particularly, in retail across the state of louisiana. we are moving forward today with premiseso all dining outdoors for restaurants, curbside pickup at malls. we are doing what we believe we can reasonably do right now to make sure those cases do not spike back up. especially before we have the additional testing capacity, which we expect to start coming in over the next week. believe we will continue to have some individuals here in louisiana will want to protest. i would encourage them to do that in a safe, appropriate way. all voices are going to continue to be heard. we are going to get through this. i can't just assure you. -- i can just assure you. but in the meantime, i need everyone to be focused on the fact that we need to meet those threshold criteria. that means over the next two weeks, take advantage of this time to keep the case spread down so that we do not send more people back into the hospitals and we can proceed to phase one. >> are hospitalizations the main challenges we have to get past to get to phase one? gov. edwa

but in hindsight, i use louisiana as an example, we put up $1.8 million. there is a requirement in the legislation that says 1.8 can only be used to divert the expenses of the coronavirus expended by state governments, by the state of louisiana and by the cities. and that's what the statute says. and it's the statute passed by congress that controls. now the department of treasury, i'm not sure what they issued, but they issued something. the states can't louisiana for example has great flexibility to spend the 1.8 that went to state and local government. they can spend it on first responders, policemen, schoolteachers and i appreciate the department of treasury issuing whatever it was they issued a. there's just one problem. the statute doesn't say that. and the united states treasury doesn't have the authority, nor should it change the bill passed by the united states congress. so i'm grateful to the secretary to try to help here, but i don't believe that what he is doing is legal, and it gives me great pause the state government and d cities might act o

and louisiana health recommend the mask usage. sharee been working to s.formation with louisianan many households received a phone call from me earlier today. to assure people that was real. we make those calls to landlines and the people who opt in on their cell phones. for this by up registering for smart 9-1-1 at coronavirus.la.gov. today we are reporting 710 new cases of covid-19 for a total of 28,711. that is a larger increase than we have reported in a number of days. it is somewhat startling, but i want people to understand that 381 of these new cases came from two commercial labs who were reporting for the very first time today, and many of those test results are days and actually weeks old, we found out. obviously, this is going to happen on occasion as new labs come on line for the first time. we are working with the labs to let them know they are under an obligation to report all of the results not just to ldh but also to c.d.c. i just wanted to point that out. but we are reporting 710. if you take away the 381 of those

but in hindsight it will take louisiana as an example. when we received $1.8 billion there is a requirement in the legislation that says that 18 -- $1.8 billion can only be used to defray the expenses of coronavirus expended by the state of louisiana and by our cities. that is what the statute says. it's a statute passed by congress that controls with the department of treasury and i'm not sure what they have issued that they have issued something that didn't go to the apa. this is while the states louisiana for example has great flexibility to spend that $120 billion were received in louisiana from state and local government. they can spend it on first responders and the police fund and schoolteachers and i appreciate the department of treasury issuing whatever it was they issued or they think they call the directive. there's just one problem the statute doesn't say that. the united states treasury does not have the authority nor should it to change a bill passed by the united states congress. i'm grateful to the secretary who's tried to

louisianae people of will do that. i am reminded of all the commandments that were given to in luke chapter 10, other than the most important one, loving the lord with all of your heart, is loving your neighbor as yourself. one of the ways you can love --r neighbor as yourself there is still a substantial number of people out there with covid who don't know they have it. they are asymptomatic. and a symptom act person feels like they are healthy. you cannot say you are not going to wear a mask because i feel good today. that really defeats the purpose. i am asking people to wear those masks. i have time for a couple of more questions. >> can you talk more specifically about what criteria we will need to enter phase two, and what phase ii might look like? will it look a lot like what the white house says? governor edwards: i will not talk about what phase ii might look like. it will be very consistent with what is in the white house plans. there's only so much information we should put out a one day. we are asking peopl

