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It wants to get cash to those affected we're
looking at sending checks to Americans

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immediately in the next 2 weeks there are

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a few details including how much money
Congress would have to sign off as well the

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administration's urging lawmakers to
approve an $850000000000.00 rescue package

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bigger than the 2000 bank bailout or the
2009 Recovery Act the White House says it

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hopes it can pass quickly
and Senate g.o.p.

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Leader Mitch McConnell says his chambers
should not adjourn until then though it's

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a big undertaking for

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a slow moving Congress solder mag
on the Washington former u.s.

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Vice President Joe Biden swept

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a convincing win over Senator Bernie Sanders
and Tuesday's Democratic presidential

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primaries and Florida Illinois in Arizona
by didn't think voters and election

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workers Americans in 3 states went to
the polls today I want to thank all the

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public officials and the poll workers
who work closely with the public health

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authorities to assure safe opportunities
for voting to clean and disinfect voting

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and to make sure the voters could
cast their ballots while maintaining

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a distance from one of the was safe there
to replace Biden well ahead of Sanders in

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the race to clinch the party's nomination
the governor of the state of Ohio

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postponed Tuesday's primary because of the
corona virus outbreak Ohio is now set to

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vote in June but he tells on more news we
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Washington this is the news u.s.

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Defense secretary Mark aspers that the
Pentagon will provide millions of respirator

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mask and ventilators to federal health
authorities to hope and response to the

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kimono virus pandemic that part of the fence
will make available up to 5000000 and

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95 respirator masks and other personal
protective equipment from our own strategic

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reserves to the Department of Health and
Human Services. For distribution the 1st

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1000000 masks will be made available
immediately as present the ventilators I

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designed for use by troops in the military
will need to train civilians on how to

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use them there are no better new limits
being placed on key items as America

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navigates the spreading of the virus may
be Correspondent Jackie Quinn has that

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story major retailers are trying to keep
up with the demand for key supplies during

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the virus shutdown croaker says it's
limiting certain items cold and flu medicine

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soap cleaning products water and the oh
so scarce toilet paper consumers are

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fighting empty shelves where those
essential used to be even prompting the

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president this week to urge shoppers to
stop hoarding groceries and supplies

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Amazon's making

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a change telling some vendors not to bother
shipping nonessentials like telephone

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cases it's keeping warehouses cleared for
toilet paper hand sanitizer and other

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items in high demand like diapers canned
foods and disinfecting wipes Amazon's

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adding more workers but warns deliveries
will take longer than usual I know Jackie

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Quinn

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a migrant advocacy group is suing the Trump
administration to stop 3 children from

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deportation to El Salvador where the family
says their lives would be in danger the

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always Marissa Melton reports
the 3 children are in a u.s.

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Facility their mother is in

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a tent camp in Mexico while their father
lives in Maryland outside Washington d.c.

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And says he is willing to bring his
children into his home lawyers for the

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coalition action Justice Center say the
children should be considered unaccompanied

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minors and deserve an asylum hearing the
lawyer say the children would be in grave

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danger if deported
because their father ran

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a church in El Salvador where he
preached against the violent m.s.

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13 gang the family fled El Salvador
from Mexico the father and

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a 4th child entered the u.s.

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Last June and were allowed to stay Marissa
news. Bones' wagon says it will close

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most of its European plans for 2 weeks due
to the uncertainty about the demand for

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cars and the supplies of parts amid the
virus outbreak but details on much more

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I'm Michael Brown the news.

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With. Me.

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That he has.

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To.

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Live. Here is. Implicit.

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Because he does not agree with the electoral
reform bills passed by the parliament

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in February this year the. Mid 1000 to hold
fresh presidential elections after the

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constitutional court in February this year
they made 21000 presidential election

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because of irregularities
presidential spokesperson. Told

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a news conference on Tuesday that the
parliamentary bills conflict with the

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Constitution we want our president. On
Tuesday announced the removal of can reveal

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new do it as commander of them I would be
friends fools without explanation the 1st

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since. I didn't is going
to one day to brief

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a nation around the state. Of
the. Argument that bust into the

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president. For him was the end of
communications that had made to the president

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not our defragging or the chairperson of
my additional mission as you have as the

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commission of my colleagues and

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a true commission is going to the old
Conference Christmas Day and that getting be

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exactly compact with Palin it can pass
for coming from the directions for

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a form which. Can be sure
knows that you're just as.

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Ok now so what you don't need to
get is that the president has

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refused to act on that commendation and
that he should fire the commission as well

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as the chip. In the commission.
The president would

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need to communicate the decision that
has meant. That commitment to need to

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reconvene and I'm going to discuss
justifications and the president has given

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because according to that he going to be
just that the president has given is that

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. I didn't mean to you know to have
the Monday 1022 that if anything I'm

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going to have my date to be sure and the
pretty beneath the floor of the selection

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when doing beneficiary of these same election
issues I mean he said By the way that

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trouble me sure and Dana goes I need
you to do it said the commission as we

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ambushed and they did not have to be quoting
present dition when that. Ending these

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meetings by. That point.
Has to be going to be on

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from the opposition straight to the president.
This conference so funny so official

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reaction from the opposition but then
I think we need some members of the

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opposition I can just press
you maybe on social media

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a deposition because to graduate you do
have. An official reaction but definitely

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the reaction will be yeah I think at least
for that mindful of the front do that.

