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In case it is needed the act as the main
source of presidential authority is to

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exit by expedite and expand the supply of
resources the us military will deploy to

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us hospital ships to free up medical
professionals and beds needed for patients one

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will deploy to New York Harbor soon the
other location has not been determined yet

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we are hoping to better
understand where there's

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a demand on the hospital system that exceeds
that hospital systems capacity. And

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then we'll work with h.h.s.

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As the supported or the lead federal
agency for this to decide what's the best

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capability if for us to help with that
and the Federal Deposit Insurance

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Corporation warns of banks gams connected
to the corona virus outbreak Donahue

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reports one scam is

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a claim banks are limiting access to customers
money the f.d.i.c says there's been

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an uptick in calls text messages letters
and e-mails from scammers for tending to

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be f.d.i.c employees using names of people
who actually work at the f.d.i.c they

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say there are security issues with bank
deposits the f.d.i.c says they're out to

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get bank accounts and other personal
information no deposit or has lost money since

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the f.d.i.c was created in 1933 because
of the coronavirus many banks have

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shortened branch hours or are pushing
customers to use online banking I met Donohue

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China is withdrawing the press credentials
of American journalist at 3 u.s.

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Newspapers The New York Times Wall Street
Journal and Washington Post Reuters m.r.

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

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between the world's top 2 economies according
to the Foreign Correspondents Club of

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China which said it deplored China's
decision the expulsion is expected to affect

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at least 2 teen journalists China has
defended its decision which will even bar

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reporters from working in Hong Kong and
says it was a retaliation against u.s.

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Restrictions on Chinese
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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 globally now many of you know

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

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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 covered 19 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 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
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 was 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
heard that Iraq 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 Iranian officials
recently told the press that they fear that

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

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19 now we haven't seen those numbers
confirmed anywhere else by any other health

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

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

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a long time sort of the hot side
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 coronavirus and to treat
those who are sick with covert 19

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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 we're watching to

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see it's going to spread in different ways
it in 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 it's people should simply
prepare for that social distancing 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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they're no guarantee that anybody in
particular is not going to catch the virus

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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. The 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 I think we're going to do something
that gets money as quickly as possible

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to Americans President Trump told White
House reporters on Tuesday treasury

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

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

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

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

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

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d.c.

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Various government officials have imposed
social distancing bands if you or they

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come under a variety of names is it
a lockdown is it a quarantine is it

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a bank 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 rest for Tori viral. 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 Loaded questioning
what's going to happen and that is

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creating enormous financial
strain on the system. Does

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Page of Facebook this is video

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a. U.s.

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State take aggressive action against
Corona virus this. Video is

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show she writes she begins with this
quote stay home stay safe stay home has

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a game 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 only add the
District of Columbia to that with thousands

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of new coronavirus cases across the United
States the numbers it took 8 percent but

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his job 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 got people's
attention with thousands of new coronavirus

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cases across the United States states are
implementing aggressive actions to stop

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the rapids Fred. Of the
virus some governors

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a clear warning to 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 they are

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

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governor j.b. Pritzker who's 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 is 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 critical material be they masks

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

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things are in short supply and there is

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a worry that this may continue for
some time anecdotally part of these

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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 is there are no
pedestrians there is no traffic except

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for maybe an emergency vehicles
it's eerie and of course there are

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

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that 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
so we're going to have to keep our eye on

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

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real hot spot. 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 w.h.o.
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 get infected at any
one time you reached 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 well. 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
to 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

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a greater risk for catching

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a coronavirus and developing covert 19 so
writers rights in this story is here that

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Belgian supermarket chain. Has moved to
protect its customers over 65 years of age

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the age group most at risk from the Corona
virus they write by reserving the 1st

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hour after its shops open only for elderly
shoppers that's interesting the decision

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has. Since Tuesday and more than 700 of
the company's shops indulgent as well as

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

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groceries to have an effect home so I
don't 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 bows as he
told Reuters it was preparing to leave the

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shop despite the specially reserved time
there was still lines of elderly shoppers

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waiting to enter shops
on Wednesday because

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a restriction that only 150 people can in

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

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

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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 some. Thing 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 who are
all basically breathing on top of each

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other that can be

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

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situations as much as
we can. Or in the story

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Again you are listening to v.o.a.

