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On a virus Wednesday in

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a statement his office says he's
without severe symptoms feels

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a little sick and is in quarantine at home
Meanwhile hundreds of millions worldwide

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are just in to unprecedented measures to
battle the pandemic this as Johns Hopkins

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University releases new figures saying more
than 200000 people worldwide have been

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infected and more than
8000 killed borders as

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a Libya Chan has more than the enemy is

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a virus and now we have to do our most
to protect our people and to protect our

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economies European Commission president
of underlying can found that the e.u.

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Would be closing off its external borders
to cut the spread of coronavirus German

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Chancellor Angela Merkel said the borders
would be shut with immediate effect as

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other nations such as sponsor follow
suit bring in stringent restrictions on

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people's movement as the e.u.

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Scramble to find

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a coherent response to the outbreak many
nation states imposed their own border

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checks in what is normally a certain of
control free travel that's workers as

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a Livia Chan u.s.

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President Donald Trump moved Wednesday to
manage dual health and economic crises

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announcing he'll invoke

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a federal provision allowing the government
to marshal the private sector in

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response to the coronavirus pandemic speaking
at the White House Mr Trump outlined

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a number of steps he's taking including
paying out of work Americans the value of

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the checks that would be sent will be
determined later we'll look at the different

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numbers we're looking at timing that
would be different splitting the time

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splitting the payments we're looking at

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a lot of different things hasn't been
determined yet but it will shortly be

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determined and people want to go big as
opposed everybody seems to want to go big

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the president also said he will expand
the nation's testing capacity and deploy

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a naval hospital ship to New
York City this is a news u.s.

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Stocks plunged Wednesday trading amid
investor uncertainty over the government's

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response to the coronavirus stock trader
Matthew Chance luck says right now this is

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a health issue. Not

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a financial one that the Fed or trump
administration moves can help when the case

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numbers are going to jump and if they
jump incrementally even with social

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distancing and shelter in place in effect
the numbers could increase and that's

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going to lead to panic and that's what we
seem to have right now the United States

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and Canada have agreed to temporarily close
their shared border to non-essential

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travel due to the coronavirus
at pandemic a.p.

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Correspondent Shelley Adler reports after
president cheated about in the morning he

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spoke about the new restrictions at

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a White House news conference it's non-essential
crossings it won't affect trade at

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all and it was just something we thought
would be good for both countries Canadian

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prime minister Justin Trudeau on c.t.v.

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Essential travel will continue our governments
recognize that it is critical that

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we preserve supply chains between both
countries chatted there relies on the u.s.

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For 75 percent of its exports I'm showing
after the Olympic Games in Tokyo are

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still 4 months away as the International
Olympic Committee works on preparations in

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line with protecting athletes from the
coronavirus the committee had what it calls

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a constructive conference call Wednesday
with 220 athletes Representatives the

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i.o.c.

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President said they heard the concerns and
we will address the section of the road

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keep acting in

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a responsible way in the interest off of
the athletes China is withdrawing the

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press credentials of American
journalists at 3 u.s.

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Newspapers The New York Times Wall Street
Journal and Washington Post Reuters as

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ever McCarthy reports the move is
likely to intensify the already frosty

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relationship between the world's top
2 economies according to the Foreign

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Correspondents Club of China which said
it deploys China's decision the expulsion

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is expected to affect at least 13 journalists
China has defended its decision which

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will even bar reporters from working
in Hong Kong. Wrong and says it was

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a retaliation against u.s.

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Restrictions on Chinese journalists
that's what he says m.r.

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McCarthy the most powerful
earthquake to hit the u.s.

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State of Utah in 28 years knocked out

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a coronavirus hotline shut down the capital
cities airport for much of the day and

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forced the evacuation of an oil refinery
Wednesday officials say there were no

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immediate reports of deaths or injuries
from the 5.7 magnitude quake for more on

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It's Thursday March
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a lot of stories obviously today's program
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would begin today with
taking a very quick overview

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a snapshot as it were as to where we are
right now don't glow Beloit Now many of

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you know that the corona virus appears
to have originated in who Bay province

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in China that certainly for

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a long time where the epicenter was maybe
not so much anymore at least according to

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the w.h.o.

