Low 50s in santa rosa. Plenty of cloud cover through the morning hours. Emeryville, the sun coming up in another 30 minutes. With that, mostly cloudy skies and some 50s throughout the mid morning hours. 60s start to arrive closer to noontime with the clouds be beginning to thin out a little bit, and then well call it sunny by later afternoon with numbers mainly in the mid to upper 60s away from the coast of liz . Lisa, thank you. Before we the new mask orders here, i want to point out that lisa and i have our face masks here and w ar tm ith any toim youre in an essential business or at work, you will be required to wear a mask. Now in effect for these counties, alameda, contra costa, san mateo, San Francisco and marin, a similar order already exists in sonoma county. Employees and shoppers must wear them any time youre at the grocery or drugstore. Youre required to wear one while waiting to enter any of those places. San Francisco Mayor london breed also encouraged everyone to keep you
They are important for the country, they have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. Many people are asking for additional legislation. Conference for our by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150 million. You. Ank he covered well what the senate is doing. To the past several iterations ofrelief, done a lot coronavirus legislation. Much of which is now being implemented. I think part of our job is to make sure it gets implemented in the right way. A lot of our committees will be conducting oversight hear
Committee on Small Business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. Today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid19 response for the next package to Small Business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. I would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. I appreciate your cooperation so that we can protect ourselves and our hardworking staff. Three weeks ago when congress created the Paycheck Protection Program we did so with the goal of providing a lifeline, the program experienced Unprecedented Demand and proven successful, helping more than 1. 6 million entities to support employees. As a result we will be replenishing the Program Later today. While we are moving quickly to provide an additio
Definitely not what the doctor ordered madagascars president and the herbal remedy that could put his people at risk. To suspected members of the syrian president s Security Forces go on trial in germany on torture charges. Hello thanks for joining us new figures released in the u. S. Paint a picture of an economy devastated by the coronavirus in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out so take a look at the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits its the 3rd week that number of new claims has declined a sign the worst of the shock may be over but this is what it means a record 26400000 americans have now lost their job since the end of march thats when lockdowns shut down production and led to mass stuff for a lowes thats more than 15 percent of the entire u. S. Workforce are White House Correspondent kimberly begins our coverage record highs and expected to keep climbing because the reason we dont be
Im brian sullivan, if you are keeping track at home, were pretty sure youre at home heres a sobering stat on the selloff. The dow has fallen nearly 11,000 pointing since an all time high in mid february. Thats a nearly 40 drop the fastest in history investors continue to see their portfolios fall, while washington falls short stimulus still on hold were expecting a briefing on the coronavirus outbreak in about 30 minutes time. Were going to bring it to you live when it begins. Kayla has been tracking the stimulus situation all day long and is with us now on what happened what happened, what didnt happen. And what comes next. For a second time in two days, the vote to advance the stimulus package coming out of the republican side failed meeting are taking place in the wake of that with Steve Mnuchin meeting with chuck schumer, followed by a meeting with mitch mcconnell. Those two back to back meetings, an update on where things stand. A Senior Administration official tells me its unlike