i think most of us believe that here in massachusetts, at least in eastern massachusetts, the thing that started the arrival of covid-19 was that big biogenic conference. in western mass, we are pretty sure someone from outside western mass, we just do not know where, started the original set of cases in western mass. if you look at the data nationally, it is a big country and there are a lot of different things going on in a lot of different places. and one of the reasons why the federal government has talked about moving assets, especially ventilators, around from one state to another is because most of the modeling they are looking at implies that different parts of the country are going to get hit at different times. there is not going to be one national surge for the united states of america. there will be a whole series of surges that will take place. they will be based on monday virus first showed up in certain places and what people did deal with the consequences associated with planning for it. i said before that i really appreciate, i am going to look right at the camera when i

the gentleman from massachusetts. remind vern: i want to our colleagues, our job, our constitutional responsibility, one of our constitutional oversight.ities is we just appropriated over $2 trillion. speaker of the house for making sure that this does its job and does proper oversight. my constituents, i don't know about your constituents, but my puzzled why are some of the money that was to go to small businesses end up going to these megabusinesses like shake shake crist steak house. they want accountability. $2 trillion. ask?n, is that too much to i applaud the speaker of the house for focusing us on making do we do our job or we oversight. this select committee is warranted. it's important. think democrats and republicans should overwhelmingly support it. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you very much, speaker. i yield two minutes to my good friend, the distinguished lady washington, d.c., a member of the energy and commerce mrs.

late last night another shipment arrived in massachusetts. fema notified us this morning we will be receiving one million pieces of personal protective equipment including 650,000 260,000 six. officials are in the process of inspecting and counting this inventory and will work but we could attribute this gear to frontline workers once the inventory count and inspection is completed. as i said many times before, i am incredibly grateful for the generosity and support of the family who helped us bring that shipment home. getting enough gear not just here in massachusetts, across the country has been a challenge and it will continue to be until supply chains adjust to the new normal. as we announced yesterday, we are posting a daily summary of personal protective equipment distribution which is available gov/covid19. for several weeks you have heard us talk about the work that has been done with our command center to determine exactly what the plan and the bed capacity that we need here in massachusetts to manage our way through the surge. that

he rolled massachusetts and no basis for detaining rogers and booker t. washington of the tuscany institute and the most powerful black man in the country confirmed white insistence that rogers should return to north carolina for judgment. the school principal personally contacted north carolina's governor to advise him against giving in to the unreasonable demand of colored boston's tiny but vocal minority. in response, rogers attorneys much like the radicals of old compiled a writ of habeas corpus arguing north carolina improperly indicted rogers after he fled the state. in addition to his invocation of the black radical past trotter used his ties to fellow black bostonians to organize mass resistance for rogers extradition and hired them to serve as rogers attorney. during his four years at harvard from 1891 to 1895 trotter cultivated lifelong bonds with some of the leading black intellectuals who came of age in white new england institutions . morgan for instance graduated from harvard college to harvard law school where he befriended another of trott

the gentleman from massachusetts. remind vern: i want to our colleagues, our job, our constitutional responsibility, one of our constitutional oversight.ities is we just appropriated over $2 trillion. speaker of the house for making sure that this does its job and does proper oversight. my constituents, i don't know about your constituents, but my puzzled why are some of the money that was to go to small businesses end up going to these megabusinesses like shake shake crist steak house. they want accountability. $2 trillion. ask?n, is that too much to i applaud the speaker of the house for focusing us on making do we do our job or we oversight. this select committee is warranted. it's important. think democrats and republicans should overwhelmingly support it. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you very much, speaker. i yield two minutes to my good friend, the distinguished lady washington, d.c., a member of the energy and commerce mrs.

what other states have done as a possibility for massachusetts. can we just get back to i do have that answer for you. it's not at the top of my head at the moment, but i can tell you how many people have come through the long-term portal. journal prime a special evening edition on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. our guest is the university of houston professor, an expert on chinese politics and animals. talking about the suspected role in the virus. also robin kelly on the impact of the virus on her district. join the conversation tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> from chicago we are joined by the editor chief of journal of american medical association.

gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. neal: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. neal: first, thank you. we are here today in these very trying and unprecedented times to act on an emergency interim funding package that i am pleased has strong bipartisan support. but we did not arrive here without significant efforts by our democratic colleagues. when we began negotiation was the senate, we were presented with an insufficient proposal that did not address the public health crisis that has now claimed the lives of nearly 48,000 americans. the measures that we fought for will now bring real leaf to the american people -- relief to the american people, and prioritizes resources to combat this virus.

massachusetts is one of the largest testers in the country. testing is going to be a huge part of how we develop strategies to deal with this virus going forward. we are grateful to the public and private labs and health-care partners that have allowed us to dramatically increase our testing capacity and output. in addition to the state lab, there are 25 public and private labs testing in massachusetts. 76,429 patients have been tested with nearly 4500 new tests reported in the previous 24 hours. we are making a lot of progress, but we know that there is much more to do. this weekend, we visited a new drive-through testing facility for first responders at patriot place. as we continue to talk to partners at the local level across the state, we will continue to add more of these in all parts of massachusetts. earlier today, we announced a new rapid testing site, which will enable on the spot testing and results at no additional costs. the new cvs sote will we anticipate being able to test 1000 people a day and received the results on site withi

gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentlelady and well-known advocate for the people of michigan, congresswoman laurning. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentleman from is recognized for one minute -- the gentlewoman from is recognized for one minute. mrs. lawrence: i rise in support of the latest covid-19 relief package n my state of michigan the numbers are devastating. more than 38,000 confirmed cases. i want to add another number today. it's over 2,800 deaths. i just got a phone call, another dear friend of mine has passed. nearly 1.2 million people have filed for unemployment. that's why i'm back here today. we, however, have a lot more work to do. the package is not perfect. the more work must be done to provide assistance to our states and our local governments to ensure that the postal service, where there is a statement that neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night should stay the completion of mail delivery, the covid virus is devastating the postal service. the $

i'm the author of the political massachusetts playbook. it is my pleasure to be here, especially to kick off this new version of the institute form as we get used to our live online. i'm glad to be here with you all today in this new way. that's enough for me. i will open it up to congressman neil if you would like to offer us some opening remarks and get us started. rep. neal: thank you, stephanie. i want to say a special word of thanks to vicki kennedy. official andigh professional regard for teddy kennedy. i have modeled part of my legislative career on his argument we were to be advocates for the people of massachusetts. and just as importantly for the people of the united states. in addition, i think we were both of the same opinion as related to sometimes complicated legislation. we were not met to entertain the american people. we were meant to inform them. that is part of the legislative mission that the two of us found with great consistency. vicki mentioned this was an extraordinary legislative life. i think history has an instan

faith and massachusetts's loss. abolitionist purchased his freedom while the case wound through the court and the state compliance with federal law in a previous case prompted creation of the the new england freedom association and passage of massachusetts personal liberty laws. now, 60 years after the lattimore case, william trotter in the abolitionist demand they prevent extradition. protect those who seek refuge from southern barberiorism. and trotter shows the historical trend that recognizes the radical nature of antebellum activism. and places the black man at the citizenship. while kelly carter jackson outside of wellesley college called for a reexamination of strategic violence in the ab biggs. in 1902, the notion that militant black abolition could be repurposed to serve 20th century demand for civil rights was -- in fact, it was so distasteful the boston globe accused trotter of straining things when he connected massachusetts responsibility to rogers, this antebellum personal liberty laws and the lattimor

across massachusetts, as well as in boston. we're watching very closely chicago. and then we watch every single outbreak that occurs in different states around the united states, including the most recent one in ohio. >> brennan: here in washington, there are projections that the virus can peak until june. obviously, this is the heart of the nation's government. what is your projection for what the impact here will be? >> doctor: it is very interesting. we're a series of independent curves. we all know that the new york metro area had the most cases, the most explosive experience with the virus. and then we look to seattle, which has been containing the virus and contact tracing, and having that first nursing home outbreak really helped them put in public health measures and it kept their curve very low. so when the curves are low, it is much more difficult to predict when the curves are going to fully decline. we're learning a lot about -- in explosive epidemics, when you look at new orleans, who went up very high and quickly