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Currently China is reporting
81058 confirmed cases of Corona

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virus not covert 1000 which is the disease
and they are also reporting over 3200

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deaths from covert 19 so
they're trying to get

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a handle on that they're
doing the best they can it's

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a very big country and so they're trying
to keep things under control as much as

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possible 2nd on the list is Italy you've
probably heard that said the w.h.o.

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The World Health Organization has alerted
people that Europe is actually kind of

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becoming the hot spot for this Fred of
coronavirus and Italy is certainly one

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of those places Italy right now
is reporting 31506 confirmed

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cases and that's a tremendous number
of cases for a country with such

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a relatively small population there
also reporting. Over $2500.00 deaths so

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far health experts there are saying
they are not at the end of it that they

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continue to expect things to go from bad
to worse the hospital systems there are

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being overtaxed So we will keep our eye on
what happens in Italy very closely next

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on the list to run you've no
doubt heard that Iran has been

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a hot spot of its own in some ways there
over 16000 cases that have been reported

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in Iran alone with 988
deaths again staggeringly

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large numbers now some Iranian officials
recently told the press that they fear

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that once this is all said and done that
as many as 1000000 Iranians might die from

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code 900 now we haven't seen those numbers
confirmed anywhere else by any other

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health organization we're just reporting
that that's what the government is saying

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Spain is coming in next with
11748 confirmed cases 533

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deaths Germany not doing
so much better but

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a little bit better 1257
cases confirmed and 24

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deaths which is an encouraging number
and of course South Korea which was for

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a long time sort of the hot spot outside
of who Bay is reporting now 8320

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cases and 81 deaths it's really

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a testament to how hard they have been
working in South Korea to try and limit the

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spread of corona virus and to treat
those who are sick with covert 19

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and other many other nations that follow
just simply too many to list this is

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a virus that is. Clearly touching every
continent now and we're watching to

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see it's going to spread in different ways
and different paths in different spots

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and that's in part because of local
situations and in part because of how

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governments respond so we're going to keep
our eye on those numbers those numbers

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will go up and people should simply prepare
for that social distancing and maybe

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a big help certainly washing hands trying
to get as much sleep as possible trying

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to reduce stress eating healthily as possible
all of these things are important but

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there are no guarantee that anybody in
particular is not going to catch the virus

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leading off our section on the coronavirus
is this most recent story this comes to

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us from Steve Herman Steve is our senior
White House correspondent and let me just

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read

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a little bit to you if I may be. Federal
government is looking at quickly sending

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money directly to Americans to help soften
the economic blow from the coronavirus

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pandemic quote I think we're going to do
something that gets money as quickly as

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possible to Americans President Trump
told White House reporters on Tuesday

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treasury secretary Steve Nugent said the
president has instructed me we have to do

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this now we're looking at sending checks
to Americans immediately and I mean now in

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the next 2 weeks the Trump administration
is seeking to get Congress to approve an

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infusion of as much as $850000000000.00
into the economy that includes

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$250000000000.00 for small business loans

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a 50 dollars 1000000000 dollar package
to bail out nation's airlines as part

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of an emergency stimulus package that should
be noted that said Not everywhere but

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increasingly and more and more places
you're seeing it in some states such as

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Maryland you're seeing it in some cities
such as San Francisco and even here in

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Washington d.c.

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Various government officials have imposed

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a social distancing bands if you or they
come under a variety of names is it

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a lockdown is it a quarantine is it

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a ban and what is it exactly but what
it usually entails is that places where

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people gather restaurants
bars movie theaters jams even

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libraries some other kinds of public
gathering places are being closed and

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they're being closed under order of the
got government the whole idea here is to

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limit individuals exposure to other
individuals because that's exactly

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how this respiratory virus. This is
transmitted it's transmitted through the air

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and it passes individual to individual
so what's happening is many

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people many many hundreds of thousands of
people are finding themselves at least

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temporarily without work for

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a loaded questioning what's going to happen
and that is creating enormous financial

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strain on the system.
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States take aggressive action
against coronavirus this by v.o.a.