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In the same position that I'm going to be
due to the position I don't get if I did

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that down pointed at best these bills and
you know and so she agrees extinct. Do

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you feel that reaction from the position
what can you tell us about the.

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Way as the commander of the motley defense
force your 100 percent as excited state

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at the polls that he has tried to removing
that that face it don't create the

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commandos that might be
Defense Force. Has been

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a place that just today the recent visit
ended up being decreased at that beginning

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to think I want to study claims
that the recent speech he's put in

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a voice actually could go our way he said
it ruled that the latest equipment they

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gave us the last 8 months as you know
in the last 8 months reacted nationwide

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demonstrations and enjoying these
demonstrations that my defense forces are asked

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to take and Pakistan yes but surely that
down out of that purchase to snap back to

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content that they seem to have forced that
is your choice I think contrary to what

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that Christine preaching getting in 22
crying at aging the police aging the way.

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The Us force have been ordered to.

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Tali is say I would govern this commentator
he was speaking with us from the

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capital language Uganda speaker of parliament
has fought controversy with the claim

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that a local pharmaceutical
company is about to mount

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a factor on alleged kill for the coroner
virus on Tuesday as Health Minister I want

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I guess spreading false information about
the pandemic to Money reports from

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compiler while addressing lawmakers Monday
Ugandans be called parliamentary make

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a good I guess aid that any local
pharmaceutical company was producing

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a cure for the corner virus in 2
weeks' time ha statement came after

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a meeting with Professor far as

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a centrist from the University of Illinois
in the United States and the proprietor

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of de biopharma Uganda Ltd. In the us

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agreed to bend I'm going to. Get
it when the market in Uganda

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is being made by you know going
to be intervention. But it is the

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speaker was not the only one who
got excited my guess my goal I buy

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a chemist walking for the pharmaceutical
company and also met God and president

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here I'm 70 and seemed to convince him
that the product would kill not just call

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the 19 but any virus is going to just
we're not going to want to get into the I

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think some Going to the next
I think it. Will. Go by

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a. Little bit. But then
go with other bite of.

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The other party but do you really want to
work with you because it would help you

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with coming back you could come to the other
side can get on message however when I

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asked if this is true Ugandan man is
talking. Health Dr Ruth I Ching has been

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walking closely with the wall of the
Health Organization and us sentence with

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Disease Control warned the youth is false
information I Ching sede research on

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called the 19 is still ongoing
and she noted the w.h.o.

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Have yet to endorse any treatment for the
Cornell virus there is no research that

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has been approved by w h o

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t l is saying let the countries
implemented this and so on until w.h.o.

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Has say this is the way to go we still
know that the treatment. Is supportive

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treatment

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a lot so fluids and another good 6 for those
away in pain for those who are in the

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hospital with

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a severe form we want to rehydrate them
give them oxygen way it is necessary and

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treat pneumonia we have
at least one morning

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a chain also encourage Ugandans to continue
washing their hands with soap and water

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or Hans unties and to prevent the
spread of the virus the best measure of

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preventing Korvin 1000 doctors say is for
everyone in affected countries to stay

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put and limit physical contact and wished
for the virus to stop spreading for money

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of being used as comfort became the union
of clinical offices of the us that

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governmental employee low clinical offices
to manage the coronavirus fun Demick

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speaking in honor of the yesterday Tuesday
Union chairperson Peter watch Iraq

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expressed concerns about

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a clinical officer's one listens for the
coronavirus cases as the real geometer

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reports from Nairobi Kenya has already
recorded its full of cases of the virus

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addressing the media you know be like can
you not often go to offices has expressed

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fear as all the m.m.

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Was being infected wait attending to the
affected fish and they can stamp us on its

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own machine and said that all medical offices
on needed. To attend to the patients

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and manage this prating of coronavirus
that has increased the affected number in

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Kenya from 3 to 4 there in the last 2 areas
we need more medics and then made it

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plain that help the workers. In
the broadly mission they have

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because they will be the ones to give the
civic education and even the money these

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give me I think it's not that. It's not

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a time for. And. It's time that we
come together and that is where the

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union we have to say they're going to work
with government to ensure that we bring

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out the guy and after some man and equipment
in most health facilities across the

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country might be

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a hindrance in fighting coronavirus pandemic
in Kenya and so should I say as they

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had to walk I should be provided with that
commendation to limit the spread of the

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virus to their family members for help
because sometimes they also get infected in

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the process number one of again we have

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a number of family be infected
developing on how the virus goes and

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they may need to quarantine so we need more
than enough health workers so that then

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there will be

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a need to work and then we will have enough
to go and in using We are asking the

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government to provide accommodation
for so that we have a working in

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a police car not to remain there Kenya
has conducted $111.00 Tests since the

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country started running the $1000.00 tests
I did this month and it's out of $71.00

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cases when I got saved that is 6 people
and observation and 4 already tested

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positive for the virus speaking yesterday
to say I said I was in Iraq the president

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who can answer has declared Saturday 20
foster national prayer day for the country

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we have knowledge in ways that we are nothing
without talk and we have learned over

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time turning to God in such times gives
us not only comfort. But also hope and

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strength to overcome even those challenges
I have decided to declare this coming

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Saturday as

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a National Day of Prayer on that day
through our religious leaders we will be

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asking God for His forgiveness anything
that we may have done wrong or wrong on

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that day we shall together ask for his
protection and blessing for our nation for

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our people for the world and all global
citizen ministry says all travel into Kenya

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including citizens diplomats presidents
and United Nations staff will say I got

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a document that they will have clients
and Drew is reporting for v.a.

