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Here's It's March a.p.

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Washington correspondent Saager my Gunny
has more some 3300000 newly laid off

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American workers filed for jobless benefits
last week nearly 5 times the old record

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Fed chairman shape our Will tells N.B.C.'s
Today Show the country may well be in

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a recession but will recover once the
pandemic ends there's nothing fundamentally

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wrong with our economy that doesn't help
Stephanie Myers in North Carolina she

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usually works to waitress jobs
by the is out of work I've been

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a pretty good about all of that together
and I just haven't got an archive the

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House votes tomorrow on

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a 2.2 trillion dollar economic rescue package
aimed partly at boosting unemployment

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benefits and sending payments straight
to Americans as Stephanie Meyer's thinks

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about her bills I just want to be over so
I could have back to working as 2 jobs

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and get back to my life Sagar Meghan in
Washington Spain's coronavirus lockdown was

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extended on Thursday to last until at least
April 12th as Europe's 2nd worst hit

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countries struggled to tackle

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a fast increase in the death toll Reuters
correspondent Lauren Anthony reports the

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country's national Not 1000
extended until at least

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a pro trial confining people to the Heinz
eccentric ascension kit something needed

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medicine and what concerns cases have
jumped 10 phoned into the 9 to see this

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inquiry so much for pain and on Wednesday
I think the whole exceeded time meanwhile

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outplaying Europe some of introduced
new measures to tackle the spread of

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coronavirus and many European governments
seeking ways to ease the justice as fresh

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fruits and vegetables become
increasingly gases the pandemic hemp is

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a global movement to produce
the people needed to get

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a crop this is video way news. The u.s.

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Government on Thursday indicted Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro and more than

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a dozen other top Venezuelan officials
on charges of narco terrorism the State

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Department offered

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a reward of up to $15000000.00 for information
leading to the arrest and conviction

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of my door the u.s.

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Government has previously lodged criminal
indictments against members of my duros

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family and his inner circle the Venezuelan
president and his allies have dismissed

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allegations as

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a smear campaign Moscow is closing restaurants
cafes bars shopping malls and some

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parks in the city for 9 days beginning
Saturday 80 correspondent Charles Dillard

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does my reports the move and keeping.
The Karuna virus operating comes

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a day off to prison not
even pretend to Clinton

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a home today essential distances would
operate Russian authorities have reported in

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times of cases on the new bomber with
$182.00 new cases registered the day before

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some of the. International flights knocking
on Friday an exception will be made

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from my reading. Room with the
non-exclusive mild symptoms it

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could cause the illness and
the child to this month

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a record breaking quarterback is making

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a large donation to help Louisiana handle
the coronavirus pandemic correspondent

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Josh Rountree reports to Bree says he and
his wife Bernie will donate $5000000.00

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to help wheezy and businesses in communities
contend with the challenges brought on

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by the rapid transmission of the coronavirus
in the state presupposes the pledge on

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social media Thursday says the money will
help several restaurants in which he has

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an ownership stake as well as

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a major hospital chain and charities like
2nd Harvest Food Bank to deliver about

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10000 meals per day to people in need the
quarterback and his wife run the brief

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Dream Foundation which has spent tens of
millions of dollars helping to fund share

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. Bill endeavors in New Orleans and surrounding
areas along the Gulf Coast I'm Josh

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Roundtree on Wall Street the Dow Jones
Industrial Average wrapped up its strongest

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3 days and 9 decades Thursday
as record weekly u.s.

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Jobless claims came in below investors'
worst fears the Dow finished up 21 percent

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from its Monday low gaining
6.38 percent the s. And p.

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$500.00 was up 6.24 percent the
Nasdaq gained 5.6 percent for more

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remote I'm David Burd v.o.a.

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News.

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So this is

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a global pandemic this is something the
United States wants to work with every

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country including China to figure out how
to resolve to keep as many people alive.

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Global leaders meet online to discuss the
coronavirus and Demick It's Friday March

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27th this is via way Asia I'm Jim
Stevenson in Washington you'll find us on

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Asia Also ahead India locks down to prevent
viral spread foreign students in the

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United States adjust to isolation Telework
is the new normal for many movies are

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more popular than ever just out of

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a theater it's all on today's
feel way show. The World.

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In an unprecedented video conference of g.