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As Cho she writes she begins with this
quote stay home stay safe stay home

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has

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a cave in Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe
urged his residents while announcing his

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shutdown order at least 13 states including
California Connecticut Delaware issued

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executive orders this week to close bars
and restaurants limiting their service to

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carry out and delivery or hers only add
the District of Columbia to that with

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thousands of new coronavirus cases across
the United States the numbers took

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a precipitous jump today is Thursday
they just in the last not even

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a week since last Friday in the
United States they really took

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a precipitous jump so that Scott
people's attention with thousands of new

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coronavirus cases across the United
States states are implementing aggressive

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actions to stop the rapid spread of. Virus
some governors gave clear warnings to

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people who aren't heeding them here's

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a quote I would say to them weeks from now
months from now when one of those party

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goers one of those people that they
defied the order to have into their

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establishment become sick somebody perhaps
that might die they should know that

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they are responsible for that and they
should not hold these parties that was

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Illinois governor j.b.

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Pritzker who speaking at

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a news conference on Monday California
Florida Georgia Maine and Tennessee declared

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states of emergency in New Jersey set

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a statewide curfew from 8 pm
to 5 pm of course there's also

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a national state of emergency that was
announced last week by President Trump that

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doesn't number of things to release is some
decent amount of federal monies to get

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help where it's needed particularly to
people who are on the front lines the

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hospital staff who are running low of
of critical material be they masks

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or surgical gloves or gowns or respirators
or you know that kind of ventilators

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these things are in short supply and there
is worry that this may continue for some

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time anecdotally part of these
shutdowns for example Washington d.c.

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I live almost right at the corner of

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a very busy intersection always lively
always something going on here in Washington

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d.c.

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It is totally empty there are no pedestrians
there is no traffic except for maybe

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emergency vehicles it's eerie
and of course there are some

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health professionals in the United States
and elsewhere who are cautioning that

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these social distancing. Process
A's plans actions that we are

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taking that limit our exposure to other
people that largely keep people in their

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house you know safe from the virus presumably
may continue for some time but this

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probably isn't going to be

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a couple weeks this may be several months
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w.h.o.

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Urges nations to enact tougher measures
to combat the corona virus and she writes

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The World Health Organization is
urging governments to implement

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a comprehensive aggressive approach
in tackling covert 19 to slow down

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the rapidly increasing number of cases and
deaths from this now dangerous new virus

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in Europe and in other parts of the world
again Europe is seen by many now it's as

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a real hotspot. The largest number of cases
and deaths from Corona virus are still

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being reported in from the Western Pacific
region which includes China however

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Europe is running a close 2nd and now has

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a larger cumulative number of confirmed
infections and deaths than all other

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regions combined the w.h.o.

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Says it's difficult to nail down any one
factor or particular scenario behind this

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surge of cases in Europe that we do a Joe
spokesman Christian Linamar told v.o.a.

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That his agency has been warning for weeks
that this novel virus will grab hold and

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continue to spread with relentless speed
around the world this is some tough

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language quote at the
same time when you have

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a large spike of cases either because
they have been undetected for

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a while or because of an
unfortunate incident were

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a large group of people gets infected at
any one time you reach capacity problems

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and this is what many Your pm countries
seem to be struggling with right now it's

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certainly something that Italy and Spain
are struggling with German Chancellor

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Angela Merkel is set to make

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a televised address fairly shortly this
will be her 1st televised address ever

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since serving 4 years in
the role of Chancellor.

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This is

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a Reuters story bulge. Supermarket chain
moves to protect older people from Corona

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virus now you may have heard that some
doctors are speculating that it appears that

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older people or people who are immunocompromised
that means maybe they have some

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sort of underlying conditions such as
chronic heart problems diabetes h.i.v.

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Those kinds of if you do suppressive
conditions that they may be at greater risk

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for catching the corona virus and developing
covert 19 so writers rights in this

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story is here that Belgian supermarket
chain highs has moved to protect its

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customers over 65 years of age the age
group most at risk from the Corona virus

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they write by reserving the 1st hour after
it shops open only for elderly shoppers

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that's interesting the decision has

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a potted since Tuesday and more than 700
of the company's shops in Belgium as well

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as its

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a stop and shop chain in the United States
quote I came here to stop for some groceries

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to have an effect home so I don't run out
or run around too much because I think

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it's too dangerous said all
3 a 71 year old wearing

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a mask over his nose and his mouth as he
told Reuters as he was preparing to leave

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the shop despite the especially reserved
time there was still lines of elderly

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shoppers waiting to enter shops on Wednesday
because of the restriction that only

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150 people can in

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a Delhaize supermarket at any given time
be admitted this again to limit the

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infection this raises an interesting point
you may have seen some places where

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people are lining up queuing up long lines
kind of crowding together to get into

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a certain place whether
it's a supermarket or

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a bank or something. Like that I will
simply repeat what the public health

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professionals are repeating which is if
we're supposed to be practicing social

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distancing that probably the worst thing
that we can be doing is packing ourselves

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together in compact little groups where
we're all basically breathing on top of

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each other that can be

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a perfect the factor for virus transmission
so we should try to avoid those

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situations as much as we can.
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news I'm going to information. U.s.

