Virus pandemic waits for the senates approval to move forward. The senate still has not voted on its 2 trillion legislation that is part of that big financial package, thanks for joining us at 10, im ken way and im pam moore, a final senate vote is now expected tomorrow. The democrats say they are fighting to get more money more protections and really for workers and Small Businesses over the bailouts for the corporation Senate Democrats strongly rejected the original version that was introduced yesterday they argued it focused too much on wall street. And didnt spend enough money on main street businesses and the health care system. Then late last night Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer announced both parties are close to an agreement when passed it is expected to issue direct checks to american families. Bailouts for the Airline Industry and a billion loan program for struggling Small Businesses so the debate in washington continues as millions of americans are out of work and in
By when . That is a great question. Let me be clear. From the beginning of this issue, the mayor and all of the leadership of the city has put housed Public Health and unsheltered Public Health on equal footing. Our sheltered and unsheltered population on the list of people receiving services from day one. First from the hospitals, the individuals now in the hotels. In the coming days we will stand up hotels with the support of Human Services Agency Responsible for mass care and shelter to rapidly expand the Hotel Capacity they have already obtained those hotels. We are pivoting to moving to staffing, supplying and transporting those individuals. We are be beginning this process with people vulnerable to covid19 among the homeless. We hear you and know that being homeless makes you vulnerable, and we need to start somewhere. At the direction of Public Health that is people who are over 60 or who have an Underlying Health condition that makes you vulnerable to covid. I know you have a p
The governor of new jersey, phil murphy, held a briefing today. He and state medical the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, held a briefing today. He and state medical officials updated infection numbers and efforts to treat victims. The Governor Also Announced an 90 day Mortgage Relief Program for state residents. Gov. Murphy good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Especially those thousands from new jersey watching us every day life. Tomorrow we will communicate electronically with you unless we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally, along with members of our team, will be available and we will call an audible. Ectronically with you us we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally along with members of our team will be available and we will call an audible. Monday, even though we said 1 00 for our briefings, it will be 2 00 monday. I believe right here at the war memorial. We have a vtc
Reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally, along with im sure members of our team will be available and we will call an audible. Monday, even though we said 1 00 for our briefings, we will actually be at 2 00 on monday. With thee have a vtc white house. 2 00 gives us enough time to attend that and communicate with the white house. We will be with you after that. Honored to be joined by an allstar team today including the woman on my right who needs no introduction. Commissioner of the department persichilli. Dy to her right the department of Communicable Disease director, dr. Lifshitz. And my chief innovation officer, beth novak. Thank you for joining us. To her left, the superintendent of the state police, colonel pat callahan. Also, as always, and honored to be joined by the director of the department of Homeland Security and preparedness, jared maples. I mentioned yesterday that all of the great work that that steam is doing to keep our covid19 portal g
Rejected the original version that was introduced monday. They argue about and just focus too much on wall street and did not spend enough money on main street businesses on the health care system. While full details have yet to be released. The breakdown looks like this. So billion for direct payments to individuals and their families billion in Small Business loans. 250 billion and Unemployment Insurance benefits and 500 billion in loans for distressed companies. Now a final senate vote is expected later today. Well thousands of workers who are filing for unemployment are in the Service Industry and most restaurants have been forced to drastically cut their staff as their kitchens closed or transition to takeout and delivery only. But now some businesses are looking to hire more staff for el on polk street in San Francisco says it got slammed with pizza orders over the weekend. And quickly made some changes to meet demand. Business has been you know very very we have one or 2 nights