Barbara hope zuckerberg. Charles rosenblum. We try to live in the moment, to not miss whats right in front of us. At mutual of america believe taking care of tomorrow can help you make the most of today. Mutual of america financial group, Retirement Services and investments. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. More than twothirds of states are now allowing reopenings, after weeks of orders to stay at home and to close businesses in order to contain the covid19 outbreak. Its the first round in a new phase for the country and the world. Lets get started with todays top news a massive new spending bill narrowly passed in the house of representatives last night, setting up a battle with the senate and President Trump. The heroes bill is passed. Sreenivasan demo
Place in northern california. We are continuing r ongoing nav today, President Trump signed into law coroa new 484 billion stimulus package. The bulk of the money, 310 billion will replenish the paycheck protection program. This second round of relief also includes funding for hospitals, testing and disaster related votes. Joining me now by skype is a physician and Congress Member cok ress member thyou so much for joining us. Thank you for having me on. Letstart with the paycheck protection program. What about the momandpop shops . U know, what we saw in the first interaction, the first round of 50 billion was the biggd firms that relationships with banks got the bulk of the money. We really wato make sure that these resources got down to the smaller businesses, as you saw the momandpop businesses are really devastated by this. You know, for credit unions, community banks, that s the place where a lot of the smaller businesses come back. Towe also wanted make sure this money didnt go t
Person. Also those we come another 5 Million People file for unappointed. Altogether, 22 million americans have lost their jobs due to the coronarus. This weeksinfusion of cash from the government will help, several legislators such as our first guest this evening say americans need some sort of ongoing financial relief. Joining me now by skype from washington, dc islooking congress ermethank you so much for being with us. Things are havi me on. Three make you pointed to the bipartisan White House Advisory Council which just held its first call on thursday. Can you tell me about this councils makeup and at it is expected to actually do . Well it is bipartisan counsel, it has about 10 house democrats, 10 Senate Democrats including senator durbin. We are priding advice abou what we need to do. To rebuild our economy. I emphasized two planes, that we need testing, massive testing to be able to reopen our economy weand that need critical investment in advanced manufacturing of the industr
Million cases of coronavirus and 63,000 people have died from covid19. Also, six bay area counties announced they have shelter in place orders extending through the end of this month. And Public Health officials are focused on ntt tracing as a second vital phase to contain the virus. Joining us is dr. Rutherford, a ucsf epidemiologist, advisor ton san scos department of Public Health, who is leading the program that started this week in san francisco. Think you fojoining us again. Thank you for having me. We will get to contact talk about breaking news today. The fda has authorized the emergency use of to reduce the mortality and duration of covid 19. It has been proven to do this and some studies although one study was negative. How quickly can be utilized . I think it is a great step forward. The fact that there was a negative study from china does not really bother me very much. A lot of power for people and it to really get the effects or understand exactly what the effects are. Th
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