the virus what it 1st appeared back in the fall of 2019 for more on this will bring in our chief fronsac ferret how significant are these lawsuits and do they have any bearing so many of the short answer to that is probably not missouri's attorney general eric schmidt is leading the case and after talking with economists at the university of missouri the state is looking to get upwards of $44000000000.00 and now you also have mississippi's a. saying that she's getting ready to file suit now missouri is the 1st state to file against china mississippi the 2nd all the seek damages and it could be the 1st of many states doing this now according to the missouri lawsuit it reads quote during the critical weeks of the initial outbreak chinese authorities deceive the public suppressed crucial information arrested whistleblowers denied human to human transmission destroyed medical research had millions exposed to the virus and hoarded protective equipment causing a global pandemic that was preventable now today the chinese government called missouri's lawsuit absurd listen here. the so-called law

correspondent ferran fronsac fair and what's going on well it is new to some doctors but you also have a lot more doctors today that are having to kind of learn what this is now sarah this has been around for at least a decade and it's one of those things that it's being done today what's being done today is simply a real you have a team of surgeons out in bangladesh being guided remotely by a highly skilled cardiac surgeon that's in new york city you have medical students and gonna listening to a lecture about immunizations and germany and like what we're seeing more and more today especially in the wake of coven 1000 doctors are screening patients on line or patients going to a tele health center and video conferencing with a physician like what new york has done to meet the demand for patients coming and it's pretty incredible take a look at this. all right so this is one of the times that we're going to get up and running as you can see there's a registration. that we don't want this time we're going to use regis. with ability we're already on the other. rides we've. got all to mee

recalling missouri's lawsuit absurd that's likely not going to happen in the newsroom fair and fronsac r.t. . and as care for those with cope at 19 dominate hospitals around the country some cities are looking to utilize facilities that are currently empty are to correspondent natasha sweet is in los angeles where one medical center is looking to reopen to aid in this fight against the pandemic. other angeles county officials are rushing to reopen this hospital to treat coping 19 patients that were closed back in january after the owner declared bankruptcy and officers are using state funding for we opened this hospital a trend that we're seen nationwide hard times are ahead harder than what we saw in 2008 we are today issuing an emergency order. that says toward hospitals you must be in pretty sure capacity by 50 percent that's covered 19 patients flood hospitals throughout the country state governors and city officials alike are looking for ways to serve more people for treatment well hurst hospital has hit capacity and there's about 545 beds a year and they're all filled with cold w

fronsac thank you for giving us that update what a wild story thank you. and elsewhere around the world german chancellor angela merkel urged her fellow citizens to remain on alert as the country takes its 1st steps in reopening some businesses and restarting public life last friday federal and state officials ruled to reopen non-essential shops but with some hygiene precautions however merkel warns that the country could return to a full shutdown of corona virus infections began to rise again. and florida has reopened some of its beaches which immediately began to be swarmed by people but is this a move state officials might regret later and then over in the sport age q regina hamm brings us one tennis coach's idea to bring the sport back to the court will see. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by those great. blue dares thinks. we dared to ask. when i was choked small seemed wrong all right old roles just don't hold. the world to get to shape out this day and you can't get educated and engagement equals betrayal. the one song many find themselves wo

meantime oil prices continue their downward spiral today for more on all of this let's bring in our fronsac she's been following this story and this is the 1st time in history right that that oil has dropped below 0 right now and you know this is really a domino effect all from the coronavirus now people have these stay at home orders so people are they're driving less no one's flying anywhere so you have all this extra oil not being used and there's only so much oil the world store and. we're already bumping up against the limits of storage capacity and that's why we're continuing to see the price to continue to sink now as for storing that much oil the department of energy is currently trying to lease some $77000000.00 barrels of available space in the strategic petroleum reserve created after the 1973 oil embargo now cheap oil leads to cheaper prices at the pump which is a big win for customers but data shows gas is down 50 percent right now compared to this time last year but again the demand is at an all time low as one oil industry analyst explains this is a no win situation you will

