relation you're really insult to by skirt professor of public health in epidemiology at the sheraton medical center in berlin really appreciate your time thank you. let's have a look at some other coronavirus developments around the world more than 1200000 people have been infected with the virus worldwide almost twice as many as just one week ago in spain the death toll has dropped for a 3rd consecutive day with $674.00 fatalities registered in the past 24 hours prime minister pedro sanchez said his country was quote starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and bangladesh's prime minister has announced an 8 bill $8500000000.00 package intended to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic. for christians around the world today is palm sunday an important date in the religious calendar and the start of holy week leading up to easter but in these days of the pandemic everything is different st peter's square in the vatican was deserted this morning usually it's full of catholics who gather to hear the pope instead pope francis lifestream the traditional palm sunday mass as the faithful h

the sheraton new orleans hotel and the dallas convention center the corps of engineers are making it an overflow medical could open its doors. officials will be given 48 hours notice to make it happen. for now the texas cases remain relatively low when you consider how large this state is and how large the population is with 127 total deaths. for context compared to 477 over in neighboring louisiana. sandra. >> casey stiegel reporting from arlington, texas this morning. casey, thank you. >> speaker pelosi last night said in the next bill they would tliek to see additional stimulus checks. have you turned around an amount. >> president trump: i like the concept of it. i think it's good. we talk about a different way of doing it. i like the concept. i like the concept of infrastructure. our country has to be rebuilt. >> ed: president trump weighing additional measures to help struggling americans. the house and senate have different priorities as they consider a fourth stimulus package. texas senator ted cruz, good morning. we hope you and your family are doing well. >> good morning, ed. yes, we are. we a