Are refocusing our energies and sense of purpose and a sense of optimism and faith we will get through times challenging, times like today, difficult moments that all of us are working through to reconcile the world we are living in and to reconcile the need to pay our rent and mortgage and to understand whether or not we can educate our kids at home with all the other burdens and challenges we face in the household and where we are going as a state and as a nation. The old adage we are nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. Whatever we tend to focus on we find more of it if youre like me you are focused on the nightly news, 24 7 cycle seven days a week, a lot of anxiety is running through those broadcasts. A lot of fear that is induced focusing on what this nation and the world is doing to meet this pandemic had on. That stress is manifest and that stress is real and all of us work through that stress differently. No one can moralize how some deal with it versus others. Some
Latest target is the World Health Organization his criticism mounts over his response to the pandemic. Ethiopia declares a state of emergency warning of grave illegal measures against anybody who undermines the fight against. A bleak prognosis for African Americans and a plea to learn the lessons from current are. So then the uns a chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and looked at 3 attacks in 2017 in the northern syrian town of the men in Hama Province it says there are reasonable grounds to believe Government Forces used bombs containing sarin that hit heavily can jet. Its civilian areas including a hospital the report goes on to say that Bashar Al Assads heavy use of chemical weapons has been a crucial part of his regimes military strategy lets cross straightaway to our diplomats at the james base who joins us from the U
Compared to yesterday at this shuttered the for far longer than the Government Programs time. Lasted i think that is the so, alive look with our issue here. Treasure island camera with we have a gap between what clear skies, livermore, you are already down to the upper 30s. People need and what the government is about to provide. Clear skies helping those temperatures to really drop this morning. We are looking at many of us in thanks very much. The 40s as we start off the the headline again, 6. 6 million new unemployment claims it is means over the past two weeks, this country has lost as many lets show you here, 41 in santa rosa, 42 in concord, upper 40s in San Francisco, mid 40s and san jose and about 50 jobs as it lost during the entire two years of the great for oakland. Recession. Our coverage will continue on our 24 hours streaming network, plenty of sunshine, daytime highs seasonal for this time of cbsn. Year. Lets check in with gianna for there will be more to come on your loc
Education leaders are preparing children across the state to distance learned for the rest of the school year. The state superintendent for public instruction Tony Thurmond is hoping the Distance Learning will accelerate everyones education. He unveiled specific guidelines on distancelearning for district leaders. California is also providing additional webinars and resource teachers as well. Will be providing a women are that is focus on how to provide special education through Distance Learning. I like to thank all those who are helping to put it together our special education workforce, california teachers association, the staff of the California Department of education in the state board of education for coming forward to help us answer a question is not been answered in this way before how do we deliver special education through Distance Learning more than 5,000 people have signed up mostly educators to hear about best practices about lesson plans about modules for how we deliver
Shape. Reporter the Coronavirus Task force is recommended people continue to stay home, saying they see signs it is slowing the virus. What we have been doing has been working. Reporter even encouraging people to wait two weeks between grocery runs and limiting the number of family members who go to the store. We have to do even more, right now, because that will predict where we are two or three weeks from now. Chuck schumer says a phase for relief bill will be needed. President trump says they have had serious discussions about a second round of direct payments and that he is open to the idea of another relief bill but that it must be focused on infrastructure. We want to have an infrastructure bill, a real one. Like, in the vicinity of 2 trillion. Reporter while at times it seems the leaders are working together to each still making partisan swipes. He is all about politics, i have known him almost all of my adult life and he is a disgrace. Reporter President Trump and former vp joe