In brussels. Then you rollover in the stimulus, and the struggle is to get to august. That is what they are going to do at the white house today to have senator mcconnell go up to. Ee mr. Trump this is a Republican Party in fullscale panic. Jonathan congress returning to work. A 2 trillion spread between democrats and republicans going into these negotiations. Lisa it will be really interesting to see what President Trump is demanding and what he is willing to give up. Lets start with what tom already laid out. 4 00 a. M. Eastern time or p. M. Brussels time, we get the eu leaders reconvening to try to get some kind of agreement. The signal is positive. The question is in the details, as you were talking about earlier today. We will hear from the white house meeting with mcconnell, as well as treasury secretary steven mnuchin, to discuss a new stimulus package. Very curious about the payroll tax cuts President Trump is demanding that has bipartisan opposition. Aftermarket, we get to kic
Hospital workers pushed back the strike. Well when the pandemic first hit but say they could not wait any longer as they work on the front lines in what they say is unsafe conditions. The hospital says they are disappointed their staff is on strike during a pandemic these are Health Care Workers of all kinds medical technicians and see all just nursing assistants respiratory therapist and people working alongside nurses and doctors to care for coronavirus patients. Joining us right now is a tell me your name and what you do again. Taylor davis an and i work in Emergency Rooms registration. You guys work with the union your steward tell me the biggest fight that youre looking to change in that contract. Well i think our biggest fight first and foremost as always our protection so that we can take care of people in the safest and most effective way possible and the hospitals failed us. And second thing is our Health Benefits they want to raise our Health Benefits, 25 every single year. H
Disappointed their staff is on strike during a pandemic. These are Health Care Workers of all kinds medical technicians and susie all just theyre seeing assistance respiratory therapist even people who disinfect the rooms used by coronavirus patients all working alongside nurses and doctors, they have been in contact on in those negotiations as they said for months over a year now hospital workers say even though coronavirus numbers have been surging across the county the last 2 weeks they still dont agree with the ppe how its been dispensed and their First Response from the hospital when the pandemic lets hear from one of the guys whos out here on the picket lines. He is he works as one of the nccl adjusts lets hear from him. And this was not an easy decision for us to come to in the pandemic we did delay when it first started and you know their response here i personally have was not given an n 95 masks in the war. They only gave him to the Doctors First starting out even know us tax
President trumps approach to schools. He also spoke about the federal governments overall response to , rising cases across the country, and concerns over travelers potentially causing another outbreak in new york. This is an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. A pleasure to be here gov. Cuomo good morning, everyone. The doctor who has been working on among other things the state reopening School Reopening plan. Right, melissa, secretary to the governor. To her right rick cotton was the head of the Board Authority whos been doing an extraordinary job overall, building laguardia airport, first newport and the United States in 25 years, redoing john f. Kennedy airport and then if that wasnt enough he had to do was something called covid which obviously impacted the airports and were were so lucky to havm and want to thank you very much for everything he has been doing. This morning were going to be joined by mayor bottoms, mayor of atlanta. A
Instead. H hs said they are trying to streamline Data Information which will be used to form policy at the federal level, but critics say its just another move to sideline the cdc and other Health Experts and potentially political size the findings. Here in california, officials are calling for new strategies to streamline covid testing, as many test sites are being overwhelmed. The new goal is to allow doctors to do some testing in their own offices, and pharmacists, too. Andre, there have also been problems such adam delayed test results. Yeah, julie, so they have created a Testing Task Force to face problem we have not seen since the airline days of the pandemic. The Alameda County fire chief told the board of supervisors tuesday that covid19 testing has hit a bump in the road. The one issue were running into is getting First Responders testing on a rapid basis. Many of the test sites by noontime are out of tests for the day. Across the bay in San Francisco, superintendent matt hane