Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Kristin englund from the Cleveland Clinic and later, author Rick Atkinson joins us to iscuss the 75th anniversary of ve day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] host u. S. Workers continue to lose their jobs and file for Unemployment Benefits at a record rate. And in todays report on the overall jobs number for the month of april could be the worst since the great depression. It is friday, may 8, 2020. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend this first hour asking you how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Heres how to joins us. For those of you in the east and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain pacific time zones, thats 2027488001. You can also send us a text. That line, 2027488003. Include your name, where youre texting from. On twitter, were at twitter.
Needed in your view . Eastern and central time zones, mike trout 8000 and pacific, 2027488001. Go to send us a text or acebook. Com cspan. U. S. Today front page, unemployment amid outbreak hits 17 million. Layoff spung economy into a hideous state, just below on this front page of u. S. Today, you can see a woman here in her car wearing a mask in hialeah, florida, collecting unemployment. The story says the economy continues to shed job that are jawdropping pace and there is little sign that payroll losses will ease significantly any time soon amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Here is the front page of the New York Times this morning. Its terrifying says the headline from one person who is being interviewed by the times. Millions more out of work. Efforts by the u. S. To halt economic damage cant keep up. Thats the New York Times. In terms of keeping up, congress as we mentioned did meet up yesterday but lawmakers hit an impasse of the next step. A congressional effort to b
Jawdropping pace and there is little sign that payroll losses will ease significantly any time soon amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Here is the front page of the New York Times this morning. Its terrifying says the headline from one person who is being interviewed by the times. Millions more out of work. Efforts by the u. S. To halt economic damage cant keep up. Thats the New York Times. In terms of keeping up, congress as we mentioned did meet up yesterday but lawmakers hit an impasse of the next step. A congressional effort to boost funding for Small Businesses as republicans and democrats rejected each others plans for the next trong of coronavirus leave. Congress passed and President Trump signed a massive 2. 2 million relief package less than two weeks ago but the depth of the downturn rushed lawmakers to he negotiating table we need to patch holes as we see them and keep moving forward together. Everybody in the senate voted to send historic funding to hospitals and
When it settled firefighters a man was underwater for two minutes. Paramedics performed cpr on the victim. Crews use ropes to get him up from the beach, then he was rushed to the hospital. We dont have any what on his condition, but the battalion chief told us ocean beach is dangerous on any day, but today the water was especially choppy. Now that that fear storm thats hammering the gulf coast right now, cities reporting hilly lane is live in new orleans were Tropical Storm barry has made landfall. Hillary . Reporter juliet, theres been steady rain throughout the day, and even though the mayor of new orleans says this area did not get a direct hit, there is still a lot of concern about flash flooding and storm surge. Early today, we were in morgan city. That is where the hurricane made landfall and batter the area. Barry hit the louisiana coast saturday as a category one hurricane, but quickly weakened into a Tropical Storm. Still the storm is forecasted to dump heavy and potential is
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