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Stocks plunged in early trading Wednesday
amid investor uncertainty over the

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government's response to the coronavirus
setting the stage for what may be another

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highly volatile day of trading it has been
volatile so far we can tell you that the

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Dow Jones Industrial
Average and the s. And p.

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500 are were more than 5 percent lower
here shortly after the markets. Open while

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the Nasdaq composite was down more than 4
percent and investors in the financial

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markets are looking for some form of
call me and something to ease their

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concerns about where things may be heading
around the world not just in the United

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States but but around the world
this story from Reuters u.s.

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Health officials on Wednesday appealed
to use to do their part by heating

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guidelines on self isolation to blunt the
corona virus outbreak and warned that the

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White House may have to extend its
action plan if 15 days proves

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insufficient quote 15 days is likely not
going to be enough to get us all the way

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through but we really need to lean into
it now so we can bend the curve in 15

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days and at that point we'll
reassess this a quote from u.s.

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Surgeon general drone
Adams who is speaking on

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a national television network today the
phrase you may have heard bending the curve

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is in fact what public health officials
are hoping to see which is rather than

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seeing spikes of cases and of deaths
like we're seeing in Italy where there

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is work it puts such

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a condensed demand on medical supplies
it needs what they're hoping to do

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is bend that curve really kind of tried
flat out that doesn't mean people aren't

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going to get infected that doesn't mean
people aren't going to get sick but it's

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not going to happen you know all of

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a sudden bang kind of way I deal it and
it will be flattened out and health

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professionals will be able to much better
assess and deal with and treat patients

00:28:41
as their needs come by well
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00:28:45
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00:28:50
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00:29:49
The. Welcome to learning English

00:29:54
a daily 30 minute program from the
Voice of America. Jonathan Evans this

00:30:01
program is aimed at English
learners so we speak

00:30:04
a little slower and we use words and phrases
especially written for people learning

00:30:10
English. We also explain words

00:30:17
and language rules all while bringing you
stories and information from around the

00:30:23
world. Today on the program you will
hear stories from Ashley Thompson and

00:30:30
and ball later Steve Amber will present
our American history series The

00:30:37
Making of

00:30:38
a nation but 1st here is
Ashley Thompson. With

00:30:45
schools shutting down and the ways of
daily life changing children are hearing

00:30:52
more about the new coronavirus
they may not fully understand it

00:30:58
or know how seriously to take
it but their lives are affected

00:31:05
many parents are trying to decide how to
talk with their children about the virus

00:31:12
and of the outbreak Some say they
are checking in each day to see how

00:31:19
their children are doing but others worry
that talking too much about it could make

00:31:26
their children more nervous and fearful in

00:31:30
a call pony is the mother of 10
year old Clara and 12 year old Jane

00:31:37
the family lives in Audubon
New Jersey she said We talk

00:31:43
a lot about it I watch the news every
morning and they're always watching it too

00:31:50
both girls said they have talked about the
virus at school Jane said her teachers

00:31:56
have discussed it during science
lessons I'm not really as scared of it

00:32:03
it's still not even that many people
getting sick here Jane said one of my

00:32:10
friends is really scared of it but she's
honestly really scared of all diseases

00:32:17
back Young said she has decided to limit
the conversations with her 4 children they

00:32:24
are ages 810-1215 the family lives in Fort

00:32:31
Mill South Carolina she said she does
not want them to be afraid of getting

00:32:37
sick because kids get sick pretty
often and she does not want them

00:32:44
to worry about dying. The
new corona virus causes

00:32:49
a disease called Kovac 19 for
most people including children

00:32:56
it results in only mild or
moderate sickness such as

00:33:02
a temperature and cough for others
especially older adults and people

00:33:08
with existing health problems it can
cause more severe illness including