and i am proud and i want to thank the people of louisiana for doing that. complying with the stay-at-home order and had they not, we would not have seen the progress that we have been able to see. i also want to remind everybody that until friday, the stay-at-home order is still in place. i mentioned that the doctor will come up in a moment. i did want to explain a little bit more about what phase i will look like. again, we are doing this on monday. so that we have an opportunity to answer any questions throughout the week. the proclamation will be issued on thursday, effective on friday, and i'm encouraging people to read the product -- the proclamation itself because it will be a complete document that will give you links to different places that if you need to go see certain things, such as, we will still have three categories of businesses in louisiana. those b -- deemed essential, the cyber security and information security agency that works in the department of homeland security at the national level, they are on their third edition of what constitut

i think the people of louisiana will do that.i am reminded of all the commandments that were given to us, other than the most important one, loving the lord with all of your heart, is loving your neighbor as yourself. there is still a substantial number of people out there with covid who don't know they have it. people feel like they are healthy. you cannot say you are not going to wear a mask. that really defeats the purpose. i am asking people to wear those masks. i have time for a couple of more questions. >> can you talk more specifically about what criteria we will need? and what phase ii might look like? will it look a lot like what the white house says? governor edwards: i will not talk about what phase ii might look like. it will be very consistent with what is in the white house plans. as we get closer to the , we will start talking about it. you have to keep making the same progress when it comes to covid like illnesses being reported to the emergency room. ases as a wrong number or percentage of tests. and hospitalizat

we think that is the prudent path forward and what we will engage in in louisiana. >> louisiana has had almost 30,000 confirmed cases, more than 2,000 confirmed deaths. while the numbers of cases and deaths in louisiana continue to climb, there is a bit of good news in your state. your health department is reporting the lowest number of coronavirus patients on ventilators in about six weeks. 194 patients. what helped bring down that number? >> it was the testing, making sure we were identifying those individuals with the virus and making sure they were being isolated. i will tell you, we have done a remarkable job in louisiana. about six weeks ago we had the highest growth in cases anywhere in the world according to the johns hopkins data. we had 4500 cases a month ago. we are moving in a much better direction than we were. we acknowledge that. we have been able to do a lot of good work with our federal partners with a lot of great, heroic efforts with our hospitals and first responders with all of those medical responders doing a tremendous job in louisiana. >> we are so grateful to al

we're going to be able to do that here in louisiana. can't tell you exactly when but we know where likely not to get back to anything that looks normal until there's a vaccine, but clearly you can't wait until then until you start opening up more of your economy, getting more of your workers back in place. we are going to be able to demonstrate that louisiana and new orleans will say people will start to come back, there is frankly no other place like new orleans anywhere in the world. we just want to make sure we don't go backwards. >> martha: i hear you. i read that half of louisiana's oil businesses are expected to file for bankruptcy, that's a stunning number. >> we are hit by two things at once, the dispute between saudi arabia and russia that increase the supply beyond anything that was reasonable at the time and reduced demand because of coronavirus. what impact that has had on gasoline and jet fuel all around the world, so it's a double whammy and obviously we are working to see what we can do to help that industry. it's incredi

and -- parishes in louisiana. one-third will about go directly to municipalities and counties, those local governments that are on the forefront of providing services to those who are being affected by the coronavirus epidemic. so we think that we've got something which balances the needs of stakeholders. the most important stakeholder being the american citizen. that both addresses the need for fiscal accountability but the need to preserve those essential government services to get our economy going once more. so again i'm going to ask all my colleagues to support the thin blue line bill, otherwise known as the smartage of i think it is the smart way to go forward to make shoe h. -- make sure we don't slip into a recession but return with as robust a economy as we had before entering the crisis. with that, i yield to my colleague from maine. ms. collins: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: i am pleased to be a cosponsor of the smart act and i want to commend senator menen

people in louisiana are tough. we're tough.really good job of running, cooking oysters and serving louisiana seafood. we have a great product. we understand hospitality. it will be difficult but i'm very confident we have a great staff and we're going to do it, we're going to come back. i have two out of five restaurants are closed. our largest restaurant at new orleans hilton at new orleans. that is currently closed, probably scheduled to reopen in mid-june. we have a restaurant in jackson, mississippi currently closed. we hope to open that in next two or three years. our three other restaurants, lafayette, metarie and they're open, doing 60% less than normally do. you have to crawl, before you can walk, before you can run. we're at 25%. our city and our state will show our governor that we're doing well. our numbers are constantly going down. so our numbers are looking much, much better as far as people in the hospital and people on ventilators. those are good signs that we have. i'm hoping in the next two weeks our governor

