A day after the 1st case of corona. Jordans king warns of massive conflict with israel if it goes ahead with plans to annex more palestinian territories in the west bank. We begin in brazil where theres a political backlash to president jaya both scenarios handling of the coronavirus pandemic crisis the Health Minister has handed in his resignation at the less than a month in the job now and follows his predecessor who had publicly criticized bolton there was decision to allow the reopening of gyms and beauty parlors brazil is a center of latin americas corona Virus Outbreak with close 215000 deaths it registered a record 15305 new cases on friday the highest in a day that took the total number of infections to over 218000 but the president is pushing state governors to ease lock downs and reopen. Anomie john homan has more now from mexico city. Where is a public why he had to step down but its believed that he was against the president s wishes for widespread use of clora cain thats l
Reporter its sort of a food chain of problems. Yesterday we heard about the states budget problems and today we are going to talk about the county. Who do you think theyre going to go to for help . Were looking at deficits between 10 and 20 million over the next two years, the timing is a little uncertain at this point but at least 10 million next year. Reporter with mauldin many businesses still shuttered putting sales tax revenue on its own kind of lock down, marin is just another county looking at a steep and sudden budget shortfall print the different size of the counties makes a difference in terms of total number but i think relatively speaking we are all in the same boat. Reporter sonoma county, 15 million, napa 20 million, alameda 140, santa clara, 285 million and then there is the city and county of sanford cisco. We anticipate a 1. 1 to 1. 7 billion budget deficit paid reporter that means counties will be lining up for help from the state. The current Budget Proposal reflects
Why are we greedy. We go in search of answers in a documentary film. Starts may 21st d. W. Us retailers suffer their worst 2 month sils drop ever can businesses recover lost ground as they slowly reopen or as a wave of bankruptcies in the making. Also coming up as if things werent strange enough europe is rooting for german football the bundesliga is starting back up. And with a car parts market at a standstill one German Company revs up its production lines to make protective equipment. This is your Business Report im stephen bears in berlin its good to have you with us u. S. Retail sales plunged by a massive 16 percent in april far worse than analysts had. Specked it as the crow virus pandemic kept americans at home in the retail slump of the worlds biggest economy on track for its worst 2nd quarter since the Great Depression businesses are reopening as states and local governments ease travel restrictions the stores are operating well below capacity and there are fears a 2nd wave of
Very popular spot for wineries and restaurants and she has more for a scale. Sonoma county not met all criteria to move past the states, not timeline but county leaders here they believe the science proves otherwise. 18 counties in california got the green light from governor Gavin Newsome to further ease covid19 restrictions Sonoma County is hoping to make that list the criteria is not the ballot by a u. S. Scientist or a doctor in the cdc. Developed by the state according to the governor to of the criteria to pass the states timeline must have no deaths from covid19 in 2 weeks and just one new case per 10,000 people for 2 weeks while the county has not met those criteria. They believe a request to further relax restrictions is reasonable because sonoma counties infection rate remains low youve been so conservative. In terms of our approach and keeping sheltering in place and froing down or businesses and then we very few infections because of that last week phase 2 of the states guid
Development department promises it is listening thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne kron fours dan thorn talks with the edd tonight to learn more about what theyre doing to help people he joins us now live in the city with more dan. Well ken and pam this has been really frustrating time for people across the bay area and in the state of california the edd says that they are working on employment recovery efforts, including cutting down on frustrating wait times for people and right now theyre just asking people to help them help you. The covid19 pandemic and shelterinplace orders are forcing california into unprecedented unemployment numbers in february the state was at a record low of just under 4 . Now 2 and a half months later its a much different story know want to plan for the anti avalanche that we got it will probably going to be looking at a record high Unemployment Rate henri levy with the Employment Development department or edd says theyve been deal