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7 foreign ministers global leaders are
pledging to work together to battle the

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corona virus outbreak the United States
says it is ready to work with China to end

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the global pandemic and restore
the world economy but his view

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a State Department correspondent Nikkei
Ching reports some analysts are skeptical

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about the ability of both countries to
cooperate to fight the global pandemic trace

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and popularly marks

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a close to well it's empty due to restrictions
and me to coffee to not break our

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sides China is only the United States and
Germany are among the g 7 nations that

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are hard as he connected to Paris in

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a way stay fetal conference phony ministers
of the g 7 pledged to cooperate to

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fight the global pandemic with us
Secretary of State my campaign on noting

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Washington's winnings to work
with banking world this is

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a global pandemic this is something the
United States wants to work with every

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country including China to figure out how
to resolve to keep as many people alive

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as many people as healthy and then to
restore our economies that have been

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decimated by the way. On virus as China
has some work to tame the spread of car

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enough Our us within his own mortars he has
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countries like Italy they move seen as
trying to supplant the us as the global

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power us China relations were already on
the to client known before the pandemic

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analysts say there were no to why the crisis
has only you were sent to Thais in the

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National University of Singapore so
she would Thompson spoke to feel

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a for his course the threats to embargo the
export of medical equipment from China

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to the us including protective gear and

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a war of words between government officials
about the national origins of the fires

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indicate that we probably have not
yet found the floor of the bilateral

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relationship and tensions are probably
going to continue any potential even get

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worse while the g 7 foreign
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a statement in part due to their reporting
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enough Iris as Ohana 5 us members
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Indian prime minister Narendra Modi

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announced the world's largest lockdown
warning that anyone going outside risked

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inviting the corona virus into their homes
India's 21 day stay at home order puts

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nearly one 5th of the world's population
under lockdown the way correspondent

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Mariama Diallo has more streets of India
are empty as countries 1300000000

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people are ordered to stay
indoors Indian prime minister in

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a random move. But

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this it is saving India and every Indian
citizen to save you and your family

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a complete ban is being empty handed any
movement of people outside the home

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starting at midnight tonight epidemiologist
Jennifer Nestle says while social

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distancing is important so is increased
testing and contact tracing the w.h.o.

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Has also said that while social distancing
measures are important they are not

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alone and not

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a strategy for managing this pandemic
on India's streets and not everyone is

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unhappy about the decision this time is
falling from want to point out of the. Next

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one what is the one thing you can help them
do not mind some of them don't want to

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come out. But others recognize the hardships
some especially the polearm will say

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agility bought them I think more
normal than again are fed on

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a cocaine and honey like me but
after that we will get by and earn

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a living but others more poor and are
dependent on their daily wage for their daily

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bread appealing how will they get
I. Would. Say. Something the

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police have been deployed to help enforce
the law down in the us this is amazing

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the new rules of face prison time and
this to find my I am again you know

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a new us. Let's say from Corona
virus there is no current evidence

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that cats and dogs can be insects and washing
out the contact with recommended for

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Texaco the bacteria Alliance salmonella
they can pass between animals and humans

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for more information visit the websites
of the World Health Organization and the

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u.s. Centers for Disease Control.
From their friends would be

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a way. I've

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been in now in Asia leaders of the
world's most powerful economies convened

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virtually to try and coordinate
a response reading around

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a virus which has shuttered
businesses and forced well over

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a quarter of the world's population into
home isolation up to date with v.o.a.

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Asia with more and more means of
transportation curtailed or shutting down many

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students have found themselves
stranded at their u.s.

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Schools and universities some 1000 foreign
students many from Asia attend the

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University of Delaware of those An estimated
90 percent remain in the state of

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Delaware v.o.a.

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Asia's Ira Mehlman spoke with Don. Scott
Stevens who heads the English Language

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Institute at the university and I asked
him where these students are staying and

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studying while school is closed the students
are with home state families they're

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in

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a place we call the global community where
there's 3 internationals and one American

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to an apartment and

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a couple dozen in the dormitories and they're
the only students in the dormitories

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except for well a few others that

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a few other Americans that were
stranded so we were able to. Launch our

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classes remotely says how far so
good. And we've been trying to

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maintain sort of

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a culture of life because you know when
universities close and send students to

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sort of. You know isolate themselves
at home it's not just for the

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physical health of the students that
you're protecting but you want to protect

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their mental health and and mental health
requires some human interactions that

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we've been trying to offer some of our
cultural programming remotely as well we're

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going to be having

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a cooking class and an exercise
program we're going to have sort of

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a sing along karaoke I'm going to
have some games and contests and

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a few other thing isn't this putting these
people too close together with the bit

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with the bit that well. You know the
recommendation is you know no more than

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a few in one place so for
example that they go student in

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a fairly spacious 4 bedroom 4
bath apartment and so before

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individuals 3 internationals in one American
and so. You know they're you know if

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they practice some measure of social
does said saying they should be fine and

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especially if they're not infected then
you know they're not going to infect each

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other but then we discourage them from
getting 3 a 3 apartments and having

