hello there i'm an electron you're watching in question broadcasting live from r.t. american national headquarters in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from all around the world here the top stories this evening breaking news just in the u.s. now leading the world with the most confirmed coronavirus cases these latest numbers are coming to us as the stimulus rescue package passes the senate and now heads to the house a full report on that next and new yorkers wait in along a crowded lines to get tested for coronavirus meantime hospitals are desperate for supplies and masks are overrun with patients every day and then coronavirus related

discrimination is now hitting pop culture with the hip hop duo addressing it head on all right it's time to boost your news i q. we start this hour with breaking news the u.s. now has the most coronavirus cases in the world topping now at over 82000 people that's compared to china's 81000 cases now worldwide there are now more than 526000 confirmed cases and more than 23000 deaths and just moments ago the white house coronavirus task force held its daily briefing president trump was just asked about the country's virus infections here's what he said.

no i think it's a tribute to our testing. you know number one you know what the numbers are in china janet because you know because and. i'm speaking to president xi tonight i believe you have a good conversation i'm sure but you just don't know you know one of the numbers it's a tribute to the amount of testing that would we're doing tremendous to this thing and i'm sure you're not able to tell what china is testing and not just. after days of debate republicans and democrats came together to pass the largest ever stimulus package for americans impacted by the coronavirus shutdown the bill is now headed to the house and president trump has already promised his signature artie's rachel blevins is joining us live with a breakout of what's in this bill rachel well manila the senate alive and our vote is being called historic after the democrats and 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 $99000.00 then you don't qualify it all americans are already feeling the impact of the coronavirus shutdown 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 passed addresses the crisis. by

giving unemployed workers $600.00 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 the deal seeks 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 $350000000000.00 and 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 limits 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 buyback 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 of boeing would be included on now the largest economic stimulus package in u.s. history. he 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 the government is still not handling this crisis in the most effective way reporting in the newsroom. i don't point claims took a sharp uptick over the last 2 weeks and now some 3000000 people have filed for benefits after countless businesses were forced to shut their doors amid this virus outbreak some economists like those at bank of america have already said america has entered a recession and just this morning the chair of the federal reserve to rome powell said this when it comes to this lending we're not going to run out of ammunition that doesn't help them help some of you will be when the economy begins to rebound and we'll be there to make sure that rebound is as strong as possible. so joining us to break it all down investigative journalist and co-host of boom bust ben swan

so bad 1st the federal reserve of st louis is estimating america's jobless rate could hit a whopping 32 percent that is almost 10 percent greater than the jobless rate during the great depression what are these numbers signaling to you. you know it's a very bad sign obviously when you're talking about a unemployment rate of up to 30 percent you're talking about tens of millions of people being out of work and i don't think we're looking at that in the any kind of long term capacity remember the numbers that just came in for these these jobless claims are people saying i need unemployment right now because i don't have income coming in it that's obviously a very difficult thing for a lot of americans but the reality is is that once the economy starts moving again and all these stay at home orders have been lifted many of those people if not most of them will be able to go back to a job the sooner this comes to win it the problem is if you drag it out over the course of months at a time some of those businesses will close up and there won't be jobs to go back to

so it really comes down to how quickly can you get people back into work and then in the meantime you know there's 2 trillion dollars that's been passed by the senate now the house is looking at it and also the 4 trillion which is a separate issue the 4 trillion dollars that the fed says it's going to pump into the economy those are meant to kind of be a bridge so that businesses can stay open so that workers can continue to get paid and get health insurance so that those who are temporarily unemployed don't stay unemployed yes i mean that's a little bit of a stopgap measure or a big stopgap measure but then the world is the world is so much smaller than it was during the great depression we are all now interconnected interdependent and we we rely on one another each each in all different countries we saw the ripple effects around the world for the next couple of years during the economic downturn of 2008 is this a bleak near term future for everybody then. well i again i think it really comes down to how quickly do you do you resolve this so you know obviously with it with

a pandemic you don't really have control over the spread of it beyond just trying to limit contact that's what we're going through right now but beyond that when it comes to supply chain issues for instance so what's happening in china right now china is getting back to work they're getting workers back into factories they are now saying they have 0 new cases that they have found a way to eliminate that now you've got to take it with a grain of salt because the chinese government's not always forthcoming but that's what they're saying at this point if that is the case that workers are getting back to work than that helps with the supply chain issues that we're looking at so you're right the world is a smaller place right now and it does certainly take more time to see an effect but i do believe here in the united states you have a lot of service workers who are waiting to get back to work so people who are you know barbers or hairdressers people who work inside restaurants and retail are all just waiting to get back inside and consumers are waiting to be able to go back and do use those services as well so some of that economy should come back rather quickly the question is how long do we have to wait before it does yeah and because

