Refrain from tearing confederate statues down, saying the state is working on removing them. Announced virginia continues to decrease new covid19 cases and hopes to enter phase two soon. Gov. Northam good afternoon, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. Its good to be with you again. We plan on this being a short briefing today. I want to touch on our health metrics, number one, reopening education, andr our revenue numbers for the month of may and what they mean for our Financial Planning as we move into the latter part of this year. First, i want to speak briefly to the ongoing protests and the confederate monuments. I have said that i believe the confederate monuments are divisive and glorify a racist and painful time in our history. Thats why we are working to monumente lee enrichment, which our state owns. The Richmond City council has also agreed that it will remove the other confederate monuments that are on monument avenue. We all came together to create a process to d
And thanks to all of you for joining us today. Its good to be with you again. We plan on this being a short briefing today. I want to touch on our health metrics, number one, reopening education, andr our revenue numbers for the month of may and what they mean for our Financial Planning as we move into the latter part of this year. First, i want to speak briefly to the ongoing protests and the confederate monuments. I have said that i believe the confederate monuments are divisive and glorify a racist and painful time in our history. Thats why we are working to monumente lee enrichment, which our state owns. The Richmond City council has also agreed that it will remove the other confederate monuments that are on monument avenue. We all came together to create a process to do that safely. ,e need to let that happen because these statues are very large and they are very heavy. A demonstrator was seriously injured by a that was being pulled down. I know these statues are causing a lot of
Race matters america inis cr a pbs newshour special. Woodrf good evening, im judy woodruff. Welcome to this pbs newshour special, race matters america in crisis. The death of george floyd at th hands of pol minnesota has ignited outrage across the world and on again exposed the deep wounds ofthacism here in u. S. Protesters have filled the streets in cities large and small, demanding justice and change. The vast majority have been violence and looting, andeen thereve been aggressive tactics from Law Enforcement. How americans see all this is filtered part through the lens of race, according to ourw ll, one we do with n. P. R. And marist. 62 of americans say they believe the demonstrations are legitimate protests. 77 of black americans feel that way, but among White Americans, its 58 . 28 of all americans say they believe the demonstrations are people acting unwfully. We want to examine how we got to this moment and where we go from here. That is a long cversation, and we think its impo
Yesterday. The has not shown up on website yet but it will in the next day or two. I want to give an update on where we are with our data metrics. Friday these slides on and they are also available on the department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the seven day moving average. We have seen these numbers going up. That is what we would expect to see. Manycraft shows us how people are being tested each day in the blue bars. Ae yellow line represents sevenday average. These have been trending upward. This slide shows how many hospitals are reporting hortages of p. P. E. This is trending downward, this is good news. Its several days since any hospitals reported shortages of p. P. E. And right now even the trend is at zero. Our adequate supply of p. P. E. And swabs are two of the factors allowing us to test more. Might also mention that we have a warehouse here in virginia of p. P. E. And our supply, our stock on hand, is doing well and looki
Governor northam also spoke about the coordination of reopening between himself and leaders of maryland and washington, d. C. Gov. Northam i hope everyone had a nice weekend. To all of the mothers, a belated happy mothers day. I want to talk about Northern Virginias regional pace to ease restrictions, petersburgs water, the dmv and our elections. 9801 testsported yesterday, which is a great step as we work to ramp up testing. That has not shown up on the website yet but it will in the next day or two. Now i want to give virginians an update on where we are with our data metrics. You saw these slides on friday and they are also available on the Virginia Department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the number of cases and the yellow line is the seven day moving average. While we have seen a slight dip in the past few days, largely these numbers are going up. That is what we expect to see. Manygraph shows us how people are being tested each d