if you are uninsured, your state government always has a way of covering services for people who are uninsured. there really is no reason that, if you are experiencing mental health challenges, for you not to get help, and given the increased use of telehealth, there's no reason that even if you can't physically get there that you can't receive those services. host: we will go to stephen in pennsylvania. caller: good morning. i have been working since before the pandemic was announced to the american public. i listen to different radio programs that came out of radio free china. hong kong went off the air. everybody was wondering what was going on over there. what i have noticed since i have been working with all of my colleagues, there's about 150 of us. we come from many different backgrounds. we noticed that the politicization of the coronavirus pandemic is ramping up the fear of every u.s. citizen in the country. the mediaget beyond and the politicians and actually tackle the coronavirus where the pandemic is, where people are being affected by it -- my wife and i recently went ca

are shortcomings. will people and could people flee? absolutely. will people who were involved in accident who were impaired potentially get away? sure. people who are uninsured should have insurance not be caught? yes. complaints and reports not be as accurate? that's a potential issue, right? people embellishing issues. so, yes, there are shortcomings, but from a legal perspective, we have to think globally about how to protect the public, how to protect the police and how to perhaps redistrict resources in a way that makes sense and to that extent, i think this potentially does that. we'll see. everything in time. we'll see how it's implemented and administered but for the time being it's perhaps a sensible idea. >> this is an idea obviously as we -- oh, go ahead. >> yeah, if i could add one thing. it's very important to note that many accidents, and most metropolitan cities, even small cities for that matter, are usually fender-benders. in most cases you'll find motorists who are going to be cordial to each other and even under this particular set of circumstances in which we're asking -- in which the city of atlanta is asking, i should say, that there is

pandemic, and there are millions of you, some of us in washington, some of us have not forgotten about you. we have not forgotten about the 90 million people in this country who are uninsured or underinsured and cannot afford to go to a doctor when they need to. and the millions of people who are scared to death about being evicted from their apartments or losing their homes because they lack the income to pay their rent or mortgage. and in many ways, that is exactly what this entire campaign is all about. it's about whether we will have a government that finally stands up for working families, the people that are struggling like never before. or whether under trump, we will continue a government in which the very rich get much richer, while so many of us live in fear and desperation. let us be clear. while donald trump forgot to talk about it in his speech the other night, we are now experiencing the worst economic crisis since the great depression. over the past five months, more than 30 million americans have lost their jobs, and today, there are more americans unemployed than at any time in our nation's history. trump forgot to talk about it the other day, but that's t

if you are uninsured, your state government always has a way of covering services for people who are d. there really is no reason that, if you are experiencing mental health challenges, for you not to get help, and given the increased use of telehealth, there's no reason that even if you can't physically get there that you can't receive those services. host: we will go to stephen in pennsylvania. caller: good morning. i have been working since before the pandemic was announced to the american public. i listen to different radio programs that came out of radio free china. hong kong went off the air. everybody was wondering what was going on over there. what i have noticed since i have been working with all of my colleagues, there's about 150 of us. we come from many different backgrounds. we noticed that the politicization of the coronavirus pandemic is ramping up the fear of every u.s. citizen in the country. the mediaget beyond and the politicians and actually tackle the coronavirus where the pandemic is, where people are being affected by it -- my wife and i recently went camping in

you know, we have 90 million people in this country right now who are underinsured or uninsured.e got 12 billionaires -- i was listening to you and don. 12 -- we have 12 billionaires, who control a trillion dollars. you know, we are entering, as secretary robert rice talked about, the second gilded age. so when you combine all of that, it is very hard to get people to believe that government can, or that government will. because we have the capacity to change and to help people through their struggle, beyond covid because the challenges were there before covid. the covid just exposed. the question becomes do we have the will to do it? being those we conundrums. >> people say i like joe. you don't have to sell me on it. i get it. it's amazing that he kept enduring such personal pain that the rest of us can't imagine. but, you know, he's been there for the whole time for the same period that senator turner has said government sucked. why do i need him in there? that's why i went for trump in the first place. at least he's from the outside. hates the sail thinme things i . joe's bee

people on medicare or medicaid. you have 43 million in addition who are at risk because they are uninsured or they have also seen theresults of competition without any regulation. many of the managed competitions hmos and insurance companies are making tough decisions that i don't think her in the long-term interest of the entire population. we focus on competition and is led to some good results but i believe unchecked competition and health care is and will lead to further bad results that will affect all of us. c-span: by the way if you were sitting in my chair what question would you ask that hasn't been asked in this interview? guess the one thing i would probably ask is what i hope happens because of this book. i wrote it because i really want to get these ideas out and get them shared and it's been well received. i'm grateful that people have been buying it but i would like it to be part of a broader conversation and i would like it to be something that people talk about, not the book necessarily but the ideas that are part of this conversation and about what people can do in their own homes and neighborhoods