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a big party for example which might be
difficult to do at times as they go through

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. Although we find that
their parents are keeping

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a pretty good tab and I've been calling
them and reminding them to to not get too

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close and to stay out of

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a large group so as you know part of the
challenge is that young young individuals

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think they're indestructible and this
thing only happens to older people but I

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think you know the message is getting
across that it's often young people who may

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not feel the full effect of the virus but
they can be carriers our the students

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doing psychologically how are they doing
good. The situation there is you know I

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nationally. There was some
concerns and maybe had

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a modest panic you know 1st you have one
cave very in for many weeks where as doing

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well Delaware doesn't have any instances
and then we had one case and then it was

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only

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a matter of days that there are multiple
cases and so we've had we've done our best

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to combat that with with simple information
so we've held town halls with students

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media to to let them know the facts and
you know and to remind them that this

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a this thing is not to try to get home
and go through you know an airport with

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thousands of people in it and risk contracting
the virus and then going home and

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spreading out to their loved ones or facing
Korean game for 2 weeks about dead but

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in fact to stay put and and to follow the
precautions we've been repeating Dr Scott

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Stevens has the English Language Institute
at the University of Delaware he was

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And more than a year
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a Christchurch New Zealand gunned
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They away Asia continues the coven 1000
pandemic has forced many office workers to

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do their jobs from home and they're using
technology like never before to stay

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connected to their colleagues and get
their work done but getting remote teams

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functioning is not like flipping

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a switch Michelle Quinn uses her technology
to tell us more San Francisco is empty

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now workers who can are staying
home to avoid the coronavirus after

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a government edict basically
closed down the city but there's

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a lot of technology to keep
them on the job at range

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a software company that makes tools to help
teens communicate employees are trying

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to make the shift to remote work but they
face challenges says co-founder braiding

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Cal it's when people are on is that it and
it is connected both communications then

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point and from

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a cultural standpoint to help employees
that range have started daily check ins so

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everyone knows each other's plans they add

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a mode to express how they're feeling and
they have lunch together over video chat

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Jennifer dead art is another range founder
who has studied teams so one of our

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learnings is really helpful to care work
next to things that are. Having usually

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a humanity

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a person and there is the problem many
workers are facing when it comes to video

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meetings how do you decide who
goes 1st range has figured out

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a way and so you actually
have a better kind of like

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a Ferris wheel where it goes between
different people it also helps level the

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playing field so that if everyone has

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a turn to speak and I don't your meeting
agenda it's not just the loudest or

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whoever's wife is the strongest as can
be the case for all working out its tech

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tricks and tools like ranges that
are helping people figure out

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a way to keep work operational during
the pandemic Michelle Quinn v.o.a.

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News San Francisco now. N.v.

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Away Asia the coronavirus pandemic has
shut down movie theaters and caused movie

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releases to be postponed in the United
States and China the 2 largest film markets

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in the world few ways Elizabeth Lee has
details on how the pandemic is affecting

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moviegoers and movie producers in both
countries already knew about it all the

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movie audience in China is the fastest
growing in the world and Hollywood wants

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a piece of it Hollywood studios are
increasingly making their for the consideration

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of the Chinese market. One such film
who lined with Chinese actors was

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a movie Disney had hoped would make

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a big splash in China but the corona virus
outbreak but the movie's premier in

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China and the u.s.

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On hold the shutting down of theaters and
productions in both countries will have

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far reaching economic implications
say experts times in the u.s.

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Telling stories are very closely and by
what we're seeing is an increase in Chinese

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investment in Hollywood studio. Companies
you may have heard of. Or are tense

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and are actually investing in films such
as Top Gun maverick of Tom Cruise but

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still begs for to expect things to change
following the economic numbers in China I

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think we'll definitely see. About
capital investment Chinese government

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on one hand that will likely let met Chinese
government are Chinese investment in

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Hollywood some studios in both countries
are looking to streaming as an alternative

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to the big screen during the
Bendemeer for the China's one c.

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Media is making this 10 fold movie
Lost in Russia online for free.

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Universal will release trolls moral toward
to video on demand. Universal is also

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making movies that were in theaters such
as invisible man available for rent on

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streaming services but they are pitfalls.
Sustainable of the long term to do that

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is. Not good for. The
studios either. Seattle

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is really where the money has been
yet the theaters are closed for

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a long time because of coronavirus fears
consumer behavior may change will people

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actually go back to movie theaters we've
already seen it you know an overall

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softening of movie theater attendance
because there are so many in home

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entertainment options my sense is
that we may be seeing an overarching

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a shift in certain consumer behaviors and
looked at surveys on the Chinese Internet

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and some large scale surveys of thousands
of people in 70 different cities and

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a list of 50 percent say they're
reluctant to go back to the theaters is

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a way. And I think it will accelerate the
importance of streaming of what this

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means to the bottom line of film
industries in China and the u.s.

