Timeline some even pushing back their opening dates until least may 15th. Beyond the president may first goal tonight there are more than 2 million confirmed cases of covid19 in the world and more than 143,000 deaths, this is all according to Johns Hopkins university. In the United States there are more than 660,000 cases and more than 32,000 deaths in california there are more than 27,000 cases of coronavirus and it has claimed the lives of more than 900 people. Today President Trump unfolded his major plan to reopen the country as Americans Still continue to battle the unrelenting coronavirus pandemic as kron fours Theresa Stasi reports, the plan leans heavily on governors and how each state is uniquely dealing with the virus. America wants to be open and americans want to be open. The president flying to buy his experts on the White House Coronavirus task force diving into the details of how the country is going to reopen. Our approach outlines 3 phases and restoring our economic li
Safeway stores, a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables on shelves this may be linked to a coronavirus related deaths at one of their Major Distribution Centers kron fours dan thorn talked with shoppers who know to see empty shelves see has more in this report from Pleasant Hill Pleasant Hill. Sent to a shoppers are telling us here they started noticing a shortage of produce on the shelves here about a week ago and we spoke with an employee who works here at the safeway that says that they too started noticing the low stock and it may be possibly connected to an issue that happened at the Tracy Distribution Center safely has confirmed that one of their workers at that center died earlier this week because of complications with coronavirus the company is also acknowledge there is a shortage of staff at their Tracy Distribution Center. But its for quote a variety of reasons they did not explicitly say was because of the covid19 debt in the meantime viewers have been reporting that the prod
The decision to reopen the country will not come from the president is going to be up to the governors will work with them were going to help them. But its going to be up to the governors the white house issuing guidelines to help but the states will not be forced to follow that our approach outlines 3 phases and restoring our economic life. We are not opening for once. But one careful step at a time that on light switch on and off is the exact opposite. What you see here which is a gradual read asian in america can then make at the Center New York Governor Andrew Cuomo saying theyre not ready to reopen ready to open tomorrow because were afraid the infection rate will go on. Hospitalizations are down but the state is seeing about 2000 new cases a day and are setting their sights on another major concern weve been watching the Nursing Homes is Nursing Homes in many ways are ground 0 for this situation across the country. Los angeles county facing their highest number of deaths reported
Anxiety around the delivery of our food and those workers have about their own health we dont want you going to work. If youre sick. Governor newsome extending paid leave benefits to food workers across the state during this pandemic. Nothing there nothing i was looking for bell peppers strategy, less i couldnt find anything pretty limited selection of what you can get. Plus concerns from shoppers about a shortage of produce at Safeway Stores across the bay area just one of the many angles were following for years on this friday morning april 17 thank you for joining us, im James Fletcher so our top story involves a course of the coronavirus in the fact that there are more than 4,500 american deaths in the last 24 hours alone. But despite the surge in deaths President Trump has laid out a threephase approach to restarting the economy as soon as possible and hes putting governors in charge of that reopening. Coming up are now has the story. The decision to reopen the country will not co
[inaudible conversations] senate reconsider the consideration of the tax cuts in jobs that and begin by walking through with the chief of staff from the joint committee on taxation following the conclusion of this process which will likely take some time it will be provided to members later today. Because of a large number of amendments we have processed a modified mark will be given to members later today and then everybody can have time to read over the modifications. We will reserve the markup for tomorrow morning with a the modified mark i appreciate members participation of yesterdays session and was glad to hear everyones initial thoughts however the number of issues were raised the required additional responses that characterization the bill as a massive tax cut for the rich that particular claim was repeated by almost every minority member of the committee but it is just not true. The committee on taxation has concluded not only does it maintain the tax code but the largest tax