nothing for the 92 million americans who are uninsured or underinsured. 92 million people uninsured or underinsured in the midst of a terrible public health crisis -- the republican legislation ignores that reality completely. nothing for the u.s. postal service. and nothing for state and local governments, many of whom are on the verge of bankruptcy. but here's what that republican bill does contain. it does include another $29 billion for the pentagon. now, last week this body passed a $740 billion bill for the pentagon, which is more money than the next 11 nations combined, most of whom are our allies. huge military budget, but clearly in the midst of the pandemic, the pentagon needs even more. the republican bill does include another tax break for the meals and entertainment of wealthy c.e.o.'s. the republican bill does include another $1 .75 billion for an f.b.i. building, $1 billion for new surveillance planes, $636 million more for f-5's. $3600 million more for a new missile defense system, and $283 million more for apache helicopters. i'm not quite sure what apache helicopters

uninsured property losses. and people can loss receive crisis counseling while they deal with hardships caused by the fires. >>> a santa cruz county homeowner is warning about looters who are capitalizing on the evacuations. he shared this video of his home in felton being burglarized on friday. blink camera systems sent this to his phone when motion was detected at the the doosh. the looters tried to get away by driving through a nearby property but crashed through a fence and got stuck in a ditch. five people were arrested. >>> you can follow fires statewide with our exclusive wildfire tracker updated with the latest information from cal fire. check to see where fires are spreading, the acres burned, and see containment information in real time. the abc 7 fire tracker is available now at abc7news.com and the abc 7 news app. >>> still ahead on abc 7 news at 11:00, continuing coverage of the wildfires.st to safety by helicopter after flames got too close. >>> a woman shares her emotional story of trying to escape the flames while saving her animals at the same time. >>> and how a drone will help firefighters identify any new dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken stri

people are seeing that now we have to do things differently. what about somebody who has been evicted before, somebody who has been hungry before, somebody who can speak about being low wage and uninsured. that's me. i can speak about it and i can push forward. this is the thing. being somebody who has been there, i know all the holes in the way that the system is built. and so i'm not -- i'm not willing to shut up about it. you know, i'm going to fight for people who are like me. >> cori bush, good to see you again. i'm glad for that prescient conversation you and i had two years ago because like i said it feels like we might have had that conversation last week. congratulations. i look forward tom conversations with you. cori bush is a congressional candidate for missouri's first district, st. louis and including ferguson. if she wins, she will be the first black woman to represent that state. >>> coming up, with the end of summer fast approaching, parents and teachers are facing agonizing choices about school. but one doctor on the front lines of coronavirus says we are not ready to return to full-time in-person school. he joins us next. hool he joins us next t-mobile and sprint hav

people are seeing that now we have to do things differently. what about somebody who has been evicted before, somebody who has been hungry before, somebody who can speak about being low wage and uninsured. that's me. this is the thing. being somebody who has been there, i know all the holes in the way that the system is built. and, so, i'm not -- i'm not willing to shut up about it. you know, i'm going to fight for people who are like me. >> cori bush, good to see you again. i'm glad for that conversation we had two years ago because like i said it feels like he might have had that conversation last week. a congressional candidate for missouri's first district, st. louis and including ferguson. if she wins, she will be the first black woman to represent that state. >>> coming up, with the end of summer fast approaching, parents and teachers are reaching agonizing choices about school. he joins us next. he joins us next don't just think about where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person... discovering that feeling has never been more effortless. the lincoln summer invitation sales event is here.

are patrolling the evacuation zones. some of those arrests came from community tips, including from people who spotted suspicious activity on their home security cameras. a new program covered by by covered california will help uninsuredesidents get health care coverage and that includes californians have been affected by the wildfires and the pandemic covered california says the move was created because californians are facing a triple threat of wildfires the pandemic and the recession. this program is now open and are open enrollment thousands of california has already signed up. >>i will try and live in scotts valley at the command center for the c c you lightning complex fire. they mean a lot of progress yesterday coming up i'll give yesterday coming up i'll give lily everyone in the house is online and i can't get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. try 1 gig internet with at&t fiber. you get more bandwidth and hbo max included. so, everyone stays entertained. so i can just watch the show instead of reading the book? you know, if you turn on your subtitles... that's almost reading. get 1 gig internet with at&t fiber for $49.99a month for a year. no annualcontract. and now get hbo max included. limit

that all of the 92 million who are uninsured or under insured get covered by medicare for their out of out-ot expenses. it is not asking too much that during this crisis people who have private insurance or medicare or medicaid not have to pay out-of-pocket expenses. we need a coronavirus bill that helps the lower income and not the wealthy. mr. president, what i think many people do not fully understand -- it hasn't gotten a whole lot of attention -- is that during this pandemic not everybody is hurting. not everybody out there needs the senate to act. while over 30 million americans have seen their $600 a week in unemployment benefits expire, thanks to the emergency actions taken by the federal reserve to prop up the stock market, 467 billionaires in this country have seen their wealth go up by over $730 billion since the pandemic has begun. let me repeat that. 467 billionaires have seen their wealth go up by over $730 billion in the last several months of this pandemic. millions of people are unemployed, struggling to put food on the table, but 467 billion -- 467 billionaires have seen their wealth go up by over 3 r $ -- by over $700 billion. meanwhile, d