Epicenter of the outbreak in the united states. Jobless and hungry the Pandemic Forces thousands in bangladesh to leave the capital and head back to their villages. And sport the house and the 2023 womens world cup will be announced later on thursday colombia goes against a joint Australia New Zealand bed as they all lied to stage the competition the 1st time. We begin with new developments in the global Aviation Industrys efforts to survive curing the coronavirus pandemic more than 40 Major Airlines have been forced to ground their entire fleets many have suspended more than 90 percent of their flights australias biggest carrier quantas today announcing 6000. We cut in a bid to lower costs as it fights to stay in operation germanys lufthansa the 2nd largest in europe has signed a deal to secure a 10000000000. 00 government rescue package but in the u. S. Where air travel demand has picked up a little since april the number of people passing through airports is still down by more than
7488003. Or you can join us on twitter, cspanwj, or facebook. Com cspan. We will get your thoughts here in just a minute, but first joining us on the phone here is lawrence hurley, a Supreme Court correspondent. What was the question put to the courts and what did they decide . Guest thanks. The question is whether sex discrimination within the title vii, which is the federal law that bars employment discrimination, whether sex discrimination applied to Sexual Orientation and gender identity. The court in the ruling ,esterday said that it does which was surprising to some because you had chief Justice Roberts and justice and neil gorsuch joining the four liberals, as you mentioned, in that ruling. The court basically said that any kind of discrimination on the basis of sex is kind of a broad concept and that can include elements of discrimination that concern Sexual Orientation or gender identity. It reads prohibits employment through discrimination based on color, sex, andigion, natio
Let us know what reopening looks like in your part of the country. If you are in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, it is 202 7488001. A special line throughout the morning for essential workers, 202 7488002. You can catch up with us on social media. Message,end us a text 202 7488003 is that number. Good monday morning to you. Here is the headline from the wall street journal last week. All 50 states have taken steps to reopen. Revivers hoping to economies. That is what we are going to talk about this morning, reopening, asking you what it looks like in your part of the country. Here is a map from the New York Times. That map, the blue states are the states in full reopening or partial phases of reopening. The striped blue and yellow lines are regional reopening scum and all states on that map in some process of reopening. , illinois, has had a stayathome order in effect since march 21. That is set to expire on may 29. We are t
15. 7 . Sort of a proxy, this is old data a week older than the other data for the Unemployment Rate looking at the chart you can see it coming down tick by tick but leveling off and well hope it keeps coming down in the weeks ahead. Lets look at the states with most claims. California, 28 , michigan 23 of those who are insured or eligible for Unemployment Insurance getting that insurance there, down to rhode island at 28 . Look at the states with the fewest claims, two stories going on here, one, some states not that hard hit, perhaps nebraska, likely wyoming, but look at the right, florida, again, thats a Big National Story here. The percentage of floridians who are receiving benefits being so small because of their problems with their computer systems, just 5. 2 . Now the fed out with a survey of Household Economic developments and they did a supplement for april just to try to get the recent data. They found 90 of households report either a lost job or reduced hours but 90 on the l
State support or oppose and local bands on plastic . Take a look at some of the headlines, this from Minnesota Public Radio where target is headquartered. The target head target customers call on the retailer eliminate plastic bags and in stores. In new jersey, the state with the headline from the philadelphia inquirer, new jersey moves closer to banning plastic bags and paper enacted,they write if new jersey would be the ninth bags to ban plastic preserve the environment and reduce the impact of harmful chemicals. In oregon, the headline, oregons single use plastic ban in effect january 1. They note some 16 cities throughout oregon have a similar band. Oregon will join california, new york, and hawaii banning single use plastic bags and there is denverite. Ne from denver shoppers will stop paying bagslastic and pay for 2020. They quote scientists saying plastic bags for a 10 minute trip to the Grocery Store can be around for a 500 to 1000 years. The numbers put together by national ge