troubled like that but the fact remains the establishment is to downplay any been demonized any candidate who questions the orthodox. hello there i'm an electron you're watching in question broadcasting live from our to the american national headquarters in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from all around the world today here at the top stories we're following for you the coronavirus rescue package passes the senate and now heads to the white house so what's in it and who gets what exactly we're going to take it all down for you then we will talk real estate are we looking at another housing crisis like 2008 do to cope at 19 and for those who can't purchase real estate is now the perfect time we'll discuss it with an expert plus is in an

unprecedented move the u.s. state department indicts venezuela's president nicolas maduro on allegations of drug trafficking there are also reward money is being offered we're going to discuss all right it's time to boost your news i q. hard coded 1000 again dominating headlines with now a 170 countries and territories reporting new cases here are the latest numbers worldwide there are now more than 500000 confirmed cases and more than 22000 deaths and right here stateside confirmed cases now top $74000.00 and deaths related to the virus just over $1000.00 and here in washington after days of debate republicans and democrats came together to pass the largest ever stimulus package for americans in. patted by the coronavirus shutdown the bill is now headed to the

house and president trump has already promised his signature archy's rachel blevins is joining us live with a breakdown of what's in this bill rachel well manella 1 the senate's 11th hour vote is being called historic after the democrats the republicans who have disagreed strongly on this 2 trillion dollars stimulus package passed it with unanimous support late wednesday night president trump who has already promised his support took to twitter where he wrote $96.00 to 0 in the united states senate congratulations america as part of the stimulus package americans with an annual income of less than $75000.00 will be eligible for $1200.00 and rebate checks married couples will get $2400.00 and families will get $500.00 per child that amount decreases for individuals who make over $75000.00 and if your annual income as an individual is over 99000 then you don't qualify it all americans are already feeling the impact of the coronavirus shut down and unemployment claims in the u.s.

have hit a record 3300000 in the last week hours before the deal passed senate republicans criticized it for being too generous with unemployment benefits but they later relented and agreed to the terms the package they pass addresses a crisis by giving unemployed workers 600 dollars per week for up to 4 months on top of the state benefits they already received they would also get an additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits that deal 6 to create a pandemic unemployment assistance program for those who have lost hours and wages due to the shutdown but don't qualify for traditional benefits now the package also makes independent contractors and part time workers eligible for federal benefits over lost wages and it offers small businesses 3 $150000000000.00 in forgivable loans the health care industry has also been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic with states across the country reporting shortages of surgical masks ventilators and other. supplies while senate democrats initially criticized republicans for

being too cheap with their proposal for aid the final number they agreed on is now above $100000000000.00 the deal creates a fund for rio to reimburse hospitals doctors nurses and providers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic it also lemonades more than $8000000000.00 in scheduled payment reductions to hospitals treating uninsured patients and it boosts reimbursement for facilities treating medicare patients diagnosed with the coronavirus by 20 percent we have also seen ongoing criticism for the deals that tend to take care of corporate america and develop companies like boeing which has lost billions after its negligence resulted in the death of $346.00 people the deal comes with a $500000000000.00 lending program that is meant to bring relief to the industries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic it also includes rules banning stock buybacks by companies receiving aid and banning elected officials and their

immediate families from receiving aid it also sets aside $17000000.00 for companies the government sees as crucial to national security a list boeing would be included on now the largest economic stimulus package in u.s. history is now headed to the house where a vote is set for friday morning while it is likely to pass it has received heavy criticism from representatives who argue that the tax should have been made public before last night and that's the government is still not handling this crisis in the most effective way reporting in the newsroom rachel blevins archie. the housing crisis of 2008 saw a millions of homes go underwater in a self-inflicted wound that took years to building up in a bubble back then it was a combination of eager buyers and lenders who were into starting of who could get a home loan now it's taken the country the better part of 10 years to recover from that crisis and now americans. are facing

a new threat to their homes code at 19 with lessons from 2008 in mind local governments are taking drastic measures to prevent another housing crash so joining us to discuss realtor and a state director at compass real estate group naomi klein is here they only thanks for being with us and sharing your expertise so the question on everybody's mind i think is will the coronavirus push us into another housing crisis like 2008 and what are the trends looking like where you're at. i know thank you so much for having me yes i do think that the coronavirus will push us in the housing market but i don't think it will be anywhere near 2008 and the reason for that is because we had so many sub prime lenders and the banks as well as. fires have learned their lesson you have a lot of homeowners that have equity in their home upwards of 203040 percent so there is going to be no rush to tell unless you've gone from