00:33:15
pneumonia which facts

00:33:17
a person's ability to breathe most
people recover the World Health

00:33:23
Organization says that people with minor
sickness recover in about 2 weeks

00:33:31
those with

00:33:31
a more serious case may take 3 to 6
weeks to recover child psychology

00:33:38
experts advise parents and others
to be calm and positive when

00:33:45
discussing the issue with young people they
suggest centering discussions on active

00:33:52
steps one can take They also suggested
doing research in order to answer

00:33:58
children's questions
truthfully Dr Jamie Howard is

00:34:04
a psychologist at the nonprofit Child
Mind Institute she said it is important

00:34:11
to reassure children ask them if they
have questions and tell them how they can

00:34:18
stay safe the Institute and the u.s.

00:34:22
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
offer suggestions on talking with

00:34:28
children some teachers and sports
coaches are working to stop the

00:34:34
idea that the virus is tied to any
group or race the new coronavirus

00:34:41
1st appeared in China. Some American
adults are staying away from Chinese

00:34:48
restaurants and businesses out of
fear that they may get the virus

00:34:54
Seattle public schools in the state of
Washington wrote on its website that

00:35:00
misinformation has led to fear and
anger the school district's leaders

00:35:07
urged students to combat racism and
bias we are aware of reports that

00:35:13
some of our Asian students have been
targeted and discriminated against in

00:35:19
connection to coded 19 their school
leaders wrote this is unacceptable

00:35:27
parents should explain that measures such
as wearing covers over your mouth and

00:35:33
nose and closing schools are
preventative and temporary Dr Howard

00:35:40
said she urges parents to follow
what the television personality Mr

00:35:46
Rogers used to say look to the
helpers to see what doctors

00:35:53
teachers parents and scientists
are doing to keep them safe I'm

00:35:59
Ashley Thompson.

00:36:47
Wasim

00:36:47
a con stopped attending school
6 years ago she has yet to

00:36:54
complete her studies the 19 year
old is not an exception she

00:37:01
is like many other young women in new
where she lives in northern India

00:37:08
only about 30 percent of the women
there can read and write that is

00:37:15
about half the national
average was Sima Khan

00:37:21
left school because she had to do housework
and help her mother with younger

00:37:27
brothers and sisters she said and
there was no middle school in her

00:37:34
community at the same time
boys living in pet Piqua

00:37:41
in hard Yana State walk to the nearest
high school about 4 kilometers

00:37:47
away. Yet girls are not permitted
to leave the small village.

00:37:55
Many of the women work in fields or
care for farm animals young girls got

00:38:02
water while children play men often
sit outside their homes in the

00:38:08
sun after a cold winter

00:38:12
a group of young women from this mostly
Muslim community made it to college by

00:38:17
overcoming prejudices against women
now they are working to get more

00:38:24
girls into school every Sunday
they spread out in and other

00:38:30
villages to talk to people about why they
should let their daughters study the

00:38:37
young women persuaded Wassim cons mother
to keep her younger daughter at school

00:38:43
they ease her concerns about the
dollar ease the money or goods that

00:38:49
a woman's family must give to her
husband's family when they marry she

00:38:55
fears that educated girls will want
to marry educated men who will demand

00:39:01
a bigger dowry this is difficult for
many poor families who see no reason to

00:39:08
educate girls all rush to knit is

00:39:12
a postgraduate student studying
history she says her college

00:39:18
education has given her the strength
to fight the dowry tradition

00:39:25
I will only marry into

00:39:27
a family which does not demand
dowry she said however well to do

00:39:34
they may be. They young women
tell Khan that she can

00:39:40
return to school as

00:39:43
a girl her goal had been to join
India's police force she does not know

00:39:50
if she can go back but she says she
will do whatever she can to make

00:39:57
sure her sister does not leave
school I loved my classes she said

00:40:04
but I was helpless

00:40:07
a nonprofit organization called the selfie
with daughter foundation is leading the

00:40:13
campaign to empower and educate
women in these villages its aim is

00:40:20
to bring change by publicizing the success
stories of girls who came from the

00:40:25
villages and now serve as role
models for other families is one

00:40:32
a cause and began her campaign by persuading
her extended family to educate their

