You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
Television companies, as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. Lance robertson is the assistant secretary for aging in the department of health and Human Services and head of the administration for community leave living. Secretary, we all know that older adults are most at risk when it comes to coronavirus. Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday lance within the department of health and Human Services, we are very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Twoe know, those are our vulnerable and targeted populations of this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in a variety of ways and we are honored. What theind People Administration for Community Living does. Guest we hav
Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Guest good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday morning. Hhs are one of the operating divisions and very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Those are vulnerable and targeted populations with this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in a variety of ways and we are honored. What theind People Administration for Community Living does. Guest we have three dozen programs, research institute, we offer a number of Community Support services that offer ways people can remain healthy and vital in their communities. For us, we are talking things like meals, transportation, legal services, independent living assistance, transition out of facilities. A range of things. Thankfully, our website is easy to nav
Its been many months but now with the sunshine were starting to warm up. Its going to be a cool day. 64 in tampa, 68 in sarasota, still 59 in inverness. When you look at max defender 8 of course not finding any rainfall, in fact, its extremely dry. We have some red flag warnings due to fire danger with how low the humidity is. The afternoon high today only 66 degrees, that compares to so in our headlines the last time we were below 70 for a high was march 21st. This is a cold day. Warming quickly through the week. Near 80 by thanksgiving and staying dry. 4 Police Officers shot in 24 hours in similar ambush style attacks. And one Police Officer did not survive. Were joined in the news center with the latest in this developing story. Less than 24 hours ago a Police Detective was killed in his car just down the street from police headquarters. The detective was in his vehicle writing a ticket when another driver pulled up, got out and approached the detectives window. The suspect shot him
Western caribbean headed for Central America in just a few minutes. And good morning everybody, an update now on this crash in Pinellas County, southbound tar pin avenue is blocked, utah southbound u. S. 19 is blocked at tarpon avenue. Were told it could be like this for another hour or two. If youre getting ready to head out the door you might want to leave yourself a time, alt 19 might be the best option. Were looking great out there, take a look behind me i75 around 301. More cars are out there on the roads now. No crashes or delays on any of the interstates. Back to ewe you dan. The search continues for the person who killed a man and left his body behind a dumpster in pinellas park. The name of the victim, two people collecting cardboard found the body of 38yearold park place. Police still investigating and searching for possible suspects. Were waiting to learn if charges will be filed in a north port shooting. Police say two kids were firing bb guns and one ended up getting hit i