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Will depend on how long life is put to

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a screeching halt and what the new
normal will look like after the pandemic

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Elizabeth Levy away News Los Angeles. How
dangerous is it over 1918 percent of

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the cases are said to be mild young and
healthy people are relatively low risk

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elderly people with serious health
conditions or risk of fatality if you have

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a fever and shortness of breath contact

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a doctor and stay away from other people
for more information visit the websites of

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the World Health Organization the u.s.

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Centers for Disease and Control
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a year but you know we go
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a large stockpiles of ammunition over time
groups gangs other people are going to

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form. Potentially going to need guns
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a lot of guards on duty. He says in times
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turn to for me is kind of one of those
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really nice to have and sort of my portfolio
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with the outbreak of covered 19 there
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soared he believes this is not the highly
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scrambling for shelter and out of the

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wheel and use Washington.

00:26:57
Alcohol distillers brewing hand sanitizers

00:27:00
a car manufacturers assembling protective
wear companies around the world have been

00:27:04
joining the effort to combat the
spread of the novel coronavirus

00:27:08
a fashion production house in Italy recently
went from fancy pants to fancy masks

00:27:14
a few ways a rush of

00:27:15
a Saudi looks at the so far absolutely
fabulous results the motor Empress of Rio

00:27:21
Grande

00:27:22
a better choice shows together high fashion.
These days their operation joins the

00:27:28
global efforts against the novel coronavirus
usually 5 similar I'll go on here 10

00:27:34
days ago we found ourselves at

00:27:35
a crossroads you know what to do in the
coming weeks to go shopping have everyone

00:27:39
get unemployment benefits or invent something
that would allow us to move forward

00:27:43
here that was the idea facemask are
going to be. Impressed as c.e.o.

00:27:48
. Made the switch from close to man
speaking with a friend who made

00:27:54
a clinic. Face masks even
work 3 or 4 days to create

00:27:59
a prototype he tested it and last week
only updated it in the Indian Navy SEALs

00:28:05
trend and sell to us as the

00:28:08
a came just in time here to see her last
night isn't your protection department

00:28:13
didn't have mass to distribute
in this region but it's

00:28:16
a good thing we created the Empress
of this. Situation for several

00:28:23
months now and masks are

00:28:24
a necessity for the entire industry says
he's proud to help the community happy to

00:28:30
save jobs in the process.
Now makes 3 to 400 masks

00:28:35
a day Italy records at least 74000 cases

00:28:40
a Senate least 75 that. Russia Arab
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00:30:11
English today on the program you
will hear stories from Brian Lynn

00:30:17
Ashley Thomson Steve
Amber and Jill Robb. As

00:30:24
people stay home to help stop the
spread of the new coronavirus many are

00:30:31
using video calling services to
stay connected to the outside world

00:30:39
today we examine some of the top
technology tools designed to help improve

00:30:46
communication for learning
work and social life one

00:30:53
of the most widely used video calling
services is zoom cloud meeting

00:31:00
which has many good features for
both education and business

00:31:07
zoom is currently listed as the most
popular free app in Apple's App Store

00:31:14
by industry data reporting
company app and. Downloads

00:31:21
of the app have risen sharply in recent
weeks as shutdowns of businesses

00:31:27
schools and transportation
grew zoom can be used on

00:31:33
a computer or mobile device to hold
high quality one on one video or voice

00:31:40
calls or video conferences involving
groups the company offers

00:31:47
a basic free service that permits unlimited
one on one meetings and group meetings

00:31:54
of up to $100.00 people the basic
service limits group meetings to

00:32:01
40 minutes zoom also offers
private messaging between users

00:32:07
and groups screen sharing and
the ability to record meetings

00:32:15
Xoom provides suggestions on its website
for people seeking to use the service to

00:32:21
improve work activities at home as
well as educational ideas for teachers

00:32:28
schools and parents the app receives
high ratings in the Apple and

00:32:35
Google Play stores for video
quality and technical reliability

00:32:42
another very similar service is
Microsoft owned Skype which began in

00:32:48
2003 as an early example of
free voice video and messaging

00:32:55
technology over the Internet Skype
can be used on computers or mobile

00:33:02
devices to make high quality video and
voice calls for individuals and groups

00:33:10
it also includes messaging personal
and group chat and Screen Sharing.