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Asia we're coming to you again today from
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hope to hearing is the best
of the most recent. Became

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a. U.s.

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Stocks plunged in early trading Wednesday
made 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 were more than 5 percent lower shortly
after the markets. Opened while the

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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 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 heeding

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

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

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

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

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that point we'll reassess
this is a quote from u.s.

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Surgeon General Dr Adams who is speaking

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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 are seen in Italy where there

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is put such

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a condensed demand 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 ideally and it'll
be flattened and health professionals

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will be able to much better assess and deal
with and treat patients as their needs

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come by well that is a look at just

00:26:08
a few of the stories that are making
headlines. Right now of course there are many

00:26:13
many more you can see those many
many more our website. Below.

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But again we will be with you in the
coming days today to do everything we can

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to bring you all the best information we
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tomorrow we hope that you will be.

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a nation but 1st here is
Ashley Thompson. With

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schools shutting down and the ways of
daily life changing children are hearing

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more about the new coronavirus
they may not fully understand it

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or know how seriously to take
it but their lives are affected

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many parents are trying to decide how to
talk with their children about the virus

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and of the outbreak Some say they
are checking in each day to see how

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their children are doing but others worry
that talking too much about it could make

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their children more nervous and fearful in

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a call pony is the mother of 10
year old Clara and 12 year old Jane

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the family lives in Audubon
New Jersey she said We talk

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

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both girls said they have talked about the
virus at school Jane said her teachers

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have discussed it during science
lessons I'm not really as scared of it

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

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friends is really scared of it but she's
honestly really scared of all diseases

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Beth Young said she has decided to limit
the conversations with her 4 children they

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are ages 810-1215 the family lives in Fort

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Mill South Carolina she said she does not
want them to be afraid of getting sick

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because kids get sick pretty often
and she does not want them to worry

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about dying. The new corona virus causes

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a disease called Kovac 19 for
most people including children

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it results in only mild or
moderate sickness such as

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a temperature and cough for others
especially older adults and people

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with existing health problems it can
cause more severe illness including

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pneumonia which facts

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a person's ability to breathe most
people recover the World Health

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Organization says that people with minor
sickness recover and about 2 weeks

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those with

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a more serious case may take 3 to 6
weeks to recover child psychology

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experts advise parents and others
to be calm and positive when

00:31:07
discussing the issue with young people they
suggest centering discussions on active

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steps one can take They also suggested
doing research in order to answer

00:31:21
children's questions
truthfully Dr Jamie Howard is

00:31:26
a psychologist at the nonprofit Child
Mind Institute she said it is important

00:31:33
to reassure children ask them if they
have questions and tell them how they can

00:31:40
stay safe at the Institute and the u.s.

00:31:44
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
offer suggestions on talking with

00:31:50
children some teachers and sports
coaches are working to stop the

00:31:56
idea that the virus is tied to any
group or race the new coronavirus

00:32:03
1st appeared in China. Some American
adults are staying away from Chinese

00:32:10
restaurants and businesses out of
fear that they may get the virus

00:32:17
Seattle public schools in the state of
Washington wrote on its website that

00:32:22
misinformation has led to fear and
anger the school district's leaders

00:32:29
urged students to combat racism and
bias we are aware of reports that

00:32:35
some of our Asian students have been
targeted and discriminated against in

00:32:42
connection to coded 19 their school
leaders wrote this is unacceptable

00:32:49
parents should explain that measures such
as wearing covers over your mouth and

00:32:55
nose and closing schools are
preventative and temporary Dr Howard

00:33:02
said she urges parents to follow
what the television personality Mr

00:33:08
Rogers used to say look to the
helpers to see what doctors

00:33:15
teachers parents and scientists
are doing to keep them safe I'm

00:33:22
Ashley Thompson.

