Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
Economists expect most jobless numbers will show that another 2 1 2 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. That would be a slight improvement from the prior week. The nation has seen about 33 million new unemployment claims in just the past seven weeks. Here in california, the state Employment Development department has issued a new set of guidelines as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The new rules would allow some people to actually turn down job offers and instead continue to collect Unemployment Benefits. New at 6, andrea is here now to explain. Is a drastic change from what normally happens when people collect unemployment but part of the reason here is that people are supposed to be hunkering down at home to prevent the spread of covid19. It is sort of a day by day week by week. That is how tonya, owner of brown sugar kitchen on broadway and oakland views her current predicament after laying off 34 members of her 40 person staff thanks to the coronaviru
And out and about, thank you for matching up. I also want to thank the folks that are tuning in from around the state today. I am joined today by a couple of outstanding leaders, the National Guard. A member of the joint chiefs of staff and he works out of washington, d. C. He was here about 40 years ago as i recall for the Natural Disaster but it certainly is a joy to welcome him back here. If there is one consistent theme every time the governor is on the phone, there it is with the president and Vice President or whether it i is to go Governors Association telephone conferen conference, the one thing every governor has in common is how excellent the National Guard performed and that has a lot to do with the generals leadership as well as just the quality of the guardsmen and the airmen around the country. To see the interNational Guard perform this Tremendous Service in difficult circumstances, but this is very different than what we have seen before. We have had more than our fair
Now hear about. Reporter they are getting accustomed to seeing empty schoolyards and and the School Buildings it will be unlikely that the students will return back to the classroom this year progress would the right thing for us to do for our children and the parents and households and for the communities for which they reside is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our School System where we are increasing class time and increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning. Reporter google is stepping up to facilitate Distance Learning for all students, tony thurman is following up on a memo sent to School Districts statewide. Out of an abundance of caution we believe it is most important that all of our schools maximize their efforts around Distance Learning to help all of our students progress would now districts throughout the state are working out details to handle Distance Learning making sure that all kids have the internet and computer acce
Contact investigations are underway including testing. Those units have been quarantined. Reporter the city quarantine laguna honda hoping to keep the virus away from the 750 residents inside and now all residents and Staff Members are being tested to determine who else might be infected. We have begun bringing in Additional Resources including staff and expertise on long term care, infection control, and infectious disease. Reporter across town the city is investigating a positive test at San Francisco general hospital, an er worker. Health officials arent sure how they contracted the virus. This person provides patient care in the emergency department. They are now self isolating a home. We are conducting a thorough contact investigation. Reporter protecting the frontline healthcare workers from exposure has been a chief concern. Officials hope that the sf general case will be an isolated one. The situation at laguna honda is expected to worsen. I must say and im sad to say this, we