00:40:38
daughters she tells these women that
educated girls could help the villages

00:40:45
in some areas Lemmon are not permitted to
enter act with male lawyers be taught by

00:40:52
male teachers or get treated by
male doctors. And is training for

00:40:59
a job in health care as
a nurse when she was

00:41:03
a teenager she became terribly
sick but her treatment was

00:41:08
a problem her parents could not read and
medical centers in the area were very

00:41:15
poor quality it made her decide
to get her own education

00:41:23
Khan said she wants to bring medical
aid to women in the area this is

00:41:29
a Goal her father urged her to go for
even selling belongings to pay for her

00:41:36
nursing school. They don't want
to educate their daughters but

00:41:43
if women are ill they want

00:41:46
a lady doctor how will that happen
Khan said another girl in the

00:41:53
campaign Shahnaz Bano wants to teach in

00:41:58
a local school she said I tell them that
if your daughters don't attend schools

00:42:05
how will they find female teachers it is

00:42:10
a message the young women repeat as they
go from house to house they point out how

00:42:17
they had to fight with their families to
get the right to study sometimes even

00:42:24
when parents agree to let them
study others in the village raised

00:42:30
objections most boys who complete
college move away to look

00:42:37
for better jobs outside the villages
but the girls hope to use their skills

00:42:44
in education in the community
on German Islam is studying law

00:42:51
she wants to provide free legal aid to
women I don't want to do that for men she

00:42:58
adds but her bigger goal is to change
minds here men think that women

00:43:05
are only meant to do housework and give
birth to children Islam said we have to

00:43:11
change this thinking if we have

00:43:14
a quality under the law how can society
have this gender discrimination

00:43:22
the campaign is having success and flew
in saying some women they do most of the

00:43:28
work both at home and in the
fields. And is 30 years old

00:43:35
she is determined to educate her 3 daughters
she wants to make sure they can escape

00:43:41
her life story of hard backbreaking
work all day long she works with the

00:43:47
animals finds firewood cleans
cooks and washes dishes she said

00:43:55
if I had studied I would have been
saved from this. Time Jonathan

00:44:02
Evans and. Ball.

00:45:28
Welcome to the making of a nation
American history in the oh

00:45:34
a special English I'm Steve embers.
The United States entered the 2nd

00:45:41
World War In December of 1941 Europe
had already been at war since

00:45:48
1939 but the United States did not enter

00:45:52
a World War 2 until Japanese forces at
tack the American naval base at Pearl

00:45:59
Harbor Hawaii. The attack was

00:46:05
a surprise but American military and political
leaders had believed that the United

00:46:12
States sooner or later would be pulled into
the fighting and they began to prepare

00:46:18
for war. President Franklin Roosevelt
had been assistant secretary of the

00:46:25
Navy under President Woodrow Wilson
during World War one he remembered how

00:46:31
American troops were not ready if up that
war now that he was President Roosevelt

00:46:38
wanted to be sure that the United States
would be ready when it had to fight

00:46:44
throughout 1941 Roosevelt urged
American industries to produce more

00:46:51
weapons and other military supplies the
as damaged new government agencies

00:46:58
to work with industry to increase arms
production. Some business leaders

00:47:04
resisted Roosevelt's efforts they found
there was no need to produce more arms

00:47:10
while the United States was still at
peace but many others cooperated and by

00:47:17
the time. Pam attacked Pearl Harbor the
American economy was producing millions of

00:47:24
guns and other weapons still
this was not enough to fight

00:47:29
a war after the Japanese attack Roosevelt
increased his demands on American

00:47:36
industry he called 460000 war planes 45000

00:47:43
tanks and 20000 anti aircraft
guns and he wanted all these

00:47:49
within one year. A month after
the Pearl Harbor raid Roosevelt

00:47:56
organized the special committee to direct
military production he created another

00:48:03
group to help companies find men
and women for defense work and he

00:48:09
established

00:48:10
a new office where the nation's best
scientists and engineers could work together

00:48:17
to design new weapons these new
government organizations faced several

00:48:24
problems sometimes factories produced
too much of one product and not

00:48:30
enough of another sometimes tools
broke and some business owners

00:48:37
refused to accept government orders but
the weapons were produced and American

00:48:43
troops soon have but guns
and supplies they need.

