Reporter . [inaudible]. Texas Governor Greg Abbott in response from hurricane after the category storm came to shore about 1 00 oclock this morning. In neighboring louisiana. About 35 miles from the texas border paredes joined by senators and ted cruz. [background sounds]. I want to thank everybody for gathering with us here today. Especially want to thank senators cornyn and chris for taking the time to join us today and being part of the Aerial Overview that we were able to take to get a better assessment of the entire region. As well as to work with here on the ground. Also want to thank the two local area congressman, and the congressman, as well as the governor dan patrick. In the state senator nichols, and local representatives stephen think all of them for being here. Of particular want to thank the county judge. Thank you for hosting us and for being with us. It is been a pleasure. And working with you through this pretty so thank you for being here. Of course. And mayor, i wan
Out what the Federal Reserve is going to do to rev up the economy. Big speech coming from chairman powell. Odds are hes going to talk about inflation. He wants more of it. If thats correct, hell be printing a lot of money. Literally seven minutes from now make that nine or ten minutes from now, we will be allowed to give you the official word. And, by the way, thats what the markets waiting for. The dow jones average is coming off the dow is going to be down about 22 points, roughly that way. Lets see what happens when we get the feds announcement. The s p, thats coming off its 18th alltime high. Down a couple of points at the moment. The nasdaq is coming off its 38th alltime high. We did receive news of just over one million new jobless benefit claims last week, no noticeable impact on the market on that. That market, the investors, theyre really waiting for the fed. Five big tech stocks, theyre coming off record highs. Here they are this morning, premarket. Apple is up some more, but
True regardless of where they are, and whether they are run by republicans or democrats, are trying to find a way to give voters options, ways they can vote that they feel safe, and feel convenient to them. This means expanded voting in almost every case. Every state is going to see a Record Number of ballots received by mail. It also means expanded early voting, finding appropriate voting sites for voting in a pandemic, which means they need to be large enough to accommodate social distancing. Also making sure that Election Officials can recruit enough poll workers to staff those sites. We need about one million poll workers in the president ial election, but the fast majority but the majority of poll workers historically have been over the age of 60. Host define for us, the difference between mailin voting and absentee voting. Guest that is easy. There is essentially no difference. There are basically three types of mailin voting in the United States. There are a small number of stat
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
News stations. Youre watching kron 4 news at 10. Today requiring all counties to close their indoor act to batteast their indoor operations this is in every county in the state of california. California is shutting down again as coronavirus cases surge governor Gavin Newsome announcing today a major step back in the reopening of the economy, thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im pam moore, im ken wayne. The governor ordered today all counties was close indoor operations in on the states watch list. The restrictions are even tighter kron 4 S Ella Sogomonian joins us live in the newsroom was which businesses have to close up shop and where pam the states latest orders come as hospital beds are filling up in some parts of the state. Infection rates rise the Governors Health order is 0 ring in on indoor businesses specifically all across california including 5 bay area counties that includes indoor operations at restaurants wineries tasting rooms Family Entertainment as museums movie t