And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. America. Reporting from new york city, i am laura trevelyan. 26 million americans have lost their jobs in the coronaviru crisis as the economy grinds to a standstill. Meanwhile, theim death toll above 47,000. Social distancing on capitol hill. U. S. Lawmakers work on an emergency aid package, taking no chances. Plus, the uks first human tiral of a coron vaccine is underway. Volunteers were injected on thursday. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. The United States now has more than 850,000 coronirus cases. In new york alone, more than 15,000 people have died. The economic picture is bleak, too. More than 26 million americans have lost their jobs since this began. An extra three had a 70 billion to americans today 370 billion to americans today. Nada tawfik has more. These are days oatf g political, social, and economic stress in our nation. Nada lawmakers in
Into our edd department of Employment Development department now at 9 more than 22 million americans have filed for unemployment as the president lays out guidelines to reopen the country for business. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, todays unemployment numbers are the largest and most dramatic rise in claims on record since the department started tracking back in 1967. The totals though come as no surprise since businesses will remain closed during this pandemic state agencies are having to hire more workers to help overwhelmed the state labor departments some states are expected to run low on money for state Unemployment Benefits as part of the federal Economic Relief package Congress Expanded Unemployment Benefits to include an extra 600 a week the size was given out by the state in california 2. 7 Million People across the state filed for Unemployment Benefits. As kron fours 10 per second tells us many are still waiting for money and some can even get through to the Em
The decision to reopen the country will not come from the president is going to be up to the governors will work with them were going to help them. But its going to be up to the governors the white house issuing guidelines to help but the states will not be forced to follow that our approach outlines 3 phases and restoring our economic life. We are not opening for once. But one careful step at a time that on light switch on and off is the exact opposite. What you see here which is a gradual read asian in america can then make at the Center New York Governor Andrew Cuomo saying theyre not ready to reopen ready to open tomorrow because were afraid the infection rate will go on. Hospitalizations are down but the state is seeing about 2000 new cases a day and are setting their sights on another major concern weve been watching the Nursing Homes is Nursing Homes in many ways are ground 0 for this situation across the country. Los angeles county facing their highest number of deaths reported
Anxiety around the delivery of our food and those workers have about their own health we dont want you going to work. If youre sick. Governor newsome extending paid leave benefits to food workers across the state during this pandemic. Nothing there nothing i was looking for bell peppers strategy, less i couldnt find anything pretty limited selection of what you can get. Plus concerns from shoppers about a shortage of produce at Safeway Stores across the bay area just one of the many angles were following for years on this friday morning april 17 thank you for joining us, im James Fletcher so our top story involves a course of the coronavirus in the fact that there are more than 4,500 american deaths in the last 24 hours alone. But despite the surge in deaths President Trump has laid out a threephase approach to restarting the economy as soon as possible and hes putting governors in charge of that reopening. Coming up are now has the story. The decision to reopen the country will not co
The bay area atop the newscast but more importantly we will talk about tomorrows ring which looks more impressive than this coming up. For joining us, im juliette goodrich. Im Brian Hackney in the kpix5 studio, we learned that an inmate at the santa rita jail in dublin has tested positive for coronavirus, we are told they are being treated roundtheclock in the medical unit, the first case at the facility. 3300 cases in the bay area about one third of them in st. Clair county. 87 patients across the region have died. Today Governor Newsom says more needs to be done when it comes to testing. Let me just acknowledge on the outset, that the testing space has been a challenging one, for us, and i own that and i have a responsibility, as your governor, to do better, and to do more testing in the state of california. So far more than 126,000 people in the state have been tested for covid19. The governor has launched a new task force that will work to boost californias Testing Capacity when wo