and then she entered what was then west virginia state college, now west virginia state university. and she left us in 1937 at the age of 18 and she had never looked back. so in 1937 when katherine graduated from west virginia state university, she went into the field of teaching. she was inspired here and understood the very significance of teaching and paying it forward. and so she went into teaching for about 13 years. katherine entered nasa at a time when african-americans and america overall was still living in dual worlds. we had a white america and an african-american america. and katherine was having to very delicately walk in both worlds. and she went to work every day and gave nasa and the astronauts none of who looked like her 100%. and she said in spite of how i'm treated, where i can go and eat, what i can do, i'm going to come here and fight to make sure i do the best job possible for my country and for the space race. so while at nasa there were three significant space ventures that katherine played a very significant role in. one was alan shepherd, who was the first

so she and her family have to travel two hours to come to west virginia state university, we had then an elementary and a high school which was part of the university at that time, so young catherine johnson, with all of her mathematical skills, and intelligence came here, and she graduated at the age of 15. then she entered what was then, west virginia state college, and now it's university, she left us in 1937 at the age of 13, and she is never look back. in 1937, one catherine graduated from the university, she went to the field of teaching. she was inspired here, and understood the very significance of teaching, and paying it forward. so she went into teaching, for about 13 years. catherine entered nasa at a time where african americans, and america overall was still living in dual worlds. we had a white america and an african american america. and catherine was happy to delicately, walk in both worlds. she went to work every day and gave nasa, and the astronauts, none of you look like her, 100 percent. and she said, in spite of how i am treated, where i can go and eat, what i can

and we ought to be west virginia mountaineer strong always. time there has been all kinds of inconvenience. our kids have been out of school, we canceled the state basketball tournament. you want to go to a nursing home and see may be a mom or dad, and can't go at this time. for all of that, i apologize. the economic component of this. as you look at the economic component, our nation and our state is going to have to step up and keep you whole as best we possibly can. my realsure you that friend, donald trump, is absolutely all on board with trying to do just that. i assure you from the standpoint of the state of west virginia and our legislatures, we will do the same. isaddition to that, there the health concern. feel thehere i really most pain. chance i lift a stone unturned and at the end of the to trying to do something cure any convenience or economic asue, i exposed others to situation where you lost a loved one. how do we overcome that? how do we replace that? 't be done. be i tell you without any question, the last weeks have been tou

who is the richest man in west virginia, the only billionaire in west virginia, he said i will give you a raise of 1% a year for five years. . . . the governor said we are going to give you a tiny raise into the facebook page exploded into thousands of teachers joined and all of a sudden had a big movement. people were fed up. it was like we are fed up and we are not going to take it anymore and it was like a fish tank. the heat was going up and getting worse and they were moving backwards economically because they were not getting raises and they saw these tax cuts for the rich. we are not going to tolerate this anymore. they wanted a raise and they one the ability enforced the governor to pay more attention to the education budget. >> teachers followed suit and multiple other states and that would surprise many of the viewers where the unions are supposed to be weak. oklahoma one of the reddest states in the union. >> guest: they were watching what the teachers were doing in west virginia and was a huge strike they got on the phone and learned some lessons there and this happened

farmboy from quiet dale, west virginia. juxtaposition of what he went into the muck coming from a place named quiet ville. he was a young man when he received the medal of honor. share hishe will story with you. i don't need to tell you what he will tell you. without further ado, woody williams. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] you.: thank thank you. welcome. for that nice ow. thank all of you for coming today. i don't know that i have ever spoken to a larger group than we have here today. so thank you. today is a day important in my life. that it is anymore important than the 70th or 73rd when we had an opportunity to go visit. iwo jima for a it naturally brought back a lot of memories, some good and some bad. humbled to stand before you today. i am grateful for the opportunity of sharing with you some of my thoughts. 75 years ago, at this moment in and, thousands of marines were lying their lives on the line to capture a very small piece of ground that we now know as iwo jima. most of us who were involved werer why so

