Quote, strong focus on the china virus, including scheduled meetings on vaccines, our economy and much else. He then ran the tweet by his proofreader, brett favre looks good lets hit the back nine. President trump mocked joe biden on twitter yesterday after the former Vice President mistakenly referred to arizona as a city, when everyone knows its two cities Everything Else is rest stops. That joke was written by arizonas own alex bays. President trump toured an Innovation Center in North Carolina today said employees, sir, we have so much more to show you than the door. This is incredible. It opens like ma i am not touching anything. No button, no handle it knows im here. And in an interview yesterday, House Speaker nancy pelosi criticized president trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic and called him mr make matters worse so i guess i have to come up with a new nickname for my penis. What the kids are here . They really they really shouldnt be within earshot for the monologue.
We are still quiet. Traffic is moving along very nicely around the bay area. You can see traffic moving along very nicely here with no major problems. Traffic continues to look good on 580 and a little bit of slowing before the past. The san mateo bridge traffic is light. Today, the july jobs report will be released. It was show hiring has weakened. The Unemployment Rate has expected to decline from 11. 1 , to 10. 5 . That report comes out at 5 30 a. M. And we will let you know when that happens. Democrats want to include aid to stay with local governments but republicans are against it. Theres also disagreement on extending that boost for unemployment benefits. Republicans want to cut that down to 200. Is certainly, when they set a skinny proposal, it was anorexic. President trump is threatening to issue executive orders if congress doesnt act. With the reopening of the u. S. , Many Americans remain off the job and five months into the pandemic, tom baker says Many Americans are still
Who have paychecks. People do not right now, which brings us to the second big issue, which is Unemployment Insurance benefits. A gut instinct is we will see two month extension of the current Unemployment Insurance booster payments such as 600 a week through september 1. The alternative is we cut it to 400 a week, but extended for a longer duration, say through year end. Referenced achin technical correction needing to be made. This is far from a technical correction. This is a deepseated issue of disagreement between democrats and republicans. I would say this is the biggest sticking point. The way it will get resolved it to throw money at the problem. To that end we have shifted up our expectations of the overall scale and scope of the bill. The last time we spoke i was expecting a 1. 5 trillion package. Now our base case is 1. 5 trillion to 2 trillion. The further that rises, the more generous the Unemployment Benefits will be. You can see potential spending directly on certain sec
Drawing cheers from the crowd of some 50 people who had rushed to the scene of the arrest. The shocking footage comes as residents suffered through a fourth straight weekend of deadly gun violence in new york. And yet they cheer gang members rather than the police who are trying to maintain order in the streets and peace in the neighborhoods. The nypd reported there were 28 separate shootings over the weekend between friday and sunday. 35 victims in all. And street violence is far worse now than a year ago. A 600 jump from the same period last year. One of the murders over the weekend, a 1yearold boy killed in a park during a family cookout. No one has been arrested for the heinous crime. All of this taking place in a city where democrat leaders defunded the Police Department by a billion dollars and forced the nypd to disband its, are you ready for this . Its anticrime unit. Socialist mayor bill de blasio seems to take his citys residents for complete fools. He was asked about the spi
That vaccine is expected to begin on larger phase three trial at the end of the month. Some 30,000 people will take parts. Two potential vaccines from u. S. Pharmaceutical Company Pfizer and the german partner have also been nearly fast tracked by the fda. Trials underway as well for a vaccine by johnson johnson, as well as astrazeneca. All of those firms moving within the Trump Administration. That is definitely scientific warp speed to get a vaccine to the American People as quickly as possible. The Dow Jones Industrial reflecting investor approval, climbing 208 points. The s p 500 up 29. The nasdaq rising 62 points. As for the pandemic itself, the number of cases in this country has been rising in 41 states as well as washington, d. C. Those cases have fallen or remained flat in nine other states. Overall, the death rate is actually declining as testing and cases continue to increase. Over the past two months, cases have risen 131 across the country. While deaths have fallen by 58 .