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Is they break up break I am more in

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a jumble in arrow making it. Into the brick
Africa on the Voice of America James

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bought it in Washington today is Wednesday
March 18th the Liberian government says

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is. The positive for the coronavirus
disease the new case is

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a domestic worker in the home of the
official who tested positive for the disease

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on Monday this week they have ministry says
the 2nd case was the primary contact of

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the oficial when he returned to receive
from Switzerland health minister. Tells

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Bua Liberia is currently

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a robust contact trace of all those who
might have come into contact with the

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affected persons were able
to contact with. Contacts.

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Taking. Them to come from.

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The contact came from one of the
direct immediate contact. For him to.

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Be looking at the many. People.

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Around. Between 20200 so he was in it this
guy so would he want to be easy on him

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and if it is identified most people
would have sat and gone into the deep

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recognition that to be. Told them we would
we were able to identify to me and I

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mean if that got down into what the
passengers at the time in life do you already

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are down to most of what we are currently
to Kitty we have the addresses

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and we have sent people to identify
with the minutes of this new Columbia's

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preparedness for discovery in terms of
contact trees seen as evidence that it was

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doing

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a good job as soon as we saw what it was
to Rhino Oh most of the suspected cases

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saw all the contacts were able to
do that frequently so for that up

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a bit in terms of the equipment that sent
it to us and other things we do have to

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welcome or need in contact with

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a lot of fatness while looking to make sure
that all of these things I want to grow

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Luckily for us to my species to is very
stable but we have some vested interest in

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the country that we can have oxygen from
post to me just that we have some other

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things that make it initially here on the
ground the issue of tests. Is Liberia

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ready in terms of doing a
confirmation test we have test to do

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a lot of testing right now with spec
teams so we're in a few of these even

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a suspect in

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a rapid test so we'll be able to do at the
right now can I do the rapid test but oh

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the Ino

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a week be able to drive it is to test kids
coming if you move in the other the last

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information was

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a prosperous well to get some of the
reputation in the country what. People are

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going to be one. Of the
what is going right. It

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was

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a while to. Start on the track to
track everything down. Time in

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a lot of happened when people got
it he quickly went down and.

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It was

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a condition. Which is
different from. Coming

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for you. If you take somebody
getting. In the ear is not

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a matter of you find me it will find you
this is the reason why we have to be

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intensifying contact we don't want
people to run away because money

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a week is not going to help with
all means possible to. See it.

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In terms of because it makes people
afraid and people who try to run

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a weak government in collaboration with the
Medical Research Council has announced

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its 1st case of the.
Health. Summit made the

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announcement shortly after the president
will address the nation on the current of

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the respond. By

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a report from Raleigh North Carolina. Do

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you not to.

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Turn me into. Going to.

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Church for me or. To meet some of this.

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Vision. To make her

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a. Some

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of this statement. Made
by Prince who really did

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a show on he's going to. Come back to.
This in this late or long distance.

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Government officials including.
This. Foreign Minister is

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departments and agencies. People are doing

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probably got inside here by declare that.

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The leader of the United Democratic prime.
News conference on Tuesday is she is.

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Going to be 98 should not be let in
the hands of the government. Seized

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me find. Me. A lead listen
seen even India because of

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these. All of. You government
and you can be an insult

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to convene and then make. Me
want to come back in China

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a little spreading around. The Edge
neighboring countries. I'm only not going to

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countries affected by $19.00.
How they recorded in their

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friendship between nations. About it
in front of me no medications really

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coronavirus he. Is not in just

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a crisis. In the sense of the us economy.

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Economy wouldn't be able to we
start such a pandemic u.d.p.

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And clean the government isn't me as you
can see but you can increase the chances

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of the fund in the. No you didn't really
not also raise you need for the gun ban

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going men don't want us we
should ignore you we need

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a break figure bonded in by reporting
from around you know Caroline Zimbabwe's

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inflation rate has more than doubled
according to the latest figures the rich

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husband released for the 1st time in 9
months after the Zimbabwe government

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controversially suspended the publication
of the. The ground 0 has more this is the

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national statistics agency is instead this
week said the country's Yoni inflation

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rate for the month of February as measured
by the all items Consumer Price Index

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student 540 percent the last time the no
inflation rate was reported in June 29th

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in its 2 did what I did incidentally 6
percent I couldn't resist that the month of

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my flesh and raging February was 18 and

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a half to set up shop in the for the January
figure of just over 2 percent of the

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soaring inflation as the economy of the
country is being just as it confronts the

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risk of the call the 19 virus more than

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a year of hyper inflation is eroding
the household income when eke out

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a living is based on the law is that t.g.

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Which is fast losing the right to
the us to like. It or to our t.j.

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Is up from 36 last week on the part of the
market but he says businesses have had

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to raise their prices on the streets of
la I have seen bubbles 2nd largest city

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citizens feel the pain of
inflation Rosa Moyo is

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a receptionist and they think you wouldn't
mother of one here now because when we.

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Enjoy Myself I've got

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a kid I need to buy things for
making. In my day I need to buy from

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now if you buy it because of the you can't
we can't afford maybe I think the only

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with. Any. Thank you I don't know how the
case he seemed to blow it recently raised

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the hikes and says fees by 400 percent
giving the local government is financially

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seeking many residents say

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a few months ago city council suspended the
provision of basics of this is such as

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I've been saying this isn't like this
connection but residents say they are one

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incomes have not grown pension at

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a do better way Zene. The
city desolate. Citizens.

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By something silly need to be said for
example as used to be named the alleged need

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to add water now to one box for months
and then bad I'm pushing it he says he

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doesn't deserve the results from the new
displayed resistance that it is. No

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solution to come in just the money
does so they just need to be

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a moment of conception and then put this
is when to have that God should give them

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is this disincentive into actually did
they need to do is say his that while he

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knows inflation is not the consul's Ford
had 8 I don't feel for most presidents

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whether they're reducing inflation
500 percent but that's not

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a muscle that is full. For the u.k.

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We have been deceived that. To
cushion the last week to 10 k.g.

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Beg off and subsidize an e-mail went
up to $250.00 from about $180.00 does

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a 2 liter bottle of cooking oil now costs
$84.00 from about $70.00 spent on the

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kind of fruit and vegetable vendor says
business feels the pressure of the higher

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prices. The way the morning that the new
genesis of blessed them looked good to me

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it was a box with. A list. Going Belushi

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a month ago now they're good for
20200 until there just isn't

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a good done to me just like getting goods
in Congress is the government should

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return to the old knowledge of. It's

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a system which is customized to school
funding and put you feel a this is

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a day that's it for this Wednesday March
18th edition of daybreak Africa on behalf

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of the daybreak Africa team producer
Nicole back from reporters Peter Clottey

00:28:51
rakish truck as well as Post editor something
along with all of our engineers and

00:28:57
gents about in Washington wishing you

00:28:59
a very good day. This is Peter
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devastating endemic
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you can live any. Credit at 3 u.s.

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States. A while one can
see the orders expressed

00:30:18
ratio. Is. Ahead of the new. Heartfelt

00:30:25
tribute to the late n.b.a.

00:30:27
Star Kobe Bryant it's all on
today's international edition mass

00:30:33
disruptions are cascading around the world
as governments struggle to slow the

00:30:37
spread of the coronavirus while also
trying to keep their economies afloat the

00:30:42
chaos on Tuesday stretched from Lithuania
where border traffic jams were 40 miles

00:30:48
deep to the u.s.

00:30:50
State of Detroit where bus service came to

00:30:52
a sudden stop when drivers didn't show up
for work increasingly worried about the

00:30:57
economic fallout of the global shutdown
several nations announced rescue packages

00:31:02
totaling hundreds of
billions of dollars the u.s.

00:31:05
Government is looking at quickly sending
money directly to Americans White House

00:31:10
bureau chief Steve Herman files this report
President Donald Trump says he does not

00:31:15
want to see airlines going out of business
or people losing their jobs or not

00:31:19
having any money due to coded 19
sweeping the country and causing

00:31:23
a halt to economic activity so we're going
big and that's the way it will be and

00:31:28
that's the way everybody seems to like
it Treasury Secretary Steven minutia and

00:31:32
says the money many wouldn't say how
much could be sent directly to Americans

00:31:37
within 2 weeks Steve Herman v.o.a.
News at the White House. Well u.s.

00:31:42
Stocks gained back some of their recent
massive losses after President Trump's

00:31:47
plans to ease the economic blow were
announced the Dow rallied Tuesday about

00:31:53
a 1000 points spot there was still

00:31:56
a lot of uncertainty and
fear but there still is

00:31:59
a lot of uncertainty and fear Joining us
to talk about the economic stress former

00:32:04
Obama economic adviser
Austin goals a there is

00:32:08
a lot of talk about the fact that we are
likely already in a recession but the d.

00:32:13
Word is now also being brought up
depression and not takes the fear to

00:32:19
a whole new level do you see an economic
depression on the horizon I don't think so

00:32:24
and let's just get the terms right what's
the difference between a recession

00:32:30
a depression. Recession turns
into a depression when there is

00:32:36
a collapse usually of the financial system
so that the normal self correcting the

00:32:41
mechanism of the business
cycle you need Normally it's

00:32:45
a cycle they go down it goes up then it
goes down and it stays down and it can't

00:32:50
come back that doesn't seem thus far to be
at all the pattern of what this thing is

00:32:57
and historically the things that lead to
depression zx are in the financial system

00:33:03
collapses thus far what we're facing is

00:33:06
a very abrupt very serious
drop in demand by

00:33:12
consumers in every country in the world
where this virus is so I'm hoping that

00:33:17
that's

00:33:18
a temporary phenomenon and one of our
policy challenges is precisely to try to

00:33:23
prevent very sharp temporary
hit from morphing into

00:33:28
a permanent problem by letting people in
companies and whatever go bankrupt and

00:33:34
things like that well if they've got the
airlines basically looking like they're

00:33:37
close to collapsing with no business and
I know everything's shutting down and

00:33:42
we're hearing from the president this could
last through the summer some say longer

00:33:47
How does an economy survive in that
situation well of course it matters

00:33:52
a lot how long does this last but let's
say the president is right in that we're

00:33:56
going to have

00:33:57
a peak and then the virus itself come down
I think the administration is on hand

00:34:02
with their new stimulus
proposal to start rediscovering

00:34:07
a bunch of the complications of the bailouts
in the financial crisis which began

00:34:13
with if you save somebody
but you don't have

00:34:16
a framework that you've explained of who
deserves money and how much money did they

00:34:21
deserve everybody lines up so people are
going to say Wait why give $50000000000.00

00:34:26
to the airlines and not to the workers
that they just laid off or why did. The

00:34:31
money to the airline industry but not the
restaurant and why not you know and so we

00:34:36
go down the line so I kind of
think they need to develop

00:34:39
a framework and I think the frameworks got
to center around what in the financial

00:34:45
language we might call forbearance which
is writ large versions of the government

00:34:51
saying people don't have to pay their taxes
by April 15th and that we're going to

00:34:55
give you

00:34:56
a sensually an interest free loan till
October to pay your taxes because we know

00:35:02
that you're in

00:35:02
a cash crunch right now right if we could
Rip Van Winkle style go into hibernation

00:35:09
than 3 months that would be
a huge drop in the g.d.p.

00:35:13
But he woke up and there was this or that
happened but now it's going to be fine it

00:35:17
way that would be perfect and so I
think what you're likely to see is

00:35:21
a lot more actions like Italy and it beginning
they say they sort of made fun of it

00:35:26
but they announced nobody has to make

00:35:28
a mortgage payment and there won't be any
foreclosures or even actions for $60.00

00:35:33
days I believe it was and stuff like
that makes sense in a way that is

00:35:38
a rescue but it's not

00:35:39
a bailout if you're going to explicitly
do bailouts I think the other thing we

00:35:43
learned from the financial crisis is you
don't want to just hand money to companies

00:35:48
without thinking about what are the
restrictions on what they're allowed to do with

00:35:53
the money and probably you
want to give the u.s.

00:35:56
Taxpayer equity so that if the virus goes
away demand comes back those companies

00:36:02
restored of profitability and their
stock prices go up it's not just

00:36:07
a things for nothing it sure is

00:36:09
a policy that we gave them that
the American taxpayer gets

00:36:12
a pay back when if they get

00:36:14
a big back people are worried they're
worried about lot of people being laid off

00:36:18
how are they going to pay their bills
are they going to get a break and so

00:36:21
a lot of those things you just said Of
course people also worried about there for

00:36:24
a long case wondering if you're even
going to have a retirement when they see

00:36:27
a 3000 drop in the Dow That's

00:36:30
a scary number to see. And wonder if you're
just going to get wiped out and look

00:36:34
that was on one day but
that horrible day followed

00:36:38
a couple of horrible weeks right before
that so so there's no question of that here

00:36:45
plus that the government and the health
officials are telling us don't go outside

00:36:50
don't go they don't congregate don't go to
movies don't go to concerts don't fly an

00:36:54
airplane don't know you all

00:36:56
a bunch of services which actually make
up the majority of our economy that in my

00:37:02
view it contributes to what I call virus
economics that virus economics is

00:37:06
different from business cycle economics
or normal economics because the most

00:37:12
important thing you can do for the economy
is slow the spread of the virus because

00:37:18
if we could wave

00:37:19
a magic wand and show people because of
the medicine or because of the public

00:37:24
health things that we've
done this is not as big of

00:37:28
a threat to your health we would have
immediately see a return to growth for

00:37:33
a wide parts of the economy and I think
trying to do explicit old fashioned

00:37:39
stimulus before you have

00:37:41
a handle on the hells part of that crisis
I think is going to prove hard to do

00:37:47
right I think it's a bit like in

00:37:49
a financial crisis they always say you
can't do anything until you stop the bank

00:37:54
runs that when people are in that panic
and pulling their money out you can't

00:37:58
really do stimulus till that settles down
and I think the healthy equivalent here

00:38:04
is pretty direct that the president's
proposing $500000000000.00 payroll tax cut

00:38:09
besides the fact that

00:38:11
a lot of the people who you most want to
get money to are the people who have just

00:38:14
lost John Right exactly and yet separate
from that I don't think that giving

00:38:20
a payroll tax to try to encourage people
to go out and spend I don't think it's

00:38:24
going to work while we're still in this
period I think the best thing you can do is

00:38:29
anything that slows their spread of that.
It was former Obama economic adviser

00:38:34
Austin Goldsby thank you so much for being
with us former Vice President Joe Biden

00:38:38
easily defeated Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders and Florida's Democratic

00:38:42
presidential primary Tuesday securing
another large amount of delegates needed to

00:38:47
get him to the nomination with 219
delegates at stake Florida was considered

00:38:52
a key win between Biden and Sanders The
state also will be crucial for president

00:38:58
Trump's reelection chances while 4 states
were set to vote in Tuesday's primaries

00:39:04
one of them didn't go forward at the urging
of Ohio's governor Ohio secretary of

00:39:09
state Frankel Rose told
tell us why x. T.v.