next, we hear from massachusetts governor charlie baker at a news conference in boston. he talked about nursing homes during thecilities coronavirus outbreak. he was asked about access to testing. as we continue to navigate these unprecedented times, our administration will continue to do what we can to support the health care workers keeping us all safe. with respect to testing, we have been working aggressively to expand capacity in the commonwealth and we are continuing to ramp up our efforts. stitches its is one of the largest in the country -- testing is going to be a huge part of how we did -- develop strategies going forward. we are grateful to the public and private labs and health-care partners that have allowed us to dramatically increase our output. state lab, to the there are 25 public and private labs testing in massachusetts. 76,400 29 patients have been tested with nearly 4500 new tests reported in the previous 24 hours. we are making a lot of progress, but we know that there is much more to do. visited a newwe drive-through testing facility for first resp

it is the largest employer in western massachusetts. along with other community hospitals, they are on the front lines. mercy hospital, the sisters of providence, they couldn't be but three blocks from where i live as well. yesterday as i was hearing the banners waving in the horns honking, this spontaneous outpouring of goodwill for what is going on inside those hospitals is astounding. but they need more protective equipment. they need more ventilators. they are going to need more assistance. we published this morning dollar allocations for hospitals in central and western massachusetts. they will need more money. they are on the front lines. these doctors, nurses and health care professionals are providing heroic work. assisting them is part of our obligation in congress. stephanie: to get the rest of this aid done in congress, how are you looking at doing that when even being together in a room for members of congress might be a safety hazard? we also the photos and videos of what is happening. people sitting where they don't usuall

massachusetts is now one of the largest and most expensive testers in the country. testing will be a huge part of how we develop strategies to deal with this virus going forward. we are incredibly grateful to the partners who have allowed us to dramatically test our capacity output. in addition to the state lab, there are 25 public and private labs testing in massachusetts. yesterday, 76,000 patients have been tested. progressking a lot of but we also know there is much more to do. this weekend, the lieutenant governor and i visited a new testing facility for first responders. as we continue to talk to our partners on the local level across the state, we will continue to add more of these in all parts of massachusetts. earlier today, in partnership new cvs, we announced a rapid testing site. lowell will use id now tests. people will be able to know if they are positive for coronavirus and take action immediately to seek the proper treatment. positive cases will be connected to our contact tracing program that will be on site. multiple language assistance will also b

this was hosted by the massachusetts historical society in boston and it runs about one hour. >> okay. thank you all for joining us this evening. i am the director of the programs exhibitions and communitprogram's exhibitions ad community partnerships for the massachusetts historical society. tonight on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena zabin on her great new book, the boston massacre a family history. as a recast snow, we very frequently pull together a small exhibition from the collection of highlights material that we have within our holding and eliminate the evening's discussions. today we have an entire exhibition. not only do they have a whole exhibition but it features our speaker this evening so if you didn't see it, she's on one of the video monitors upstairs and also very generous with her time. has been planning the exhibition in setting for an interview. we certainly couldn't have gone on without her help so we overrated of gratitude. serena zabin professor of early american history and director of the program of ame

i'm not sure what is happening in massachusetts.ness, a lot of work to do without coronavirus. what happens to all of that work? can you do both at the same time or do you have to suspend a lot of what was going on to focus on this crisis? maura: it's a good point, but fortunately we have been doing both. our officeour office went virtus ago, so everyone has been able to work from home, preparing and filing briefs. the court, while not operating in the way that they used to, letting people in and out, are nonetheless taking electronic filings, having videoconference hearings. ahave set up in the office covid response team, and we had many people working on this. we have our health care folks marketing, consumer folks working. in the early days, the issued regulations to end debt collection, price gouging. we have worked on other issues like working with the utilities to stop shutoffs of utilities. making sure workers are protected. our fair labor division is leave,g for paid sick the things that they need for themselves and families

