Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
York times in the newspaper, despite timely alerts, trump was slow to act. Usa today has a very similar story in this mornings paper, online, obviously, and the online headline is golf and maralago conga line squandered week highlights trump slack of covid19 focus. There is no escaping the fact that the spread of a Novel Coronavirus would soon up and american life, there were confirmed cases in two dozen states including washington where a state of emergency had been declared after a least 10 people died in the previous week in connection with a single nursing home. New york city was experience an alarming trend upward in cases, the crew should carrying infected passengers idled off the california coast waiting for a port to 11 to disembark, hospitals, Nursing Homes and Health Officials around the country worried over a lack of testing capabilities and a shortage of medical equipment. The annual Music Festival southbysouthwest was cancel that day. Joining an array of scotland movie rel
So, right now negotiations are underway between the trump administration, republicans, and democrats to try to figure out a way to pass this legislation because democrats want some changes to the ways that Small Business loans are structured to make sure that money is getting to people and businesses that dont have those traditional longstanding relationships with big banks. They are really touting this, they want to make sure that the money is going to minority owned and women owned businesses. Thats a negotiation going on now. On the senate floor i believe we saw what was supposed to be a pro forma session. Ben cardin, senator warner, we to what wasecting being proposed on the senate floor. His more of that likely ahead in the senate . Guest we are not entirely sure that it will happen this morning at the pro forma 10 00 a. M. Session. We have not gotten good guidance about whether or not republicans plan to try to once again bring up this bill that would include additional money for
And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody hello there cheers and applause good to see you. Please have a seat, everybody thank you so much. Welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Folks cheers and applause i like that. Thank you. I dont know how you guys are feeling tonight, but i am staying positive not testing positive, just staying positive. laughter staying positive. I believe that the bottle of purell is halffull. laughter because somebody stole half my purell, and i will find you laughter jon come on, now. Stephen the coronavirus is still on everyones minds, so dont forget to wash your minds. laughter and ill tell you all about the latest in tonights edition of goin viral. cheers and applause book your cruise now stephen there are now over 600 cases of coronavirus in the united states. There were 500 when we rehearsed this two hours ago. laughter over the weeke
Afternoon. Welcome to the december 17, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer . Fewer not present. Supervisor haney . Haney present. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman present. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor peskin . Peskin present. Supervisor preston. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. Supervisor yee . President. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. Lawrence and michael. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk,