This time a 30 foot tall sculpture in marin county. Abc 7 was there when it was removed by crews. It was ultimate up neput up in protesters wanted it removed because of the explorers connection to slave trading. More than 5,000 people have signed a petition to rename sir Francis Drake boulevard. A Testing Program will get under way in San Francisco today and targeting a very specific group of people. Health is a big part of building a better bay area and the pandemic makes it more important than ever. And julian 2k3w4ru6er glover is how it will work. Reporter completely new initiative truly believed to be the first of its kind in the nation offering covid19 testing at a transit hub and the idea is to get testing to the folks who need it most, the Latinx Community in the Mission District of San Francisco. They will be doing this testing at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza, it will start today on wednesday, it will happen wednesdays and fridays from 7 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Agai
One College Football player announcing he tested positive after attending a demonstration as covid cases continue to rise in at least 16 states, plus, what could be good news for parents, what dr. Anthony fauci is saying about reonindme deadly flash floods. It now threatens the gulf coast from florida and louisiana as a ready storm sweeps across the northeast. Winds gusting at over 90 mile an hour. Ginger tracking it all. Drew brees backlash. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of america. The nfl star under fire saying he still doesnt support taking a knee during the National Anthem. In the wake of George Floyds killing the top players and teammas lashinonia a. The nba bouncing back. Powers in and finishes. Our favorite players planning a big return to the court. What the league is doing to keep teams safe and how disney world may be making the magic happen. Good morning, america. Thank you for joining us again in this tumultuous time. Thousands
Significance, that infection rates fall after lockdown orders are lifted. Repeat, thats jpmorgan saying that. Big deal. All right. Now listen to this. Scuffles between probeijing and prodemocracy hong kong legislators. Why are hethey doing that . Thats the wrong tape. Show me the legislators scuffling, please. China just moved to take control. Those freedoms promised to hong kong when the british left are being wiped out. U. S. china relations turning very sour. Initially, that didnt go down well on the market. Futures turned south but then substantially recovered. Right now, were up about 20 points for the dow, modest gain for the s p, tiny, actually, fractional loss for the subpo p. This is a very important day. You will see the president at the white house saluting veterans. You will hear from officials and businesses across the nation about the great opening up. And we will tell you what you are allowed to do this weekend, and where you are allowed to do it. Varney company is about
Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
Gov. Walz good afternoon, minnesota. Our press pool is here. Grateful youre all here. Id like to send a message to minnesotans, last time we were here we announced wed do a homemade cloth facemask drive to see how many we could collect and minnesotan responded, as minnesotans do, with about 130,000 of those masks delivered to fireds across and every single one of them participated, across the state. Those are getting out to our longterm care providers, some of the folks that we need to get them. Thank you for that, minnesotans. And thank you for the work youve been doing. We know were coming up on may 4. I think its time to assess where were at. See the thing that was worked, making sure the plan we have put many place to execute to make sure we have the hospital beds we when needed, make sure we ramped up test, tracing an isolation capacity and make sure we had a clear plan that we arctic pated to minnesotans, how do we get back into our businesses functioning . I want to, today, call