00:39:14
He contacted state election officials to
postpone the presidential primary out of

00:39:19
concerns over the coded 19 pandemic made
it clear that my directions of those idiot

00:39:26
to hold an election of 2 seconds until Obama
is to vote by Bill between all of that

00:39:30
against what kind of clarity going forward
but voters like these say they're

00:39:36
disappointed about the postponement of
recourses that you can see. Here because he

00:39:42
says it was it doesn't matter where
it is or where you know. It's like

00:39:49
building is way more important I think is
horrible especially the way things are

00:39:54
going now we see that their right to do
it would be imposed I don't know if it's

00:39:59
Monday very very fast us this time you
know given the situation with the primary

00:40:04
elections falling smack in the middle of

00:40:07
a global pandemic there are now new calls
to expand vote by mail options to protect

00:40:13
vulnerable populations and of course
Democratic instructions primary elections in

00:40:19
Georgia and Louisiana were to be held in
late March in early April but officials

00:40:23
have postponed the polls because of the
coronavirus threat we want to protect the

00:40:28
health and safety the only b.c.

00:40:30
I mean by doing harm. To prevent the spread
of this highly infectious disease the

00:40:35
deadly outbreak has forced schools and
businesses to close and the cancellation of

00:40:39
public events as officials seek to contain
the virus and visor reason against

00:40:44
public gatherings have impacted the
presidential campaign Sunday's Democratic

00:40:48
debate between former Vice President Joe
Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders

00:40:52
was held without an audience present to
ensure polls continue during the crisis

00:40:57
senator one white in a Democrat from
the state of Oregon has introduced

00:41:01
a bill to expand vote by mail
options in all 50 states

00:41:06
a move owning rights
groups have long advocated

00:41:09
a little growers' although her good
everyone desiring this is ironically

00:41:15
a unique opportunity to modernize
and they are only he says in

00:41:20
a meeting or better in every marriage
currently 34 states and the District of

00:41:25
Columbia offer no excuse absentee voting
by mail some like Washington and Colorado

00:41:31
have eliminated in person voting
completely other states require

00:41:35
a justification for requesting an early
ballot such as conflicting travel or work

00:41:40
schedules as the grown of virus threatens
Democrats and Republicans alike

00:41:45
a safer voting alternative could attract
bipartisan support Brian Padden v.o.a.

00:41:51
News Washington.

00:41:58
Here's some of the other headlines
we're following at the l.a.

00:42:01
Friends town hall is lit up with the
colors of the Italian flag Tuesday in

00:42:05
a shell of solidarity with the country
as it continues to battle the problem of

00:42:10
Iris The death toll also
rose. $2500.00 over the past

00:42:16
24 hours while the. Cases
increased 31000 it's the

00:42:23
largest number outside of the crisis
is pushed to the breaking point of the

00:42:28
epicenter of the. Region's scrambling for.

00:42:35
The number of people infected rising.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent

00:42:40
April 22nd for

00:42:41
a nationwide referendum on.
Power until at least 20.

00:42:50
3 young. Through the amendment.

00:42:58
Chambers of the national parliament

00:43:00
a. Russian region. History

00:43:11
disease. Mystery

00:43:17
disease. With their.

00:43:28
Companies. For all the latest on the virus

00:43:35
and. Israel is issued new restrictions
for the whole country to fight the

00:43:41
coronavirus basically putting the entire
country under quarantine except for

00:43:46
grocery shopping and medical care public
transport is also being curtailed Israel

00:43:52
is opening special drive through testing
stations to find more people infected with

00:43:57
Corona as health officials worry it is
spreading fast Linda Gradstein reports for

00:44:02
v.o.a.

00:44:03
From Jerusalem except for urgent medical
care and to restock supplies Israelis are

00:44:09
being told to stay at home and avoid
parks beaches and even open spaces the

00:44:14
restrictions come after some Israelis
went to the beach taking advantage of

00:44:18
a warm spring day in the closure of many
schools and offices under the new rules

00:44:24
people are being allowed out to walk their
dogs or to take short walks in the fresh

00:44:28
air the measures however have sparked
another round of panic shopping as many

00:44:33
people fear that supermarkets will close
despite government assurances Professor

00:44:38
Manfred green from the School of Public
Health at the University of Haifa said the

00:44:42
virus is spreading quickly according to
what we read in the old and the coding work

00:44:48
we are live and I'm about. This why are
you arguing that going to spread very

00:44:53
widely everywhere. A
matter of time but. Doing

00:45:00
everything. We can because.

00:45:08
Israel has more than 320 confirmed cases
but health officials say thousands likely

00:45:14
have the infection Israel's my game
divided dome Emergency Service said that

00:45:18
starting Wednesday it will open drive
through testing stations in the country's

00:45:23
large cities to enable hundreds of tests
to be conducted each day tens of thousands

00:45:28
of Israelis are in strict home quarantine
after coming in contact with an infected

00:45:34
person Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
recently in. Now said Israel should Bet

00:45:38
security service will begin using cyber
tools to track coronavirus patients and

00:45:44
warn anyone who has been in contact with
them the tools are also being used to

00:45:49
enforce home quarantine to heal assurance
Altshuler of the Israel Democracy

00:45:54
Institute says she's concerned about
these new tools what Netanyahu

00:45:59
a noun and I think very very
honored in its. Authority.

00:46:06
Which were granted to secret order.
You know ordered to fight the Vala

00:46:13
problem or the. I don't think the appropriate
amid the new crisis Israel still has

00:46:20
no government more than 2 weeks after an
election its 3rd this year former chief of

00:46:25
staff Benny Gantz is
trying to put together

00:46:27
a unity government with Netanyahu guys
tried after the previous election but was

00:46:32
not successful Linda
Gradstein for the l.a.

