Profits could be dragged by 4 billion in pandemic opening related cost. The dow by 1 3 4. Nasdaq down by 1 1 2. I think next year will be a spectacular year in terms of growth and bringing our country back. That is tran15 is speaking on the economy predicting the economy will rebound. 30 million americans filed and implement claims in the past six weeks. The administration said the new jobless claims have gone down week by week. The president is holding a white house ceremony. Leaders said they are not satisfied with the federal governments response and want another relief bill to help smaller communities. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the house will not return to washington next week. Several members well. Democrats look at virtual and in person meetings as they craft the next cares act. Today, employees at some of the nations Biggest Companies planning a strike on this may 1 which is International Workers day. Employees at amazon, target, walmart and fedex, some of those set to wal
We are going to cool down a little bit over the weekend. We have partly cloudy skies, and it is a cool start. 43 degrees right now, in santa rosa. We have 51 in San Francisco. 54, to start the morning in oakland. And livermore, san jose also checking in in the low 50s. So, relatively nice outside this morning. As we get into the afternoon, partly cloudy skies, temperatures very seasonal. Before we call it down just a it into your weekend. Details on your afternoon highs for today, and the extended forecast coming up in just a little bit. We do have traffic that is off to a very nice start. We havent had anything major around the bay area. As we check and you can see traffic is looking good on the bridges, including the san mateo bridge heading out to the high rise. No major issues on that bridge, or the bay bridge, or any of the spans. Its for 01 lets go back to dave. Changes about reports on the plan to close all of californias beaches. But instead, he is shutting down beaches in Oran
Made morning , good to see you, rosemary. I think you will like the forecast, if you like partly cloudy to mostly cloudy, and 70s. Outside our door, we are starting with partly cloudy skies. The temperatures are in the 40s. Low to mid 50s around the region. We are getting into your weekend, we will cool it down only to warm it back up in the extended. I have a look at what you will be able to expect with you are extended forecast, coming up. Good morning, we have traffic moving along well along the bay area. We will start with a look at these commutes. You can see traffic is moving well, at the bay bridge plaza. No major issues crossing the bridge. Lets go back to dave. The governor wants more people to stay inside, to help slow the spread of covid19. The state will keep state parks and beaches open, except for one county and southern california. Alyssa harrington has been working from home, but, good morning alyssa. Ordering a hard closure of beaches down in Orange County, that is aft
Steve greenhouse, thank you so much for coming in to talk about your new book, beaten down, worked up. It was a real pleasure to read it and i look forward to having time to talk to you about it. Guest thank you for your kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book i think of it as having three major parts. After you introduce the situation now you do a really good job, i think, of talking about, through stories about how workers struggled, really they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, by bargaining and through diversity and by demanding policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States really have attacked workers all hot and their unions and then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organiz
Of black women athletes in the age of jim crow. Thanks for joining us on American History. Thanks for having me. Let me begin with your book expected to be published in about a year. What have you learned so far . Oh, so many things. I started the project asking is there a long history of black women in sports and i found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labelled this is a history of black women in sports. So i kind of had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. And it was a remarkable story. They played with the men. And one of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in the black women to play against the men said he had something called a gal file. Where women across the country and young girls too were writing in to request tryouts and that struck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, hm, if there is a lot of black g