00:33:18
The service is free for Skype to Skype
calls worldwide but users have to pay

00:33:25
for some services such as calling

00:33:27
a landline or mobile phone or
sending text messages one of

00:33:34
the most popular services for remote
workers is slack which offers video and

00:33:41
voice calls and messaging the free version
permits one on one video and voice

00:33:48
calls between team members there is

00:33:52
a cost for calls involving additional
team members and other services

00:33:59
slack also offers special programs to support
educational organizations and student

00:34:06
groups other popular video calling
services for home based workers

00:34:12
include Microsoft teams and
Google's hangouts meet both offer

00:34:19
a series of powerful tools to link employees
to company's systems and coworkers

00:34:27
the downside of these services is that
they are designed to be used with other

00:34:33
Microsoft and Google products
on the personal side Facebook

00:34:40
messenger has become one of the most popular
apps for video calls by users of the

00:34:46
social media service in fact Facebook
data shared with the news Web site seen

00:34:53
at showed

00:34:54
a 70 percent jump last week in people
using Messenger to take part in group

00:35:01
video calls in addition the number
of voice and video calls on

00:35:07
Facebook's what's app service more than
doubled year over year in places most

00:35:14
affected by the virus c.

00:35:17
Net reported. Groups of up to 4
people can connect through video

00:35:23
on whatsapp Apple's Face Time is
another way to easily connect with

00:35:30
friends and family as long as
all users have Apple devices

00:35:37
video calls can be one on one or
involve groups of up to $32.00 people

00:35:44
for Android device users there is Google
duo which can also be used to hold

00:35:51
individual and group
video calls for more of

00:35:56
a group video party experience there
is an app called house party which is

00:36:03
available for both Apple and Android
users as well as on computers

00:36:10
house party is not new but
downloads of the app recently saw

00:36:15
a huge increase to about $210000.00
per day the French press agency

00:36:22
a.f.p.

00:36:23
Reported house party has become popular
with home bound people who are used to

00:36:30
going out with family and friends to
restaurants and bars the app brings

00:36:37
people together to socialize as if they
were out together sometimes with alcohol

00:36:44
music dancing and games one
user of the Yap based in the

00:36:51
United States a my a Howard told a.f.p.

00:36:55
The video meet up is one
way to relax and take

00:37:00
a break from nonstop coronavirus
news at least temporarily

00:37:07
the idea came about of doing

00:37:10
a happy hour we just get on the app
and just drink wine and talk Howard

00:37:16
said. Mostly it's about

00:37:19
a lot of randomness but occasionally
someone will say I just can't believe how

00:37:26
crazy what's going on
is I'm Bryan Lipmann.

00:37:48
The spread of the new coronavirus has
completely changed the daily routines of

00:37:54
people around the world many
are trying their best to find

00:38:01
a new normal during

00:38:03
a pandemic musician Jodie
Peters New Normal takes

00:38:10
her to her homes front porch each
afternoon there she sets up her

00:38:17
music stand sheet music for everything
from Beethoven to the Beatles

00:38:24
and her cello

00:38:25
a large stringed instrument that is held
between the players knees while the player

00:38:32
sets at exactly 4 o'clock
each day Peter begins to

00:38:38
play. Neighbors soon surround home.

00:38:46
They stay at least 2 meters from each
other smiling and reading each other from

00:38:53
a safe distance. Peter who is 69

00:39:00
is

00:39:01
a professional cellist she has
played in orchestras folk groups

00:39:07
and even a rock band She
currently works with

00:39:12
a non profit group that plays music
for patients who are nearing death.

00:39:19
She lives in Mount Rainier Maryland

00:39:23
a small city just outside Washington d.c.

00:39:28
The city is home to

00:39:29
a large number of musicians and
artists as Americans are urged

00:39:36
to stay at home and avoid public
gatherings Peter is hoping to use her

00:39:43
musical skills to make
this new way of wife

00:39:47
a little more joyful live music
shows are not currently possible

00:39:54
in the United States and most other
countries instead famous musicians are

00:40:00
offering live streamed shows
for their fans John Legend

00:40:07
pink Bano and Yo-Yo Ma have all put
on special concerts from their

00:40:14
homes in recent days but beater hopes
her live cello music offers her

00:40:20
neighbors and other listeners something
that they may be missing in the age of

00:40:26
social distancing. Play
music. Or indoors it

00:40:33
includes the space and it plays to
the spirit. Since we're having to be

00:40:40
this is from each other when
it's almost like you can create

00:40:43
a bubble of music. That everybody
is joining us she adds it

00:40:49
bridges the space and it bridges the trauma
that we are all experiencing from being

00:40:56
cut off from each other on

00:40:59
a recent day beater begins her
performance with box sweet one in g.

