Unusual session but critical. Mr. Speaker, this legislation represents a bipartisan and resolve to meet the coronavirus challenge head on. It represents a focusnt on families and workers with the objective to make them safer and economically supported. That will protect workers as we all doo our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials have made it clear the only chance we have c to prevent our system to be overwhelmed with the pandemic it is threatened to be for his as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary for us to be here, to pass legislatio legislation, to respond on behalf of the American People through this daunting challenge. The closure the large parts of the economy must be temporarily shutec down cause severe disruption for businesses and workers we saw the impact of this yesterday when new Unemployment Insurance claims increased by more than 3 Million People 3 million individuals. Those that rely on them for support of their families and
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We are going to turn to our , Nicole Gaudiano, education reporter from politico, and talk about how the coronavirus has impacted k12 education in the United States. Good morning. Guest good morning. Thank you for having me. Host thank you for being with us. The 2 trillion coronavirus aid bill that has passed congress and been signed by the president , is there any help for education in this package . Guest there is. 31 billion in education stabilization funding. It will be divided between k12 and higher education. Some of this funding for k12 should help handle continued closures and purchasing Education Technology for Online Learning, because they are having to devise a new system on the fly. This is designed to help with that. Host nicole, what type of guidance is coming from the federal government down to the states and the local education boards and to the schools about coronavirus . Are we hearing much from the department of education on what schools should be doing right now . Gu
You can see interstate 880 off to a nice start if youre driving into oakland and when you get to the bay bridge we are filling in. It is 5 am and now back to the desk. Topping the news, Public Health officials have confirmed five new cases of coronavirus here in the bay area this weekend and some people infected recently traveled overseas and others are healthcare workers. Allie rasmus joins us from the Santa Clara County Public Health department with more. Reporter three new cases here in santa r the weekend bringing the total number of coronavi this weekend one is described as a woman with Chronic Health conditions who was hospitalized because of the illness the other two, a second and third patient, are husband and wife who recently traveled to egypt and the husband also has Chronic Health conditions as well, he and his wife are both hospitalized there are new cases this weekend in solano and Alameda County and the Solano County Health Department said two Health Care Workers from
Good news there . Kara little better. No liens are no longer bound. East bay is still slow. It is looking like a typical monday slowing approaching the Richmond Bridge. Sewing from hercules to richmond but a little extra slow the lanes are open but bigger delays than normal pit 680 is far from 242 to 24 and the bay bridge toll plaza we have a 50 to 20 minute delay. 7 01 pillows go back to the desk for young teenagers or the hospital. Police say an 18yearold driver hit them in burlingame. This happened on saturday at clarendon road at howard avenue. They think the driver intentionally ran into the teeth. People who lived in the neighborhood said they heard the crash but the damage done to of fire hydrant said water sprang onto the temperatures. They can follow the suvs tire tracks up on the sidewalk across the lawn to the place where teenagers were standing one neighbor say he was one of the first people to help the teen thats where i spent most of my time and just trying to help comfor