as we saw from my colleague from louisiana they are already accounting for the need to cut. already seen hundredsth of thousands of public workers being laid off. the delay has costs, and when you're talking about first responders, the delays could have costs that are hard to imagine. i encourage my colleagues to see this is what it is. it is an accurately tailored response, a bipartisan bill. it is what our nation needs right now. i encourage my colleagues in the senate to work to get this to the floor so that we can vote on it, pass on and get it through congress to the president to desk so we can avoid these layoffs and help to endure the storm that we're in an ultimately overcome the severity of its ravages. thank you, madam president. >> madam president? >> the senator from georgia. >> i ask unanimous consent to complete my remarks before thegh 12:30 p.m. vote. >> without objection. >> the senate passed the cares act, and an president $2.2 trillion package of legislation aimed at providing relief as our country took steps to respond to the threat of covid-19. covid-19.

but back to louisiana, my stepdad drove 19 miller when i was a kid.years old and he drew drove in 19 miller. i 18 wheeler. i spent a lot of time there with an eight track player and listening to merle haggard. all of these great country singers. george jones and that is my education and hundred music. i come by it pretty honestly. nunnally does does riding in the truck and hearing the songs but as a jukeboxes, and truck stops at four in the morning and places like that i grew up with that is part of my dna. my mom tells my first memory, noty my first memory, my mom tells me my first introduction to music, she worked at a bus stop cafeteria in louisiana before she met my step dad when she was a young single mom and as as a playpen right by the jukebox. i would sit in that playpen everyday all day while she worked and listen to the jukebox. >> faith once to keep you in a playpen. [laughing] >> some kind of pen. if don't know if it's a playpen. >> let's see if we can do okie. give me okie from muskogee. can you do it? ♪ >> there's a green beret, all righ

the president was there for the louisiana also. >> yes he was.or some time now, the state and federal governments have been running the american economy essentially, and the louisiana economy. what could possibly go wrong? it's been a nightmare on elm street -- i understand why we had to shut things down but we can't sustain this. number one, the economy will collapse and number two, at least the people in my state are going to stop complying. my governor has said he's not going to make a decision until may 15th. i respect that, but he hasn't been able to completely convince the people of louisiana. many of my people are opening up. many louisiana and many americans can't earn a living behind the laptop. many of us don't live in the hamptons and eat quinoa summer salads. >> sean: they want to accept me there, i won't go. that's the funniest line i've ever heard of. my family is in medicine, medicine and law enforcement. i see this up close, we could have lost millions of people. that was real, it's ravaging for those that are older, compromised i

williams planned to transport him and send him to louisiana. when we pull back and look at the broad scope of this interstate slave trade, we're talking about between 1820 and 1860 1.5 million people sold out of maryland and virginia and delaware and sent into the south, cotton south and sugar fields. 1.5 million people. 186,000 children. at least 260,000 spouses separated. okay. one scholar has estimated that every 3.6 minutes between 1820 and 1860 a family was broken up and a person was sold. a person was sold every 3.6 minutes for 40 years. the scope and the scale of the interstate slave trade is something we have to recon with and think about as americans and understand this forced migration. every 3.6 minutes for 40 years. ash was one who was taken, sold, sent to the yellow house and it's there that he has somehow the resources, probably because he was a member of the bell family and they are not far away. in 1839 he has the resources to bring a freedom suit which he does in december of 1839. so to understand what happens, how ash like nor