00:41:05
Major the sounds of singing birds
and cars are going by are part

00:41:12
of her space neighbors
arrive on bicycle or on foot

00:41:19
some stand across the street. People who
live especially close to beat are stand

00:41:26
outside their own homes and listen to
the music even people passing by in

00:41:32
cars roll down their
windows and slow down for

00:41:37
a short time Lera Pena our writer
and neighbor came to hear Peter

00:41:43
play with her 2 daughters ages
6 and 10 her younger daughter

00:41:50
Delphine brought her whistle to play
along with Peter for one song Payne

00:41:56
said when we found out she was playing every
day at 4 we said we are going to make

00:42:03
time for that Peter says she chooses

00:42:07
a mix of music so that there is something
everyone may connect with on this day

00:42:14
she ends her show with the famous American
folk song This Land Is Your Land.

00:42:22
She said music touches memory

00:42:26
a lot you are playing 2 things that
people know and they know them from

00:42:31
a happier time they know them
deeply and they usually have

00:42:36
a communal Association us. So she said it
was you are helping people connect with

00:42:43
things that are from

00:42:44
a good place. I am
actually Thompson. Welcome

00:43:03
to the making of a nation
American history in v.o.a.

00:43:08
Special English I'm Steve
Embry. The next 3 years

00:43:15
and never kept right on your look at it.
Presidential elections are exciting

00:43:22
events in American politics few elections
for the White House set been as exciting

00:43:28
as the one in 1948 and few
have had such surprising

00:43:35
results then the n.b.c.

00:43:37
Television. We have obtained the

00:43:43
results from the state of Ohio which
assures victory for President Truman and

00:43:48
Senator Boxer. When I was $25.00 electoral
votes rather than from anonymous out of

00:43:53
properly or have a total of $266.00
votes in the Electoral College this is

00:43:59
a minimum figure necessary
for victory. For

00:44:05
candidates were nominated for president
in the 1948 election one was the man

00:44:12
already in the White House the candidate
of the Democratic Party President Harry s.

00:44:18
Truman Truman had been the party's vice
presidential candidate with Franklin

00:44:24
Roosevelt in 1944 when Roosevelt died

00:44:29
a year later Truman became president he
was the one who made the decision to drop

00:44:36
But Tomic bombs on Japan through in
the World War 2 But Truman did not

00:44:43
do well during his 1st few months in
office. He made several serious mistakes

00:44:50
he had trouble with the economy and
organized labor his party lost control

00:44:57
of the Senate and the House of Representatives
in the congressional elections of

00:45:02
1946 most Americans had
little faith in Truman's

00:45:09
ability as

00:45:10
a leader they expected that he would lose
the presidential election then 1948 if he

00:45:17
chose to be

00:45:17
a candidate. For President
Truman didn't choose to run

00:45:25
he took several strong steps to show his
leadership in the months following the

00:45:30
Democratic defeat in the congressional
elections Truman cold on Congress to pass

00:45:37
a number of laws to help black people
he took firm actions in his foreign

00:45:44
policy toward the Soviet Union these included
the Marshall Plan and the burning the

00:45:50
air lift as we discussed in our last 2
programs and he began to speak out with

00:45:57
much more strength to the American people.

00:46:04
Was the Truman succeeded in winning
the presidential nomination of the

00:46:11
Democratic Party he chose album Barkley

00:46:15
a senator from Alabama for vice president
Senator Barkley and I will win this

00:46:21
election and make please read Pawlick ns
like it don't you forget that term and

00:46:27
they play or Denecke something
the nomination. Of Republicans

00:46:33
nominated New York State
Governor Thomas Dewey. Dewey was

00:46:38
a wise and courageous man he was
also very serious Truman can

00:46:45
tamed by telling the voters that Dewey did
not understand the needs of the average

00:46:52
American he called doing

00:46:55
a candidate of with rich people.
One day doing get angry at

00:47:00
a railroad engineer because he
is campaign train was late for

00:47:05
a speech Truman said This proved
that Dewey did not understand the

00:47:11
problems of railroad engineers and other
working Americans he tried to make the

00:47:18
election

00:47:19
a choice between hard working
Democrats and rich Republicans. 2

00:47:27
other men also were candidates for the
presidency both were from newly created

00:47:34
parties one was straw man Thurmond
from South Carolina he was

00:47:40
a candidate of the state's rights Democratic
Party also known as the Dixiecrat

00:47:47
Party most of his supporters were white
people from the southeastern part of the

00:47:54
country they opposed giving
full rights to black people.

00:48:03
The other candidate was Henry Wallace
the Progressive Party his supporters

00:48:09
believe that Truman had turned away
from the progressive ideas of Franklin

00:48:16
Roosevelt both Thurmond and Wallace had
broken away from the Democratic Party.

