point 30 we're hoping. that it won't be. hello there i'm going to lunch and you're watching in question broadcasting live from our to american national headquarters in washington d.c. i want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world here are your top stories today the state of new york ramping up mass burials at a nearby island this public cemetery now helping handle an influx of unclaimed bodies as the number of virus victims are being recovered from their homes by national guard troops then we will speak with the c.e.o. of mammoth bio sciences on rapid testing technology port hope at 19 so what will this mean for combat in the spread and last but not least imagine being in high

school during this pandemic no school work no graduation up next we'll show you how some students are using technology to create a virtual campus it's all right it's time to boost your means i knew. right over $1000.00 continuing to grip the world and of course this nation right now the new total around the world topping $1600000.00 with over 100000 deaths and 368000 recover cases known so far the u.s. still of course leading the way with more than 474000 confirmed cases and 17000 deaths 26000 recovered now those national figures brings us to the state of new york which continues. to bear the brunt of this virus as it remains the epicenter

of the outbreak new york now accounting for more than 93000 cases but while the state remains on lockdown looks like the curve might finally be leveling off archie's trinity chavez picks up the report from new york. today new york city the crossroads of the world has more confirmed cases of coven 19 than any other city on earth hospitals still heading capacity and medical staff pushed to their brink cleared that night walking to work and while the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort to the javits center are supposed to help alleviate stress of the city's hospital system part of what we're there for as military medics is to help those communities and to help the patients that are brought to us for care and that's exactly what we're doing the 500 bed vessel comfort just has over 60 patients while the 1000 bed convention center field hospital has seen about 225 patients new reports suggesting the army and the navy are handpicking and

transporting small numbers of hospital patients while the virus continues to strain e.r. rooms it's overcrowded over 1000 patients are going to have to wait for a long time just to get upstairs to a bed with if i'm going to share a room or going to hallways with other covert action patients 1st responders also on the front lines the f.d.a. and why reporting that nearly $400.00 a.m.'s workers including firefighters tested positive for the coronavirus were at the point were you have to assume everyone is a covert policy and roughly $3000.00 of the departments $15000.00 were out sick we've dealt with large scale events or you haven't dealt with a sustained serious call volume now going on its 3rd with no end in sight perhaps some hope the governor now saying the curve is slowing so or rural new york is flattening the curve and we have to flatten the curve. because

when they showed us the projection models of what the statisticians projected the curve would do. we have no capacity to meet those projections while the curve may be leveling off the city is still dealing with the mounting coronavirus death toll the virus now claiming more than $7800.00 lives 777 of them who just died on thursday the driver of this huge uptick in deaths at home is covered 1000 and some people are dying directly of it and some people dying indirectly of it but it is the tragic x. factor here the national guard now using rental vans to pick up hundreds of dead bodies from new york city homes more exposed in the city dwindling the city now using an island off the bronx waters called heart island as a temporary burial site an aerial view shows hired contractors wearing protective gear digging graves and lining up dozens of caskets in those deep trenches under

a new policy the medical examiner's office will keep bodies in storage for 14 days before they're buried in hart island's potter's field which is a burial site for people whose families can't afford a funeral or who go unclaimed by relatives the number burials increasing from about 25 a week to now 24 a day meantime growing concerns for the state of new jersey officials warning that it could be the next hot spot the state accounting for more than 54000 confirmed cases and more than 1500 deaths state officials urging residents to stay home because just like new york social distancing is working to stop the spread reporting in new york trinity shabbas r.t. . and widespread testing for corona virus remains at the forefront of this debate just this week the u.s. began rolling out blood tests to gauge the dimension of the and affection of spread and to identify antibodies of those exposed already to cope at. 18 now jane editing

technology is also being used to develop a rapid testing methods so why are these important joining us to explain trevor martin he's the c.e.o. of mammoth buy of sciences trevor thank you so much for being with us a lot to get to so let's hop right in here the most common coronavirus test is in use now is the nasal swab but those results take a long time to come back mammoth bio sciences has reconfigured crisper technology for rapid testing using something called flow strips so 1st can you tell us how that works and why rapid testing is imperative to flatten the curve. yet and so obviously when people think about this new technology crisper typically it's the context of it being a genome tool and m.m.s. we think about risk or a bit differently and kind of a search engine for biology and one of the things that makes crisper really powerful is that you can program this protein to actually bind to any specifically

