. >> joining us this morning is the mayor of dayton, ohio, mayor nan whealy, and she's also the vice president of the u.s. conference mayors here to talk about covid-19 pandemic and the impact it's having on city budgets. mayor whealy, the congress is debating over on the house side $1.9 trillion in economic relief around at the same time yesterday, we reached the milestone of 500,000 deaths in this country. what has been the economic -- the human and economic toll on cities like yours? >> well, it's certainly great to be on this morning on "washington journal" and i think like most cities across the country we have seen the human impact, the loss of lives, the fear people have of infecting their friends and loved ones, really tamping down how people move around and, of course, nokes that still have to go to work and work in person, really laying that -- that fear and concern for their own health and the health of others on their daily lives for this past year coupled, you know, just the economic impact that it's had in you are a communities which has been -- both have been significa