. >> senator from west virginia. >> mr. president, i growth everything has been said. i agree we should have never left your thursday night. so many of us could maybe drive home, i was able to drive home and drive back. so many people were put in harms way by getting on an airplane. we do not have the youngest crowd as you might know, i think our average age is about 62 here. and to but them and their families and the people they work with in a danger also. letr me tell you, what we are talking about here. we are going to come to the aid of the economy of this state, this country. i have no doubt, democrats and republicans will come together to take care andze help people. i hope they realize the people who really need help are the people who cannot make it from one week until the next ludlow and one paycheck to theas next. i was out last week just in d.c. and i talk to young waiter, very, very nice youngns man i said what happens if you have to go homed for two weeks he says i amm finished, i cannot make it. i cannot make my payments i can't make my house payment or c

mcconnell: i thank my friend from west virginia. our colleagues would benefit from understanding where we are. we have been fiddling around for two days on the motion to proceed. mr. manchin: yeah. mr. mcconnell: if my friend, if that were invoked, there is still 30 more hours postcloture on the motion to proceed. once you get on the bill, you have to go through it again. so there is no way in which -- the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. manchin: we should be able to get a deal and we can move forward with unanimous consent. we really should. that's what i am hoping for. i think we can do it. my whole thing is based around the health care right now. you can't throw enough money to fix this if you can't fix the health care. if you can't give my people in west virginia and across this country the feeling that we have a treatment and we're moving towards a vaccine, they're not leaving their homes. my restaurants aren't going to open up. the most important thing, how do we take care of the workers that have lost t

at that point, dupont settled our lawsuit in west virginia. they settled the case that the us epa brought area it was claimed to be the largest civil administrativepenalty in the history of the epa . $16 million. and you have to remember, the company was making hundredsof millions a year off this product . so the epa says it's been settled. and then there's an announcement. dupont will stop making the chemical over the next 10 years. and you may think wait a minute, dupont was making it, i thought 3m was making it . 3m was making pfoa and pfos. they announced they were going to stop making both of them in 2007 and dupont rather than stop using pfoa at that point saw a market opportunity. stepped in and started making it themselves so they had been making pfoa during this time so in 2006 there is this commitment dupont will phase out pfoa and to the public as it it's as if this all went away. the chemical is being phased out . lawsuits have been settled and in fact most people inthe public didn't hear another thing about these chemicals for the

secretary, you see the map, west virginia doesn't show any. how could that happen? it happened because-- >> we think the same thing with illinois with 12 1/2 million people. testing 360 a day, 360 a day for the entire state, ridiculous. and so, governors-- talking for a total. >> i know. but governors told me we really don't know how many people are infected. we don't know the rate, whether it's going up or if it's going up at what rate, whether it's in certain areas in our state and not in others. so if you don't have testing, you don't have knowledge and you can't fight a pandemic. i would say to the senator it was the highest priority in this bill passed the house of representatives on saturday. >> we should have been here saturday. >> we should take it up today, what are we waiting for? for goodness sake. food assistance and many people it's not paycheck to paycheck, it's week to week. some qualify for snap programs. >> we sent a letter immediately to sonny perdue and we were able to get the kids and so many in west virginia rely on breakfast and lunch, nutritio

woody is a farm boy from quiet dale, west virginia. kind of a big juks a position of what he went into coming from a place called quiet dale. he was born in 1923 and in 1945 he received the medal of honor. so he was just a young man. so i'm sure woody will share his story with you. i don't need to tell you what he's going to tell you. so without further ado, woody williams. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. thank you for that nice welcome. wow. thank all of you for coming today. i don't know that i've ever spoken to a larger group than we have here today. so thank you. today is a day important in my life. i don't know that it's any more important than the 70th or the 73rd when we had an opportunity to go back to iwo jima for a visit. it naturally brought back a lot of memories. some good, some bad. but i am very humbled to stand before you today. i'm grateful for the opportunity of sharing with you some of my thoughts. 75 years ago, at this moment in time, thousands of marines and navy corpsmen were lying their life o

west virginia had the highest casualty rate of any states in the vietnam war.and eastern kentucky the counties of eastern kentucky were considered their own state. it would have an even higher rate. appalachians i was in a say appalachian boys their men, were considered especially good at walking points because they were film layer with mountain terrain. they were fantastic marksmen, and they were familiar with living in rough environments because they did for long periods of time. i think it was 8% of the combat veterans, of the combat soldiers in vietnam were from app to latch about 13% of the medal of honor recipients were for appalachia, so it's a pretty big disparity. so to answer your question, there is ambivalence, definite ambivalence and appalachia the time. young people unequivocally opposed the war. i think their parents were more ambivalent than that. they supported the war but they certainly did not like seeing their children go off and fight it and die in such proportion. >> what is known about the health effects of the war on poverty? it certainl

