Is about 2 away from record territory. Blake burman at the white house. Edward lawrence in washington. We start with blake, with the latest from the president. Reporter the white house is acknowledging that it might take some time to get federal Unemployment Benefits out the door going forward. The executive order from the president 300 from the federal post, the states matching 100 if they are able to. Some state governors mentioned they cant. In any event the white house is working on this issue. In the interim, they are hoping that democrats return to the negotiating table. I cant pinpoint a timeline other than were working around the clock. We urge democrats on the hill to come back. Secretary mnuchin is willing to review any proposal because the American People deserve better than the games and partisanship they have seen from nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer and their democrat colleagues. Reporter now the president also took action suspending some collection of payroll taxes and de
Speaker pelosi says its absolutely absurdly unconstitutional. What will they do . Go to court to stop people getting the money . Right before an election . Good luck with that. The president s playing political hardball. 84 days to the election and again, the money will flow. Investors like it, by the way. Looking at the futures, the dow industrials will open this morning with a gain of about 100 points. The s ps going to be up about four. The nasdaq, up about 13 as we speak. The president s playing political hardball with china as well and beijing is responding. Jimmy li, a leader of hong kongs democracy movement, has been arrested under the new security law and china has imposed sanctions on u. S. Senators, including marco rubio and ted cruz. Now, that is escalation. Dramatic change may be coming to a mall near you. Amazons in talks with americas largest mall operator, Simon Properties simon group properties, to use some Department Stores as fulfillment centers. Amazon gets cheap spa
And temperature checks at the front door for all staff and children. We have provided all staff with ppe they can replace every day if they wish. Face masks as well as shields, as well as gloves. The Santa Clara County Public Health department is strongly encouraging Elementary Schools to apply for the waiver telling nbc bay area many are interested. I know that the county office of education from what we hear has been contacted by at least 80 schools and perhaps larger than that, but at least 80. Reporter Jewish Day School is another Peninsula School that says they, too, started the waiver process in hopes for reopening for in person classes this fall. Today a Santa Clara County Health Office confirmed four clusters of covid19 at costco. A cluster is three or more cases at the same site within 14 days. This comes after our story highlighted an outbreak in sunnyvale. Dr. Marty revealed there are now 13 cases at that sunnyvale store along with eight at the San Jose Center road location
Force sham votes that will not pass and will not answer the anguished cries for help that are coming from so many of our fellow americans. On the other hand, over the weekend and yesterday Speaker Pelosi and i continued on negotiations with the white house on the next phase of covid relief legislation. After a week of stalled talks because republicans could not articulate a position on re hardly anything i believe we are making progress. We came closer together on several issues. However, we remain far apart on a number of issues but were finally moving inthe right direction. Reat the moment, the gap between our two parties in the negotiations is about priorities and about scale. As this huge crisis angles our nation, democrats believe we need a whole strong and vigorous response from the federal government. It will take a lot of resources but if we dont commit those resources now , for sure the cost will only grow in the months to come. Democrats are fighting to meet the needs of a de
Is double checking your Voter Registration before the largest absentee ballot effort in history in the middle of a global pandemic. David levine is a constitutional law professor at uc hastings and says covid19 should not stop free and fair elections. If we managed to have elections in the civil war and we managed to have them during the panamerican war and the pandemic of 1918 and world war i into and we managed to have elections despite crises. Reporter in Contra Costa County were before the pandemic 75 of the ballots were absentee, the Registrars Office has expanded their efforts. After the election of 2018 we up graded all of our mail handing equipment and scanners and sorters. Reporter they are reaching out to 150 voters who have not requested absentee ballots to double check their registration as well and they also implemented a workaround for potential posted delays and 45 of these drop boxes around the county. You dont need to worry about whatever the transit time is. They do r