1 Million Cases, Pentagon UFO Videos & Virtual Graduation - Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Wednesday, April 29th, 2020!
What to know today about the number of COVID-19 cases now, why there are warnings about possible meat shortages in the U.S., and we have official word about UFO videos released straight from the Pentagon.
Plus, a promising new type of cancer screening, why it might cost you money to join a Facebook livestream soon, and the Oscars announce a big rule change.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
Case Count, Death Toll: Johns Hopkins
Forecasting COVID-19 Deaths: CDC, CNN
No State Meets Guidelines: NBC News, White House
Reopening While Social Distancing: AP, LA Times
Keeping Meat Processing Plants Open: WaPo, WSJ, Axios, Bloomberg, White House
Hillary Clinton Endorses Biden: ABC News, WaPo, FOX News
Pentagon UFO Videos: Boston Globe, CNN, DOD
Youtube Fact-Checking Feature: TechCrunch, YouTube, Engadget, USA Today
Charging for Facebook Livestreams: The Verge, Facebook
Instagram Live Fundraisers: The Verge, Instagram
Virtual Film Festival: CBS News, Variety, Press Release
Streaming-Only Movies Eligible for Oscars: Engadget, Mashable
Facebook to Hold Virtual Graduation: The Verge, ABC News, AP, Facebook
Baseball HOF Ceremony to be Postponed: USA Today, NBC Sports
MLB Reopening Ideas: AP, The Athletic
NASCAR Race Okayed: ESPN, FOX News
Work Wednesday: Scammers Targeting Job Seekers: ABC News, NY Post
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, April 29th. |
| 0:02.0 | What to know today about the number of COVID-19 cases now? |
| 0:04.9 | Why there are warnings about possible meat shortages in the US. |
| 0:08.2 | And we have the official word about UFO videos released straight from the Pentagon. Plus a promising new type of cancer |
| 0:14.2 | screening why it might cost you money to join a Facebook live stream soon and the |
| 0:18.4 | Oscars announced a big rule change. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome welcome to the newsworthy. change. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:25.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:27.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:31.0 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:32.0 | You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, we've hit a bleak milestone. More than a million people, a million 12,000 people actually, have now come down with COVID-19 in the United States. |
| 0:46.0 | But keep in mind that's just the people who have been tested, so some researchers think the true number could be around 10 times that figure. Also more than 58,000 |
| 0:55.1 | Americans have now died from the new coronavirus. The White House cited a |
| 0:59.1 | projection that the virus would kill 74,000 Americans by August. |
| 1:03.6 | And that number is actually up several thousand deaths |
| 1:06.2 | from the prediction just last week. |
| 1:08.2 | Why? |
| 1:08.9 | Well, one expert told CNN the projection was adjusted |
| 1:11.4 | because people are becoming more active again. |
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