across a sequence of d.n.a. and r.n.a. and for crude what you can do is instead of programming it to go to a sequence where you want to edit it you need you can program it to go to a coded specific sequence and then read all through something like a lot of low strip for example that hey i found a group of 19 in the sample. interesting ok and so the imperative nature of obviously figuring out who is sick with this is is obviously to be able to quarantine those people right to they don't get everybody else in the population sick. so right now there are efforts going on in the united states and worldwide to shelter in place to limit social contact and or semen but this is what i mean the curve it's working but we can't do this forever and if we want to be able to successfully open up society again to some level we really need to bring everything to bear from vaccines to therapy to x. to diagnostics and we need to use this time that's being brought her us by these really heavy wraps around shelter in place and really push forward all the

technologies we can to address these 3 theory here. and now looking at new york state obviously this new york is the hot spot in the whole world it's probably highlighting a need right for targeted fast results ma'am of this developing point of care testing solutions as you mentioned including this reconfiguration of a platform called detector at the end there what are the main points of this protocol. you know so the main goals is how can we take this type of testing out of central love facilities where maybe you need to wait a long time shift the results and bring it to a more kind of point of need greater care type scenario where you can hopefully get the results in real time so that you can actually act on it more quickly and you can actually are react to the situation as it unfolds rather than kind of you know as it was 3 or 4 days ago and just this week i mean people are there's so much

science going into into 1000 right now just this week we've seen a blood test being rolled out to identify antibodies another another method using crisper diagnostics for virus detection has also been published how effective and plausible is mass production of this. type of testing and our blood test different then those that that utilize the virus in genetic code. so for all these methods i mean across diagnostics therapy to expect seems it's going to require immense investment from society to bring this forward to scale quickly of course on in terms of how the different types of testing are segmented there's kind of 2 periods so there's molecular testing where you're detecting the nucleic acids for example the most common version of that would be p.c.r. and that's the type of testing where you can detect really from the 1st days of the infection when you're even a symptomatic you can detect the disease. there's other types of testing where

you're maybe looking at it and genzer antibodies and things like that and that's typically going to be later in the disease progression or maybe even looking at people that have the disease and whether they now have a committee so all types of testing are are and it's just a matter of what is the goal you're trying to achieve are you trying to screen people that are currently infected or maybe are in the early stage of an infection and spreading the disease or are you trying to do a do you knology around who has the disease in 2000 unity these are all important questions and they have different technologies for answering them and obviously the science community has to kind of all work together to get ahead of this virus and lastly trevor before the outbreak began your company was already working on prevention and treatment what is the next focus and implement implementation for the research within your company. so we're really focused on developing this crisper based detection technology for could be a great team and are really very it's all about making sure the technology is extremely sensitive specific and working closely with clinicians in other experts

to really bring the technology forward as quickly as possible what fascinating stuff that you guys are doing at mammoth bio scientists think you so much trevor martin c.e.o. mammoth bio scientist we wish you luck in all of this thank you. thanks for having me. while this pandemic has impacted just about everyone imagine if you were in high school or maybe even college life as you know it has obviously changed and as adults figure out how they'll provide for their families students are doing whatever they can to make the best of their situation are to correspondent atia suite shows us how some students are able to do just that with technology well may have the haleigh home and this is not i an update on a situation where isolated in my view so i have a fever for many teens sleeping in quarantine has become the new normal.

cargo. allowed by one car in the city a little bit but i feel like it's kind of quiet the last couple days due to this coronavirus and fourteen's living abroad like 16 year old zoe who is living in china corn seem like there has even tighter restrictions my dad still works at the hospital he has to drive across the city every day and he always gets stopped at roadblocks the military is out there forcing them and he has a little past that lets him. get through otherwise he'll be sent home find your arrested as some students are gearing up to graduate summer utilizing minecraft in online video game to recreate their campuses and even partake in a virtual graduation ceremony these students whose avatars become a community within the game are able to build up the very surroundings they've lost students in japan were able to collaborate holding a graduation ceremony amid the pandemic as classes were canceled.