a 2 to one income and it's nat's the change because of some of the mortgage forgiveness or. sellers will not have to sell in any type of fire sale they'll have from. time to work in that it's not rushed ok so that's some good news for people and especially in california where in year out governor gavin newsom has asked the 5 biggest banks to suspend mortgage payments for a while at least until we get a clearer picture of how this virus shakes out how might this impact your industry especially since mortgage loan applications took a sharp decline over the past week of like 30 percent. right yes so what we need to look at statistically there is active you get of march ones went up 220 percent so with them going down 30 percent that's actually a good thing because it's getting the banks a lit. a bit of time to now have time to process those those broker ngukurr just

says and for a refinance so they're still up 190 percent just a few weeks and should be interest rate is around 3 percent if the banks weren't overloaded with all of the retries the new purchase. loan applications so once those loan applications decrease a little bit and the banks have a little bit more time to process i believe you'll see the interest rates go down perhaps to 3 percent again that's great news for briar's and then as far as sellers with the barents it's great everyone just needs to catch their breath right now not have you know sharp moves either way speak to your professional while they're running actual or real estate oriented and see what the best path been suggest for you as a home buyer or as a seller there and there are definitely

a lot of possibilities and alternatives that are available for briar's and sellers and naomi real estate is a very in person business there's a lot of close contact you're also going into people's homes who you don't know so since the outbreak began and social distancing became the new norm how are realtors kind of altering their daily mode of operation to accommodate the c.d.c. health guidelines. so we are definitely pivoting and that includes a lot based time and virtual showings so we will go into a house with that being whether the owners you know take a walk outside that there are questions that we ask them have they traveled to any of the affected areas have they been tested are they experiencing any of the symptoms. you know is showing and from there we asked them to turn on. all

the lights to unlock the door or literally in the car while they're doing that so that there's there's no downtime there and we will do a nice time showing with a prior while the technology has to come in here to help with all of this obviously so after all this is over and the curve has been flattened do you think the real estate interest industry will see a permanent shift or any major impacts from coronavirus like you said such as these video showing. yes i do i think the good news is that human nature i feel has short term memory which is great will definitely be and i often say this is the time this is our. moment that our grandparents you know parents felt as though we'll never forget it but we will be able to move on and i think we're going to practice social distancing for a while but maybe not as severe as we are right now i think that show homes are

going to continue i think the biggest question mark in the forbearance and the mortgage is the people i mean i think we're already at 3300000 people for unemployment so you know that that's going to be significant and with the mortgage companies doing a lot of parents it's not a good good nests not pay so you don't know what the terms are are they going to tack on those humans at the end of the job or are they going you know increase your rate after in $1000.00 holdouts hold. so i think you're going to see some sale coming up in 6 months but they're going to have time to sell because of that that flexibility that the banks are giving them all right naomi klein of compass real estate group we got to leave it right there thank you for all that sound advice. thank you manila. and over in new york the crew. virus pandemic is being described

as worse the 911 hospitals there are struggling to keep their doors open as more and more people are admitted with the disease each day and in one particular area long lines have been forming since the early morning hours all anxiously awaiting to get tested for the virus artie's trying to be chavez brings us the latest developments. today hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic carol biblical. like you do know. people come in they get into bed it they die the cycle repeats elmhurst hospital in queens the bureau with the most coronavirus cases in the city in the center of the outbreak the hospital confirming at least 13 patient deaths within 24 hours right now it's every day it's nonstop literally and. unfortunately it's my get to see question you have to pick and choose what you're going to do how you're going to do it as medical staff operates out there limit hundreds of more people wait lining up

outside to get tested for coated 19 but officials say the 545 bed hospital is overrun and in desperate need of medical supplies the systems overwhelmed all over the place the shortage of safety gear out one new york hospital so dire nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags the situation in new york worsening by the hour the state accounting for roughly half the cases across the country this grim video shows teams setting up a makeshift morgue outside of bellevue hospital something that was done during hurricane sandy and 911911 was nothing compared to this we were open waiting for patients to kabul never came. ok now they just keep coming however a small sign of hope governor cuomo announcing that for the past few days the rate of hospitalizations is slowing although he cautions that the peak of the crisis could still be about 20 days away. they closed the schools we closed the gathering

