Oil, 41. 40 we talked for a long time about mike pences hawkish speech on china from a year or two ago but pompeo yesterday oneupped that and this consulate news from china is weighing on sentiment too. Yeah, he upped the ante jim did focus us at the time on Vice President pences speech because it was quite truck lant would be a word to describe it at the time but it continues to go up in terms of the tensions, carl weve talked about it pretty much every day, whether its a backandforth over huawei, whether it has to do with conversations about closing down the app tiktok in the United States, whether it is the closing of consulates here and the response from the chinese. This is not going in a direction that many, who at least are invested in the idea of global trade, certainly, mike, would wanting to see. For sure. On the one hand the market is not necessarily overly focused to this point on these relationships and not really counting on anything to come out of it. Its not quite like
Sick leave. Health Officials Say the goal is to slow the spread of the virus in Alameda County where many people who test positive continue to work for fear of getting fired. Heres a look at the numbers in the bay area. There were 973 new cases for a total of over 56,000. San francisco and santa clara had the highest numbers with about 240 new cases each. 16 deaths were reported in the bay area including six in marin county and four in contra costa county. The bay area has now seen 858 deaths. As for the state numbers today, a total of more than 524,000. And there were 202 deaths bringing in the state death toll above 9700. The superintendent of california schools says work is underway to connect up to a Million Students to help with distance learning. The state is getting help from two high tech giants to get those kids connected. The start of school is just days away for some School Districts. Hundreds of thousands of students in california dont have access to computers, have poor in
Safe and continue to play. This morning the commissioners response to one star player who says the league failed to put health and safety first. Fatal encounter. A woman killed in whats believed to be maines first deadly shark attack ever while in new york several beaches now shut down. The latest in a live report straight ahead breaking overnight violent new clashes between protesters and armed federal agents in portland, oregon large demonstrations in other cities across the country. On the ground on the ground. This morning, the growing chorus of mayors demanding Congress Step in those stories, plus a heros farewell that saved a wretch like me a powerful rendition of Amazing Grace moves people to tears at the u. S. Capitol where congressman john lewis lies in state. Today, tuesday, july 28th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza hey, everybody welcome to today. So happy youre joining us on a Tuesday
For the people who are positive. They should be staying at home and i guess it will be nice to help them out. Macon between two kinds of survival, health and financial. Its a reality for people who are covid but cannot get sick leave. People does what she can to survive pilgrimage she runs a clinic testing some 400 people daily. Some are sick. Others exposed and unsure, but . There are a lot of employers not allowing their employees to come back to work without that negative test reporter a test result that my take a while, and if positive requires even more time off work. But they are not getting any kind of income, so how do they provide food for their families. How do they pay for their rent. How do you pay for any other clinic you have pick now, they will refer those people to receive a stipend, modeled in a Similar Program in two weeks pay of 16 an hour, about 1250. Im probably one of those cases that we depend on our hours, the hours we work. The aim is essential workers, daily b
California and acss the nation. In washington, d. C. , the senate is working toward a new Coronavirus Relief package, thdr white house ped its demand for a payroll tax cut, which gop lawmakers had opposed, big divisions remain as unemployment nefits are set to expire next weekfor 20 million people. Meanwhile, democrats on capitol hill are championing a 3 trillion relief planhat includes eight. Closer to home, governor gavin newsom announced on tuesday, california recorded mo than ,000 new coronavirus cases, its highest daily total get, cafornia now has the most number of cases in the nation, surpassing new york. Joining us now by skype to discuss this, our political and government correspondent, marisa lagos. With us by skype from palm springs is scott shafer. So, lets start with the national picture, i want to askr you, presidenp has canceled the Republican National convention that was to be held ti jacksonville, that this was not the right time to bring so many people together, he al