just turned 16 a couple weeks ago and was kind of like crossroads and you. know you. really have. so the very thing that wasn't taken from t.j. kim he came back to society tenfold. in his pilot skills the 16 year old is flying across virginia delivery medical supplies to rural hospitals in need the sophomore at landon school in maryland turned his weekly flight lessons into relief missions he's helping to deliver gloves masks gowns and other equipment to small hospitals like any teenager was disappointed when his lacrosse season ended before it really began but instead of getting down he looked at how he could serve others and came up with operation asked a west supplies over skies in his most recent flight came carried 4000 gloves 2000 shoe covers 25 nonsurgical masks 20 pairs of protective i wear and 10 bottles of

hand sanitizer to winchester helping to supply a hospital in nearby woodstock we can gather enough supplies to go down and we're going to go you know we're guard lists of the lack of normalcy it looks as though generations e is getting a valuable lesson from the hard knocks of life and that it's not what happens to you but how you react reporting in los angeles natasha sweet r.t. . all the world health organization is telling president not to politicize the virus but how is america handling this pandemic our political panel will weigh in on that and then later at the sports page kill regina hamm shares some of the best curlers to hit the field in major league soccer check out those moves but we're back. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the

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as americans continue to hunker down at home the slow drip of new information on coping 1000 families live on how to live with this new reality now debate on wearing masks who's most vulnerable whose highest risk how long will this new normal last meanwhile earlier this week a surprise announcement from the sanders campaign bernie effectively calling it quits and handing the nomination to joe biden so joining us to discuss all of these hot topics watkins he's an acclaimed author and college professor and ed martin a bestselling author and president of the phyllis schlafly eagle forum are joining us today so gentlemen good to see you it's been a while so i want to go over to do you 1st. now that this virus has been going on in the us a few months we can see a trend of where and who it's impacting the most on

a heat map the we're seeing places like new york city detroit and new orleans a light up that map those are predominantly black neighborhoods how do you read those numbers. well there's a number of things that we can see those numbers to. african-americans in this country are less likely to have assurance to them or subset the ball to be. as many things right because the. dominant areas 3 and i have to get americans are are being deemed as essential employees out there the people working there a lot of these markets and these delivery services. are incarcerated so. is it in the more i think the support of people you know that divide us doesn't discriminate but at the same time if you are person you don't have a lot of resources that you are going to if you want to. most likely get diverse obviously population density ed what's your take. well you know i 1st of all it's

very important to know to as you point out that the hardest hit are in blue areas you know inter typically democrat or city detroit even numbered in san francisco area and the whole federal government doesn't matter what party or has motivated and has and has mobilized to do everything they can to mitigate that here's the one thing i'd say is exactly right virus it's color blind it's going to get to everybody in every population i think we shouldn't ignore some of the data that showing that african-americans are hit harder we should address that and i think we are and look i think the there's plenty of time in the future to look at who moved slowly i think new york city was a little slower but that shouldn't matter now what matters now is get everybody well get testing going in the right direction and i think we're seeing that i think you're seeing success in fighting what is a really good man and something we could have expected ed sticking with you hear the president's response to all of this i think no matter who is sitting in the

oval office they're going to be damned if they do and damned if they dealt but it seems to fall down party lines in that republicans think trump should have taken a more measured approach like that if we didn't who only quarantined high risk or people whereas democrats think everything should be locked down and everybody even this lockdown isn't going far enough so what do you think of that. well i think you're right it's a lose lose situation right if you do everything you can to try to fight for me to gauge student social distancing we're still having death you know it's hard to measure how many lives you saved and i think you can write the president president tromp you would have thought it would have. if he comedy to try to which of the last minute he wins and he did what i think he had to do which was lock things down and move that way he's even slower now in terms of some republicans want to open up faster nancy pelosi came out today and she said you don't do it too fast i think

the present. listen ultimately though we're going to get to a point where the nation is going to have to let the leaders decide when we're going to take some risks to go back to work at that point some of us are going to get sick again some are going to die but this initial burst as d.s. pointed out a lot of people are vulnerable that have less have less opportunity less structure we've had to move and build hospitals and build their own leaders and spend my spell of transplant more money and i would as a conservative ever want to see but we threw money at the problem in part because it's that big a problem then how do you think the president's handling it. you know i think there regardless of who's. who is in the oval office it would have been a crazy situation because we're just now a country as strong as we are i just didn't have the necessary were prepared for a virus where i do what i don't like about what the president has been gone is just

a gross misinformation one of his 1st press conference he was saying that oil only a lot of people have it and it's it all it's going to go wait. you know i know that as a leader you don't much you panic but you also never ever wanted to live or any type of way that would lead people to not take it as serious as they should and i would just i would just stay away from so that that was not that out of my that's my if you approach them sorry yes i think both of you kind of know that the president is in kind of a tough situation no matter who's in charge right so last question here is is the both of you about bernie d.m. let you continue on this is it safe to say that biden is the present the presumptive nominee and now that biden is already saying you know acting like he is that he will choose a woman as his running running mate many people believe it will be someone like come alive harris or stacy abrams do you think that that that that will be the dems silver bullet come november by picking

