Additional funding for the post office to other elements of support that might potentially encourage mcconnell to call the senate back as well. But that will be a bridge we will find out more about later yeah, will they have a relief bill as people look to get relief and extension that they have been waiting for for, you know, several weeks now since it last expired. Over to you, john. Interesting what the president was just saying. Drawing a distinction between universal mail in ballots, which he opposes, and absentee ballots which he has cast himself and is in favor of saying he does not favor slowing down the mail. He wants to speed up the mail, of course. The house wants to question a lot of that and well see if that happens thank you, it is 8 00 a. M. At apple headquarters in coopertino, california, its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good morning, what a week it is, can you believe were starting this monday at levels for the markets that we were prepandemic. T
And jill and i have just been briefed, as you know, in this room by our Public Health and education experts about what it is going to take to be able to reopen schools safely and effectively. Backtoschool has always been a special time. It is in your family and mine, but particularly in mine, all the years jill and i were married, she was going back to school, too, as a teacher. She would be the first one to tell you this should be a season of promise for our country. Times when classrooms are crackling with the possibilities of the new year, students hopes, all about the future. But this year, we are facing the most difficult circumstances. We are seeing a lot of heart and grit from our educators, our students, to try to rise to the occasion. But our government has not come up to that bar. Hasnt shown much grit or determination. If President Trump and his administration had done their jobs early on with this crisis, american schools would be open and open safely. Instead, American Fam
Damaged. Four people have been slightly injured by the wind. People called the Fire Department after buildings had their roofs blown off. Local Power Companies say over 30,000 households in okinawa had no power as of 7 00 a. M. Tuesday morning. More than 240 flights to and from the prefecture have been canceled. Many bus and Ferry Services are not operating. For more details on the typhoon and what to watch out for we turn to our meteorolologist. Yoko . The typhoon is pushing through the islands of japan at this moment. Heavy rain and destructive winds are reported. We saw gusts of nearly 200 kill meters per hour at the airport and rainfall of 151 millimeters fell in just 12 hours. On top of that additionanal rainfall of 200 millimemeters i expected through the next 24 hours. S. Heavy rain and typhoon strength winds will continue to impact okinawa through the day on tuesday. This is a large storm system packing gusts of 234 kilometers per hour. Most of the okinawa region is under stron
A wave of reactions and political debate in sweden including from the leader of the opposition and the Prime Minister. I. Foreign minister and linda welcome to conflict zone thank you very much you said recently that swedens trusted base strategy to combat the coronavirus was working your Prime Minister also continues to maintain the strategy was the right one but today you have nearly 5000 confirmed coronavirus deaths far higher per capita than your neighbors who impose stricter lock downs early on with such a high death toll how can you say that your strategy is working. Well actually we have the same goals as most other governments that says to save life and health and also to keep the system in the Health Service able to cope with this very strong push on the limits and actually we manage to flatten the curve we have there for have. Problems we getting sick people into the health care. Actually or so we have managed to get our people to follow their recommendation and we have legal
Reopen schools safely and effectively. Backtoschool has always been a special time. It is in your family and mine, but particularly in mine, all the years jill and i were married, she was going back to school, too, as a teacher. She would be the first one to tell you this should be a season of promise for our country. Times when classrooms are crackling with the possibilities of the new year, students hopes, all about the future. But this year, we are facing the most difficult circumstances. We are seeing a lot of heart and grit from our educators, our students, to try to rise to the occasion. But our government has not come up to that bar. Hasnt shown much grit or determination. To be clear, if President Trump and his administration had done their jobs early on with this crisis, american schools would be open and open safely. Instead, American Families across this country are paying the price for his failures and his administrations failures. Like many of you, because you are reporter