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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

It is Wednesday, April 15th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

For the first time, a Princeton, New Jersey company is offering military-grade technology to first responders that they hope will save lives during this pandemic. They are called the X2MR glasses. Third-Ein says the glasses have a thermal sensor that allows a paramedic to take a patient's temperature without having to touch them. Wow, that's awesome. Yeah, they say they send real-time audio and video back to the hospital, so that could

mean that a doctor, 100 miles aware, wherever the doctor might be, could see exactly what

the medic is dealing with from the camera's point of view from the glasses.

The glasses can show multiple screens with face recognition technology that can link to a patient's medical history within seconds.

Under a pilot program, spearheaded by former Congressman Kurt Weldon, a former fire chief,

Marcus Hooktrainer, and Upper Merion Fire Departments will be the first in the country to have access to these glasses.

So for a while, Kathy, they had the the initial thing, which was the

Google Glass. You remember those glasses there in marketing? And then on the other side,

Microsoft was doing some stuff, some technology that actually started to incorporate its way

into, you know, surgery theaters and stuff like that. So this is a very positive progression for

that. That's going to mean a lot to these people who are

right on the front lines. Yeah, so eight pairs of the 1800 glasses are being paid for by energy

transfer and Sonoco. Weldon says his goal is to push the government and corporate sponsors to

provide one of these sets of glasses for every fire and rescue unit in America.

Officials in Philadelphia said Tuesday numbers show a stabilizing in daily case count of the

coronavirus, and city leaders say there's evidence that the state home order is having a

measurable impact.

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