Host lets focus now on the Restaurant Industry amid the coronavirus pandemic trade our guest is tom colicchio, people know him from top chef and his several restaurants. He now from the Restaurant Industry talking about the coronavirus pandemic viewers know him from top chef on the bravo reality tv series and also president of the Restaurant Coalition when and why did you found the coalition . It was around march 15 a friend of mine had the foundation interested in helping out T Restaurants and we were looking at a major problem and i. C. E. To be part of an organization working with various lobbyists and a friend of mine was a lobbyist and said independentde restaurants with a lobbying firm so i called my friend back and it started off as a small group and then we found another group down south 100 restaurants strong and based kept popping up in seattle and chicago and San Francisco all over the country and very quickly we pulled together getting on zoomm calls twice a day with a sing
Unemployed virus spiking and vaccine is not coming soon enough this warp speed is too slow. As wall street sees it, worse news is better for a stimulus bill the nasdaq has been lagging. 70. Yet, we saw buying in many of the stocks really would benefit. B caterpillar hitting an all time high if you want to be in those, it is chevron or pioneer. The seven conductor stock, they just roar. The opening of america play. Will we get a stimulus bill . It is a Perfect Place to start a game plan next week. I fear that we are going to get hammered when we come in on monday lets be clear the Labor Department reported this morning 8 30 was a disappointment not a surprise if you are paying attention to the spike and covid infections of the death toll whatever reasons these kinds of number dont seem to be impacted by common sense. You have to believe a good chunk of the economy is going to get shutdown it is not the government, people it is going to be shutdown by fearful individuals who dont want to
Morning. Biden leading the vote talley in both pennsylvania and georgia. And as carl mention ad new arizona count will be coming out of Maricopa County shortly heres where things stand in pennsylvania biden now with nearly 7,000 vote edge a winning for biden in pennsylvania which carries 20 Electoral College votes along with arizona should he hold that would secure him the election. In georgia, biden now holds a more than 1500 vote edge Georgia Election officials announcing in the last half hour that there will be a runoff in senate election. Well see about a recount. Well see where the vote talley ends as we await the latest the from arizona, its worth noting that President Trump has been closing the gap with each round of new vote counts. The question is by what proportion is it enough to catch up to biden. In terms of the Electoral College the race stands at 753 sorry, 253 for biden and 214 for President Trump. That according to nbc. Frank holland is in philadelphia with the latest
And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to these numbers and the reason is that only 50 percent of the cases are actually confirmed caray corona cases the other ones of possible cases that have not been confirmed whether coronavirus test and the reason is that in the 1st wave of the pandemic here in belgium the country was so hard hits that they wanted an easy way to to count deaths and that is why they installed the system that now makes the numbers of the death rate look really bad on the other hand youre right of course numbers here i stream the high with belgium having a small population extremely high numbers 2 possible explanations one is that the tracking system has been rather weak its not been running smoothly
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