Buts. Lawmakers are struggling to come to any sort of agreement. And President Biden wont rule out democrats acting alone to bring relief to millions of americans. This, as Johnson Johnson says its Covid Vaccine is 66 effect against moderate december but 85 effective against severe disease. Lets start with the latest on the Sprawling Investigation on the attack on the u. S. Capitol. Jessica sh insider is working the story for us. The manhunt for whoever planted those bombs is clearly intensifying. Reporter it is, wolf. The fbi does have new clues, but the suspect is still out there. Theres concern from Law Enforcement tonight that he or she might be plotting even more bombings out there. Now this comes as were getting a glimpse inside the Capitol Insurrection from a Police Officers perspective. But a warning here, this video is graphic and quite disturbing. A major mystery mounts tonight. Who planted the two pipe bombs blocks away from the capitol near the republican and Democratic Nat
On track, we will see what happens in the next 59 minutes. Global air travel is down 85 from a year ago. One airline is looking to build confidence among travelers. Delta is teaming up with cvs to rapid test its employees with results available in 15 minutes. With rapid covid testing on the rise, we will talk to the ceo of a dyiiagnostics company which applies a newly approved test. How these rapid tests are a tool in the fight against covid19. Warnings over sales pressure once the stimulus checks end, really kind of a surprise how the stocks have performed. What could this mean for the sector as consumers prepare for not just back to school but for the Holiday Season . Yeah. We got to talk about it. We will get the inside scoop from one of our allstar retail experts during the hour. Plus, new drama for apple. This time with new york citys metro transit authority. And charlie breaks it on the newest entry to the tiktok race. Less than an hour to the closing bell. Im Cheryl Casone in fo
First of all, update you on our hiring effort. You know, we were at record low unemployment in february, so we had low staff and low federal funding. Fast forward now, this historic demand for benefits and we are getting more increased federal funding, so we are now in the process of hiring 4,800 new staff to come help us with the unemployment and insurance demand that we are dealing with. Were doing that in an expedited fashion. Theres a great web page to give you the information about those positions that were filling, all aimed at trying to help us increase capacity as much as possible to deal with this historic load. Are you seeing any differences in the past week in terms of the claiming coming in as california starts to reopen and peopl are startg to go ckwo . Are you impact on your end yet . Well, we continue to see hundreds of thousands of new claims each week and well have some new numbers out again tomorrow as we do every thursday. And we have paid, the last week, more than 2
We had a very big day today. Saying ourtart by love and prayers to every withcan continue, to be our fellow citizens who have lost a cherished friend or Family Member to the violence. Amidst our grief, we are making tremendous strides against this invisible enemy, thanks to our Aggressive Campaign against the virus and the extraordinary talent of our medical professionals. Our mortality rate remains roughly half of that of many other countries and one of the lowest of any country in the and that is due to a lot of things, but our medical professionals have been incredible. Since we announced our guidelines on opening up america, as we call it we say opening up america. I think we can add the word probably again. But that is what it is. We are opening up america again. 20 states, representing 40 of the population, have announced they are making plans and preparations to safely restart their economies in the very near future, so that is 20 states, roughly 40 of our country. Pretty quickl
Futures trade negative. Reporter hi. On the issue of the fourth stimulus bill and aid to state and low local governments any thought to proportionate for way too early to consider that. Waver we do well do on bipartisan basis. The president has listened to the governors. I have had the opportunity to be on multiple videoconference calls with the president and Vice President. Were reaching out to a lot of people. There is a lot of states that have been impacted but way too early to figure out that level of design. Reporter you mentioned a Large Company applies for one of these loans and they manipulate or works the system or works the loopholes to get it. What are some of the consequences to the Large Company trying to get one of these ppp loans . What can you do . You use the word manipulate. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. Well put up very clear guidance so that people understand what the certification is, what it means if youre a big company. Again, there is a provision