00:46:35
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continues. 019 virus cannot stop Women's

00:47:47
History Month and we won't let it hold
us back from profiling the amazing

00:47:51
accomplishments of women I recently had

00:47:54
a chance to sit down with Navy Vice Admiral
Nancy Norton she's the 1st woman at the

00:47:59
helm of the Defense Information
Systems Agency and

00:48:03
a commander of the Joint Force Headquarters
Department of Defense Information

00:48:08
Network that is quite

00:48:10
a title and very historic but we're so glad
to speak with you the title that I have

00:48:15
doesn't really describe what I do in

00:48:18
a way that most people can understand but
but I know the breadth and depth of what

00:48:24
that title means and it is an enormous
responsibility and enormous opportunity

00:48:31
with that title I have about 16000 people
around the globe that work for me that

00:48:37
are are responsible for securing operating
and defending the Defense of the United

00:48:43
States Defense Department's networks.
And providing communication for

00:48:50
our war fighters for our our Pentagon all
the way down to people I think tactical

00:48:57
edge and so that opportunity to
support every one of our d.o.t.

00:49:03
Missions with all of our people and ensuring
that I can enable those people to be

00:49:07
effective and the job is just

00:49:09
a wonderful opportunity that I would never
replace and how does it feel knowing

00:49:14
that you are the 1st woman ever
to hold this title to to gain

00:49:20
a status Well it's

00:49:22
a real honor it absolutely is an Army
has an honor to be the director and the

00:49:26
commander of these these amazing organizations
it's an wonderful opportunity to

00:49:31
lead

00:49:32
a very diverse workforce and so being the
1st woman to do that we have had lots of

00:49:37
senior women in into this what we call
it and. For many many years by. It's the

00:49:44
1st time we've ever had a female as

00:49:47
a leader and so being able to represent
all of that diverse workforce to

00:49:53
include all of the women in the workforce
that work so hard day in and day out

00:49:59
really. It allows me to represent them in

00:50:03
a way that hopefully I can I can do them
justice and do you feel like you are

00:50:07
respected as an equal among the people
that you oversee overall or or your peers

00:50:13
for that matter absolutely that's one of
the things about being in the Department

00:50:18
of Defense and being in the
military is that it is very much

00:50:21
a meritocracy if you do your job well if
you're performing it doesn't matter and

00:50:27
what your background as where you come
from what your gender is what your races

00:50:31
it's all about Are You

00:50:33
a team player and are you performing
the mission. When you were

00:50:38
a little girl would you have ever thought
this is where you would be where you

00:50:42
would end up absolutely not
so 1st of all I grew up in

00:50:47
a small rural town and in Oregon.
Very very small I didn't

00:50:53
even get to travel a lot when I was

00:50:55
a child so you know I imagining this
kind of exposure and opportunity was not

00:51:01
something that I had envisioned at all but
I always wanted to serve I always wanted

00:51:07
to travel I always wanted to be part of
something bigger than me I wanted to give

00:51:11
back I always knew that was important to
me and so this meandering path that led me

00:51:16
to the Navy is one that I am really grateful
that I got to choose how did you get

00:51:22
here also I wanted to be

00:51:24
a doctor. And thought that that was what
I was going to end up doing and like I

00:51:30
said small rural town
blue collar family. Not

00:51:35
a lot of money I couldn't afford to go
to college without scholarships so I

00:51:40
consider joining the military when I was
in high school to to get callers. Dollar

00:51:44
ships and that didn't work out. I mean I
didn't need to because I'm kind of getting

00:51:49
academic scholarships so I went to college
pre-med major but then my grades weren't

00:51:55
good enough to get scholarships for medical
school so much higher bar and so I

00:52:00
started looking at the military
again as an opportunity to get

00:52:03
a military medical scholarship and and so
wound up talking to the recruiters and

00:52:09
found out that the best power to do that
would be to join the Navy and then apply

00:52:14
for the scholarship program so I
joined the Navy they sent me to

00:52:18
a telecommunications job you know communications
long haul communications for ships

00:52:23
and submarines and aircraft in Hawaii and
I loved the job and I never applied for

00:52:29
the medical scholarship program fascinating
you forgot all about it or you just

00:52:33
sort of let it go and let life take you
where you where you where you wanted to

00:52:37
that's right so initially you know I thought
about it over and over and said But I

00:52:43
love what I'm doing and I couldn't see
myself loving that more than what I was

00:52:47
doing and the opportunities that the Navy
was giving me the people that I worked

00:52:51
with and the people that I was I
had the opportunity to lead as as

00:52:55
a very junior officer and leading lots of
sailors they were doing great work for

00:53:01
our nation it was just too too good to
pass up and so I kept doing and apparently

00:53:07
you kept advancing within
the ranks. That's right so

00:53:15
you know I went to the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey California where you

00:53:18
spent time all right and I got my master's
degree and computer science and that led

00:53:24
me into even more work and cybersecurity
and networking and the kinds of things

00:53:31
that I've been doing now for

00:53:32
a very long time 2020 plus years 20.
5 years that I've been working hard

00:53:39
and. Continue to do and now 16000
people. Well you're overseeing and

00:53:45
cybersecurity I mean I can't think of many
more things that could be more important

00:53:49
right now that's right it absolutely as
you know everything that we do in the

00:53:54
Department of Defense and so much of what
we do in in the nation as individuals and

00:54:00
as as

00:54:01
a country and businesses rely on on our
capabilities in cyber domain and if we're

00:54:07
not doing that securely then all of those
capabilities all of those missions are at

00:54:12
risk. I can't help ask you you
know we we are in the midst of

00:54:17
a presidential campaign we had

00:54:19
a very diverse group of Democrats to begin
with running for president we had an

00:54:25
Asian American we had African-Americans we
had women why do you think that the u.s.

