we then move on to the university of british columbia hospital sends legalization dr eric desk he has seen a steady stream of patients asking about the potential benefits of cannabis. the last week alone i've had a 12 year old come and talk to me about cannabis and i've had an 85 year old come and talk to me about cannabis all the 12 year olds we don't recommend you plan smoking put materials of any kind this person was an athlete and we told him about the harmful effects on their lungs please think about these potential consequences . in medical social economic and legal terms canada has seen a range of changes since legalization and the old black market for marijuana might soon be history. consumption has increased by over 25 percent and october is set to see beer and wine suppliers offering new products in pews through t.h.c. . and then even gigantic greenhouses like this one might struggle to meet demand. as a father of 2 teenage girls i'm a bit very devoted legalizing cannabis from my point of view it's a free ticket to get the stuff for them how do you see that. to be very hones

in march, the first patients were rushed to the columbia university hospital. >> we were scared to deathow? when you first walked into the hospital when covid was happening, it was as if it was in the air blowing at you. i washed my hands i would say up to 50 times a day. i put my hand in again and wash like crazy. >> reporter: by mid-march, the hospital was inundated. 25% of the patients in palmer's vaccine trials died, and his psychological turmoil continued to grow. >> a number of people called my group and certainly other health care workers heroes. >> thank you! thank you! >> is a hero somebody who finds out that a patient has died and feels sad about it but there's some sort of relief that you're not going to have to, you know, deal with that one extra case? i wasn't going to be strong enough, that i was losing confidence. >> reporter: most painful were the feelings of loneliness and isolation. to keep his family safe, he began living apart from them. but that removed yet another system of support. he shows us a journal entry he wrote at the time. >> we just start out march 13th, c

hospital for taking special care of me. >> a very brave little boy right there. stephanie ramos joins us from columbia presbyterian hospital in new york city. stephanie, we know jordan's health took such a drastic turn for the worse. what did doctors see when he first arrived at the hospital? >> reporter: tom, doctors say when jordan went to the hospital, he had a high fever and trouble breathing. his doctor tells us his condition worsened overnight. and despite being on a ventilator, his heart was failing. now, doctors do say mis-c is rare and can be detected early if parents recognize the symptoms. tom. >> stephanie ramos for us tonight, thank you. >>> we move on now to american families struggling during the pandemic. president trump taking executive action today, sidestepping congress after stimulus talks between the white house and democrats collapsed. the president acting on his own and what he now says he's promising to do with that $600 supplement at the heart of the stalemate. here's abc white house correspondent rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight president trump taking matters into his own h

craig spencer at new york presbyterian columbia hospital. joining us on cnbc, and is that because the very sick will receive the treatment, and may skew the results and so we may not know if it is an effective treatment or something else? >> well, to date, nearly 100,000 people have received this treatment. i don't know that there is going to be any significant difference of the announcement in terms of people who receive it, because it is used broadly, but we don't have the good data to show whether or not it works. it is used as the expanded use program, but we don't have the good randomized clinical trials to know whether it is safe and effective. plasma has been used for over a century for things line diphtheria and measles and i got it as well for ebola, and we know it works for some things, and proven to be relatively safe. i have problems with it, and other people have s and it is not completely innocuous, and so it is important to walk into decision, we are prioritizing the public health and the science over the political prerogative

tyler black is medical director of emergency psychiatry at the british columbia children's hospital andoins me now to discuss. doctor, thanks so much for joining us. i want to begin by bringing up what some influential groups are saying, including the american academy of pediatrics. they say the goal should be to get kids back into a real classroom as soon as possible, as safely as possible obviously. you're not sure about that advice. why not? >> thanks, bianna, for having me. it's an important question that has nuance. of course school is important for children. and education is crucial for childhood development. however, safety often has to take a priority. and what we often see is this black and white thinking that it's either return to class or not return to class for children's mental health. but of course children's mental health are affected by a number of things. and prior to the pandemic, one of my full-time jobs was helping kids who are overloaded with school, fights with parents, suicidal thinking, bullying, teasing, social exclusion, racism, homophobia, schools haven't alwa

perfect place when rates of death and morbidity in the states were soaring we in british columbia in all of our hospitals had 5 cases of co there so what was the difference that's part of what this article tries to ask i think the most generous thing you say abut the donald is that he is the product of the saved as opposed to the cause effect sort of something about people going on in the miss america presidents when i say that america is is is it's the end of an american era look i mean i don't wish that we'll be the styles are because i say for the. american century and the best parts of that but remember that all empires are born to die as a journalist at the irish times said so putting it lightly you know people have had many feelings about america over the years but they've never ever ever felt it for the 'd united states and as health workers desperately awaited relief flights of basic supplies from china i argue that the hinge of history moved to the asian century and you cite an exchange between the and the medical official in the a chinese official of the foreign ministry when he had a sub to pr

i have been in the hospitals in venezuela, the hospitals on the border in columbia as well. 98% of live births are from venezuelan women who have to flee to columbia to receive health care. there are areas we have to work across the humanitarian space, the issues of gender are important in venezuela. i committed you we will maintain that focus. i have several more questions but i don't know what the time is it so i think i may be close to my five minutes. there will certainly be an opportunity for you for a second round, perhaps a third round. we will have opportunity to go back and forth. to ask a series of questions for ms. singh, the oecd, who service rlso happens to have a luga bullet point on her resume which does not hurt one's background, having served with senator lugar for a long time. i have had several conversations with your colleagues, especially secretary keith prague, in considering what america's strategy should be as we think about competing with china, leading into our strengths. efforts on the future of innovation has been valuable in this endeavor. my staff has enjoy