look at what's going on right now in the state of massachusetts.massachusetts nursing home deaths are 54% of the state's deaths. and so if you die from coronavirus in the state of massachusetts, statistically, you are most likely to have been a nursing home resident when you died. the state government in massachusetts said within the last couple of weeks that they would provide free testing for all nursing home residents and all staff at all nursing homes in the state. well, yesterday the state health director in massachusetts announced that that had gotten a little screwed up. some facilities did get visited by these mobile testing units where the national guard comes in in a mobile testing unit, they carry out the testing, that has apparently been fine, but for some other facilities in massachusetts what the state health department did is they decided they would just mail test kits, mail coronavirus tests to those facilities, i guess assuming the nursing homes would know what to do with tests. in large part they did not know what to do with those

cases still surging in massachusetts. the death toll climbing to more than 1,500. >> the data shows we are still very much in the grips of a pandemic. >> reporter: but three southern states are making aggressive moves to reopen, though none of them are reporting a steady two-week decline in cases as the white house guidelines recommend. georgia governor brian kemp, facing a local backlash for his ambitious plan to open gyms, hair salons, and bowling alleys on friday. some movie theaters and restaurants next week. >> when we have more people moving around we'll probably see our cases continue to go up but we're a lot better prepared now than we were over a month ago. >> reporter: kemp now taking heat from mayors. from albany -- >> i pray that the number of georgians who are infected and die will not increase significantly in the coming weeks as a result of the lifting of these restrictions. >> reporter: -- to atlanta. >> i certainly cannot in good conscience say that i agree with his order and i will continue to use my voi

the state of massachusetts has launched largest effort so far for just that. can you talk more about that experience and what you are hoping to do for massachusetts and is a model for the rest of the country? it is good to be here with you and all of you on the panel. know, we work in 11 countries throughout the world and often talk about inspired efforts. staff based systems and social acronyms is one of the they tend to like. but we think those are the critical components of health is thisivery and it infrastructure that we work to strengthen around the world. country, it is not limited to something like covid as well. while we have parts of that system here, we don't have all of them. they are all systems with gaps. so we don't have a particularly robust community level to take place in this country. for example, contact tracers or community health workers. ppd testing --in ppe and testing. so we have been using members in the community and they have been instrumental for decades to help with contact tracing. there is direct drug therapy and meds to people

for massachusetts.ing solid public health policy in place, and not, between keeping things as they are, or ripping the lid off. more than 22,000 dead residents in one state before the end of the summer. and that is just one model. again, that's mass general, harvard medical school, b. u., and georgia tech, there are a whole bunch of different models out there. but that's kind of a well-sourced thing. and obviously, it's scary for all of the front line reasons, unless of course you look at those absolutely preventible 22,000 deaths and decide, well, yeah, 22,000 dead, but we've really got to get the economy going. that kind of thinking is what brings us to our next guest tonight, and the next big mistake that the country is making right this second. stay with us. so what you see is what you pay every month. check it out at out t-mobile.com/4for35 when taking a break from everyday life is critical to everyone's health, there is one thing we can all do together: complete the 2020 census. your responses are

why the mission in massachusetts could lead the way for other states. north korean mystery: reports that dictator kim jong-un is story of a firefighter who is now trying to spark joy with music. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin with that oreaking news, because the director of the c.d.c. says tonight that the next wave of coronavirus expected this winter could be even more difficult for the u.s. than the current crisis, and that's because it uould hit at the same time as the seasonal flu, putting an even bigger strain on hospitals already near a breaking point. also tonight, the senate signed off on a nearly half a trillion dollars in new funding, some of it to help those struggling hospitals. most of the money will replenish a loan program for small businesses that ran dry last aek. and there's about $25 billion that will pay for coronavirus tests, which governors say they despe

the militia for the state of massachusetts is not particularly helpful. so the state of massachusetts then asks the confederation congress can you please help us here? we need to settle this rebellion down and the confederation congress cannot give them an army, they can't raise an army. not something they can do. ultimately the state of massachusetts will end up paying for a privately funded militia to take care of this particular rebellion. but, obviously, this is pretty bad pr. you have a lot of former revolutionary soldiers who are being foreclosed on who are really mad and basically doing a lot of the same things that the rebel just finished doing in the revolutionary war. so the leaders at the top here of the confederation congress realized this is not going to work. we need to have a lot more ability to have a stronger national government in place. however, it's not a total disaster. there's actually a lot of really interesting things that happened during the confederation period, and despite their extreme limitations, the confederation congress do

