With not all 60 g. B. In which capable of making an instalment rational decision. Bring the stories you might not find anywhere else. Well, thats a great start. This is our national as always good to have you with us a very warm welcome to the program. I want to start us off. We go to germany where at least 4 people have been killed in a call ramming. A driver has been arrested off to crashing into pedestrians a high speed in the western city of tria. The fatalities include one child and more than a dozen other people injured. Peter has the story on tuesday afternoon, a silver gray s. U. V. Plowing through people out in a pedestrian area of the southwestern city of trivia, some absolute Horror Stories from eyewitnesses being recounted to local media, talk of a, a one kilometer long trail of destruction. Through this part of central trio, were hearing of people being thrown into the air after having been struck by an s. U. V. That was accelerating into crowds of people. Theres even stor
Alive. Thank you very much. Today a house subcommittee holds a hearing to examine security for the upcoming president ial election in november. Live coverage begins at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Talk about this morning as the negotiators on capitol hill continue with that pandemic relief package. Well hear more about that a little bit later this morning. But heres whats proposed so far. This is in the package at least the senate is debating, the socalled heals act, people who work for themselves and Small Businesses. They write the proposed act would also put aside 190 billion to create another round of paycheck loan program to provide Financial Assistance to struggling Small Businesses as well as independent contractors and the selfemployed. The government has already approved more than 5 million 5 million, excuse me, ppp loans worth nearly 500 billion in the Small Business loans program made available by the cares
American Psychological Association ceo arthur evans joins us to discuss stress in america report and how covid19 is affecting Mental Health field Mental Health. Host as Congress Tries to hammer out the covid relief package, Small Businesses are in trouble. Business health and cashel have stalled. Yelp says 2800 businesses in new york city alone have closed. The Small Business administration has given out more money in the past few months than its entire history. It is tuesday, august 4, 2020. We welcome you to washington journal. We will spend this first hour asking you about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Small Business. If you are a Small Business owner, call 202 7488000. Or former an employee Small Business employee, 202 7488001. For all others, 202 7488002. Texts, 202 ur 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are from. On twitter, cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan. Negotiators on capitol hill continue with the pandemic relief package. We will hear more about that later. Her
Reporter for politico. I am joined by democratic congresswoman karen bass of california, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ,ew york citybased physician founder and ceo of advancing Health Equities which partners with Health Care Organizations to tackle Racial Health disparities. We are here to talk about the disproportionate impact the coronavirus pandemic is having particularlycolor, africanamericans and latinos. It is an issue i have spoken to epidemiologists about over the last two months. We will discuss the push by lawmakers and Public Health racial for more holistic and ethnic data on coronavirus cases, the historic neglect of black and brown health that led to this moment, what immediate action is being taken to mitigate the impact of coronavirus on minorities, and finally, what can be done to address the longstanding Public Health issues that this crisis has brought to the forefront. We will incorporate audience questions at the end, soaked tweet us at political
The p. M. I. Well dive deep into this in a bit. Look at the boards. The dollar still holds on to the retreat. That is helping some asian currencies out there. Ere holding on 706. We were near the 100day moving average. Were siegristance now that the dollar seems to be hovering around the twoweek lows despite the fact but were seeing the dollaryen pretty much at 168 but seeing at least six days of gains so far for the japanese currency. Watching oil price. We see it climbs once again. You are seeing w. T. I. Futures. 4 higher for brent crude. Gold snapped out of four dives declines. It is largely unchanged. Hovering around 62 basis points now. We have the First Official gauge for chinas economy in april. Weakened again. Investors are waiting to see what steps the pboc may take to bolster the economy. Our guest from citigroup joins us this morning. What is your assessment of the p. M. I. Data that we got. Nonmanufacturing. Manufacturing below the forecast. Still in expansion territory. A