i know he cares is deeply for louisiana as i do about florida. i want to help states too which is why i support maintaining the existing restrictions tied to the coronavirus relief fund that were included in the cares act, how imperfect the coronavirus relief fund, make sure spending is for coronavirus response. regardless whether we are removing existing guardrails or talking about new funding both actions would result in a blank check bailout for states. let's remember we are talking about $150 billion. put that in perspective. the median income per capita in florida is 30,$000. $150 billion will pay the total annual income for more than 5 million floridians. let's talk who we are bailing out. not those on unemployment. we took care of them in the cares act. not teachers, we took care of them in the cares act. healthcare workers, we took care of them in the cares act. we are bailing out liberal politicians who cannot live within their means, and we are asking floridians to pay for the incompetence of governors like andrew cuomo. we can't give h

louisiana has two folks at the top of the office.ut you also know that it's been one of the states hardest hit by both the demand destruction for oil and a lesser extent and natural gas and you understand the implications of the family's livelihood. so, as i mentioned in my remarks, with this comes the responsibility if you will to get the energy economy going back to work. some of that is related to how will we get the economy back again but the 1 degree that you feel expanding storage were other options may help preserve some of these energy paying jo jobs. >> we have an obligation to get u.s. workers back to work we've identified the authorities that we have on this it is interesting to note congress gave authority for 1 billion barrels a. we can have the capability of putting u.s. produced oil when necessary into storage. that is one thing. much of this new one would require some investment, so that would create the u.s. jobs and we would have the benefit of employing u.s. workers as well as providing future storage capacities go

with that, i yield to the gentleman from louisiana, my friend mr. scully's. scalise.ise: -- mr. thank you. -- thank you.e: i-8 -- at the pro forma session on tuesday, we will swear in two new members. i yield back. as it relates to the debate on the floor today about this change in the proxy were manyere still constitutional questions raised, especially as it relates to article one, section five, which states a majority of each house shall constitute a quorum. i would hope that although the rule has clearly passed and your side was able to pass that, it does not mean it needs to be exercised. because the senate is going to be in next week, because we proved today we can come back safely and conduct our business. i would just hope that while it is now opportunity and option for the majority to use that, we still would continue to do business with a majority of members being present, because if a major piece of legislation were to come to this floor, and 20pass with a proxy, meaning people holding proxies clearly under your bill would be what your side would claim to be a majority

louisiana senator john kennedy says congressman schiff lied and got away with it. >> if you and i lied to congress, it's perjury. if congress lies to us, it's politics. it's third world country stuff. the whole time, chairman shift schiff's lecture all of us about the rule of law. he's lying to the american people. an ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. >> harris: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live in washington with more on this. hi, mike. >> good afternoon, new revelations by the origins of the russia probe. in august 2017 memo reveals then acting attorney general rod rosenstein authorized special counsel robert mueller to go well beyond the initial scope of the russia probe to look into any links or coordination between the russian government and members of the 2016 trump campaign. rosenstein also authorized looking into criminal

in louisiana it will be a day. that round of severe weather that went through the area has cleared out. we are getting a tale end of this in new york city towards portions of new england, but things should improve as we get into the second part of the weekend but in the last 24 hours quite a bit of rain in the northeast. this is going to linger saturday and sunday, not the greatest weekend but i can't -- next week. a lot more sunshine in these areas. we will relax a little bit on the severe weather we have seen in april. record-breaking severe storms in the month of april. there is forecast radar as it goes through the day today. still lingering showers through friday and saturday but things are going to improve on the second part of the week. your forecast, much improved weather picture for much of the country, 87 in houston, looking good in louisiana for the flyover. the other big story is the heat. that has been hanging on in the southwest with temperatures well above 100 degrees. temperatures will relax a littl

you have john bel edwards from louisiana. he is a democrat, but he is a friend. we work together on these things. i hope that does had a good example for america. every once in a while, there are philosophical differences, but it does not apply when it comes to fighting this battle. host: before we let you go, what part of the residents are you in this evening? guest: we are in the library here. room inan historic which we do our budget negotiations. i have pictures of old governors. i have a picture of billy graham whenever he was here in the mansion as well as bob hope. a little bit of history. it also has some great outdoor pictures on the walls from some of our great outdoor duck hunting in the state of arkansas. host: governor asa hutchinson, republican from that state is available online at c-span.org. joining us from new zealand is the beijing bureau chief for the washington post, anna fifield