host: let's go to lorraine in west virginia. caller: good morning. i have given money to three campaigns, which is buttigieg, sanders, and biden. now we are down to biden and sanders. i lean toward bernie sanders because of his policy. watchingllowed bernie your show for years. the reason i think he is staying in the race is he wants his priorities put into biden. i do not want just joe biden the way he is. i am tired of the dnc. i am tired of the way things are. i think most people across this country are tired of being told what to do. that is what is happening. host: i also meant to mention nevada. sanders will have an important voice through the remainder of the primary as well as in the general election. he will elevate those issues important to him. the thing that is a blessing and challenge about democratic politics is we have a diverse coalition ideologically. that push and pull on issues makes a stronger. host: we will go to newark, california. caller: good morning. i am leaning toward bernie sanders. i like joe biden. . like his experience

where thousands and tens of thousands of teachers wearing red shirts went on strike in west virginia and crowded into charleston. explain how these two teachers, english teacher named, hispanic teacher named emily and they those two people got the ball rolling for this huge strike and without the leadership of the union. yeah, they thought west virginia teachers unions are not allowed to bargain collectively with their districts. they had to beg the state legislator for laws. [inaudible conversations] >> guest: there was a very conservative red tape legislator that was cutting corporate taxes, cutting taxes for the rich and that created a freeze in the education budget statewide and a freeze on teacher salaries and these teachers saw the governor of west virginia who was the richest man in western, only billionaire and western virginia set i will give you a raise of 1% a year for five years and the teachers were upset about that because they had the 48 worst pay levels of any state and worse their health care premiums often went up 300, 500, $700 a year so the governors offered a rac

last state to report any coronavirus cases is west virginia. jim justice the governor there, is holding a briefing on his state's response to the current situation. let's listen. >> to multiple by a multiplierer of ten numbers are not much different than where we are today. with that being said, what i e mean is new york didn't have a whole lot more than 120 confirmed cases ten days ago. and today, with us with 12 with, it almost aligns perfectly. the $64 question is this, we don't want to end up ten days from today where with new york is today. with that being said, i give you one other thing to think about. and that is just simply just this -- the president all the kings horses and all of the kings men had to know of an incredible financial meltdown that would happen within our country if we took all of these unprecedented steps that we're taking. and so they had to know that there was a wave coming, a potential wave that could be absolutely so destructive it's unbelievable. you're seeing it right now in new york -- you're seeing it tonight.

. >> senator from west virginia has the floor. >> i know where you're coming from on this. we have a little different opinion about this. >> i think my friend from

thank you very much, senator joe manchin of west virginia.the senator was speaking, we are getting some more reminders of how widespread these cases are getting to be globally. the u.s. now represents 13.5% of confirmed coronavirus cases. both numbers are climbing exponentially. we will have more after this. i use rakuten to get cash back in-store and online. or anything i want to buy is going to be on rakuten. rakuten is easy to use, free to sign up and it's in over 3,000 stores. i buy a lot of makeup. shampoo, conditioner. books, food. travel. shoes. stuff for my backyard. anything from clothes to electronics. workout gear. i even recently got cash back on domain hosting. you can buy tires. to me, rakuten is a great way to get cash back on anything you buy. rack it up with rakuten, sign up today to get cash back on everything you buy. no, because on a sandwich,t no they ask you if you want cheese. but on a papadia, cheese is what's holding the whole operation together. get one now for just six bucks. better ingredients. better pizza. better