00:48:54
The federal government had to quickly
expand its own workforce to meet war needs

00:49:01
federal spending increased from
$60000000000.00 in 1940 to

00:49:07
$89000000000.00 in 1944
that was 15 times as much

00:49:14
spending in just 5 years Roosevelt.
Had to take strong steps to get the

00:49:21
money if for all this spending he put limits
on wages he increased income taxes to

00:49:28
as much as 94 percent on potions
of incomes over 200000 dollars

00:49:35
and he asked the American people to lend
money to the federal government the people

00:49:41
answered by purchasing almost 100000000000
dollars in war bonds the great

00:49:48
injuries.

00:50:13
As wanted somebody else's not their
own federal officials had to

00:50:20
work hard to keep prices and supplies
under control they restricted how much

00:50:27
meat fuel and other goods people
could buy. The friends controlled

00:50:33
program generally worked its success kept
the American economy strong to support

00:50:40
the troops fighting in Europe and the Asia.
One reason these strong economic steps

00:50:47
worked was because most of the get American
people fully supported the war effort

00:50:53
talk to talk oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh oh. 00000000 but I think

00:51:01
she's supposed to send the file and
she's making this to be part of

00:51:06
a keep up with. The keep shuffle out
of Sam but sitting up there on the

00:51:13
pistol that little bit can
do that in a minute and

00:51:16
a total. Of them will get out
of the thing Charlie the movie.

00:51:24
Both in public don't. Want to know that I
am on the living machine when they get

00:51:30
the attention she was called as

00:51:33
a gift to be there something you might
improve up hoping. That you can

00:51:40
look at photographs of people from those
times and see in their faces how strongly

00:51:46
they felt. In one picture from
the state of North Carolina

00:51:52
a group of men there standing in front
of old rubber tires they are planning to

00:51:58
give the tires to the army to be fixed
and used for military vehicles. Another

00:52:05
photo shows a woman visiting
a hospital she is singing to

00:52:10
a soldier to lift his spirits still
another photo shows a man who owns

00:52:17
a small food store he is placing
the signs on meat and cans of food

00:52:24
to tell people how much they are allowed
to buy. You can also get an idea

00:52:31
about the feelings of the times by the
names of some of the popular songs during

00:52:37
World War 2. Come back there.

00:52:46
Well I. Was.

00:52:54
Alone. With the Day. While I.

00:53:01
Was. In

00:53:08
addition to Rosie the Riveter there
were songs like Praise the Lord m.

00:53:13
As for the ammunition. One of the most
hopeful songs was this was recorded by

00:53:20
Britain's beer on the. Lawn I.

00:53:28
Was on was. Not gone dump

00:53:35
on my good. Long long walk.

00:53:43
And the rain all lonely and
drawl I'm watching. From

00:53:50
the. Laundry. To the

00:53:57
bomb. Bomb bomb bomb.

00:54:06
Bomb bomb. Bomb bomb bomb.

00:54:16
And eventually. Bomb the lawn.

00:54:26
When we. Saw

00:54:29
a new life when he really.
Honestly we saw in the.

00:54:40
Dawn again. Lawyer.

00:54:50
Not all Americans supported the war

00:54:53
a small number refused to fight because
of religious or moral beliefs they were

00:55:00
known as conscientious objectors and some
Americans supported at all for Hitler

00:55:07
and other fascists but almost everyone
else wanted to win the war quickly

00:55:14
and return to

00:55:15
a normal life. Many Japanese
Americans served with honor in

00:55:22
the United States armed forces but many
Americans were suspicious of anyone whose

00:55:29
family had come from Japan. They refused
to trust even Japanese American

00:55:36
families who had lived in the
United States for more than

00:55:40
a century. Many banks refused to
lend money to Japanese Americans

00:55:47
many stores would not sell to them.
The federal government relocated

00:55:54
thousands of Japanese Americans in
California and other states into

00:56:00
internment camps they were
released only after the war ended.

00:56:07
It was many years before the government
officially apologized for mistreating

00:56:13
Japanese Americans.

00:56:35
But one more to do the progress for another
group that was often the target of

00:56:41
discrimination black
Americans. Black leaders

00:56:47
spoke out they said that
it was unfair it to fight

00:56:52
a war for freedom in Europe while black
Americans did not have old the same

00:56:58
freedoms as white citizens.
Long. White innocent or less.