massachusetts will pay for them printed they get some support. it is awful because women try to leave as quickly as a possible canon the jump the fence. i hope that helped. guest: for all of the soldiers from britain are more some from boston. serena: so three in the far from boston are actually raised in ireland. there are mostly from northern ireland so they are not catholic at this moment, the law says that catholics cannot enlist in the british army, they have to be protestant and they are mostly scots or scotch irish. there's a longer story which by the come from ireland and one from england. a few people are recruited and locally but they discourage local recruitment big precisely because they are worried about desertion. that is a standard rule everywhere. guest: thank you serena, that was wonderful and so rich. i wanted to follow-up with you a little bit on your family thing. i wondered about of other families beyond the boston camp, so ireland, england, who kind of situations and i wondered also about the age obviously be worse young men

massachusetts? other a colonies? there was a lot of disagreement the people who said how to pay for the te. how? so samuel adams the head of the correspondence committee seen here with the engraving of paul revere as well as a silversmith and messenger he was in grave this for the american royal magazine appearing 1774. samuel adams proposed a different response. he said let's begin a boycott of all british goods. not just tse sai, first we will start with massachusetts and then spread to the other colonies so let's do economic strategy and adopt by refusing to buy british products this comes from the sense of how important they were to british markets. they were not really as important as they thought they were but they thought what they couldld do if they boycotted all british goods they could force the british were force the merchants to try to lobby parliament to overturn the act. now the boston committee circulated a non- consumption agreement to the effect trying to get people in the countryside to sign up not

he spoke out with massachusetts and spread to other colonies. this was economic, adopt a strategy by dish products. this comes to the emma consent of how important they were to furnish markets to overseas merchants. they really weren't as important as i thought but they boycotted all british goods and also anything from brian, they could forge the markets to then have a parliament to return, not the best one but the other ones. they committed when covertly non- consumption agreement that's trying to get people out of the country side to sign them up, if nobody qualify it, then nobody will buy it once it's in america, they will not important. they did this without consulting the boston town meeting first. it caused another controversy, but they argued for centuries, adams and his committee to ask about authorizations in the town. so these are the two issues paying for the teeth, we are going to pay for the tea, how to pay for the tea and what they did without authorization. these are the authors that led to this town meeting in middle and late ju

host: that from governor charlie baker of massachusetts. and joining us from his home is democratic congressman jim mcgovern. he is the chair of the house rules committee. congressman, what are you seeing in your district right now regarding coronavirus? guest: well, a lot of anxiety. the cases continue to mount. and people are concerned. especially we want to make sure that our hospitals have enough p.p.e. to be able to provide the kind of care for our patients that they need. and also to protect our doctors and our nurses and our first responders. and that still is a struggle. and this whole -- one of the failures of this administration has been that they didn't prepare. they knew that we had a crisis coming. they knew that -- i assume they knew that we had a shortage in terms of inventory in terms of personal protective equipment and they did nothing about it. and now they're -- playing a game of blaming it on governors and anybody who is anybody other than the president. and like the hunger games. we have states competing against states

yesterday we had in massachusetts a total of 260 deaths, 29 of them yesterday in massachusetts, and our numbers are still going up. >> i want to show you those numbers. we can show the massachusetts numbers. the known cases have doubled every five days. i want to show you the mayor of boston. the number of restrictions he's put in place, i don't think it's a mandate, but a curfew saying, please stay in your house. it's the only way to get better. stay a listen. >> is it your sense that boston is on the steep side, the early side of the curve, as they say? >> by looking at the numbers, i would say the answer to that question is yes. we have 235 cases of coronavirus in the city of boston, and in the last three days, 33% of those have been diagnosed. so we're starting to see that spike happening. it's really hard to manage these numbers a day at a time. you can't really tell. but i want to be on the -- err on the side of caution, if you will, as we make some very difficult decisions, yeah. >> so dr. willensky, help me from your perspective as an infectious disease specialist. we'll go thro