. we brought in testing and we have dramatically slowed the increase the governor adds that while only about 15 percent of cases have required hospitalisation the state anticipates $140000.00 people will need to be hospitalized warning that he does not have enough beds or lifesaving ventilators so that's our greatest unloads is the apex and when is that going to happen again that is a projection again that moves around but the current projection is that could be in 21 days so ramp up the hospital capacity to make to be able to handle that apex volume and as medical personnel remain on the front lines we are learning that a member of mt sinai is nursing staff who has been treating coronavirus patients has passed away from co the 19 the hospital saying in a statement today we lost another hero a compassionate colleague friend and selfless caregiver meantime the hospital

system initiating a procedure called plasmapheresis where they transfer antibodies from patients who have recovered from co the 19 to those who are critically ill from the virus the procedure could be life saving reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . right lots more news to come stay tuned we'll be right back after this. i'm going to fulfill the repeated purposes oh politics to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots be. pretty.

pretty good. now you want to work. no. big. coming coming coming up. the stock market i could imagine trading in a 1000 again on the dow and that would be an appropriate level given the true underlying economic factors the bond market interest rate should be 45 percent in the in the 30 day interest rate ok that would mean bonds would be down 506070 percent but that's that's separate that's return to normal valuation and that's

what we need right. now is to show seemed wrong when all rolls just don't hold. any new low but yet to see how it does they become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. my. friend as well and president nicolas maduro and more than a dozen other venezuelan officials have been indicted by the u.s. for charges in narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking conspiracy we're not acting

as the world's policemen were acting as policeman people who are obligated to protect the american people the announcement came today from u.s. attorney general bill barr and the head of the dea with the charges contained in separate indictments in new york miami and washington now the move ramps up the latest move against a country that's already struggling economically as it faces the dire consequences of the coronavirus pandemic so joining us now to break it all down miguel teams arsalan he's author and professor of latin american history at pomona college professor thank you for being with us so 1st the indictment of a head of state is unprecedented the state department is now offering a reward of something like $15000000.00 for information leading to the capture of president mother little can the state department just sort of put a price on the head of state like that. well it's obvious that this administration

feels that it can do whatever it wants the fact that bill barr has to start his conference by saying we are not the policemen of the world in fact speaks of the fact that this action is highly political and really reinforces the notion of the us as an imperial power able to dictate policy able to order the arrest of world leaders heads of states as it wishes if it really was interested in dealing with drug issues it would actually look at some of its closest allies in latin america in all due to us one would love to have done this whose brother was indicted and found guilty and in new york courts for actually drug trafficking has also been implicated in drug trafficking so have many other political leaders in the region including leverage in colombia so this is very much a clearly a political more moment a cruel inhuman action at a time in which the country is reeling not only from the pen demick but also from low prices for oil and also dramatic shortages created in part by the

sanctions imposed by both the obama administration and now the trump administration and what you brought up the sanctions because the the u.s. sanctions against countries like venezuela we know it's nothing new this is a tactic the u.s. has used on many states but how effective are these sanctions because according to a report for us from back in march 12th by the congressional research service they say quote broader u.s. sanctions adopted since 27000 have yet to compel model to leave office despite the country's increasingly dire economic situation they have also provided a scapegoat on which mother at all has blamed the country's economic problems so what do you say to that. well i think they're correct i think the government needs to look at his old congressional research council and accept the fact that sanctions wherever they've been applied where they were applied to cuba for 50 years did not effect regime change where they bit apply. to iran for over

a decade have not affected regime change and the same thing in business when what sanctions do however is worsen conditions on the grown aggravate an economic crisis that has already been existing and aggravate the conditions for a country that depends wholly on the export of oil and the seen oil drop to new lows in such a dramatic fashion that now it has no access to credit it has no access the needed medicines and it has no access to international assistance in fact we should be following the example of michelle i shall let in the u.n. who has stated that we need to have a humanitarian policy towards countries like iran and venezuela and in this particular moment we should be looking at how to provide loans to provide access to medicine to provide access to resources so that they can actually get over this pandemic and particularly since the fact that in venezuela we've already seen efforts or at least declarations by some political leaders that they're on both sides of the by that this is what should be happening and professor just earlier