. >> host: we go next to priscilla in west virginia. you are a medical professional as well. what do you do? >> caller: i'm a registered nurse in a critical-care hospital. we use n95 masks because we don't have a shortage yet. we use one mask until it wears out and we put a face shield over it and then clean the face shield and that is what we have been doing. as far as my bigger issue is prevention, people coming into the hospital, encouraging people to stay home. it is frustrated when the president says things like he wants all the businesses to open up by easter or recently said something about trying to figure out which counties are at less risk than others but as we know west virginia has the highest risk population by most people's estimation but we haven't seen a large quantity of cases that we know of. first of all how do you feel about the method i described of sanitizing the face shield? there is no best way to sanitize masks but minimizing potential contacts. >> guest: good for you, thank you for being out there for us. yes, you can reuse n95 masks, do it with care

only west virginia yet to report a confirmed case. late friday night, the pentagon halting domestic travel. d.o.d. civilians affected march 16th through may 11th. the national guard helping with basic necessities. >> they told us they need help and that's what we're here to do. >> across the country, 13 statewide closures of schools. this school was one of the first to close after four students showed symptoms. hundreds of thousands of kids now staying home. >> we'll look back in this period and this will be the make or break days. >> in louisiana, presidential primary rescheduled for june 20th. in boston, the marathon delayed and churches canceled. >> this country is going to purell in a hand basket. >> jimmy kimmel live, general hospital and ellen. >> more sporting events canceled, the masters and nascar races. all embarking u.s. cruises stopped. a request from the president himself to keep the deadly pandemic from spiraling. two major retailers closing their doors. tech giant apple and patagonia. >> at least 50 deaths, more than 22

walked out of their school in every school in west virginia was closed down because the teachers went on strike. it is illegal to go on strike in west virginia but there are 50 districts and every superintendent close to the school so the teachers were not on strike because the schools were closed. the made arrangements for the children through community organizations and churches and agencies to make sure the children are cared for and marched on the state capital. so the strike was incredibly energizing not just to me but teachers all across america. so i watched the movement moved to oklahoma, colorado, arizona and also marching at ucla in the rain and i felt this tremendous energy. and then i realize there was another book i had to write. that book changes the national narrative. one that you have sense a nation at risk that schools are failin failing, rising tide of mediocrity and we have to do something about the failure of our schools. so we heard this refrain again and again and lead to destructive policy the secretary of education said we are failing government schools in fac

live your life, not your allergies. >>> star city, west virginia, has just 1,800 residents.t. >> skylar going missing was a tough pill to swallow for the entire community. >> police officer jessica colebank caught the skylar neese case. >> first impression was it could be a runaway. there are kids that run away all the time. >> it wasn't long before officer colebank got the video from the security cameras at the neese's building. skylar's friend, sheila eddy, had said skylar was home around midnight. so what was this car doing pulling up around 12:30 a.m.? who was in it? dave neese watched, horrified, as there on the tape, out walked skylar. >> she slowly walked down to a car that was sitting there waiting on her. and she got in the backseat. i could tell that. and she drove away. >> police couldn't quite make out a license plate or tell the make or model. skylar's mom mary had a theory. >> she made it home. snuck back in the window. then, a second person or persons had parked behind the building and she snuck out a second time. >> but why? who was in the car? and where did

so did i just see west virginia is the only one that has no case is. so obviously that's being treated differently than in new york california. different parts of california. do say this so the the army corps of engineers is ready willing and we have to give them to go ahead if we find that is going to be necessary. we think we can have. and quite a few units up y. i'm going to work with the governor cuomo a bit of work with. the number of the governors governor newsome has been very generous and in his words and i'm being generous to him to because we're all working together very well and i think a lot a lot of very positive things have taken place which talking to california about different sites. but we can we can have a lot of units up fairly quickly if we think we need them. i think what i'll do i might ask seeming to say a few words on telehealth and that we can get back to this place thank you mister president. >>and as the president announced earlier we are doing a dramatic expansion of what's known as telehealth for our 62 million medicare ben

i also want to say, i have not i said come one the border of west virginia and ohio, i have not seen the horrible things i have heard about customers, how they are fighting over things. what i saw when i was in line, different people were trying to let other people go ahead. like if they were holding 24 packs of water or whatever. i was one of the people that offered the person to go ahead and they were like, oh, i have already been offered that. so, many times the people in our area, our offering help, and not fighting. so i wanted to put that out there. that it is not just everyplace is fighting. i said, ohio-west virginia, they seem to appreciate the workers, appreciate kroger and try to make it better for everybody. that is my opinion. host: carolyn, thank you for the call. from ohio. shelley miller? guest: that is a wonderful point and i think that echoes most people's experiences. this really is bringing out the humanity and most of the people i would say. there really are relatively few bad actors in this system. i think that often we are attributing to overall panic buying wh