i yield to the gentleman from louisiana, the minority whip. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognize dollars. mr. scalise: thank you, madam speaker and thank my friend from maryland working through those items. i first want to start by associate myself with the comments from my friend from texas, mr. thornberry about the loss of our dear friend, sam johnson. we got to be close friends and i can picture him sitting right over there by general lafayette's painting in his scooter as he was voting and sharing stories with friends in his last few months when he served here with us with distinction for so long and the conversations and just the understanding of a giant that we served with, someone who served our country. spent seven years in the hanoi hilton. never broken. probably broke every bone in his body trying, but he and those other brave men in that prison never once faltered in their love and dedication to our country and to their family. and he is now with his wife in a special place and we are all better for hav

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i know they were just in the university of louisiana system, which in louisiana is separate from lsu. different universities. they plan to come back on campus in person. joining us from his home in new orleans. his book on the 1918 great pandemic, the great influenza. thank you very much for being itico.com. c-span and thank you thank you very much for joining you so much for having me. host: joining us from his home in maryland is democratic senator ben cardin. thank you for joining us here on c-span tonight. guest: it is good to be with you. thank you. host: from my home to your home. let's talk about this hearing tomorrow that will be potentially the new norm in the senate. these virtual hearings, in order to make sure lawmakers practice physical distancing. what are you hearing from your colleagues? guest: i think we all recognize that this is what we need to do. we have got to follow the public health recommendations. it is not going to be as effective as if we were in the it isoom together, but acceptable. it gives us a chance to get testimony on the record. each of us can parti

senator from louisiana, bill cassidy, republican from louisiana., sir, the task force is continuing? because there were reports we were going to get rid of it. >> i think it probably has value. on the other hand, there's a lot of tools that have been given to states and local government to begin to do what is called containment. there are data systems, they have a lot of money to work on and we have more and more testing flooding the area. if we use the data to put that testing where it should be, we should be able to contain. i think it's less important the task force, more important what begins to happen on the state and local level. stuart: because the president really wants to stress opening up. that's his focus now, open this thing up. open up the economies. sir, on that note, it's called the louisiana oil and gas association and they say about half of louisiana oil businesses expect bankruptcy. that's a dire prediction. half your oil companies in louisiana, bankrupt? that's dire indeed. >> it is both a function of the demand destruction from

the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. kennedy: thank you, mr. president. i want to talk for a few minutes about the coronavirus relief fund flexibility for state and local government act. but before i get to my motion, i just want to make a couple of points. point one -- as you know, mr. president, we have passed four bills dealing with the pool of misery america and the world find themselves in with respect to the coronavirus. we have spent a breathtaking amount of money. i never imagined that i would vote for bills of the magnitude that i have voted for. but we all did what we had to do. if you add up the four bills, we've spent $3 trillion so far. that's -- i've expressed it this way before, but i'm going to keep doing it because it's just a breathtaking amount of money. $3 trillion is three 000, 000, 000, 000 taxpayer dollars. we may have to spend another $3 trillion. as you know, we have set up some facilities at the federal reserve. they're called 133 facilities, through which the federal reserve is loaning money to american businesses to try to keep

so the louisiana maneuvers of 1941 were fundamentally different. excuse me. marshall's insistence on training paid off. he wanted mistakes made in louisiana rather than in europe so the 1941 exercises consisted of 400,000 service members, twice the number that was even in the army the year before. you got 19 divisions actively out there participating in these war games. so the war games are over in 1941. we're well on our way to doing, to creating a much better army, but our army is about to go away with the expiration of the selective service act. so marshall and a number of members of the administration go talk to congress members and get them to extend the selective service act for 18 months. which will guarantee that we keep getting soldiers into the army. so there's one other aspect of the louisiana maneuvers that deserves to be mentioned, and that is, that marshall came around and he was watching and he was always on the look out for new talent. rumor was he had a little black book, when he spotted somebody with high potential and high talent he'd write