00:57:08
Noble or some of. Them and
then. The civil rights

00:57:15
revolution but no one to bring in 1941

00:57:20
a leader in the black community a
Philip Randolph threatened to lead

00:57:25
a giant March on Washington for
civil rights for blacks. President

00:57:32
Roosevelt reacted by issuing
an order that made it

00:57:36
a crime to deny blacks at the chance
for jobs in defense industries

00:57:43
He also ordered the armed forces to change
some of their rules that discriminated

00:57:50
against blacks service members. Blanks
made progress in the military and

00:57:57
defense industries but most other
industries still refused to give them an

00:58:04
equal chance. Major progress in civil
rights would not come until the

00:58:10
19 fifties and sixties.

00:58:28
Life was busy during the war years there
were many changes in the economy business

00:58:34
music race relations and other areas
but in many ways life continued as it

00:58:41
always does America. Did what they could
during the hard years of World War 2 They

00:58:48
keep life on the home front as normal as
possible but almost everyone understood

00:58:54
that the 1st job was to support the
troops overseas and win the war.

00:59:02
This strength of purpose at home gave the
American soldiers the support they needed

00:59:08
and it also helped President Roosevelt as
he negotiated with other world leaders

00:59:14
diplomacy and foreign relations became
much more complex during the war.

00:59:23
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English through

00:59:29
stories from around the war. Jonathan.

00:59:57
This is v.o.a.

00:59:58
News I'm Diane Roberts the Health Ministry
in Costa Rica says it has registered its

01:00:02
1st death from thrown

01:00:03
a virus and Brazil's biggest city Sao Paolo
ordered most commercial establishments

01:00:08
closed to the public into April 5th
trying to slow the spread of the virus

01:00:12
Meanwhile the World Health Organization
urges governments to implement an

01:00:15
aggressive approach in tackling
$1000.00 leaks a shrine for v.o.a.

01:00:20
The World Health Organization says it is
difficult to nail down any one factor or

01:00:26
particular scenario behind the
surge of cases in Europe w.h.o.

01:00:30
Spokesman Christian Linda Maher tells me
away his agency has been warning for weeks

01:00:35
that this novel virus would grab hold and
continue spreading with relentless speed

01:00:40
around the world Linda Maher explains many.
Countries were unprepared to test treat

01:00:46
and track those infected when the virus
struck he says many still lack the capacity

01:00:51
to implement these important measures he
says the lack of medical equipment tests

01:00:57
personnel hospital beds than to later
years and other essential items is

01:01:01
a global problem Lisa Schlozman for v.o.a.

01:01:05
News Geneva leaders of the world's 20
biggest economies are trying to organize

01:01:10
a virtual meeting next week to discuss

01:01:12
a coordinated response to the outbreak Saudi
Arabia said it will act in any way to

01:01:16
alleviate the impact of the coronavirus
and put forward coordinated policies to

01:01:21
protect people and safeguard the global
economy but Hong Kong based analyst Louis

01:01:25
Walsh says it may not be enough to stop
the market volatility governments are

01:01:30
trying very hard to. Roll
out supportive measures to.

01:01:37
Stabilize the economy but on the other
hand the spread of the coronaviruses.

01:01:44
In some countries seems to be out of
control in the United States Wall Street

01:01:48
stocks plunged again Wednesday
as a columnist warning of

01:01:51
a deep recession this is v.o.a.

01:01:54
News the European Union sealed off its
borders Wednesday trying to put the brakes

01:02:00
on the spread of the corona virus as the
number of deaths on the continent soared

01:02:03
past the toll in Asia millions of people
are on strict lockdown in Europe now the

01:02:09
epicenter of code 1000 with more than
3400 deaths Asia has just over 3300

01:02:16
Russia closed its borders to starting
Wednesday through May 1st authorities say

01:02:21
coronavirus cases have jumped almost 29
percent overnight despite the Kremlin

01:02:26
imposing tight controls on movement and
saying the situation is under control the

01:02:32
u.s.

01:02:32
Federal Emergency Management Agency has been
activated at the highest level nationwide

01:02:38
and President Donald Trump says he'll
invoke the defense protection Defense

01:02:42
Production Act.

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