i've been in the hospital inside of venezuela and i've been in the hospitals on the border inside of columbia as well and in qatar for instance 98 percent of live births are from venezuelan women who have to flee into colombia receive healthcare and i think these are areas we have to work across the humanitarian space and certainly the issues of gender are exceedingly important in venezuela. it confirmed i commit we will maintain thatfocus . >> is your chairman i have several more questions but i don't know if the time is, i may be close to my five minutes . >> we will, there will be an opportunity for you for a second round. perhaps a third round they're going to have opportunities to go back and forth . i would like to ask a series of questions for miss singh whose our representative at oecd who happens to have a dick lugar bullet point on her resume which in my estimation doesn't hurt one's background having served for senator lugar for a long time. i have had several productive conversations with your colleagues miss singh. especially under separate cherokee prop and considering pwhat ame

ammonium nitrate have been stored for years hospitals are overwhelmed these are live pictures in beirut showing the often off of the explosion. on columbia's supreme court has over the detention of former president alvaro uribe he's accused of witness tampering and cruel or even denies any wrongdoing. now indian administered kashmir is in lockdown to prevent protesters from gathering to mark exactly a year since the region lost its special status a curfew has been imposed in the area many local political leaders have been in detention for months and reports. so haleigh might come on has come to pray at his father's grave 65 year old bashir up at khan was shot dead during what indian security forces say were clashes with the main in the northern kashmir town of support on july the 1st they say he was caught in the crossfire. this video shows his body on the road near the car he and his 3 year old grandson were traveling in a photo showing the child sitting on his dead grandfather caused outrage. the family accuses the security forces of putting the boy in top of the dead man so they could take pictures. police reportedly filmed him crying a

director of emergency psychiatry at bc children's hospital and a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia. thank you for coming back on with us. we talk a lot about trying to keep kids safe from coronavirus once they are back in the classroom, but what about their mental health? we want them physically to be okay. but mentally this is a conversation that parents have to be having with their kids as well, right? >> absolutely. and, you know, i've been trying to advocate quite a bit for the knowledge that prior to the pandemic schools themselves were a cause of stress and de-stress. we know prior to the pandemic kids were more likely to die with suicide or present with psychiatric emergencies during school months and days and we know that prior to the pandemic schools had two large class sizes, there wasn't enough funding for under-privileged kids. all of this existed before the pandemic so schools are a cause of stress with all of those issues. when we add the pandemic, of course, we know we're adding more stress. >> and we got new data from the cdc this week that was stunning and it says

hospitals iran is also offering support as has regional rival saudi arabia and israel is offering humanitarian aid through foreign channels as it has no formal diplomatic relations with lebanon. news now columbia supreme court has ordered the tension of former president. made allegations of witness tampering and fraud our correspondent. has more from. the spite the coronavirus locked down supporters of former president took to their cars waving the national flag of their political hero. after the country's supreme court ordered his detention and charged him of witness tampering and fraud in an investigation linking him to paramilitary groups look. this is not right it's a political judgment where they want to put a president of the republican prison just because we demand a fair trial and we are grateful to alviro. tuesday's decision shocked promising to further polarize the country over legacy who remains a senator and the most powerful and divisive politician in the nation the court reached their decision after concluding there was potential for obstruction of justice. the measure restricting rebase freedom is based on a large amount of evidentiary material collected and analyzed by the cour

hospitals are running out of medicines after last week's report last we report from a damaged child cancer treatment center. packing up and shutting up shop devastating impact of the coronavirus on the columbia and the economy. tens of thousands of people have gathered in the bellows capital minsk for a 6th night of protests of last week's disputed presidential elections despite a ruthless crackdown in which heavily armed police were deployed against peaceful protesters and thousands were arrested workers from some of the biggest state run factories of walked off the job just hours after hundreds of people arrested over the past few days was suddenly released from prison president alexander lukashenko school for people to return to work but made little reference to the protests opposition to that on a ticket off scalia has called on the international community to help organize talks she's also asking supporters to join mass demonstrations this weekend. and. we need to stop the violence on the streets of valor russian cities i call on the government to stop this and to come to the negotiation table i ask all town mayors to act as organizers of peaceful mass events in each town on the 15th and

hospitals across america. we've been in more than 35 states. already, we've done -- we're on our way to reach 25 million meals alone in the united states plus indonesia plus venezuela plus columbiaf the day what world central kitchen does is simple we tried to come up with the smartest solution. we put restaurants to work with the money that people were donating to us in the process, restaurants would reopen again could hire again could buy from the farmers, from the fishermen in the process, we fed the people in need we cannot leave americans hungry through this pandemic we cannot leave anybody behind >> jimmy: no and we need restaurants. we really do it supports a lot of people. you know, it's not just the name of the place and you go, "oh, that's a good restaurant. there's hundreds of people involved with making that work so, it's really cool that you're doing this. i know you changed your twitter name to "please where a mask, do it for usa, please. i like that you did that because i believe everyoneldeark and we're taking that very seriously here in new york >> i think everybody should be part of this movement. everybody together, we should become, we the people, once again.