00:48:23
Most political experts believed these 2
candidates would take votes away from the

00:48:30
President Truman they believe the Republican
Dewey were truly when the election.

00:48:38
President Truman did not have strong
public support but Harry Truman was

00:48:45
a fighter he did not believe the election
was lost he took his campaign to the

00:48:52
American people on Election Day the president
if I were the governor the mayor of

00:48:57
all or stools and the government you
know and I don't because then you decide

00:49:02
what's going to work and when you do like
we did 94612 thirds understand when you

00:49:09
look at just what you did or you got that
good for nothing maybe. He said he had

00:49:16
own ways campaigns by going around meeting
and talking to people running for

00:49:23
president was no different
he said he just got on

00:49:27
a train and started the process the country
that tell people what was going on he

00:49:34
wanted to talk to them face to face when
you stand there in front of them and talk

00:49:40
to them he said that people can tell whether
you are telling them the facts or not

00:49:46
to get

00:49:47
a Republican is going to take control of
this government here not just here is

00:49:51
where our target over to the special
interest and we'll start on

00:49:55
a cycle and try to go through just what
we did in the twenty's and any doubt

00:50:00
whether crash which you
know a lot you know

00:50:03
a lot of any good but the communist.
Truman tram tamed with great energy.

00:50:12
He made hundreds of speeches says his
training crossed the country it became known

00:50:17
as the whistle stop campaign because it
stopped that some of the smallest towns and

00:50:24
villages in the country. Truman gave
speeches from the back of his campaign trail

00:50:30
and Ferdinand Magellan he spoke to farmers
in Iowa he visited the Children's

00:50:37
Home in Texas and he discussed issues
with small groups of people who came to

00:50:44
visit his train when it stopped in the
rural areas of Montana and Idaho.

00:50:51
Dewey and the Republicans left that
Truman's campaign they said it showed that

00:50:58
Truman needed votes so badly that he had
to spend his time looking for them in

00:51:04
small villages Truman said the
criticism proved that Republicans

00:51:11
did not care for the average American
do we also campaigned across the

00:51:18
country by train but he showed little
of the fire and emotion in his speeches

00:51:25
that made Truman's campaign so
exciting do his speeches were safe

00:51:32
one reporter wrote that
Dewey was acting like

00:51:35
a man who had already been elected and
was only passing time waiting to take

00:51:42
office do we had good reasons to
feel so sure of being elected

00:51:49
almost every bullet expert in the
countries said Truman had no chance of

00:51:55
winning the Wall Street Journal for example
printed the story about what Dewey

00:52:02
would do in the White House after the
election and the New York Times said the

00:52:08
Dewey would win the election by

00:52:11
a large majority. Truman
refused to accept those views

00:52:17
instead he spoke with more and
more emotion against doing. Most

00:52:23
Americans still believe that Truman would
lose but they liked his courage in

00:52:29
fighting until the end one supporter
shouted Give them hell Harry them

00:52:36
being the Republicans sume supporters
across the country were shouting Give him

00:52:43
a hell of Harry Truman made special
appeals to working people Jews

00:52:50
blacks Catholics and other traditional
supporters of the Democratic Party

00:52:57
in his final radio speech before the
election he promised to work for pigs and

00:53:03
a government that would help all people
then he went to his home in the state of

00:53:09
Missouri to wait with the rest of the country
for the election results Republicans

00:53:16
across the country greeted the election
day happily they were sure that this was

00:53:22
the day that the people would choose to
send the Republican back to the White House

00:53:28
after 16 years some of the
early voting results from the

00:53:34
Northeastern states showed Truman
winning but few Republicans worried

00:53:41
they were sure

00:53:42
a Dewey would be the winner when all the
votes were counted the Chicago Tribune was

00:53:49
also sure who with the next
president would be declaring in

00:53:54
a huge headline Dewey Defeats
Truman. But the newspaper was wrong

00:54:01
everyone was wrong everyone that is except
Harry Truman and the Americans who gave

00:54:08
him their votes. Truman went to bed on
election night before all the votes were

00:54:15
counted he told his assistant that he
would when he awoke early the next

00:54:21
morning to Marion that he was right now the
only did he defeat Dewey as he thought

00:54:27
he would but he won by

00:54:30
a good number of votes and he helped
many Democratic congressional candidates

00:54:36
win as well the Democrats can't
both houses of Congress after the

00:54:43
results were announced as heard in this
old recording Truman showed his sense of

00:54:48
humor by joking about the for
addictions of his defeat. At

00:54:55
a little account. By the
president. A little.

00:55:04
We'll get.