00:54:30
Is not yet. As far as we've come and
particularly someone like you in the position

00:54:37
you were in why do you think the u.s.

00:54:39
Has yet to. Be able to put

00:54:43
a woman in the White House. I think it's

00:54:48
a level of comfort and and the opportunity
to see women in the right positions

00:54:55
that will give them the confidence that
that they're very comfortable having

00:55:00
a woman in that position you know that we
we see it in certain positions we see it

00:55:06
in certain positions and as they they
progress and we see more and more women in

00:55:12
leadership roles at the highest level of
government and it gives more and more

00:55:16
people the opportunity to say I can see
that I can envision that and then it's just

00:55:21
finding the right moment so you think it's

00:55:23
a matter of people just aren't comfortable
because they haven't seen it yet so they

00:55:28
just. Or do you think it's women
themselves the often undersell

00:55:34
themselves and don't think they're
capable. Well I wouldn't say that women

00:55:39
necessarily undersell
themselves in terms of

00:55:42
a potential for the presidency.
But but in general I think

00:55:46
a lot of women do sell themselves short
haul themselves back. Underestimate their

00:55:52
ability underestimate particularly their
leadership ability and what that means in

00:55:58
jobs have

00:55:59
a significant responsibility to keep pushing
that across you know all of the women

00:56:05
that we have in the country and the world
and particularly to our young girls. What

00:56:11
would you say to those young girls
what would you say to them. Who in

00:56:18
their lifetime at least young young girls
some of those you know we heard Elizabeth

00:56:23
Warren last week talking about her pinky
swears run for president you know. They've

00:56:29
never seen

00:56:30
a woman in the White House in that position
but you know they haven't lived to live

00:56:35
that long what would you say to them about
their own dreams and aspirations to

00:56:39
encourage them well when I was

00:56:41
a young girl my mother told me you can do
anything you want to do if you put your

00:56:45
mind to it and I would tell them the same
thing and I do tell girls that all of the

00:56:50
time don't hold yourself back there are
lots of other people that are going to try

00:56:56
to put barriers in front of you and try
to hold you back don't be one of them you

00:57:00
push yourself through and and allow
yourself the space to do anything that you

00:57:05
dream of Navy Vice Admiral Nancy Norton the
1st woman of the how I'm of the Defense

00:57:10
Information Systems Agency and the
commander of the Joint Force Headquarters

00:57:14
Department of Defense
Information Network it's

00:57:17
a big title for an important
job we are so happy we had

00:57:20
a chance to get to know you better and
speak with you on Women's History Month

00:57:24
thank you so much for being with us well
thank you Lori I really appreciate the

00:57:27
opportunity to talk to
you and your audience.

00:57:44
A moving song has been the
least. Worldwide still coming to

00:57:51
terms with the sudden death of
legendary basketball star Kobe Bryant.

00:57:58
Along other. Helicopters. As

00:58:04
a divine. Love you. Los Angeles

00:58:11
a song writer. Has been in radio.

00:58:19
You've been listening to international
edition. Car Show today but you can always

00:58:24
find us at. Our director Tracy
Carter and our engineer Jackson.

00:58:31
Laurie London and.

00:58:41
I've.

00:58:52
I've.

00:59:29
I've.

00:59:34
I've.

00:59:41
A major u.s. City is under

00:59:43
a shelter and play. Border because of the
corona virus he said done who reports

00:59:47
about 7000000 people around San Francisco
can only leave their homes for essential

00:59:52
reasons these are the strictest measures
so far in America similar to orders in

00:59:56
parts of Europe New York Mayor Bill de
Blasio has this in mind I think New Yorkers

01:00:01
should be prepared right
now for the possibility of

01:00:05
a shelter in place order it has not
happened yet but Governor Andrew Cuomo his

01:00:11
office immediately pushed
back on the idea of

01:00:13
a shelter in place order for the city but
he favors social distancing How can you

01:00:18
reduce the flow you reduce the spread how
do you reduce the spread you close down

01:00:25
more interaction among people the governor
says New York City would need state

01:00:31
approval for

01:00:31
a shelter in place I may have Donahue former
Vice President Joe Biden and his rival

01:00:36
Bernie Sanders talked about the coronavirus
pandemic right after Biden won the

01:00:41
Democratic primaries in Florida Illinois
and Arizona Tuesday maybe corresponded to

01:00:45
McGuire has that story after the results
were no major candidates left in the race

01:00:50
for the Democratic Party's presidential
nomination focused their remarks on the

01:00:54
Colbert 19 outbreak former Vice President
Joe Biden saying that the people of this

01:00:59
country will overcome the current crisis
that's who we are ordinary people doing

01:01:05
extraordinary things when the need arises
Senator Bernie Sanders calls on the

01:01:10
government to put Medicare and charge of
all the medical coverage I believe we must

01:01:15
do is empower on Medicare.

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