fronsac . and other news making headlines today calls for a vote by mail have intensified across the nation after 7 confirmed cases in wisconsin have been linked to april's primary election day according to state health officials the cases include 6 voters and one poll worker and they expect those numbers to grow now the governor of wisconsin tried to delay that primary if you recall but got overruled by the state supreme court. and you may soon be able to check if you have code 19 right in the comfort of your own home that's because the f.d.a. has just approved the 1st in home test kits the f.d.a. recently gave emergency clearance to lab or for those nasal swab kits which will 1st be made available to health care workers and then in the coming weeks those kits which run about $100900.00 will be available to the public. and new revelations in the case of julian of songe claiming a spanish firm went to great lengths to spy on the wiki leaks founder including targeting his china where it was a ru

as this crisis deepens reporting in washington fair and fronsac r.t. . and a group of homeowners in florida and one florida county are suing to get the beaches reopened that were closed by local officials in response to the coronavirus pandemic r.t. correspondent john honey has more for us from miami they want their sandy back yards reopened a group of homeowners in walton county on florida's panhandle including former arkansas governor mike huckabee are angry that the county's board of commissioners passed an ordinance closing the county's beaches because of the coronavirus pandemic and they're suing to get the ordinance overturned the lawsuit alleges it's an unconstitutional taking of property without compensation thus violating privacy and due process rights and that the case is about how the ordinance affects the rights of ocean front property owners not issues related to the general public according to the lawsuit quote the county's ordinance forces family members into a confined space within their house rather than allow them to social distance and

correspondents john hardy and foreign fronsac and robust co-host and investigative journalist john i want to start with you at an international level let's look at the united nations human rights council 12016 issued a resolution they were declaring the internet a human right access to the internet was a human right john which countries are actually allowing for free wife i service. you know this is this is a fascinating segment because 1st as you mentioned the un added a section to article 19. the universal declaration of human rights in 2016 reading in part that quote everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to see receive and impact information and ideas through any medium regardless of frontiers and that includes the promotion the protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet so as we know that look there are countries that control the internet that have total control of the and then are basically able to shut it down restrict access to it and also output notably what comes to mind

weeks with these alarming words much attention was given today to the white house task force briefing fronsac has all the details on this she's been following the story so apparent tell us more about what the white house is message actually was so when all of the actual coronavirus task force it's actually still going on right now and there were a couple of key points that president donald trump made but his big particular focus was on advances in a vaccine mascon medical supply shortages and health care workers in particular calling them the true heroes on the front lines take a listen. and they're going in there and they're putting the outfits on of if putting their masks on and they're it's incredible it's no it's chilly it's like no different than you watch the war movies you watch the old clips of war running uphill so it's to me it's the same thing. men and women young and old but a lot of young people just going in there then at thinking about oh gee this is dangerous i'm not saying hello i don't want to go in there warriors they're running through those doors it's the most incredible

fronsac thank you for giving us that update what a wild story thank you. and elsewhere around the world today german chancellor angela merkel urged fellow citizens to remain on alert as the country takes its 1st steps in reopening some businesses and restarting public light last friday federal and state officials ruled to reopen non-essential shops with hygiene precautions merkel warns the country could return to a full shutdown if corona virus infections began to rise again. and then over to brazil now where supporters of president also narrow took to the streets of sao paulo to demand a coronavirus for strict restrictions lifted on saturday protesters denounced. put in place by the governor of south meantime days after both narrow fired his health minister after disagreeing on social distancing the brazilian president says he wants his new health minister to help protect the country's health while restarting the economy. and right here in the nation's capital the army corps of engineers is starting to build a makeshift hospital at the washington d.c. con

and they continue to operate in nearly every domestic destination reporting in washington fair and fronsac r.t. . and elsewhere around the world japan has declared a month long state of emergency in tokyo and 5 other prefectures that continue to see the number of infections rise prime minister shinzo abbay has requested residents to stay at home and a practice social distancing this as the total confirmed cases there are nearly $4000.00 japan is also set to roll out a trillion dollar stimulus package to protect their economy. and over to israel where a complete nationwide lockdown has been ordered during passover to control the outbreak there prime minister benjamin netanyahu has already. restricted movement prior to the lockdown only allowing people to leave their homes to buy food or do other essential activities the lockdown would go into effect on tuesday afternoon and friday morning. and california is sending 500 state owned ventilators to other states and territory struggling to contain the corona virus outbreak the medical equipment is being shipped out to me about maryland delaware