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john mack, an african-american centerville, louisiana. he was a member of the red ball expressed.y was a convoy of supply trucks. a moving army. george patton, think about him racing across france. you need to be able to keep up with them with food and gasoline. john mack lost his dogtags on the beaches of normandy when he came ashore as part of the red ball express. aer 70 years later, just couple of years ago, his dogtags were rediscovered by a farmer in france who then sent them to the secretary of state's office here in louisiana and he presented us with the dogtags. and hissense, john mack dogtags came home 70 years later . here in the case as well, you can see the red ball express's badge that they were on their uniforms. -- wore on their uniforms. we are now moving into a bunker. a bunker that is supposed to be a german bunker. failure ofafter the market garden in september of 1944, where we famously came up one bridge too far, too short from being able to invade into northern germany, people still hope that the war might be over, if not by christmas, maybe a little later.

the next day, march 13, 1864, he sent a letter to the governor of louisiana. the majority of this letter had to do with what he called a private suggestion that governor han push at state level for black men to get the right to vote. lincoln said the very intelligent and those who fought gallantly, such motors, would probably help in some trying time to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. lincoln's suggestion to governor hahn is remarkable. it is the first time a sitting president advocates the right to vote for black men. the argument put forward by the delegation from louisiana had begun to influence lincoln. it is worth noting lincoln advocated for a broader expansion of suffrage than even the two black men from louisiana asked for. they wanted the right to vote for elite black men, taxpayers. lincoln was the right to vote for people who are either very intelligent or who bear arms for the union. a month after this meeting, lincoln met with a delegation of six black men from north carolina, asking for the right to vote in their state. th

. >> i respect your opinion of my colleagues louisiana. the coronavirus pandemic is a life altering time for our country and economy will never be the same. this is a challenging time for the level of government we help small businesses and individuals to get the economy open as soon as possible. this crisis is unprecedented in congress took action to save our economy but if you're not careful congress will have another equally devastating crisis of making our national debts are already unsustainable levels have skyrocketed as congress has been almost $3 trillion to address the crisis and then to think about the financial future nature of children and grandchildren i appreciate the spirit of my colleagues also to understand his desire to know he cares deeply for louisiana's i do about what i want to help state that's why i maintain the existing restrictions that are included in the cares act the coronavirus make sure spending is for the coronavirus response and to talk about completely new funding both actions word to be a blank check bail

they all served time at the louisiana correctional institute for women, also known as lciw, and now that those women are on the outside working as advocates, they say they've been getting dozens of emails a day from women who are still inside that louisiana correctional institute for women, telling them about the very worrying situation inside that facility when it comes to coronavirus. >> so we would like to share some quotes from our sisters on the inside, because we receive emails daily from the women inside, and we just want to briefly share some of the quotes with you, so you can get an understanding of what their mentality, and what they're going through emotionally right now. and i quote, four buildings are crammed packed with people. >> 80 to 90 women in a closed up space. >> the bed areas are only about two to three feet apart. >> it's day 11 of the coronavirus lockdown at lciw, we have 25 positive cases on the ward. >> the nurses do not check our temps twice a day like the other dorms. >> what are they waiting for? >> they brought an older lady with chronic illness that tested

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he was from center ville louisiana at not too far from us here in new orleans, he was a member of the red ball express. it was basically a convoy, supplying trucks. you gotta moving army. think about george patent racing across france. you need to be able to keep up with them with food and gasoline. john mac lost his dog tags on the beaches of normandy when he came as part of the red ball express. over 70 years later, just a couple of years ago, his dog tags were rediscovered by a farmer in france who then sent them to the secretary of state 's office here in louisiana. he presented us with the dog tags. in a sense, john mac and his dog tags came home 70 years later. here in the case as well, you can see the red ball express, the batch he wore on the uniform. we are now moving into a bunker. a bunker that is supposed to be a german bunker. basically, after the failure of market garden, in september of 1944 when we famously came up one bridge too far, too short from being able to invade in the northern germany, people still hope that the war might be over, if not by christmas, maybe a