in the case of west virginia. we are looking at it very closely. we have taken it apart 15 different ways. it is a very difficult thing to do. it is a very big step. ok? >> a lot of people that travel to places considered hotspots over the next few weeks, do you agree they follow through on the plan? pres. trump: enjoy your home. i would just say right now we have to get this problem fixed and then we will get back into business really quick. we will open up our country, open up our society. the world will hopefully open up. we see areas of the world that have not done well, and we see areas that are doing very well. i would put us in the category of doing very well for a country so big. theynk i would recommend just enjoy their living room. go ahead, please. >> what do you say to people who are not heating these guidelines on the white house? i also have a question on asystematic people. pres. trump: i am not happy with those people. those people are being shouted down by other people. it is almost like self policing. the people went in. there are

joining me now is joe manchin of west virginia. thank you very much for take the time.ill you have a deal to announce this morning? >> i believe they are. everything i heard last night at midnight things are moving well, they're just basically doing the drafting right now, going through the final review of the bill. i really think that everything should be good and i think we should have a bill today. i think that he well -- i know all democrats will have a u.c., unanimous consent, let's move it and get it done. that's where we're going to be. it's going to be a balanced bill and be fair and it will take care of the american workers but most importantly the american people on the frontline as far as medical care and our hospitals and clinics. >> what, if any, are the sticking points still? is there still anything that needs to be resolved? >> the big sticking point yesterday, i know the thing you saw on the floor yesterday, alisyn, that was not right and it's not a time of grave concern that we have that we should be having that back and forth letting politics come into

joining me now is senator joe manchin of west virginia.ator, thank you so much for being with us. i'm so glad to see you, because for so many days, people were pointing out that west virginia, the one state in the country that had not yet seen a confirmed case of coronavirus and they were pointing to that as some kind of a model of a good thing, but all along, you were looking at it concerned. why? >> first of all, john, we have the most vulnerable population at risk. i knew that from my days of being governor and also nothing has changed demographically. and we have over 720 or 30 more thousand people who are elderly. we have over 230,000 people who are under 60 with chronic illnesses because of the hard work they have done. a lot of respiratory diseases, diabetes, we have a lot of problems we know we're facing. i just knew that if we weren't prepared, if people got lulled into a false sense of security, we were going to be harmed very, very devastating and i thought it was just carnage waiting to happen, i wanted to make sure that people

he's the medical director of cabin creek systems in west virginia. good to have you on, doctor. although to this point rural communities like yours are less affected by this, your concern is that they don't have the infrastructure when the numbers inevitably go up. tell me what they're lacking. >> well, right now we're lacking a number of things, including, like everywhere else, the absence of or lack of n95 respirators. we're also lacking in testing kits that are able to detect disease among people. we're fortunate at cabin creek we've tested 35 people so far. 15 are negative, 20 are pending, but there is this general absence of testing kits. plus we're dealing with a sicker population at large. the kaiser family foundation recently did a study for adults over 20 and found out that west virginia has 51% of our population at high risk for covid-19 complications compared with 41% nationally. >> i see, okay. that's a real concern because they, of course, have been bearing the brunt of the serious cases of this illness. i wonder, speaking to doctors, i am beginning to hear of calls

the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. manchin: mr. president, i agree with everything that's been said. i agree that basically we should never have left here thursday night. so many of us could maybe drive home. i drove home, was able to drive back. so many people were put into harm's way on an airplane. we don't have a young crowd, i think the average age is 62, and to put them on airplanes and their families is a danger also. if we're going to come to the aid of the economy of this state, of this country, i have no doubt democrats and republicans will come together and take care and help people. i hope they realize the people that really need help are the people that cannot make it from one week to the next let alone one paycheck to the next. i was out last week in d.c. and i talked to a waiter, a very nice young man. i said what happens if you have to go home for two weeks? he said i'm finished. i can't make it. i can't make my payment. i can't make my house payment. i can't make my rent payment. i can't make my grocery payment i n