as this crisis deepens reporting in washington fair and fronsac party. and the grown a virus continues to plague new york hitting some of the poorest working class areas the hardest thousands of low paid. workers are forced to work just to make ends meet and now there are new reports that dozens of transit workers have now lost their lives due to the virus and new research indicating that the state's outbreak has originated in europe trinity chavez has that report. here today the coronavirus continuing to take a dramatic toll on new york it's like a battlefield behind your house the number of corona virus cases and now more than 150000 with more than 7000 deaths. the virus having the biggest impact on some of new york city's poorest areas the disparities that have plagued this city this nation that are all about fundamental inequality are once again causing such pain. and causing people innocent people to lose their lives it's just abundantly clear it's sick it's troubling it's wrong new data showing jackson heights elmhurst and corona queens have higher

boeing is taking it day by day and hoping that is going to come out strong and competitive now erin fronsac thank you for giving us that update what a wild story thank you. a trumpet ministration and congress are set to agree on about $450000000000.00 in additional stimulus for small businesses hospitals and coronavirus testing the goal is to infuse more cash into the s.b.a. payroll protection program in order to keep a small businesses afloat meantime u.s. oil prices crash to record lows so here to just discuss all of that boom bust co-host and investigative journalist grant's one so ben this agreement has taken well over a week to put together and part of the reason is that both democrats and republicans keep just adding other projects to be funded to write you know they do they both sides continue to try to negotiate this and the bottom line is you know mitch mcconnell there's a lot of criticism for him on a lot of issues but on this particular issue i think he did the right thing which was over a week ago he said this payroll protection money is going to run out let's just add 250000000

the term administration is asking for them to return them to see if that actually happens here in fronsac r t correspondent thank you for that report. mark terrible news for the economy these jobs the jobless claims are continuing to lead to these new historic highs as fair and just reported jobless claims continue to reach these highs in the united states the 4400000 people now the numbers are higher than projected in europe the numbers are similarly terrible in fact new numbers show that as many as 60000000 people across europe could be out of a job within the next few weeks this includes 55000000 workers employed and high risk professions well joining us now to washington post and investigative journalist ben swan than a lot of distress here as if the economy really is ravaged by this chronic iris at this point virtually all economic indicators are pointing to the worst downturn since the great depression depression we've been mentioning that word for a few weeks now it's been 6 weeks since the shutdown how does the economy come back from this at this point what listen i've been listen

forth by citizens or businesses over these restrictions as well reporting in washington fair and fronsac r.t. . and other news making headlines today calls for a vote by mail have intensified across the nation after 7 confirmed cases in wisconsin have been linked to primary elections according to state health officials the cases include 6 voters and one poll worker and they expect those numbers to grow the governor of wisconsin tried to delay that primary if you recall but got overruled by the state supreme court. and you may soon be able to check if you have coded 19 in the comfort of your own home that's because the f.d.a. has approved the 1st in home test kits the f.d.a. recently gave emergency clearance to lab corp for these nasal swab kits which will 1st be made available to health care workers and in the coming weeks the kits which will run about $101000.00 will be available to the public. and canada's capital city of ottawa has turned its focus to some of its most vulnerable citizens the homeless with covert 90 now active in the community the city is taking action to stop the spre

going to continue to operate in nearly every domestic destination reporting in washington fair and fronsac. all right you might call this the cares act part 2 now congress is now looking at a 2nd stimulus package meant to help businesses and workers impacted by the coronavirus shutdowns now this is in addition to be over 2 trillion dollar stimulus which were approved back on march 28th joining us to discuss this investigative journalist and boom bust co-host ben swan so ben what do we know about what's inside this cares act do. well it's being developed right now there's a couple of things i'll get to that in the 2nd but let me just say this because there is some breaking news on this bill the. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell just came out this afternoon saying this that the additional amount of money needs to be put into the current care. that is 2 trillion stimulus dollars remember the cares i could self is divided into pieces $500000000000.00 is supposed to go to helping big businesses about $350000000000.00 will help small businesses and they'll be checks sent to individuals rig