00:34:09
Wasim

00:34:10
a con stopped attending school
6 years ago she has yet to

00:34:16
complete her studies the 19 year
old is not an exception she

00:34:23
is like many other young women in new
where she lives in northern India

00:34:30
only about 30 percent of the women
there can read and write that is

00:34:37
about half the national
average was Sima Khan

00:34:43
left school because she had to do housework
and help her mother with younger

00:34:50
brothers and sisters she said and
there was no middle school in her

00:34:56
community at the same time
boys living in pet Piqua

00:35:03
in hard Yana State walk to the nearest
high school about 4 kilometers

00:35:10
away. Yet girls are not permitted
to leave the small village in

00:35:17
puppies many of the women work in
fields or care for farm animals young

00:35:23
girls get water while children play
men often sit outside their homes

00:35:30
in the sun after a cold winter

00:35:34
a group of young women from this mostly
Muslim community made it to college by

00:35:40
overcoming prejudices against women
now they are working to get more

00:35:46
girls into school every Sunday
they spread out in and other

00:35:53
villages to talk to people about why they
should let their daughters study the

00:35:59
young women persuaded Wassim Khan's mother
to keep her younger daughter at school

00:36:06
they ease her concerns about dollar
ease the money or goods that

00:36:11
a woman's family must give to her
husband's family when they marry she

00:36:17
fears that educated girls will want
to marry educated men who will demand

00:36:23
a bigger dowry this is difficult for
many poor families who see no reason to

00:36:30
educate girls all rush to knit is

00:36:34
a postgraduate student studying
history she says her college

00:36:41
education has given her the strength
to fight the dowry tradition

00:36:48
I will only marry into

00:36:49
a family which does not demand
dowry she said however well to do

00:36:56
they may be. They young women tell WOSM

00:37:00
a con that she can return to school as

00:37:05
a girl her goal had been to join
India's police force she does not know

00:37:12
if she can go back but she says she
will do whatever she can to make

00:37:19
sure her sister does not leave
school I loved my classes she said

00:37:26
but I was helpless

00:37:30
a nonprofit organization called the selfie
with daughter foundation is leading the

00:37:35
campaign to empower and educate
women in these villages its aim is

00:37:42
to bring change by publicizing the success
stories of girls who came from the

00:37:47
villages and now serve as role
models for other families is one

00:37:54
a cause and began her campaign by persuading
her extended family to educate their

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

00:38:07
in some areas Lemmon are not permitted to
enter act with male lawyers be taught by

00:38:14
male teachers or get treated by male
doctors Caughan is training for

00:38:21
a job in health care as
a nurse when she was

00:38:25
a teenager she became terribly
sick but her treatment was

00:38:30
a problem her parents could not read and
medical centers in the area were very

00:38:37
poor quality it made her decide
to get her own education

00:38:45
Khan said she wants to bring medical
aid to women in the area this is

00:38:52
a Goal her father urged her to go for
even selling belongings to pay for her

00:38:59
nursing school. They don't want
to educate their daughters but

00:39:06
if women are ill they want

00:39:08
a lady doctor how will that happen
Khan said another girl in the

00:39:15
campaign Shahnaz Bano wants to teach in

00:39:20
a local school she said I tell them that
if your daughters don't attend schools

00:39:27
how will they find female teachers it is

00:39:32
a message the young women repeat as they
go from house to house they point out how

00:39:39
they had to fight with their families to
get the right to study sometimes even

00:39:46
when parents agree to let them
study others in the village raised

00:39:52
objections most boys who complete
college move away to look

00:39:59
for better jobs outside the villages
but the girls hope to use their skills

00:40:06
in education in the community
on them Islam is studying law

00:40:13
she wants to provide free legal aid to
women I don't want to do that for men she

00:40:20
adds but her bigger goal is to change
minds here men think that women

00:40:27
are only meant to do housework and give
birth to children Islam said we have to

00:40:33
change this thinking if we have
equality under the law how can society

00:40:40
have this gender discrimination the
campaign is having success influencing

00:40:47
some women they do most of the work
both at home and in the fields.

