Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The current drought is threatening as much as 500,000 acres of californias richest farmland. President obama along with governor jerry brown visited the Central Valley this afternoon to see the droughts impact in person. Californias our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working american. Right down to the cost of food that you put on your table. The president pledged millions of dollars in federal aid. Scott shafer has been following the developments and he joins us now. Hi, thuy. What did the president offer in terms of drought relief aid . The president offered a package of 183 million. Its not new money. A lot of it was in the farm bill he signed. The big ticket item is 100 million for livestock Disaster Assistance and streamlining the program. It sometimes takes ranchers a year to get money in their pockets. Theyre promising that will be scaled down to two mo
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The current drought is threatening as much as 500,000 acres of californias richest farmland. President obama along with governor jerry brown visited the Central Valley this afternoon to see the droughts impact in person. Californias our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working american. Right down to the cost of food that you put on your table. The president pledged millions of dollars in federal aid. Scott shafer has been following the developments and he joins us now. Hi, thuy. What did the president offer in terms of drought relief aid . The president offered a package of 183 million. Its not new money. A lot of it was in the farm bill he signed. The big ticket item is 100 million for livestock Disaster Assistance and streamlining the program. It sometimes takes ranchers a year to get money in their pockets. Theyre promising that will be scaled down to two mo
Logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing, and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But, youre right. I mean, obviously, if we had, right from the beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. Dr. Anthony fauci essentially confirming a key part of a deeply reported, new expose from the New York Times, which shows how key federal agencies, the state department, the National Security council, and the pentagon struggled to get the president to take timely action, despite several early warnings. We will speak with one of the Investigative Reporters behind that story in a few minutes. Youre right. Those warnings came, actually, in early january. You know, the president can tweet didnt act until march. And retweet false tweets that i think got the dates wrong
Francisco mayor london breed about how this is affecting her city. And well meet the owner of a lab that will help process thousands of new yorks covid19 tests every day. Now, testing remains a hurdle but it seems were doing our part to stop the spread, especially social distancing. What this graphic illustrates is the amazing work of the American People to really adhere to social distancing. This was some this was nothing we had ever attempted to do as a nation, and the world hadnt attempted to do. But they were able to decrease the number of cases so that, in general, most of the metro areas never had an issue of complete crisis care of all of their hospitals. Washington is our first stop on this trip across america. Joining us are two of msnbcs political analysts, Phillip Rucker for the Washington Post and eli stokels. Also with us, beth fouhy. Glad to have you all with us. Phillip, lets start with testing. Now, Public Health officials are saying that testing needs to double, or may
The bizarre reason this woman tried to break into a Police Station. Jillian fox and friends first continues right now. Rob you are watching fox and friends first. Jillian thanks for starting the day with us. Rob a fox news alert, the war on police escalating overnight. A female Police Officer shot and killed. Jillian another cop fighting for his life after two separate shootings. Todd pyro is live with the latest. Reporter the louisiana officer on her way to work shot four times that a home. We have a shooting at 163 midway ave. A female with a gunshot to the head. From this location, all units look for this location. Reporter the search is on to find her killer, one person has been detained but no one has been arrested yet. The slain officers colleagues in morning. Right now that officer in your prayers is most important. That officer and officers family and members of the Shreveport Police department, really tough time. Heather the Police Department confirming the officer shot there