has some of the Key Highlights from todays briefing. In terms of those unemployment numbers we heard from the team there in the White House Briefing room one of the ways theyre hoping to alleviate the loss of jobs that are hemorrhaging in the United States is through a program theyre calling the sort of Small Business per paycheck protection act of the sensually what this does is it helps Small Businesses to retain emplo
A lockdown plus pakistan overturns the death sentence for the man convicted for the kidnap and killing of u. S. Journalist daniel pearl. A decades old defense lawyer is now being used by u. S. President donald trump to fight the coronavirus after criticism over the white house response the u. S. Is now the epicenter of the pandemic with a quarter of the 1000000 cases worldwide new york citys mayor is urging everyone to cover their faces aware of mosques in public the number of cases in the state of new york is now at 92000 with nearly 2400 deaths say Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned its supply of breathing machines could be exhausted in 6 days. President all the time says a lot more medical equipment is on its way after his truck deals with private firms for face masks and ventilators and other equipment but americans are not just fighting a highly contagious virus 6600000 people now say that theyre jobless. Were now conducting well over 100000 corona virus test per day over at that 10
Like hes been talked out of that. Mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader, felt like he wanted a quick trial, but didnt want to bring in new witnesses and was able to prevail upon the white house that that was the best way to go. Those negotiations are still ongoing and theyre happening not only between the white house and the republicans in the senate, but also between the republicans in the senate and the democrats. But at this point it looks like theyre coming in on trying to have a relatively Speedy Senate trial that doesnt bring a lot of new witnesses. President trump felt like maybe they could have brought in witnesses like hunter biden and others to try to expand the scope of it and try to push it for political advantage. Well, at this point it looks like theyre going in a different direction. And also whats happening this last week, President Trump is trying to push through as many deals as he can to try to look like hes being productive as the house moves forward on impeachment.