Week. But here in california, we have filed a more than 7 million claims for unemployment that happened since the pandemic began and paid out just last week alone 3. 7 billion in Unemployment Benefits and thats more than 3 billion more than the worst week of the last great recession. So as you can see, there is a massive demand for this type of until assistance. So is the volume that you are getting, you are having the process going down at all . You know, the volume continues to be quite high. We are still getting a couple hundred,000 claims each week. However, what we are able to to do is we are now able to expand our capacity. As you know when this hit, it was like an overnight perfect storm. Right. So it was hitting at a time of record low up employment. We have low staffing, low funding. Now we have more funding. We are in a mass expedited hiring effort, where we have hired or at least extended considerable job offers to more than 4,300 people to come on board and help us here at
Extreme he reporter o se oulew South Carolina and flew a drone over this corn field. How much of the field has been lost . All of it. Reporter Stanley Gruber says his Insurance Agent told him the corn crop is a totalgsthere is corn in there. Just look. Little thing like that, there is nothing to it. Reporter wow. Cant sell that. No. Reporter standing with him in his field in st. George, South Carolina, we were sweating in five minutes. You know, this week its been in the mid90s here in st. George, South Carolina. We did the research, and on average in the month of october, it would usually be in the mid70s here. Just about all of the south is in the middle of this flash drought, which started a month ago. This is the first time in 50 years Stanley Gruber wont make any money on his corn crop. And what do you blame it on . I dont know. Im starting to Pay Attention to some of this Climate Change theyre talking about. Man, if you dont have irrigation, you cant hardly grow anything. Reporte
Effectiveness of the flu vaccine is not optimal, the vaccine still have vents millions of illnesses and tens of thousands of hospitalizations in the united states. The San Francisco Public Health department reminds everyone it takes about two weeks for antibodies to develop in the body to protect you so they say, dont wait any longer and the flu mist nasal vaccine has not been very effective against the h1n1 vaccine and is not being recommended this season. The flu widespread now across most of the u. S. , as you can see on the map from the cdc, its widespread in almost every state. Cdc officials were briefed today on how to reduce the spread and how to help communities where theres a shortage of vaccines or medication. This years influ wenza seas is proving to be particularly difficult. Reporter the cdc says this years virus is incredibly difficult to work with, treat and prevent. With a high number of hospitalizations and deaths, 42 adults under the age of 65 in california have died
Lurk out to sea but latest track keeps it far enough off shore, that we dont expect any direct, impact from this system later this week here in philadelphia impact will be starting tonight, and then through the day tomorrow, especially, and mostly felt along our coastline. And that is where they are making preparations, this afternoon, and evening, for a brush, from an intense hurricane working its way up eastern see game. Meteorologist lauren casey joins us from North Wildwood with the very latest on then part of the story, lauren. Thanks, so much kate. Yeah, definitely night the best beach day, cloudy, quite breezy, winds have pick up in the last couple of hours since we got here but most notable are the waves. They are ferocious and rough surf will be a main impact we will see down the shore as hurricane jose sits off shore, and crashing waves, of course will present the threat have beach erosion that could be locally significant, and that is why crew where is out earlier in the day
Monday october 10th im karen hepp in for Lauren Johnson who is off. Lets get right over to bob kelly, good morning, bob with a check of the traffic. Hi karen good morning. Columbus day. We will have light traffic volume, some kid are off from school, maybe some adult are off from work today. Live look here at an accident southbound on the blue route right before the mid county tolls. It is right there in the center lane before you get the in the toll plaza ben franklin bridge from the camden toll plaza looking good, no problems at all leaving south jersey up and over into downtown. On the vine street expressway it is opened this morning. Cruits will work tonight into tomorrow morning and every night this week it will be closed between schuylkill and broad but it is opened, that is good news. Southbound i95 no work crews near betsy ross but we have lane squeezes due to the Construction Zone and bet thecy down through girard avenue. Coming from new jersey 42, 55 we have your normal const