massachusetts will pay for them. they get some support, it's awful, women tried to leave the house as quickly as they possibly can, they jumped the fence but it's something that may have been a longer answer than you wanted. >> are all the soldiers from britain or some from boston? >> guest: that's also a great question three of the four regiments are raised in ireland. they're mostly from northern ireland to the not catholic at this moment the law says catholics cannot enlist their scouts irish is a longer story i could tell her not one regiment comes from england they discourage local recruitment precisely because they were worried about desertion that's a standard rule everywhere. >> thank you that's so rich so many questions i wanted to follow through a little bit on your family peace. i wonder about other families beyond boston so ireland, england, what about those obviously these are young men but what age my how many of them may have had wives, elsewhere. i just wonder about that there were other connections i

several of the letters on the massachusetts court in particular would complain that you can tell in a minute where the lawyer is going for a minute he would let him go on for 15 or 20 and use it to write time to write letters to his friends while sitting on the branchhe one - - the bench. he wrote to lady castle town i'm listening to an argument to determine who will be the mayor and a distraction when one is trying to write to a lady. >> a literary masterpiece in their own right. so i thought i would read to you a portion of the prologue so what i tried to lay out is such a fascinating figure and an importance to this day. >> as he approached the 75th year in the winter of 1916 justice oliver wendell holmes is almost as recognizable as the washington monument or the smithsonian institution. every afternoon when the court was in session he would walk back from the capital to the brownstone at 1720 high street just west of the white house impeccably dressed cut a commanding figure 6-foot 3-inch frame held directn er, always turned out to in formal top hat cutaway coat and trousers purc

so when the governor of massachusetts said he needed troops to support the work for the government, the war office says okay. that is fine. but it creates other problems. so when the first two regiments sail into boston harbor in the fall of 1768, we see troops marching into the heart of boston which is his only kind of what happened because when they come to boston harbor the governor and the council are where all the troops are going to live. 's let me remind you of what boston harbor look like at the time. here's an 18th century map of boston harbor. they thought the troops should go to the island as you can see has a beautifully refurbished barracks paying a lot of money during the seven years war and they thought they should be used but more than that with the 18th century actually it was pretty clear that if there are available beds troops have to go there first if there are not barracks than they should be put in public houses which are public and only then of those two places are not available could they be put into private housing. so they are barracks and they should go there.

andy writes in his diary today i killed the last remnant of slavery in massachusetts . and he wants, but nothing could be more disagreeable to me than consideration of the subject area in other words, the idea of interracial marriage he finds repugnant so this is kind of a clue i think what happens to during his reconstruction. there's this legalistic approach, of course all people are equal in the eyes of the law rid of the idea is that they're doing it . he finds problematic so adams always has this kind of constitutional legalistic approach to reform. in which people in humanity don't seem to matter very much. and of course, is having, he just doesn't know it is no black dockworkers in boston. he doesn't know irish immigrant women who aretaking up with black dockworkers . so it's all for fixing the law but kind of the human face on what's happening here is something that he's not really comfortable with. eusebius also course in 1848. his father dies infebruary , then he sat to be the vice presidential nominee kevin, here he is on the right. with martin van buren for

collective magazine in charlestown massachusetts. i will intersperse air that gunpowder tended to be stored in collective magazines because i mean dangerous for people to have her other houses it could explode. so it was started collective places that were properly insulated and so forth for the storage gunpowder. so he had government gunpowder taken out of the collective powder magazine and rumors spread and correct rumors might add that he had also taken private owners gunpowder's out of that magazine. crowds gathered the next day outside the powder magazine in charlestown and then they moved to cambridge and another rumor spread that six men had been killed the soldiers who took gunpowder. this was also not true. milliman began to come in from the countryside. huge crowds gathered in cambridge on cambridge common right in front of the college now. they mobbed local officials. meanwhile is to remain as way elsewhere, is spread into connecticut that not only was this happening that not only six men had big been killed, not only had