of that there's obviously so much uncertainty right now people are are scared people are taking money out of the stock market they're withdrawing money from their banks i mean they're putting cash you know under their mattress like the old days is a lot of this downturn of the markets preventable simply by keeping confidence up i mean is that a realistic thing. well i think it is realistic to be honest with people and to tell them where we're at and what's happening i you know it's funny it's almost comical if it weren't so scary right now the idea that people would go and get cash and stuff it under their mattress because the fed is printing cash so fast that i cash may not be worth anything anyway but look at the point that we're at right now a lot of people don't have confidence that we have seen 2 days in a row of the stock market finishing up and sizably up and it's been doing better why is that because we're hearing that of course of the congress as they're going to intervene that's going to prop up certain industries but i got to remind viewers with ella that whenever we get to this point where government begins to try to

stimulate the economy by putting money into it that also means that government picks the winners and the losers some companies will inevitably lose as a result of that some companies will go under the ones that survive the big corporations that survive this a lot of it will have to do with government intervention that's not the market at play that's about having friends in high places who work how do you check some of what we know is a great example of that absolutely we will leave it right there you can catch more of ben swan later on today at 4 pm on boom bust thank you so much for that ben middle of things. and is being described as worse than 911 hospitals they're 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 trinity chavez has the latest. today

hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic people come in they get integrated 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 if you can choose what you're going to do are you going to do. as the doctor say a lot of people call the doctor the survivor to expire and you call this a machine but not the person as medical staff operates out there limit hundreds of more people way to lining up outside to get tested for kovan 19 but officials say the 545 bed hospital is overrun and in desperate need of medical supplies you know the system's 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 k. . 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. if you close the schools we closed 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 intice a pizza $140000.00 people will need to be hospitalized warning that he does not have enough bed. ads or lifesaving ventilators 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 cope and 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. . and corona virus racism is now heading pop culture with one hip hop duo addressing it head on we're going to discuss with that group coming up and then over at the 4th h.q. or to ham tells us the story of 18 year old martial artist who is the youngest member of this organization there.

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the current. i. president trump is backtracking on remarks viewed as racist against asians when he called 19 the chinese virus he tweeted this quote it is very important that we totally protect our asian american community in the united states and all around the world they are amazing people and the spreading of the virus is not their fault in any way shape or form they are working closely with us to get rid of it we will prevail together but that came after much public outrage some of that coming

from the hip hop world look here. are going to be her kids. i mean we're 3.4 years the big show this week. with the. worst of the 3. and you. just said. that came from l.a. hip hop duo year of the ox and both members are joining us now to discuss the violence that followed trump's original remarks better known as lyrics and j.l. from year of the year of the ox thank you for being with us guys so 1st can you tell us a bit about your latest track viral and what inspired you to write the song. yes for sure you know that on the east coast where we're holding up. now how many will

i oh it was just it was so overwhelming going to different clips and stories have been getting from all over the world you know at 1st it was across the seas and we heard about the story with. a lot of just isolated parts and. got to see something we didn't see anybody or at least. you know about and so one of the 100 or so we had to be something for the kids. yeah definitely it obviously hit home to me for obvious reasons i mean it was like a punch in the gut what i what i heard the track and i mean it was great job addressing this head on and but now guys the president has walked back his remarks and he tweeted i guess the closest thing that we're ever going to get as an apology that he has ever made publicly at least he's condemning the recent violence against asian americans but i think it's like too little too late. i mean and you know the fact that he acknowledged it and people can be tracked it was resupplies him

for trying to do that it's a big thing for sure it's a very big deal you know you don't want to smoke i felt a little sarcasm but holy for some reason. it's going to leave no stone on it but i just feel like everything is through. you know and. understand that you recognized and correct those that's progress or not it's moving forward yeah absolutely it is definitely a step in the right direction especially coming from this president who honestly in the several years i've been covering him have never seen him ever back out money. right usually doubles down right and for you guys as they are as musical artist how are you guys coping with all of these reset shutdowns of all the entertainment benyus i mean this means you guys can have a concert it's no tours they're probably all been cancelled right how are musicians dealing with this new roadblock. if you have been with one of them or a life story we've been trying to figure out ways to get out there and you know

we've obviously been making more songs up in the air you know just. don't we just feel like i don't like to be stuck you know in the studio there's a renaissance you know we actually you know it's like that's all the shows and all that is being canceled a lot of our management companies are thinking of innovative ways to still connected. to some extent it's a very nice very concerning time but also through an exciting time because i'm sure for artists and i'm determined not to go so you think being confined into in your homes are is going to force some new music some new innovation to come out of it. with let's go right now we're going to do. you want to we want to be just like this possible and also just expression as asian american artists are just artists in general. it's our job right now to kind of speak to the fans and also the people who are. you know trying times we have to kind of you know we have to.