00:40:55
On is 30 years old she is determined to
educate her 3 daughters she wants to make

00:41:02
sure they can escape her life story of
hard backbreaking work all day long

00:41:08
she works with the animals finds
firewood cleans cooks and washes dishes

00:41:15
she said if I had studied I would
have been saved from this.

00:41:23
Time Jonathan Evans and. Ball.

00:42:51
Welcome to the making of a nation
American history in the oh

00:42:56
a special English I'm Steve them Barry.
The United States entered the 2nd

00:43:03
World War In December of 1941 Europe
had already been at war since

00:43:10
1939 but the United States did
not enter World War 2 until

00:43:16
Japanese forces at tak the American
naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

00:43:26
The attack was

00:43:27
a surprise but American military and political
leaders had believed that the United

00:43:34
States sooner or later would be pulled into
the fighting and they began to prepare

00:43:40
for war. President Franklin Roosevelt
had been assistant secretary of the

00:43:47
Navy under President Woodrow Wilson
during World War one he remembered how

00:43:54
American troops were not ready if

00:43:56
a back war now but he was President
Roosevelt wanted to be sure that the United

00:44:03
States would be ready when it had
to fight throughout 1941 Roosevelt

00:44:10
urged American industries to produce
more weapons and other military supplies

00:44:17
he as them pledged new government agencies
to work with industry to increase arms

00:44:23
production. Some business leaders resisted
Roosevelt's efforts they felt there was

00:44:30
no need to produce more arms while be
United States was still at peace but

00:44:37
many others cooperated and by the time.
Pam attacked Pearl Harbor the American

00:44:43
economy was producing millions of
guns and other weapons still this was

00:44:50
not enough to fight

00:44:51
a war after the Japanese attack Roosevelt
increased his demands on American

00:44:58
industry he called 460000 war planes 45000

00:45:05
tanks and 20000 anti aircraft
guns and he wanted all these

00:45:12
within one year. A month after
the Pearl Harbor raid Roosevelt

00:45:19
organized

00:45:19
a special committee to direct military
production he created another group to

00:45:26
help companies find men and women
for defense work and he established

00:45:32
a new office where the nation's best
scientists and engineers could work together

00:45:39
to design new weapons these new
government organizations faced several

00:45:46
problems sometimes factories produced
too much of one product and not

00:45:53
enough of another sometimes tools
broke and some business owners

00:45:59
refused to accept government orders but
the weapons were produced and American

00:46:05
troops soon have begun
sand supplies they need.

00:46:16
The federal government had to quickly
expand its own workforce to meet war needs

00:46:23
federal spending increased
from $6000000000.00 in 1940 to

00:46:29
$89000000000.00 in 1944
that was 15 times as much

00:46:36
spending in just 5 years Roosevelt.
Had to take strong steps to get the

00:46:43
money if for all this spending he put limits
on wages he increased income taxes to

00:46:50
rest much as 94 percent on potions
of incomes over 200000 dollars

00:46:57
and he asked the American people to lend
money to the federal government the people

00:47:03
answered by purchasing almost 100000000000
dollars in war bonds the great

00:47:10
increase in public spending raise the
threat of high inflation Roosevelt

00:47:16
created the special office with the
power to control prices many Americans

00:47:23
agreed with the idea of price controls
but every business wanted somebody

00:47:30
else's prices controlled not their
own federal officials had to work

00:47:36
hard to keep prices and supplies under
control they restricted how much meat

00:47:44
fuel and other goods people could
buy. The price controlled program

00:47:50
generally worked its success kept the
American economy strong to support the troops

00:47:57
fighting in Europe and the Asia. One
reason these strong economic steps worked

00:48:04
was because most of the American people
fully supported the war effort the order

00:48:11
to talk phone 000-000-0000 extension
000. 000000 but I think she's

00:48:17
supposed to send the phone she's making
it to the parking lot they can be brought

00:48:23
in. To keep shuffle out of somebody
sitting up there on the fiscal

00:48:29
moment that will fit into that limited phone
little cold it doesn't really get out

00:48:36
of our thing Charlie the
moving. Closer to predicting.

00:48:43
What we're going to focus on that it in
Washington when they get the attention she

00:48:48
was found is akin to being there something
to look up that might include voting.