where the evacuations from new york, which was very well done and my hat is off to them, when massachusetts, whom in the bodes that remove this from new york and they retreated down from the jerseys to the banks of the delaware. right now they're trying to keep river between us and the mercenaries that are now in camp in the town. we are trying to stay between them and the city of philadelphia. >> tell us about your forces. what type of men are they? >> hopefully you keep this among ourselves, but we do have 3000 troops, of which i have found about 2400 are fit for duty. the remainder have fallen ill from malnutrition and from the weather and we are caring for them further north of the river. we have 2400 troops ready to go. we have three days rations cooked, three runs variation each and we expect to get them a good fight. >> my name is frank lyons, from hardly just down the street and i am portraying colonel john whoever from marvel head, massachusetts. colonel glover was the commander of the 14 fundamental regina which was also known as the marble had mariners's. they were -- marble head

senator warren also pointed to at least two instances in which massachusetts lost orders for ventilators and hundreds of respirators after the federal government stepped in. a situation marry lou, the health and human services secretary described as they take what we order. illinois's democratic governor j.b. says the federal government sent the wrong masks to illinois after promising 300,000 n 5 m95 the most prospective and illinois got standard instead. n 5 are much more protective against the coronavirus. chuck schumer said that because trump officials have failed at the distribution of medical equipment, a military commander should be put in charge of the federal system of distributing medical equipment in this cri s crisis. with some counties in georgia now ranking in the highest per capita rate of infection in the country, the republican governor of georgia said starting on friday, non-essential businesses will be closed and georgia georgia people will be ordered to maintain social distancing weeks after governor andrew cuomo of new york imposed those rules on the entire state of n

the massachusetts will pay for them. they get some support. it's awful, you know. women try to leave the almshouse as quickly as if possible can. they jumped the fence but it's something. does that help? that may have been a longer answer than -- >> with these soldiers all from britain over some of them from boston? >> also a great question. so three of the four regiments that come to boston actually a raised in ireland. they are mostly from northern ireland, so they are not catholic at this moment, the law says that catholics can't enlist in the british army. they have to be protestant. they are mostly scots comp scots irish. and there's a longer story which i can tell or not about why so many came from ireland. in one regiment comes from england. a few people i recruited in locally but they discourage local recruitment precisely because they are worried about desertions. that's a standard rule everywhere. >> thank you. that was wonderful. so rich, so many questions. you managed to follow through all of it on your family thing and i wondered about other families b

lyons, from hardly just down the street nine portraying colonel john whoever from marvel head, massachusetts. colonel glover was the commander of the 14 fundamental regina which was also known as the marble had mariners's. they were -- marble head is a small town about ten miles north of boston when the american revolution started. are the same part of this part of the united states on the east coast. because of the intolerable acts, all those british and documents that led up to the american revolution, most of the men at marble head were unemployed and very unhappy and they were happy to join marble head regiment which eventually signed up 550 men. they never expected to find themselves all the way down here in pennsylvania, colonel glover and his marble had regiment saved washington and his army three times, this being the third time. the first time, after the disastrous battle of long island, glover and his men road 9000 men, horses, cannon, baggage across the lower east river from brooklyn into what is modern-day downtown brooklyn into lower manhattan. saved washington's army from being

massachusetts has a problem and we run to massachusetts. buffalo has a problem, we run to buffalo or rochester. when you get up to that point and the locality we are working with to prepare for that high point. on elected surgeries, we stopped elected surgeries for all hospital in ts in the state. that was one of the ways to increase capacity. now we are at a point where some of the upstate hospitals have significant financial burdens because they're not doing elective surgeries which is one of the places they make money. can we have lower vacancy, we don't need those beds for new york city people or buffalo people or anyone else, why not let us start going back to elected surgeries if we don't need the capacity. that's a good question. we have been looking at that. it is my question of balance and the dial. you let them do the surgery and they'll fill up the beds. what happens if you have a need for those beds because of coronavirus and you don't have the beds because someone is doing some form of elective surgery. we'll announce for that.