do our part and lastly guys i'd like both of your thoughts on the state of music as a whole i mean so many artists now are using auto tune and other technology there their lyrics often lack any social message or significance but year of the ox music has a message why do you guys choose to go that route and not the other. it's. sort of the if you appreciate that i'm doing you know. different roles to go with us we'd like to touch base on more. content music that is the me we've got to be true no not very good. all or just because. you know we've. all come to. these topics that we know very well it's you know it's new. we want to.

believe but you know what. yeah i applaud you guys for that because i can certainly say growing up in the eighty's there were definitely no rap or hip hop groups that looked like me that looked like you. guys for doing that and creating music that at least oftentimes sends a message really good message there rick lee and j.l. from the year of the ox thank you so much for him. and as the country faces a widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus more americans are applying for unemployment claims especially in the hard hit state of california are to correspondent natasha sweet filed this report from l.a. . nearly 3300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week almost 5 times the previous record set in 1982 amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the crown of virus

a big portion of those claims coming from the state of california a whopping 1000000 within the last 2 weeks stephanie meyers says she's hoping to see a stimulus check arrives soon the can't help but worry about the bills piling up i've been pretty good about holding it together and i just finally broke down and cried . because you have to think about what's in that they can or. how you're going to start paying those you know i got home and started making a list you know ok i've got car payment i've got rent the san francisco area was the 1st region in the country to install a shelter in place order governor given you some signed a stay at home order for the entire state 3 days later new some is praising the proposed chrono virus relief bill currently california allows up to 450 dollars a week for unemployment insurance their relief bill would add an additional $600.00 a week for up to 4 months giving california residents up to $1000.00 a week was number of new claims one on one and this is truly unprecedented and it

represents the unprecedented nature of what we're going through right now to remember national crisis in great recession the highest or national number of new claims or one benefits we saw was approaching maceda $700000.00 more so we've done several times over that record number as for banks wells fargo u.s. bank city and j.p. morgan chase will defer mortgage payments up to 3 months according to a new some everyone is eligible for garlic of how much they make the governor is criticizing bank of america for agreeing to waive mortgage payments for only one month he says he hopes they will reconsider and do the right thing but a spokesman for bank of america says they will consider extending their offer for more than 90 days dip. on the crisis meantime cities and counties have begun hall to fictions against tenants who cannot afford their rent in the san francisco and sacramento regions cities and municipalities have already passed you fiction

moratoriums that prevents anyone financially impacted by the virus from getting kicked out by their landlords. all right let's head over to regina ham over the sports h.q. regina there's no live sports really to talk about but it is throwback thursday so take us back i would love to go back and you know we're going to go back to a time when athletes played and right now they're finding themselves without any ability to perform their sport but we're also going to go to the future for one young girl she's taking that martial arts world by storm with a really impressive resume so bella is aiming to become a household name with her impressive talents the jewel us australian says and rose to internet stardom after her training videos what viral on instagram and other social media platforms she started training as she was just 18 months old and is currently learning the art of she now which is joint locking in. a fighting style popularized by bruce lee what makes us impressive though sabella it is the youngest

person in the world to be a member of the show and international in the chinese boxing institute international the floridian has been part of 3 short field films featuring her training with her dad in hopes of combat by her martial arts skills one day with her acting she is really an impressive little girl and mentally you know we talked earlier in the week about the 8 year old boxer yeah she's impressive 8 years old her skill handling is incredible she's fast what's what with all these kids born 8 years ago i feel like they've maybe maybe they got bored and they're going to lose in the water 8 years ago with these kids i'm so impressed these skills such a martial art that 8 years old some of those groups lee spent years honing his skills are next well all right thank you for that regina very cool ok guys before. we go make sure you download our brand new free app it's called portable t.v. go get it from your google play or apple app store you can catch up with us 247 there i'm a watch and i'll be back tomorrow starting at 2 o'clock question one the end of.

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 30 day interest rate ok that would mean bonds would be down 506070 percent but that's that's a rate that's return to a normal valuation and that's what we need right. now and i'm going to be out there so i don't think about a lot of. new dorp or. kind of what i wanted on the course of the now i think it's higher than the.

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welcome to the 200th episode of redacted namely caravan e. well what a time to be alive guys we're all experiencing the same thing right now everyone sitting at home either working or taking care of their kids and wondering the same thing why do we ever wear pants it's never been fully explained to me well pants or no pants we still have a great show for you tonight we're going to cover the quest to find a vaccine a few of the reasons why the country wasn't prepared for the virus and how the relief bill leaves 1st responders out then correspondent natalie mcgill goes into

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