was. hello there i mean you're watching in question broadcasting live from r.t. american national headquarters in washington d.c. the time of year is 7 pm on the east coast 11 pm over in london and 10 am in australia we want to welcome our viewers from all around the world so on to our top story which of course is coded 19 and it's constant ripple effects around the nation and the world the total number of infections worldwide now topping 370000 with about 16000 deaths today china still leading that number with 81000 cases followed by italy with about 59000 and now the u.s.

is rounding off the top 3 at 42000 now taking a closer look at this nation with reported deaths over 550 cases at this point so in an effort to fight those rising numbers in this country the u.s. national guard has been activated in 3 of the hardest hit states new york california and washington state now almost half of all the u.s. cases are all in new york state alone. and several states have also issued a stay at home orders for their residents with some even ordering non-essential businesses to close its doors this means stay at home avoid going out as much as possible unless it's totally essential now current restrictions include the 3 biggest cities in the country new york city los angeles and chicago so overall the policy is going to affect millions of people and here in the nation's capital republicans and democrats are clashing at the senate as the coronavirus rescue.

will fell short of the votes it needed to advance on sunday night and they're back at it today debating on that bill while debating that bill president trump and the coronavirus task force team gave their daily briefing where they emphasized america will not remain in lockdown and looks forward to getting society back and running listen. we also have a large team work you know and what the next steps will be once the medical community gives the region the ok meaning the ok to get going to get back let's go to work our country wasn't built to be shut down this is not a country that was built for this it was not built to be shut down. my administration continues to work with democrats and republicans to reach an agreement on an urgent relief bill for the millions of american workers and small businesses and large businesses that were badly affected by the medical difficulty that we've had. our teams for and fronsac is joining me in studio she's

been following the story all day i should say the fight on capitol hill so what do we know now from what the task force just said so one of the things the president trying to do today manila is he actually signed an executive order that prevents hoarding and any price gouging of supplies you need to fight this virus also there is been an about face with trump actually monella who last week called himself a quote wartime president against an invisible enemy that was one of the things now trump seems open to standing down some of the stricter guidelines like social distancing staying the cure can actually be saying that the cure can't be worse than the disease now this is trump is being bombarded right now by projections of up to 30 percent unemployment rates while the economic growth rates are dropping by 30 percent but task force aides say that trump hasn't made a final decision yet on lifting those social distancing guidelines because health experts right now are saying that they are still needed manila so all this while

you know all this going on you have the senate voted down again corona virus relief bill any word yet if if something can get through soon so earlier today the 2 trillion dollar economic rescue package it failed again 4947 this after. failed to get the vote sunday night because it was at a standstill 47 to 47 was that vote now congress has had time to work this out because this bill was actually introduced by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell last thursday but you can see that now there has been a wrench thrown into the mix because you have house speaker nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats they've released a counterproposal that's more than a 1000 pages long so some fun reading there they're calling this the take responsibility for workers and families act now pull his is the current senate bill drafted by republicans puts corporations 1st not workers and families but some elements and this new bill already exists in that bill that the senate is still

trying to work out so in this new democratic bill corporations would not be allowed to use any taxpayer money for stock buybacks it would boost unemployment insurance strengthen child tax and earned income tax credits and inject $40000000000.00 into schools and universities now it would it would direct payments of $1200.00 this is looking at the republican bill now $1200.00 to each and every american $500.00 for each child $350000000000.00 towards small businesses which would push billions toward hospitals in the unemployment insurance system along with a $500000000000.00 program for businesses states and cities now democrats say that this $1.00 trillion dollars rescue package that doesn't go far enough to get health care and unemployment aid to americans and it gives a $500000000000.00 quote slush fund for corporations when that money they say should go to hospitals medical workers and supplies however republicans say the economy needs to be revived otherwise it could just send the u.s. into a massive depression that could be impossible to get out of so one of the reasons that actually this bill fell short sunday night is you actually had 5 republicans

you know that were not present because of self quarantine which now has posed the question should senators be able to vote remotely well president trump says that he sees no problem with it as long as it's a certain amount of time until we finally get out of this coronavirus crisis. now. what about what's what's going forward i mean we know that some of the people quarantine for example was rand paul right. did that obviously that probably impacted the vote and i think a lot of people also want to know fair and if he was asymptomatic why was he tested so here is one of the things that i actually forgot to mention too with this new bill a lot of people are saying that this is actually a big power move brought forth by speaker pelosi to get something done asap but when it comes to rand paul a lot of people are saying that you know why wasn't he tested and he's actually facing a lot of backlash especially on twitter you know he was tested because they said that to believe that a lot of people that he was in contact with might have tested positive as well one