00:55:16
That well but don't let
the. People think that by

00:55:22
a. Blow

00:55:33
back the bad play. Coming Truman would

00:55:40
make many difficult decisions as America
moved into the 2nd half of the 20th

00:55:46
century. Truman would send American troops
to help figure knighted Nations defend

00:55:53
South Korea against aggression from the
north. He would join the other western

00:56:00
leaders in the stablish ing

00:56:01
a new ally in the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. They are stablished

00:56:08
NATO to provide for the joint defense
of Europe and North America.

00:56:16
Were. Truman and later
presidents would make

00:56:23
decisions to send large amounts of
economic and military aid to countries

00:56:30
around the world many of these decisions
were necessary because of America's new

00:56:36
responsibilities after World War 2
as leader of the Western world.

00:56:48
Seen law of Belgium has only
20 percent of lung capacity

00:56:55
she was already careful to avoid
viruses even before the coded $1000.00

00:57:01
crisis. Has depended on
caregivers for years

00:57:08
recently one of her caregivers
told. She had paid 10 euros for

00:57:14
a mask to protect herself and
others from the virus that gave

00:57:21
La who loves to sew and
idea I had the idea to make

00:57:28
some face masks for my physio therapist
so that she could protect herself and her

00:57:35
patients better said What started as

00:57:40
a one person operation about
a week ago has grown into

00:57:45
a small army of at home Belgian
mask makers. Opened the

00:57:52
effort with

00:57:52
a Facebook page called sewing
mouth masks. She had 3000 members

00:57:59
within 2 days Belgian medical officials
provided law without the zine for

00:58:06
masks and advised her on what
materials she should use she uses 2

00:58:13
layers of cotton cloth so that the masks
can be washed in very hot water and

00:58:20
reduced each person on the team
makes about 20 masks per day

00:58:27
and not all the producers are female the
corona virus spreads mainly through drops

00:58:34
of liquid expelled when an infected
person coughs or sneezes masks that

00:58:41
cover the mouth and nose are an
important tool in blocking the droplets

00:58:47
However there is

00:58:49
a severe shortage of masks in hospitals
around the world leaving health care

00:58:54
workers exposed the World
Health Organization is asking

00:59:00
manufacturers to increase their mask
production by 40 percent volunteer

00:59:07
leaves Ostrow is selling masks for
family and friends she could not find

00:59:13
masts anywhere so she said she
made one for herself everyone was

00:59:20
laughing at me she added And now
all my friends want one she said

00:59:28
I'm Jill Robins.

00:59:35
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English 3 stories

00:59:42
from around the world. Jonathan
Evans And I'm John Reid. Is

00:59:49
v.o.a.

00:59:50
News reporting via remote I'm David Bird the
United States now has the most confirmed

00:59:56
cases of the coronavirus in the
entire world we get more from a.p.

01:00:02
Washington correspondents Saager make
money at the White House Johns Hopkins

01:00:06
University is running tally shows more
than $82000.00 cases in America more than

01:00:11
Italy and to China where the virus
originated even as cases at home search

01:00:17
President Trump is looking
for ways of easing is

01:00:19
a loaded ministrations guidelines for
slowing the viruses spread citing the

01:00:24
economic impact of closed businesses and
the laid off workers every day that we

01:00:29
stay at it gets harder to bring it back
very quickly he's telling Americans

01:00:33
governors new guidelines are being developed
to rate the virus spread risk in each

01:00:38
county so state and local officials can
make their own calls od maintaining

01:00:43
boosting easing restrictions Sagar of
agony Washington Spain's coronavirus

01:00:49
lockdown was extended on Thursday to last
until at least April 12th as Europe's 2nd

01:00:56
worst hit countries struggled to tackle

01:00:58
a fast increase in the death toll Reuters
correspondent Lauren Anthony reports the

01:01:03
country's national not down with an
extended insolently taper trial converting

01:01:08
people to the Heinz eccentric pension
kicks of medicine and by convention cases

01:01:13
have jumped 10 fold one to the nines and
the been crying so much for the pain and

01:01:19
on Wednesday thank the whole exceeded
time and meanwhile outplaying Europe

01:01:24
something to do with new measures to
tackle the spread of careen of Iran Russia

01:01:28
will bend international flight from Friday.
And many European governments seeking

01:01:33
ways to leave the children dead as fresh
fruits and vegetables the coming creeping

01:01:37
pandemic hemp is that life only going to
proceed. For more on these stories visit

01:01:43
our website to the way
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a news. Moscow is closing restaurants
cafes bars shopping malls and some

01:01:54
parks in the city for 9 days
beginning Saturday a.p.

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Correspondent Charles Dillard does
my reports and keeping people.

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