Are here in the bay area. As soon as the governor starts speaking, well bring you. And more numbers for you right now. The Labor Department reported 6. 6 million americans applied for unemployment just last week. Now, that is in addition to the nearly 10 million unemployment claims filed over the previous two weeks. 10 of American Workers are now unemployed as businesses have been forced to shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Many people have been unable to file a claim because state unemployment offices are overwhelmed by the volume of people trying to file. You yelp planning to lay off or furlough more than 2000 employees. The Online Review plattform made that announcement saying they had plans to let go of 1000 workers and furlough 1100. The state of california. Those are the real heroes of this moment. And we need to talk more about care for our care gives. We have talked rhetorically meeting the need of psychological first aid by extending our appreciation, a good wor
It is a cooling cloudy start to our friday. Temperatures running in the low to mid 50s. A live look at our Treasure Island camera, we can see the clouds in the sky. Mostly cloudy skies and some peeks of sunshine as we go through our day. Sistine San Francisco, 68 for a high and san jose and 67 for concord. A strong ridge of High Pressure builds in for the weekend and i will let you know how warm it will get in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check in with gianna with a look at traffic. Good morning, lets look at the roadways. There have been a number of changes to mass transit this week. I want you to stay updated on that. One of the latest changes happened this week, the vta light rail where service resume from 6 am to 6 pm. But again, a modification to the schedule and modifications to bus services as well for vta. They made several changes this week as well as focusing only on their 17 core route. And for bart, Weekday Service running trains for the Weekday Service. Just a heads u
Will have issues producing energy so lets go out and buy 10 billion or 20 billion worth of oishlgs fil, fill up the res. The oil market has nothing to do with the coronavirus other than theres just a lot less demand at this point. But youre right, unprecedented issues. Maria yeah. No surprise, russia would pile on just in the middle of a crisis for the United States and say im not going to cut production. Secretary mnuchin, a pleasure to have you. Thanks very much for the clarity. We appreciate it. Thanks, maria. Great to be with you. Maria see you soon. Secretary mnuchin. We cut into varneys time. Stu, my sincere apologies. Varney Company Begins right now. Have a great day, everybody. Stuart good morning, maria. Good morning, everyone. If i may just say very quickly, the key sentence to me from listening to secretary mnuchin was we will destroy this virus and the economy will come roaring back. We will go back to a normal world. Good morning, everyone. Lets get going on the program. A
International hotel lease at the Old Post Office building in washington, d. C. We will hear from two officials from the General Services administration that oversees government building leases. This is about three hours. [indiscernible] without objection, so ordered. We are now going to proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all the good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing of the public buildings. One of the purposes of this is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring that theyre spending it with transparency and that brings up with todays hearing which is entitled the tenant in the Trump Administrations oversight and the International Hotel and you can tell from the title, we are going to be in investigating an unprecedented tuition and the houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel. Since President Trump has declined to confess from his businesses, hes essentially acting as both landlord and tenant. Before i was elected to congress i spent over three decades , Teaching College stu
We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns the building that houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel hotel. Since President Trump has declined, he is essentially acting as both the landlord and the tenant. Before i was elected to congress , over three decades Teaching College students about American Government and politics. Serious discussions about the legislature holding the executive Branch Accountable to the highest legal and ethical standards and that is exactly what we hope to do today. First lets start with some facts. All federal wor