la policia de west virginia esta investigando y revisando videos de vigiliancia tras el robo de una cajacaras "n-95" del hospital wheeling. el centro medico informo que fueron alrededor de 40 protectores faciales. autoridades del hospital dicen que en este momento, los suministros medicos son indispensables para los trabajadores de salud, que se encuentran en el frente de batalla, vidas, para atender a pacientes con en medio de la devastadora pandemia de coronavirus, hay personas que se esmeran en difundir noticias y reportes falsos.entre ellos figuran supuestos cambios en la vida silvestre como el movimiento y comportamiento de algunas especies, que las atribuyen falsamente a las cuarentenas masivas. galo arellano con el reporte galo en tiempos de crisis las noticias falsas pueden resultar fatales, dude siempre de lo que lee en las redes y verifique la informacion antes de compartirla por mas alentadora y creible que suene al oido. al volver... una conocida detileria, cambia su produccion de ron, para hacerle frente a la pandemia de cornavirus. nos despedimos con una muestra mas de soli

, also, if you are west virginia, you get a lot of flack from the rest of the nation you look pretty good right now, it represents, a -- you know looking at this from different angles, also when is important something that president trump talked about today, all of america approach, you also talked about in your monologue, with president standing side by side with the ceos of walmart and target, talking to supply chain folks today as well as ceos of growthrgrocery stores. this is not just a federal government respond, this is not just a state local response but also responsibility of private sector and us as americans. steve: right. now, steve, talk about response of some in media who cannot resist to turn into this political effect, something on "meet the press" this morning watch this, a news reporter. >> from my friends who look to us in media for guidance about what to do, idea this americans feel they know this is something they need to be worried about and taking action, even if they feel concerned, they have no idea what to do, the lack of clarity is a serious problem. steve:

caller: yes, i want to commend, i live on the border of ohio and west virginia.nd i shop at kroger's. i talked with management there, and they had said things such as how they have got additional trucks to come to the store that were not scheduled. i got to tell them how much that was appreciated, that they had the stock in, because of their foresight to do that. and also commend the kroger employees and west virginia and belpre, ohio, because they have been absolutely wonderful. they are under so much pressure. and they are working so hard. it is appreciated by customers like myself. i also want to say, i have not seen being, like i said, on the border of west virginia and ohio, i have not seen the horrible things i have heard about customers, how they are fighting over things. what i saw when i was in line, different people were trying to let other people go ahead. like if they were holding 24 packs of water or whatever. i was one of the people that offered the person to go ahead and they were like, oh, i have already been offered that. so, many times, the peop

west virginia! besides, this whole japan thing will just miraculously go away by itself. ( applause ) >> stephen: with everything shutting down around the globe, people are spending much more time with their significant others, which might not be totally good, because the coronavirus is driving divorce rates up in china. so it's less "till death do us part" and more "till the toilet paper runs out." some people are predicting a similar rise in divorces here in the united states. but one divorce attorney says it could actually help spouses bond, saying that "if a couple is on lockdown, it could reanimate their sex life." "hey, baby, let's pretend i'm the last man on earth, and you're the last woman on earth aaaaand... oop, google alert. we are." in fact, some people are asking if these coronavirus shutdowns could lead to a baby boom. yes, when this is all over, we'll have lots of kids running around, like little covida, her brother purell, and his best friend tony beefa-roni. but even with all the sh

today had no cases of covid-19 but west virginia is case coming after west virginia praise the state and at the same time announcing all states can now develop and implement their own tests. trace? >> trace: live in los angeles. thank you. as people practice social distancing to prevent catching covid-19, many have been infected with the virus. with more and more testing positive, hospitals began to fill up with patients. there are over 6,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus leaving health care workers short on medicine and supplies. cities have shut down and perfumes put in place, but treatment remains a top priority for let's go to dr. c ryan k, director for providence regional meta-sin. are you among those concerned about the number of hospital beds available right now? >> absolutely. we've seen quite an increase in the number of patients presenting with respiratory infections and we know that based on the data from china, 20% of patients who get infected develop severe symptoms and require admission. >> trace: i hear people talking about doctors saying come up maybe might be in

we will not need them in west virginia where still they have none. big jim, the governor he must be doing a good job. >> that's what's reported. >> is that the reporting issue or is that they have no cases. >> i just see west virginia's one that has no cases. obviously that's been treated differently than new york or california. i do say this the army corps of engineers is ready, willing and able. they have to give them the go- ahead if they find that will be necessary. we can have quite a few units up very rapidly. i will work with governor cuomo and a lot of the governors, governor newsom has been very generous in his words and i'm being generous to him we are all working very well together. a lot of positive things have taken place we are talking to california about different sites. we can have a lot of units up fairly quickly if we need them. i think what i will do i might ask seamen to say a few words on telehealth and we can get back. >> thank you mr. president. as the president announced earlier we are doing a dramatic expansion known as teleh

>> west virginia is the only one that has no cases. obviously, that is being treated differently than new york or california, different parts of california. i do say this. the army corps of engineers is ready, willing and able. i think we can have quite a few units up very rapidly. i'm going to work with governor cuomo. i'm going to work with the governors. i'm being generous to him, because we are all working together very well. i think a lot of very positive things have taken place. we are talking to california about different sites. we can have a lot of units up very quickly. i think what i will do is, i might ask him to say a few words on the health. >> thank you, mr. president. the president announced earlier that we are doing a dramatic expansion of what is known as telehealth for our 62 million medicare beneficiaries that are amongst the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. they are acting in accord with the appropriations bill that was signed as well as the president's emergency declaration last week. a broader effort to ensure

again, you may live in west virginia and in west virginia that may not happen until may.ing city to stay and state to state travel. eventually it will travel there. we want this thing to actually get drawn out. believe it or not. we want to go through this for a longer time. which is why the economic conversation is so important. from a health standpoint we want it to take a longer time for the system. from economic and social standpoint, that is quite difficult. i'd like to go see my mom. and socialize again. we'll have to wrestle with the trade off. >> interesting. thank you. appreciate it. >> we're all feeling anxious as coronavirus spreads. we'll hear your questions about the virus and talk about how to keep your stress levels down. that's next. our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence... ...so we can spend a bit today, knowing we're prepared for tomorrow. wow, do you think you overdid it maybe? overdid what? well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. but when allergies and congestion strike, take allegra-d... a

but first i want to bring in senator joe manchin from west virginia. i noticed your state joy that list, what can you do on capitol hill to ease the pain that so many are feeling at the moment? >> the pain we are feeling is anxiety, we don't know. in west virginia we weren't doing the testing because we didn't have the capability to do the testing. and there was a hundred and 20 total when i last checked. so unless we can get these tests, we were so far behind the curve, being prepared to test people and having the supplies, now we have to play catch up so now we don't know where this virus will be ready to have an outbreak. my state is the most challenged state of all. we have more people basically are older and have illnesses, basically hardworking good people who worked harder and it could be catastrophic if it hits. so i talked to the vice president last night and he was very kind and said we will get you everything we can. they just didn't have us on a high-priority because showing that we didn't have any cases and i said well, that's because we h

we have a noaa facility in west virginia. mr. ross: there are myriad initiatives under way at noaa to improve weather forecasting. i would be delighted to set up a session for you and your staff with noaa and myself to get into the details. it gets highly technical very, very quickly so i think that would be the most useful way to respond to that question, senator. senator capito: all right, i look forward to that last question is on the broadband map. many of us sitting around, we have been in various committees talking about the inaccuracies of our broadband map. the ntia was provided $7.5 million to help us with developing served and unserved areas to make sure this is granular data and that it's accurate. do you have any comments on how that process is moving forward? mr. ross: yes. two things. one, we have made great progress in launching the map that you're referring to. we entered into a contract to secure gee ydwrask information system platform that will allow ntia to take data sets from outside vendors and incorporate th

confirmed cases of the virus have spread to every state except west virginia.dent spoke a press conference saying to avoid groups of more than ten people. let's go to jackie bonnie is in new york. >> we are watching this closely as it is unfolding rather quickly. i just checked the numbers and here are the very latest figures. take a look at this map. according to john hopkins university right now there are more than 4600 confirmed cases. every state except for west virginia as you mentioned has at least one confirmed case of covid-19. the hardest hit states are washington and new york each of those with more than 900 cases. the u.s. death toll sits at 85. 48 of those deaths in washington state and ten in new york. as these numbers continue to increase monday president trump issued new coronavirus guidelines. >> president trump: made administration is recommending that all americans including young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible. i'm a avoid gathering in groups of more than ten people and avoid discretionary travel and avoid eat

