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in Los Angeles, the nation's second largest school district, will now close for two weeks, starting Monday across the country.
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At least 21 million kids now home from school, the experts tell us, Look, two weeks is too late, you know.
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Another week is too late.
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You've got to try to slow this thing down.
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Really, We can't stop it.
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But we can slow it down Decisions with a massive impact for working parents.
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And for all the Children now spending the school day at home, closing schools is always the last resort because of all the negative impacts.
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We feed kids every day for breakfast and lunch in response district's air, using school buses to deliver meals and setting up food distribution sites.
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And while many schools are adding distance learning, that only works if every child has access.
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Not all 53,000 students have online access or a device a computer.
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So if we can't provide that online learning for all of our students, then we can.
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With all the closures and cancellations, there are openings in New Rochelle, New York, drive through testing beginning Friday morning.
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We have six lanes.
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We can do about 200 cars per day and that can ramp up.
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You drive off and then we call you with the results.
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Colorado and Washington also using that model in some areas away to increase testing while minimizing exposure.
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But it's still not enough to meet the demand from running a fever, and I have chest congestion and nobody can test us here.
