Lot of concern as they may help spread the virus. Today a push to keep the crowds at bay. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith has a look. Reporter a sunny weekend in oakland at lake merritt with cheney tim stops by. Hes heard the city has asked people to give the lake a break amid the pandemic. I understand their position, but people are tired of being cramped up in their apartment. Reporter the city has taken steps like restricting parking. Residents are urged to avoid social gatherings in backyards, parks, and elsewhere and to keep a distance. The Roots Community Health Center in oakland shared data this week that in july, 40 of covid cases were tied to people who were at family events and parties. Thats almost double the rate of those who get it at work. I see folks not Wearing Masks at all, sharing food, sharing drinks, sharing smokes. Oakland, we got to do better than this. Reporter parts of east oakland saw a big surge. Meanwhile, city teams were expected to address vendors without perm
Courthouse. This is downtown oakland right near lake merritt, all happening within the past hour. Video of the entrance filled with flames and smoke posted on social media. You can see fireworks going off in the area, but the extent of the damage to the courthouse not yet clear. Earlier tonight several protesters broke off a peaceful demonstration downtown and vandalized a police station. You see a photo of it right there. Oakland p. D. Tweeted, asking organizers to keep the protests peaceful after the station was spraypainted and those windows were broken. Fireworks were also set off there, and officers in helicopters were targeted with lasers. Well continue to update you on this breaking situation in oakland. Now we want to go to our coronavirus coverage. More testing and less waiting. If you tried to get a covid19 test in the last few weeks, you may have waited for hours to get it. But in san jose today, wait times were dramatically reduced all thanks to a new system. Nbc bay areas
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 71, the nays are 21. The nomination is confirmed. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell on monday, republicans introduced a 1 trillion proposal to give American Families more Coronavirus Relief. Most urgently, the republicans want to continue a federal supplement to state Unemployment Insurance which is set to expire, as we all know, tomorrow. If our democratic dleetions had acted colleagues had acted with the urgency struggling people deserve we could right now be finishing up a major bipartisan package for kids, jobs, and health care. If our democratic colleagues had acted with urgency, unemployed
Statements, i want to acknowledge the loss over the weekend of congressman john lewis, a civil rights icon who changed history at great personal sacrifice. In 2015 i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the blood sunday march which he led. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing the confluence of a health crisis, economic depression and a series of killing is that laid bare the Racial Injustice that still paints the country. Our focus is on covid19s disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors. As well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority communities, black and latino residents are infected with a virus, nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine has the worst Racial Disparity in covid19 cases in the country, also comprise less then 2 of maines population, they account for approximately 23 of all cases, lik
A republican governor took it very seriously shut it down didnt reopen quickly the hospitals have plenty of capacity the positive test results for the crowd of iris here are less than 5 percent now lets put that to florida where the governor keeps saying these cases are going up because they have more tests that is not true just to give you a sense they did 25000. 00 tests a day in florida a month ago their Positivity Rate thats the number of cases coming back positive compared to the overall tests was about 5 percent now theyre doing 50000 houses a day in their Positivity Rate is almost 20 percent so thats not because theyre doing more testing its because more people are getting sick important remember florida doesnt have a rule where says you have to wear your mask some cities do but the state has not taken that step and they havent really shut down again even though we saw the governor to you know 2 weeks after he opened in may say journals were wrong its not the end of the world lo