we have a noaa facility in west virginia. >> the myriad initiatives underway at noaa to improve the weatherforecasting, would be divided i would be delighted to set up a session with you and your staff and noah and myself to get into the details because it gets high highly technical very quickly. i think that would be the most useful way to respond to that question senator. >> i look forward to that. last question is on the broadband map. i think many of us sitting around, we've been in various committees talking about the inaccuracies of our broadband math. the end tea i a was provided 7.5 to help us developing served in an served areas to make sure it's granular data and that it is accurate. do you have any comments about how that process is moving forward? >> yes, 2 things, one, we have made break great progress and watching the map that you are referring to. we entered into a contract to secure geographic information system platform that will allow ntia to take data sets from outside vendors and incorporate those into its own internal activities. that should permit ntia to implement a s

there are shortages in many pieces of it. >> reporter: west virginia still has a critically low numbersts. military veteran kenneth hawthorn says he's been to the emergency room three times in the last few weeks, sick with a cough, fever, and tested negative for flu. he says he cannot get tested for covid-19. >> they keep telling me and my wife we're at low risk so we weren't at priority to take the test. >> reporter: a major test maker, roach diagnostics, says they don't have the capability to meet the demand. >> the minute there was an outbreak in china several months ago, that should have started a whole sequence of events going. as everyone would say, that's the history. but what do we do now? >> reporter: industries are responding, ramping up production, and both labcorp and quest tell cnn they are greatly confessing the number of tests they can prosper day. but in the meantime the ceo of the association of public health laboratories calls the situation a huge problem. "i'm really concerned that we are not going to have the capabilities to test those who really need and should get

speaker, pleased the eld one minute to gentleman from west virginia, mr. mooney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia is recognized for one minute. mr. mooney: thank you, mr. speaker. there are good parts of this bill. the things president trump asked or at the very beginning like tax relief for employers, help for those who lost their jobs, funding for the medical responders.d first i thank president trump for his excellent leadership. i'd like tole ideas offer as amendments to this bill but this is a closed process. members of congress can't offer amendments. that's not the way we're make legislation, especially when it spends $2 trillion. amtrak, money for national public radio and the rts, but we don't talk how we're going to pay for it, $2 trillion. how do you pay for it? it from to borrow china, borrow it from russia? are we going to print the money devalue our current currency? already half a trillion dollars every year going forward. we could use that money to pay epidemics like this and fund our troops. so going forward we need to tal

. >> host: next from priscilla, west virginia. you're a medical professional as well. what do you do. >> caller: i'm a registeredders in. >> host: your question. >> caller: at a critical care hospital. we use n95 masks with don't have a shortage yet but we're all issued one mask and use it until the eless strike wears out and then put a face shield over it and then just clean the face shield. and that's pretty much just what we have been doing but the -- as far as my bigger issue i think is just prevention, if people come into the hospital, and we're trying tone courage people that aren't sick enough to be there to stay home but that's fruiting when the president says things like, he wants all the businesses to open up by easter, or recently said something empty right to figure out maybe which counties are at less risk than others, but as we know west virginia has the highest risk population by most people's estimation but be wave not seen a large quantity yet of cases we know of. so, i guess first of all i think -- how do you feel but the method i described of freezin

west virginia. the governor he must be a good job. >> i just see west virginia has little cases. the army core of engineers is ready and willing and able. we have to give them the go ahead. if we find it is going to be necessary, we think we can have quite a few units rapidly. i am going to work with governor cuomo, i am going to work with a number of the governors and governor newsom has been generous in his words and i am being generous to him too because we are all working very well. a lot of positive things are taken place. we are talking to california about different sites. we can have a lot of units up quickly if we think we need them. >> we have a few words on telehealth. >> thank you, mr. president. we are doing an expansion of what's known as telehealth for those who are vulnerable to the coronavirus. we are acting according to the bill. this action is apart of our broader effort to ensure that government requirements, rules and regulations don't get in the way of patient care during an emergency. today's announcement builds on a significant progress that the president h