about the 40% of colonel glover's unit because during that time in massachusetts black men were a largeof the waling and the fishing industry. being that john glover's men they caught cod ever day, and this is a typical dress of a cod fisherman. the trousers, they're open so just in case you fell in the water you wouldn't have any water in your pants that could drain and you could come up and you would not drown that evening. and the hat if it got cold, you could have it pulled down over your ears, not like the tricore hats. and everything was made, what you wore was practical. now, we are here from day one. i have a cousin. he did extensive research on my father's mother, and he traced her ancestor back to one of the 20 and odd africans that was on the boat that landed at point comfort in hamptens, virginia, in 1619. so i can trace my family back in this country 400 years. you have to go deep into libraries, you have to go to used bookstores, and the internet has helped also. i picked up a book out of a library, and in this book i found in the painting of george washington crossing the

mukherjee joins us from brookline, massachusetts. has just recently returned from sierra leone in liberia. welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you with us dr. mukherjee. we want to talk about the contact tracing project you have going in massachusetts. at first, talk about what we're facing right now in africa. expectinge there are and are going through right t n. >> thahank you very much for having me on today, amy. and thank you so much for highlightingng the need to p pay , someion to this epidedemic of the world's most impoverished countries. in africa, in asia, in latin america, this kind of social distancing t that we have now in the united states -- which is also gearing toward a lockdown -- really is intolerable for very poor people. you have to have the material means to quarantine or isolate. it is a privilege to be able to have a home, e enough food, a refrigerator to stock. so we are exceptionally y worrid about the impact -- just the measures alone will have on the poor here at home in the u.s. as well as aroun

cases in massachusetts soaring, almost 20% in 48 hours. a nurse dying of the virus after speaking out about conditions inside of a nursing home. >>> missed signals? the scathing report criticizing the trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic. president trump repeatedly claiming no one saw it coming. top advisers and health officials reportedly trying to warn him six weeks before he took serious action. >>> also breaking tonight, the major tornado damage reported in the south. up to 300 homes hit. tornado threats in several states with millions already under stay at home orders. severe storms from texas to the east coast. >>> overseas and life after quarantine in wuhan, china. an american family emerging after two and a half months in lockdown, leaving their home together for the first time. the major fear in the city at thsse hope. pope francis in a near empty st. peter's basilica, warning the coronavirus is testing our whole human family. ♪ amazing grace >> and the heavenly voice singing "amazing grace." the concert str

several states, including massachusetts and pennsylvania, are now bracing for their peaks. abc's matt gutman has more. >> reporter: the virus on the attack. several states predicting they are just days away from their peak. in massachusetts, the number of confirmed cases soaring by 21% in just 48 hours. 59-year-old nurse maria cryer quit her job at this life care center in massachusetts earlier this month, saying management had no experience with the infectious disease, telling our affiliate, wcvb in boston -- >> there's no initiative to protect the workers and the patients. >> reporter: and on friday, cryer died after contracting covid-19. now more than 70 staff and residents have been infected, 10 residents have died. the center now asking all staff to be tested, saying in a statement, we are deeply saddened by the passing of one of our associates, adding, our nurses and frontline workers are the heroes in the fight against this unprecedented outbreak. in pennsylvania the governor predicting a surge this week after more than 2,800 new cases were reported this weekend. and

we've had 50 deaths in the city of boston and 668 in massachusetts. we're starting to see the numbers go up every day in a significant way. >> so disturbing. the governor, governor baker, also announced what's called contract tracing to track the spread of the virus will go on. essential workers, grocery store workers, delivery workers can get tested even if they're not symptomatic. how helpful do you think those measures will be? >> that's important. our first responders and nurses and doctors are on the front line every day, and it's incumbent upon all of us that they get the proper attention that they need. they're providing essential services to all of us. and to give them a little peace of mind i think it's really important that we do that. they're interfacing with the public every single day and have been for the last three and a half, four weeks here. and for the foreseeable future they're the ones on the front line. i agree with the governor and we have to get the test for everyone who needs a test or wants a test as we continue on here. it's