Protection program was set to expire the senate votes to extend it. Today in the bays alex barr and what congress is going to do now. Reporter laura, this was a bit of a surprise that this extension was agreed to last night since theres not often a lot of bipartisan agreement in washington these days. This is one of these issues important enough. Lets be clear whats being extended is the deadline to apply. So now that deadline will be extended until august 8th. So that allows any Small Businesses with fewer than 500 employees that have not yet asked for this aid to jump in and request it. Whats kind of interesting is theres still 130 billion left in the pot to be distributed to Small Businesses. Thats a little surprising because early on this money was just flying out of the coffers and congress had to pass another installment to reinstate the money there. Theres question why theres so much left on the table. Some Small Business owners say they need help and need more help than what th
And we thank you for making us part of your morning. Good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im Marcus Washington. Mike is keeping an eye on that commute. He will tell us what we need to know before we head out the door, and right now we want to start with meteorologist kari hall who has a look at that forecast for us, what we can expect. Kari, with that sun rise behind you, im seeing sunny skies and warmer temperatures. Yes, its going to be warm as we head to the weekend. Were looking at a little bit of a break for some of us. This is a view from the cupertino hills. Most of our temperatures are in the mid50s but we go from there to the low 80s today. I think pretty much throughout the whole afternoon you can enjoy some time outside with a good amount of comfort as we look at our temperatures with livermore reaching 86 and some mid60s in San Francisco. Well talk about those hotter weekend temperatures. Mike, whats happening out there for the commute .
Staggering figures. Nbc bay areas bob redell joins us. Do we know what the governor has in mind as he speak this is afternoon . All right. Looks like were having some issues there with bobs mic. Well try to get back with him if we can. I want to talk about the news conference. It is going to happen at noon today, and when it comes on, of course, well air it right here on nbc bay area. You can watch it on our app as well. If you dont have that, you can download it now from your smart phone. It is free. And if youre thinking about heading to the big apple any time soon, this may be something to change your mind. You know what . You may now face a twoweek quarantine once you get there. The governors of new york, new jersey and connecticut have added eight new states to its travel restrictions. Any visitors from the state in yellow you see right there, they will have to be quarantined upon arrival. That includes california. California is now among 16 states facing the same restrictions. Th
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Julia manchester reports on the 2020 campaign for the hill. We are also joined by erika warner. Make you for joining us. Julia manchester, Pete Buttigieg leaving the race as of yesterday. What does that do to the coming field . Guest on the moderate side, for a while, it was sanders getting that progressive support, but on themoderate side, you have three competing for the moderate vote. Can makes it easier on the moderates Going Forward. Pressure on others to drop out because unlike Pete Buttigieg, they have not been showing the best support. Amy klobuchar has performed worse in Pete Buttigieg, so she is feeling quite a bit of pressure now. Polling, at internal money issue . , they after New Hampshire were not able to broaden their coalition. Iowa and New Hampshire majority white, suburban, rural states. That was the boca Pete Buttigiegs support, and once he had gotten into the more progressive areas, he fell behind in the support. They did not see a path forward going into super tues