of those people who was actually just tested him along and his wife vice president mike puns who tested negative but they want to had tested rand paul and it's one of those things where they're saying that why is it that is that a congress to be a senator can write a test with showing no symptoms whatsoever but you know you had a dad who is like new york my daughter has 104 degree fever and i can't get her a test it was a lot of backlash is exactly the anger coming from the american public towards politicians on capitol hill so are there any similar to similarities rather between what's coming out of the democrats and the republicans yes so one of the things is actually the amount of money that each of american would get it's just $1.00 of the things that's in both of these bills but again it's all about the age old argument between democrats or republicans corporations versus people so you have regrets republicans trying to also throw some last minute stuff in these bills to try to

get them you know pass through knowing that they haven't passed before so it's a tit for tat here ok real quick bottom line are people going to get checks and when can they get it so actually most americans again would get at least a $1000.00 but they're still talking about different brackets for example if you make less than $65000.00 or $75000.00 but u.s. treasury secretary steve he said. that his department would be responsible for either sending out the checks via mail or direct deposit if hypothetically let's say a bill gets passed within that lease this week americans could actually see money starting april 6th well yeah all right so we'll see how that goes very project thank you for following this very complicated issue right now. and while the impact of the coronavirus is being felt across the country it has left a wave of uncertainty here in the nation's capital where businesses have been forced to close and across the country unemployment numbers of skyrocketed blevins continues our coverage on cope at 19 with this report. as the united states

prepares for the worst of the coronavirus hundreds of thousands of businesses have been closed and boarded up like this one behind me resulting in massive job loss that experts warn will have a devastating impact on the u.s. economy while residents are ordered to stay home and practice social distancing at all costs the increasing list of business closures and layoffs are coming at a major cost to the u.s. economy from popular clothing stores to famous restaurants to historic easy ems the national push to halt all gatherings of more than 10 and the boarded up businesses here in the nation's capital are a reflection of what is happening across the country with stocks falling and unemployment numbers skyrocketing in response to the latest calls to the economy the president of the st louis federal reserve is warning that national unemployment could hit 30 percent higher than it was during the great depression and 3 times more than the 2007 to 2009 recession experts are now warning that the shutdown from the coronavirus could cause a layoff like the united states has never seen before they note that while the

worst month for job losses during the financial crisis was 800000 in march 2009 forecasts for april 2020 range from 500-0025 1000000 while cities across the u.s. are moving to protect residents by expanding eligibility for unemployment insurance offering financial assistance for businesses and stopping evictions and utilities cut off many americans of war not will be nearly enough as they face life without a paycheck i have 2 kids at home i know take care of them feed them and get through this we don't know how long when you have no idea how long that will be how can you predict if you will make a shelter in place orders are being put in place across the nation from philadelphia to dallas here in washington d.c. the attorney general shared his support for the move and said he believes it would reduce the spread of coronavirus and keep residents safe but with millions of americans staying home as the closure of all non-essential businesses is implemented. at the impact of the coronavirus many worry that its impact on the

economy is only just beginning reporting in washington rachel woman's artsy. let's head over to california where r t correspondent natasha sweet has more on an issue that is trending in the golden state that's got a lot of consumers up in arms. even though there are laws against price gouging some stores are taking advantage of the situation and now $1.00 liquor store in fresno was fined $10000.00 as a result as people are scrambling to stock their houses up with food water and cleaning supplies some businesses aren't playing by the rules super liquor store in fresno was fined $10000.00 for allegedly attempting to sell bottled water around 4 times the normal cost and the same thing is happening in los angeles city officials are looking to bring attention to stores driving up the prices of items in high demand like bleach and hand sanitizer city attorney mike fay or says los angeles city prohibits price increases of more than 10 percent during an emergency he says

quote no retailer no seller can sell a good service medical supplies and so forth but more than 10 percent more than they sold the item before the emergency according to his office staff came across to one liter containers of hand sanitizer for $140.00 they also discovered 8 half gallons of bleach for a whopping $100.00 similar stories are being reported from around the country some even online retailers offering toilet paper for $10.00 a roll and facemasks for $40.00 even major online retailers like amazon and e bay have implemented policies against price gouging the only problem some of these listings are posted faster than they can be taken down further legislation to combat price gouging was introduced in the house last week california is $1.00 of the hardest hit states with 30 deaths and more than $600.00 confirmed cases of covert 19 now president trump has activated the u.s. now. the hospital ship mercy in route from san diego it will be docked in los

angeles for those not infected with copd 19 this will free up existing hospitals for those with the virus according to l.a. mayor eric carr said he this will become the largest hospital in the city with more than 1000 beds this will allow health care workers to focus on chronic virus patients while increasing the amount of much needed ventilators now there are other major changes happening up and down the coast of california beaches in san diego the scent of monica pier and beach parking lots in santa monica have been closed hoping to better enforce social distancing reporting in los angeles suites. all right as the entire world seeks a cure for coping like the one scientist here in the u.s. already way ahead of the curve just ahead jacob lendl of the popular netflix bill pandemic talks to us about his team back then hunters is racing to save mankind and then over in sports regina hamm shares the viral video of this rising future boxing