00:48:56
You can look at photographs of people from
those times and see in their faces how

00:49:02
strongly they felt. In one picture
from the state of North Carolina

00:49:08
a group of men there standing in front
of old rubber tires they are planning to

00:49:14
give the tires to the army to be fixed
and used for military vehicles. Another

00:49:21
photo shows a woman visiting
a hospital she is singing to

00:49:26
a soldier to lift his spirits still
another photo shows a man who owns

00:49:33
a small food store he is placing
the size neat and cans of food

00:49:40
to tell people how much they are allowed
to buy. You can also get an idea

00:49:47
about the feelings of the times by the
names of some of the popular songs during

00:49:53
World War 2. Come back there.

00:50:01
It. Was. The most.

00:50:12
Major. Airlines. Follow.

00:50:24
In addition to Rosie the Riveter there
were songs like Praise the Lord am as for

00:50:30
the ammunition. One of the most hopeful
songs was this was recorded by

00:50:36
Britain's beer run the.

00:50:44
Gauntlet was. Not

00:50:50
gone the my good. Long long walk.

00:50:59
And the rain all lonely
and drawl I'm. Gone from

00:51:06
the. Laundry the to the

00:51:13
bomb. Bomb moon long.

00:51:23
Gone I. Was gone.

00:51:32
And then she had. Gone.

00:51:42
And leaving the. Last

00:51:45
a new life when he truly.
Wanted by law of the.

00:51:56
Dawn I gave.

00:52:06
Not all Americans supported the war

00:52:10
a small number refused to fight because
of religious or moral beliefs they were

00:52:16
known as conscientious objectors and
some Americans supported at all Fittler

00:52:23
and other fascists but almost everyone
else wanted to win the war quickly

00:52:30
and return to

00:52:31
a normal life. Many Japanese
Americans served with honor in

00:52:38
the United States armed forces but many
Americans were suspicious of anyone

00:52:45
whose family had come from Japan.
They refused to trust even Japanese

00:52:51
American families who had lived in
the United States for more than

00:52:56
a century. Many banks refused and
then money to Japanese Americans

00:53:04
many stores would not sell the 2 of
them. The federal government relocated

00:53:10
thousands of Japanese Americans in
California and other states into

00:53:16
internment camps they were
released only after the war ended.

00:53:23
It was many years before the government
officially apologized for mistreating

00:53:29
Japanese Americans.

00:53:51
But one more to do the progress for another
group that was often the target of

00:53:57
discrimination black
Americans. Black leaders

00:54:04
spoke out they said that
it was unfair it to fight

00:54:08
a war for freedom in Europe while black
Americans did not have old the same

00:54:15
freedoms as white citizens.
Long. White citizen or less.

00:54:23
Well known for some of. Them and then.

00:54:30
There's the right revolution
no one to bring in 1941

00:54:36
a leader in the black community a
Philip Randolph threatened to lead

00:54:41
a giant March on Washington for
civil rights for blacks. President

00:54:48
Roosevelt reacted by issuing
an order that made it

00:54:52
a crime to deny blacks at the chance
for jobs in defense industries

00:54:59
He also ordered the armed forces to change
some of their rules that discriminated

00:55:06
against blacks service members. Blanks
made progress in the military and

00:55:13
defense industries but most other
industries still refused to give them an

00:55:20
equal chance. Major progress and civil
rights would not come until the

00:55:27
19 fifties and sixties.

00:55:44
Life was busy during the war years there
were many changes in the economy business

00:55:50
music race relations and other areas
but in many ways life continued as it

00:55:57
always does America. As did what they could
during the hard years of World War 2

00:56:04
They keep life on the home front as
normal as possible but almost everyone

00:56:09
understood that the 1st job was to support
the troops overseas and win the war.

00:56:18
This strength of purpose at home gave
American soldiers the support they needed and

00:56:24
it also helped President Roosevelt as
he negotiated with other world leaders

00:56:31
diplomacy and foreign relations became
much more complex during the war.

00:56:40
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English through

00:56:45
stories from around the
war on Jonathan Evans.

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