louisiana's dining establishments are open at 25% capacity.nd for dessert, ice cream shops and trucks are now open with restrictions in delaware. various states are also opening some nonessential retail with capacity limits. maryland and virginia are opening at 50% as oregon reopens furniture, jewelry and boutique stores statewide. also in oregon, child care, summer school, camps and use programs may open statewide and looking forward, state lakes and beaches along the jerse jersey , new york, connecticut and delaware are scheduled to reopen with some restrictions on ma may 22nd in time for memorial day weekend which will make a lot of kids and adults on the east coast happy. dana? >> dana: that's right and we have the mayor of one of those beach towns coming up later in the show. doctors are diagnosing more children with a mysterious inflammatory syndrome that is linked to coronavirus. at least 19 states and d.c. have reported cases of the illness. let's bring in dr. diana hess, a pediatrician in new york city. how worried do parents need to

john from louisiana. you are on the air. good evening. caller: good evening. a question just kind of crept into my mind this morning about all of these people that are unemployed, and they have one thing in common. they are all businesses that were open. we have a leviathan of the federal government and then we have the state governments, and then we have, like in louisiana, our parish governments. i'm curious as to how many, and i called my congressman, mike johnson's, office and asked specifically, how many federal, civil service employees have been furloughed? because obviously, if things are shutdown, and i use the example of the park service, all the national parks are closed. so what are those park rangers doing right now? they cannot work from home because that is not the kind of work you do from your desk. are they still on the payroll? are we still paying federal, state, and municipal employees to do nothing? host: michael bostic, any expertise in these areas? michael: there are three or four things i can say about that. park rangers i cannot attest s

john mack, an african-american man, was from centreville, louisiana, not too far from us here in new orleans. and he was a member of the red ball express. the red ball express basically was a convoy of supply trucks. got a moving army, think about him racing across france, you need to be able to keep up with them with food and gasoline, keeping your troops moving. john mack lost his dog tags on the beaches of normandie when he came ashore as part of the red ball express. over 70 years later, just a couple years ago, his dog tags were rediscovered by a farmer in france who then sent them to the secretary of state's office here in louisiana. and he presented us with the dog tags. so since john mack and his dog tags came home 70 years later, here in the case as well you can see the red ball express's badge that they wore on their uniforms. we're now moving into a bunker. a bunker that is supposed to be a german bunker. basically, after the failure of marketed garden in september 1944 when we came up one bridge too short from being able to invade into northern germany, people still hoped

. >> reporter: now there are at least 73 cases in new york and cases report in the louisiana, michigan, california, massachusetts, and illinois. doctors warning parents to seek immediate care for children with prolonged fever, rash, red eyes, swollen lymph nodes and a stomach illness. the symptoms similar to a rare condition called kawasaki disease, which causes the inflammation of blood vessels and can lead to heart problems. >> what we are seeing is that they have antibodies to corona, which means they had a previous infection with the coronavirus mae two ee weeks have beasatic and never known about it, and now we're seeing the body's reaction to that virus. >> reporter: other doctors reporting children are not presenting with symptoms for four to six weeks after being infected. >> goodnight, mommy. >> reporter: 8 ventilator, but still in the hospital after the ill ness sent him into cardiac arrest last week. he tested negative for covid-19 but positive for antibodies. >> the fever was bad. it went up to about 104.9. >> reporter: 6-year-old nolan garcia is fighting the disease tonigh

. >> reporter: last week, we introduced you to this 12-year-old girl in louisiana who survived covid-19 after suffering heart failure. >> i never thought i would see my child go through anything like that. >> reporter: experts say the majority of children who get sick with covid-19 experience mild symptoms and recover. that's why president trump says he wants schools to reopen in most of the country. >> we realize how strong children are, their immune system is maybe a little bit stronger, or maybe it's a lot stronger, right? could be a lot stronger. >> this new concern tonight, and stephanie ramos, this condition being seen in parts of this country. obviously alarming for parents. what should we watch out for? >> reporter: that's right, this is a very serious syndrome. but adults can detect it early, doctors say many parents may be afraid of taking their kids to the emergency room. it's treatable, but it must be treated early. >> they're saying get help if you see the symptoms. stephanie, thank you. >>> and this coming amid the raging debate about how and when to reopen the country.

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