Reporting on the fiasco at the Employment Development department, fraud, benefits department and nobody answering the phones. Well, now a reset to a new system. The reset started this weekend. I didnt want to wait another day. And that reset means the state is halts new claims for two weeks with 600,000 people still awaiting benefits. Michael finny has the latest developments. I have been waiting since august, august 1st. Reporter one of the 600,000 workers who still have no benefits months after losing their jobs. You cant get through. Michael hurley has been waiting since june. No faith in the system, not at all. Reporter the edd blocks benefits for both workers saying they need to prove they are who they say they are. Like thousands of others they mailed in paper documents verifying their identity and heard nothing back. I think now im in another kuwaiting for whatever. Thats frustrating. Im so discouraged. Reporter kim was told to wait eight weeks. I was really upset because how wo
Most areas have clear skies overhead. So lets break it down for you today. Sun is up at 7 00 and 12 ht air quality today will between good and moderate. But it is breezy and mild out there, temperatures in the mid70s to mid80s. Not only warming up, were tracking hire fire danger, now a red flag warning that starts at 9 00 p. M. Saturday, and well take a much closer look at the fire danger and the hot temperatures, how the hot well get in the full forecast. And firefighters in the north bay are already watching the weather. Yesterday cal fire crews worked tocontain a fast moving grass fire in santa rosa. It was stopped at 12 acres and in homes or buildingsm the next half hour. And you can get updates anytime you want, the squaair quality tn our website lets you see the Realtime Data. And we are expecting to hear from Breonna Taylors family today for the First Time Since the grand jurys decision was announced. They will speak publicly this morning after another night of protests leading
This is boom bust one business show you cant afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the numbers are in the United States took a major hit to its g. D. P. In the wake of the coronavirus dropping more than 30 percent annually straight ahead we analyze the extreme drop and the state of the real economy here in the u. S. Plus a big texas seeing an influx of antitrust cases as tech tensions continue to rise across the globe later on in the show where to take a look at the cases and whats at stake moving forward with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the latest Economic Data out of the United States the Commerce Department reported wednesday Gross Domestic Product fell by a record 31. 4 percent in the 2nd quarter of 2020 now the number was a slightly better than the 31. 7 percent decline projected in august the contraction was more than triple that of the previous record holder of 10 per cent in the 1st quarter of 1958 now economists suspec
At live doppler 7. You can see cloud cover around the bay area and not a lot of dense fog. In the east bay, we have 60 over in danville and closer to the bay numbers are in the low 5s, ro air quality moderate in the north bay today and tomorrow but the rest of you enjoying pretty good air quality. It was pretty nice yesterday, wasnt it . Today is the beginning of fall and you equinox. Were feeling like fall. In fact, temperatures climbing through the 70s bys highs and 60s at the coast. Thank you, lisa. Were expecting to get an update on the fall learning plan as experts give Distance Learning disappointing marks. Education is one thing were focused on to build a better bay area. Amy hollyfield is live in the Marina District with more on this. Amy . All right. Looks like were having some issues hearing amy and well get back to that update with San Francisco schools in just a moment. First, we want to tell you about more counties expected to move up to the next level in californias reope
Back to big story. Were following tonight, todays visit to california by President Trump is not only highlighting our Deadly Wildfires but also the strategies used to prevent them. Catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics is here with more on that catherine yeah grant and soon as we did hear it again today of course governor newsome. Focusing on Climate Change almost exclusively and President Trump focusing on Forest Management. Newsome pointing out correctly most forest land in the state is federally owned still should our leaders be addressing both concepts more thoroughly Climate Change and Forest Management. I asked our political analysts. Over 45 of californias 33 million acres are controlled by the u. S. Forest service and therefore its measured budget has all gone to fighting fires. So trump can blame this all in california. And you can remove Climate Change from the equation. The droughts are killing all vegetation that are tinder for fires. We didnt have fire tornadoe