david rhodes, bbc news, north yorkshire.es has received more than £1.5 million pounds in donations. captain tom moore, who is 99—years—old and recovering from a hip operation, originally aimed to complete 100 laps. but he's now doubled his target. 0ur correspondent david sillito is at captain tom's home in befordshire. hello, david? this all began as a bit of a family challenge, because what i am standing on at the moment is captain tom's morning exercise reach. he walks backwards and forwards with his walker. it's family said one pen tailor, let's be ambitious, £10 a lap, let's see if we can raise £1000 for the nhs. earlier this morning, they passed £1 million. two hours later it was £1.5 million, it hasjust million. two hours later it was £1.5 million, it has just gone million. two hours later it was £1.5 million, it hasjust gone past 1.6 and is still going up fast. captain tom is, as you can imagine, rather surprised by it all, but given the ca re surprised by it all, but given the care he received when he was in an nhs h

we welcome representative david cicilline of rhode island.e serves as the chair of the antitrust subcommittee. thank you so much for being with us. you have proposed putting a hold on all mergers and acquisitions for the duration of the crisis. explain that to us. cicilline: as we continue to respond to the pandemic, we support businesses and workers and families and small and midsize businesses as they navigate this crisis. one of the lessons we saw from the great recession was tremendous buying opportunities as investors saw companies that were struggling great it led to significant market consumers.ons for willie want to ensure is the antitrust agency -- what we want to ensure is the antitrust agencies focus your attention on allowgouging and we not the equity farms and the investor class to take advantage of this pandemic to produce significant loss of that will reduce choices, drive up prices. we saw after the great recession a tremendous consolidation immediately after that. what i am calling for is, other ton mergers and acquisitions a

david rhodes, bbc news, north yorkshire.t range missiles from the ground and the air on the 108th birthday of the state prospect late founder. fighterjets also the state prospect late founder. fighter jets also fired the state prospect late founder. fighterjets also fired missiles into the sea in a series of military exercises by north korea. the us has urged denuclearisation talks. the president of ukraine says he is monitoring fires reported to get to the former nuclear site chernobyl. firefighters have been trying for more than a week to put out the blazes. the largest fire covered 34,000 hectares. researchers say the economic costs of a pathogen affecting olive trees in europe could run to over 20 billion euros. the infection has killed swainson of trees in italy, spread by insects. the bacteria now poses threats to spain and greece trees. good evening. it has been a dry day across the country with just a bit of nuisance cloud around. and also up of nuisance cloud around. and also up into the far north of scotland. elsew

. >> david: rhode island governor gina raimondo has asked the entire population to keep a journal ofplaces they encounter. >> when you find out you're positive, you should pull out your notebook and hand it over to the department of health so they'll have accurate, up to date information. >> there is no nationwide tracking that is currently being done. >> david: and in massachusetts, governor charlie baker has hired a thousand contact tracers to interview people who have been infected. he is running the massachusetts program. >> everyone talks about flattening the curve. but we want to shrink the total number of people who get sick. >> reporter: dr. joia mukherjee is the chief medical officer of partners in health. she says it is more than just asking who have bu you spent time with, but can you handle being sick? >> so i say, do you have the ability to quarantine, and he may say no. i'm the primary bread earner. so we find out, does he need food delivered to the house. >> reporter: you can't remember every single person you're near. total strangers in the grocery store. >> c.e.o.s o

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joining me is democratic congressman david cicilline of rhode island, a member of the house foreign affairs and judiciary committees. great to have you with us this morning. thank you very much for your time. >> my pleasure. >> let me begin by asking you what you're hearing about where these talks of 9/11-style commission stand right now. where are we in that process? >> look, i think this is said repeatedly that we'll have plenty of time after we get through this pandemic for an ever action review. i think my colleagues are very focused on addressing the urgent priorities are saving lives and making sure we're supporting families, wores aworkers and sm businesses. we've been calling on the president to enact fully the defense production act to produce ventilators and protective equipment and uncrge him to take on a national roll, there are distribution supply chains and bring transparency how these materials are being distributed, but our focus is making sure our health care workers have their protective gear, that testing is available, that people who are laid off get unemployment, so we'

brian: you went back to work -- david: you went back to rhode island and practiced law. the highest calling of mankind, private equity. brian: one of the reasons i quit being a lawyer's i had worked with our private equity firm, the private equity firm and i structured deals. that is what led the ceo to say come work with us and quit being a lawyer. it was an inquisitive bank and did a bank merger with the bank of boston. you state with the company. when the ceo of bank boston took over, he decided the combined bank was not big enough and so we ultimately discussed selling it to a number of other people. ultimately it was bought by bank of america. is that right? brian: that goes to the scale of banking and what you can achieve. it was the first nationwide bank and that is something we can achieve and something nobody else could achieve. david: and for a while you became the general counsel of the entire bank of america. from december 2008 to 2009. david: 40 days and 40 nights. was there a slaughter? brian: there was the merrill transaction and a few other things. by tha

david, let me start with what is happening with the northeastern states. new york, new jersey, connecticut, rhode, they're putting together a task force. it will have one public health official, one economic development person, the chief of staff of each state government, governor, rather, they will try to work on coordinated effort to reopen the economy. do you like this model. do you think it is going to work? >> i believe governors have that responsibility need to look at their states, state economies and that they have interstate commerce. what is interesting about this cuomo is missing a key state. you have maryland. a major port in baltimore. so you have got international commerce as a component of that. i don't understand rhode island which is going through a spike. we want rhode island being reopened, they're sieving a spike in cases and number of deaths so they're likely closed for some time. regardless of issue, party shutdown orders around looking at each other to say how we begin to open business sectors, sectors of the economy. one thing we do need we need cooperation between the sta

rhode island, massachusetts. all right now pushing back any talk of easing up on sheltering at home until at least may 15th. another month of that. let's get they read from david lee miller in new york with the very latest. >> that's right, neil. we heard from andrew cuomo saying that he's going to extend until may 15th the shutdown of these nonessential businesses in new york state. citing the fact that the social distancing and other measures that have been put in place are working to slow the virus. the governor said he's making this decision in coordination with seven other northeastern states. interestingly, those states do have varying policies about how they want to restart the economy. in the last 24 hours, here in new york, 606 fatalities were reported. that's down from the 752 the day before. the governor said, we have to continue what we are doing and made his case. >> no political decisions, no emotional decisions. data and science. we are talking about human lives here. >> the governor urged new yorkers to abide by his executive order where anyone cannot be practice -- use a piece covering. at a nursing home in andover township new jersey, authori

boston and the masks will be used in massachusetts and rhode island. 300,000 of them we are told are on their way here to new york. sandra. >> sandra: david lee miller, thank you for your reporting on the ground in new york city. >> ed: the jobs report is out for march showing the u.s. economy lost more than 700,000 jobs. unemployment rising now to 4.4%. that survey was done before the massive job losses that we saw in the last two weeks. president trump talked about all of these challenges yesterday. >> president trump: you see 6 million people unemployed, unemployment numbers get released and you see 6 million people. it's an artificial closing. it is not like we have a massive recession or worse. it is artificial because we turned it off. think of what we're doing. we're saying don't go to work and we'll pay you. everything is the opposite. >> ed: john roberts is live from the north lawn this morning. good morning. sounds like treasury secretary is jumping on the small business loans almost immediately. >> he said they have processed some 7,000 loans and they've got that ramped up today and keep it going. it's another staggering number