a woman of color. you know at the end of the day you know of actually have spent time with stacy abrams and have spent time at work come hours and i think to amazing people. but i do i care what i really really care about is is is what is biting going to do what are you going to do. you know i can be good but it's about who is running mate is as i really care about my pets like nobody talks about why nobody don't wear pants does end of the day i want to know what are you going to do to get this country back on track people want to work people are tired of starving people want to make money people want to be able to take care to families you know you can pick jesus christ bron james as a running mate i want people to i want people to work in my money and be able to keep that family's ed ed same thing biden trying to deliberately choose perhaps a well in a woman of color i mean is he just trying to check out the diversity boxes. well i

mean certainly that's part of it but look let's be honest now let's come right through this by and come out harris are the 2 candidates for president that had the most indorsements of the swamp the establishment the democrats just 2 days point what will i do in office he'll do the same thing the democrats have done for 25 years which is roll over for wall street not be really progressive and they won't be successful is my estimation but it's come out harshly stiffly to pick and it's because the swamp wants them and the swamp will get what they want and they'll lose in the fall is my opinion because nobody wants to vote for the same old same old and the only motivated by it they were excited by it all right we have to leave it right over because we're all over the road of the world war 3 and everybody that's a great guy you are like a drug overdose i'm like we can do it i'm with you our only we're right there they walk ins ed martin always an enlightening panel thank you. all right let's go to

other regina have at the sports h.q. we're going to it is a good time for actually it's good friday for a friday flashback to a time when when soccer fans were actually allowed to sit in the stadiums real ones not real and not not fake ones or get talked about yesterday and most soccer goals of those fancy are headlines in a very dramatic fashion be it a wild header from the body by human touch or a stunning chip shot from midfield by rinaldo or messy but curry bowls are equally as exciting so let's take a look at them the best that major league soccer had to offer. any. state or d.c. to stay on to try to find the prices. that would make.

baseball was one of the 1st areas of american society to integrate back in the 20th century for so for friday edition of this day in sports history it's time to take a look at one player who became synonymous with america's pastime 147 jackie robinson became the 1st african-american baseball player since the sport's segregation in 1889 to sign a contract major league baseball robson was called up 6 days for the start of season by then brooklyn dodgers general manager rancher rickey jr 5 days later robson became the 1st black baseball player to take the field in the big leagues at the end of robson's rookie season with the dodgers he became a national league working of the year with 12 homers a league that leading 29 fields and a point 297 batting average looking forward though to 1902 the national hockey league players association ended its strike against the owners' strike lasted 10

days and was settled by players deceiving an increase in playoff bonuses controlling licensing of their likeness and changes the free agency system as a result the season was expanded to 84 games and saw a fundamental change between players and owners in the league and today liverpool senegal star sunday on monday her choice years old winger for the permit premier league club right this angle's 5th all time top goal scoring 8 all time for appearances and also represent his country as a 2012 london summer olympics and at the tranny $18.00 fee for world cup where senegal made its 2nd ever appearance at the event pretty sunsets happy birthday to him and back to you manila all right thanks for that regina and we'll have a lot more news coming up for you at 5 pm eastern chaos as the coronavirus outbreak is now taking over several prisons nationwide with protesters rallying outside to release those inmates a full report coming up on that and then america may need to rethink national security after this pandemic is over if it's ever over we're going to have that

discussion with our can't. all that and more coming up at 5 pm eastern so that's a no no chance. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to sell fractional food on my table it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that

ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments and there's a lot of conflict within the game and between the teams most of the conflicts i would say are over balls around money and most of them money is made. close one on each of those he know each other is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year off to prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't care and cares about your so you care mind anything. greetings and salutation. carnage catastrophe chaos and a host of other adjectives are springing forth this week is the unemployment

numbers not only here in the united states but around the world beginning to pour in and those were just the adjectives that started with the letter c c there was also some very specific adjectives starting with the letter f. that i can't really use on t.v. when people began to really look at those sobering statistics because how bad is it well here in the united states up to just a few short weeks of stay at home orders being implemented across the country the washington post reports that according to the u.s. department of labor more than 17000000 new jobless claims have been filed in the past 4 weeks and in fact last week saw 6600000 americans applying for unemployment benefits in just one week and all the tea leaves are reading that this is just the beginning my friends and that these numbers could actually be on the conservative side of things but it's not.