We wont ask twice. We want to stay ahead of this. We want to flatten that curve. We want to save lives. They will not ask twice. San franciscos Police Chiefs are issuing citations to those people and Business Owners found violating Public Health though feel nearly 3,000 complaints about individuals, businesses and churches. If you must go out, you should were cloth masks or a Face Covering and expect to be keeping up the practices for a while. Late word about a new coronavirus shot spot in the bay area. Health Officials Say the outbreak is at the arenda care center. We understand half of the patients are over the age of i can tell through is no deaths so far. But imagine, 27 covid19 positive cases in just this one nursing center. Three days ago in tuesday, the county was called in to investigate. Two residents are hospitalized. The were not aware of the Current Situation or current condition. Subsequent to the initial investigation, we dispatched a team to do testing at the site for al
Are living in a different environment completely and you have reported on World Affairs from all different kinds of directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you focus on a class and oregon. Why . My mom still on a family farm in the fac place of a humanitarn crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids ar that we on my old number six schoolbus are now drawn from this and weve tried to process that. [inaudible] in from hepatitis he survived because he was in the Oregon State Penitentiary and we wondered for a while is this something and then we realized it is a National Problem we have depths of despair. It was kind of a microcosm to which to see that across america. You solve this through the lens of returning home and it could have been titled School Bus Number six. So many are from the friends you had growing up there and expanding from there. And you grew up in manhattan upper middle east and that is a whole different world early in the relationship you saw it on the fol
A far better measure is the ten Million People who filed for jobless benefits in the last two weeks. Fed governor lockhart just told maria the jobless rate is already more like 10 . Clearly, we are in an employment crisis, and another report that comes up at 10 00 eastern will likely show the Services Sector in collapse. Thats a strong word to use but its accurate. Later this hour, we are going to talk to larry kudlow, the president s chief economic adviser. I will ask him how bad is it and he will spell it out. Look, with nearly 300 million americans under a stayathome order, the economy is shut down. Morgan stanley says that between now and june, the economy will shrink by 38 . That would be a depression, the likes of which we have not seen before. Travel, shut down. At the airport tsa checkpoints, they are processing two million fewer passengers every day. Thats down 93 from a year ago. Those flights that do take off, virtually empty. Public transit ridership, down 75 . Commuters ju
Why did you want to write about Political Parties . Your first book was focused on political lobbying. In the universe of potential reforms, the electoral college. The money in politics which we hear a ton about. Executive power. You chose to focus on parties as a linchpin. Can you talk about what drew you to parties . Tell us about the process. Great to be with you again matt. A fun reunion on cspan. So why did i write this book . I wrote this book because i was worried about american democracy. I saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem affecting our country and i wanted to think about if there was some way to maybe solve that problem. It kind of flowed in an indirect way from my previous book which was about the growth of corporate lobbying. In that book, i had concluded that one way reason they were so powerful was because they wrote a lot of the laws. Because there was not a tremendous amount of expertise. After that book came out, i went talking to folks in and around congress
Cases of covid19. Oakland Unified School District officials made the announcement to close all schools for three weeks amidst the rising number of coronavirus cases. We all know that this decision will pose difficult times for the families and students who depend on our schools. Three out of every four students in a district rely on free or discounted meals. Our Nutritional Service department at 12 sites throughout the city where grab and go breakfast and lunch will be available for students. Parents are having to rearrange their upcoming work weeks. How are yo going to keep rambunctious children in the house all day. Theres a lot to think about. Specifically mostly around how do we ensure they get their instructional time. How do i manage work, the household. Aside from school closures, the mayor made a big announcement regarding the city. We also will be closing our senior centers, our libraries, our Recreation Centers and our Head Start Centers beginning monday. City officials belie