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movements to civil wars to tech breakthroughs to epidemics because our journalists and audience ally dear to question more. along the forest social distancing became the new norm and before kobe 1000 swept the world a different kind of scientist hit mainstream popularity on netflix as documentary called pandemic now some view him as a rogue scientist others say he's the man who may save the world from this real life pandemic jacob glanville is a computational immuno engineer he's also the co-founder and chief science officer of distributed bio and he joined me a little earlier to discuss this global crisis. you know engineers use math and computers to go into the start of. the program.

special by engineering techniques assisted by computers to help us take all antibodies against the sars virus and adapt them to recognize and neutralize the company's 90000 bikers so as a scientist in this field what can you tell us about this novel coronavirus and if this strain and others are they occurring naturally. yes or something as if these are coming from natural sources it could be a barrier for some other creature coronaviruses are very big family of viruses and unfortunately this one is very infectious and humans and it's much more deadly than influenza so it's spreading pretty pretty quickly throughout the globe and we're transitioning. trying to stop it from getting into countries now and medication measures. already in the country trying to stop it getting. and you have a number of patents to your credit have any of those patents been applied toward

the type of work that you're doing now for a coded 1000 vaccine which we hear you might be about a month away from a major breakthrough. so there's 2 types of medicines one can vision here one is a vaccine that is valuable but it takes a really long time to get the 18 months before we have a vaccine available and the other problem with the vaccine is that the vaccine relies on the immune system the 1st to receive so that things don't typically work that well in the elderly or the immunocompromised and unfortunately in this case the elderly and the immunocompromised are particularly hard hit. so one of my laboratory is doing is developing an antibody test that anybody would use into a patient it doesn't matter if they're old or immunocompromised and it immediately starts working to protect wow unfortunately it's sad to hear that it's not going to be very a political for for those who are actually are dying from it but it's

a step in the right direction and how do you then the role of big pharma in solving this new pandemic or perhaps the government are either of them helping or are they harming innovation. so i just want to clarify some my own advice anybody will work on patience and overcome you know compromising the elderly have a different set of x. . treat that area and it's much faster so that thing you have to give to healthy people and have to wait 6 or 7 weeks for their means of them to provide protection where this can work on anybody and it can work on patients that's why we think it's the right treatment now wow that is fascinating ok that thank you for clarifying. the 2nd question and in terms of. like big pharma i want to know i don't know maybe your competition necessarily but big pharma what's their role and solving this or government's role in solving pandemics are they helping. solve problems around the

hampering in or in of innovation. so i would say the big picture is that we're all in this together because we all care about our families our loved ones and the global economy that we all live in the big pharma to have this producing medicines like vaccines and they're doing that quite well but that will take a team months maybe a little less to deliver there are are also some big farmers working on antibodies although we believe our technology is much faster we could use more help from the government and potentially partnerships with big pharma with our drugs so we are leading our engineering in the next few weeks and worsening the medicine to the military to test it the bigger is in its ability to neutralize this virus but after that in order to get the people who need it globally as quickly as possible we need to run a phase one slash 2 study and that needs to be done in the summer as soon as possible that study will let us know is this phase and is effective and therefore can we start releasing the drug under compassionate use the trees we're not going to try to charge a bunch more we just want to make sure it's out there so people can start getting

treated and in order to do that we need to spend a lot more money in the normally spend on a phase one study and we think government should support us in doing that and real quickly jacob how is distributed by a different from other people trying to solve this problem i mean what made netflix go tap your shoulder and tap your company what makes you different. i think there's a couple things one is that we are willing to innovate or try new types of technologies one unique thing about our companies that we never took on venture capital we were profitable since the day of founding and so we've constantly we've been if it is we had to build things that work the companies want so we have to be different from suitable companies and small biotech to work with us to develop antibodies and therapeutics in partnership with them and we use those technologies are so to go after really hard problems things like broad spectrum back things for influenza or in this case neutralizing antibody against. absolutely fascinating work that you're doing at distributed bio thank you so much for carving

out a few minutes of your time to share your insights with us jacob glanville and distributed by a thank you. continuing our coverage on coven 1000 for weeks now we have been getting updates on this virus from our elected leaders vice president mike pence leading the coronavirus task force and reading press conferences from the white house as you know but a lot of people around the country are starting to wonder why they're not hearing a whole lot from medical professionals so earlier i was joined by media legend host of politicking you know him larry king here's what he had to say about the topic. politicians are supposed to leave and some do a wonderful andrew cuomo has been amazing during this period of showing leadership but he doesn't know medicine and you're right the more you talk to professionals the more you learn. and you know larry just today the senate debated this rescue

bill to combat coronavirus and also it includes obviously money to help everyday people democrats block the vote on this nearly $2.00 trillion dollar bill how can this be any relief to americans who are desperate for answers and all we're hearing about is this bickering out of capitol hill. and that's been since time immemorial and that's that's the nature of politics is i think i'm right and you're wrong. i don't know but in my mind thing is the good politicians are open minded but they are in the minority. it is what it is we have a lead to the official you know the best people among us don't run for office. the best people among us do not run for office think about that they are labor leaders they control industry they go to medicine they go to law 'd but not not the

best of us running for office so what we have we're dealing here is i don't want to see mediocrity but we could we could do better. and unfortunately that is not the case all the time and especially true here when you have so many people with so many thoughts on so many things and nobody has the answer you know as a few years ago. william conradt william goldman the great screenwriter says on the i've thought about it ever since think about it i'll give it a you. ok ok it's as simple as a simple 3 words. nobody knows anything. i mean i can get with that i get about it and larry you had a series of of those on capitol hill isn't that a scary concept to think that these these are the elected officials that are supposed to lead us but these so-called leaders are the ones that know probably the

least so on that note larry i mean now that we're in this modern day of technology everybody can broadcast from their own homes you don't need you know big professional equipment millions of dollars you can do stuff from your basement why aren't we hearing more doctors and more nurses take into their own airwaves and content telling the public directly themselves without the screen of mainstream media. maybe they should they do have the technology they can do it as another bad idea to call upon them to do it maybe they're hesitant maybe they're more on the shards side come forward if you've got ideas and thoughts throw it into the mix as we need to hear we need to hear more ideas we need to hear the politicians tell us to. look forward but we need to hear from more people working day in day out on this so i pointed out above and require more because he's shown such leadership

skills we don't see more of that in the electoral side we should see war of it in the medical side i agree with you completely i think that's going to be our joint idea larry let's throw that out there to the medical community get on the internet start talking to people directly that way you don't have these politicians blocking whatever you want to say so let's let's throw that out there we put your name on it you know people are going be talking about it living legend larry king always appreciate your insight thank you. thank you. all right let's head on over now to the world of sports where the regina hamm are normal athletes waiting for the seasons to. hopefully it resumes soon but there's at least one kid we know taking social media sports by storm tell us about this kid he's really great he's taking it in technology miller he's using it because with many sports impacted by the coronavirus it's a great time to see future athletes pick up the mantle and no one does that better

than this young boxing legend 8 year old if he's part of any is showing off pretty impressive skills for an 8 year old calling himself the future of german boxing he trains with his dad working on his jabs at his uppercuts his as actually a pro boxer himself. he would be a champion 12 knockouts in a $150.00 record which is pretty impressive young if he is looked up to his dad as a role model for training and sees american legend muhammad ali as an idol when asked why he shares what he does on social media people most times he said actually it's because everything is bad the world needs something to stay together and that's pretty great manilla we all need to stay together but some weird stuff over the weekend aussie rules football with live sports in action on fox sports and that i want to say so when i read that he's moment of happiness and now you know i know it's closing on that we have a fees to make us happier while i think we're going to look at instagram that we're going to see a sports drink the very nature of it all right thank you for that regina i mean

that's it for us right now we'll be back at 8 o'clock eastern with some more news in the meantime a tree download our free app portable t.v. we'll see if any. are just term as governor. i was on the phone which really was. i'm still a. what's. the best way to get. you to leave. so simple so rudimentary but boy we have a tough time doing that don't we set of notes let's think about this for a minute. if i am your boss and i put you in a situation where you know if you don't respond to my gestures you could lose your job it could affect you in some very important way. does it behoove you than to

have to be in my presence is that a legal question or a sociological question i think it might be a little bit of both i think it's a fair question. welcome to max kaiser plentiful survival guide. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain delegates. watch kaiser report. as the democrats gear up to officially start their 2020 presidential primary it is fitting to assess donald trump's performance in office a report card of sorts where is he kept his promises and where has he come up short

will any of this really matter. welcome to redacted tonight so this is a comedy show we're americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents i don't have to tell you that things are bad we're in the middle of a global pandemic the economy is collapsing and perhaps scariest of all the w w e is performing their advance without an audience it's going to be a slaughter. to know. that. it seems oddly romantic now there's a spin to it feels like they're about to make out at any moment and i think we could all use some of that right now.