this week opposition leader and former presidential candidate and ek payless called for a dialogue between my world government and opposition forces so they can seek financial help from international organizations and groups against the coronavirus and just today my little ratify this intent for dialogue so how do you think this the new charges from the u.s. plays into his abilities to reach out for help. well these charges at this time are highly political as we indicated before the charges going to be brought any time the allegations about trafficking have been floating around without evidence to substantiate them for many many years in fact going back to the charges they were several decades ago the connection supposedly with the fark now with the l.n. if one was to look at the actual routes the routes are from colombia to central america by and large now what it doesn't mean it's where law is at it come asha's a it's an effort to squash any efforts a reconciliation any efforts at creating

a national process by which opposition leaders like uppity is like well you'll fair to mean and the government can actually try to propose efforts at rick securing phones at getting international loans from the world bank or the i.m.f. and others in order to get past this crisis so what the look this policy that the government had trump has implemented does is an effort to undermine efforts that we can still use in within the country and it's a tragedy at this time professor me gal think our solace pomona college thank you so much for that excellent analysis. thank you if you're doing. all right let's head over to the sports h.q. that's where regina ham is where gina most of the major league sports are at least postponed until it's until it makes a it's safe again to play how are fans keeping their love and passion alive you know their sport you know it's a good time to actually revisit some of that passion

a sport major league soccer soccer found itself postponed after only 2 weeks to the crowd of ours so to remind ourselves just how much we can't wait for it to come back so take a look at some of the best diving headers of 2019. the . first.

time. the eighty's tour and the deputy a are postponed at least until june due to the current a virus in that time tennis players from around the globe are coming together to help combat the virus on all fronts in a statement from his family world number 4 roger federer posted to instagram saying these are challenging times for everyone and nobody should be left behind and i have personally decided to donate 1000000 swiss francs for the most vulnerable families in switzerland our contribution is just a start we hope that others might join in in supporting these families in need together we can overcome this crisis stay healthy the 20 time grand slam tennis champions donation comes at a time where sports clubs associations and other stars are helping with relief efforts federer is still recovering from knee surgery he underwent back in february

and hoped would make a return to wimbledon in june that may have to wait as the season isn't set to resume until june 7th due to the pandemic but his spanish counterpart is also doing is time to help those impacted by the virus world number 2 rafael nadal took to social media to help kick start a red cross initiative in 1000 time grand slam champion teamed up with the red cross responded project helping to raise money for medical supplies hospital infrastructure and vulnerable. asks his fellow spaniards to come together to be an example of national unity during this difficult time. it's march and if live sports are on right now there would be for sweet 16 games and torment but there are so instead let's take a trip back in time for today's edition of this day in sports history $979.00 michigan state beat indiana state winning $7564.00 for their 41st a tournament event it remains the highest rated game in television history until 2015 that's 1901st n.h.l.

regular season championship in 50 years rangers went on to finish on the top after they were canucks lost to the pittsburgh penguins 732015 iran are tests but unknown as metta world peace arrived in italy to join poland cost. do after leaving the n.b.a. he joined the lakers one year later and the retirement that ended up shocking the mixed martial arts world to wait u.f.c. title holder connor gregor so he was leading the sport in 201931 year old lost a twat november 28th lightweight title fight to have made off in the 4th round and the post brawl fight earned the irishman a 6 month ban crazy know that that was only a year ago that that happened to mcgregor now have you had a fight that's postponed in finding a new location and it's just a weird weird year it's a good day for throwback thursday regina and that are i love it thank you we have a lot more news coming up at 5 o'clock unemployment requests in california shoot through the roof as well as across the country we're going to view all the details on that coming up at 5 pm eastern that's it for right now make sure you download

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greetings and salutations. finally finally after $4.00 to $5.00 wasted days of partisan politicking and the proverbial dragging of feet across marble floors the dueling parties that make up the united states congress finally decided to agree on a massive 2 trillion dollar economic stimulus bill in an effort to save the nation from the kobe had 19 pandemic and in reaching this agreement they took the time as they always do to pat themselves on the back and paint themselves with grand historical significance senate democratic leader chuck schumer compare their agreement to world war 2 as marshall plan to rebuild europe yes he called the bill after sleep deprived nights in marathon negotiating sessions we have a bipartisan agreement on the largest rescue package in american history. i know chuck.