Charge of the recovery act and it was hard as hell to get the votes for it to begin with. And then it was hard as hell to get the number even we got. But one thing we learned, is we cant do too much here. We could do too little. We could do too little and sputter. Real live people are hurting and we could fix it. And we could fix it. That is has been his message from the beginning. And President Biden is focused on this today. Hes expecting to speak live later this hour and on how ep plans to revised the economy in response to covid. And the latest jobs report came out this morning showing only 49,000 jobs were added last month across country. And still there is more. On capitol hill, republican freshman Marjorie Taylor greene, shes about to hold a News Conference and at the moment im going to use the term News Conference loosely as we will see if she actually takes questions from actual real reporters which she has long avoided. Greene now without any Committee Assignments after the h
Open they are opening someone leaving there maybe just at the end of their working day but the word is that u. S. President will leave via those doors of the Walter Reed Medical Center any time from now head to his motorcade his motorcade which will take him to marine one the helicopter the official helicopter for a i believe its about a 10 minute flight very short distance from bethesda maryland to the white house 13 kilometers as the crow flies and he will head back to the white house all of this happening 28 days before the United States goes to the polls who would have thought our attention would be on a hospital in bethesda maryland which the parish president had spent 3 days in just a month before this election mike hanna is our correspondent in washington d. C. With us this hour it is extraordinary isnt mike as we wait for this to happen to think were so close to an election the fear because thats gone on for the past few days around a man who is on will. Indeed yes well it has
Has had with lawmakers this week. This is what he said in the last hour. We cant do too much here. We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter. The end result is, its not just a Macro Economic impact on the economy and our ability to compete internationally. Its peoples lives. Real live people are hurting. We can fix it. We got the first jobs report out under President Biden. Its a better report than december. Overall though, we have a long way to go. 49,000 jobs were added last month. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 3 in january. We will take a closer look in moments. I want to start with the action in the capitol. We have monica alba at white house, jo ling kent with the jobs report and leigh ann caldwell. President biden will deliver economic information later this hour. What can you tell us about the president s economic focus today . Its the first event, the fact that the white house is having these coronavirus briefings now three times a week from Health Experts and o
Were going to find out why. Plus, tiktok goes the clock. Were all over latebreaking developments on tiktok and wechat negotiations coming down to the wire. Later on, wheres the beef what fed shares of beyond meat into the grinder today were going to begin with the worlds Biggest Company in a little bit of a world of pain lately that is apple falling another 3 today. It is now down 22 from its record high earlier this month that, my friends, a market cap loss of only, you know, 500 billion. Put that into perspective. That is equivalent to an entire visa, a j j, maybe a walmart and a Proctor Gamble shares of alphabet, facebook and amazon also dropping this week is this just a tech timeout or do you see a rollover and maybe some more pain ahead on the tech trade . No. I see a rollover this is something that i positioned myself forprobably about a month and a half or a month or so. When you look at apple, apple is 13 of the qs, amazon 10 , microsoft 10 of the qs. When you look at a chart o
Francisco sideshows mayor breeds new no tolerance policy and the harsher penalties for people who participate. Thank you for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis are top story tonight finally being able to breathe and tours. The air quality is a close to normal believe it or not after more than a month of that smoky unhealthy air all across the bay area it is been a mess it was actually just one week ago today you remember this that dark orange day the ominous skies since then people have been encouraged. To stay inside as a record breaking spare the air alert streak reached 30 consecutive days so heres a look at just how much the air quality has improved since early yesterday, look at all that green, so those green dots they signify air with little to no pollution. Even in the east bay, you see a lot of yellow dots those represent decent air with the some particulates but still dramatically better than the past few weeks you really have to zoom out on