Held her Weekly Briefing with reporters. She talked about the use of military and federal Law Enforcement agencies in response to protest and feature a just race and future legislation. This is half an hour. Good afternoon. Theres so much going on. Thank you for accommodating our change in schedule today. As you probably are aware, this afternoon i sent a letter to the president expressing concern about the increased militarization and lack of clarity that may increase chaos. I plan to request a full list of the agencies involved and clarifications of the roles and responsibilities of the troops and federal Law Enforcement sources operating in the city. Well, i preface it by saying as you probably saw, the military on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The what is it . Ill read it to you. Soldiers on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Bureau of prison officers in Lafayette Square. The National Park service doing that violent act, hassling Peaceful Protesters the other night. States hav
Business of the Convention Still here in charlotte. We are not sure what that means. May be the actual nominations will happen here. It is all kind of up in the air and people are still talking. There are contracts involving the city and the convention and visitors bureau, even the charlotte hornets. There still a lot of talking to go on. What about the reaction within the Hospitality Industry banking on a lot of people coming in and a lot of revenue for the region . Jim definitely. The Hospitality Industry is looking at this like a lifeline. There is no doubt they have had a rocky two or three months. Lost business, restaurants have been boarded up or closed, in fact, with news of the convention leaving there was one business we had a story on this morning that is closing because that was the last straw for them. It was a business downtown not far from the Spectrum Center where the convention would have been held. Thisesses are looking at as a lost opportunity and the Host Committee o
Explained to us what is going on here. Guest they certainly were surprising numbers. Economists said it was the most surprising report of his lifetime. At the wall street journal we surveyed economists. They expected 8 million jobs to be lost. Gaining 2. 5 million is a dramatic swing. I think that tells us the worst fears about the economic shock and the labor market shock induced by the pandemic were not realized. Some lower number of jobs had been lost i think americans are getting back to work, perhaps in larger numbers than we expected. But i also do just want to say it says where we are, which is still the second highest Unemployment Rate recorded since world war ii, and 20 million americans are unemployed. So, a very strong month, but still a very unstable labor market overall. Host do we see job gains in any particular sector . Was there an area responsible for these gains, or was this an overall rise across all sectors . Guest no, it was a little bit disparate. Half of that gai
The greatest in the history of the world. That strength lets us get through this pandemic, largely through command we are doing well. I had a meeting yesterday on vaccines. We are doing incredibly well with that. I think youll have positive surprises. With therapeutics, we are doing extremely well. And i think those words really blend in with each other. But tremendous progress is being made on vaccines. We have ready to go in terms of transportation and logistics. We have over 2 million ready to go, if it checks out for safety. And the nice part is we have four companies, you could say seven or eight companies, doing similar, some very different on the vaccine front, some similar and somewhat different on the therapeutic front. Some from it is progress being made. Even without that, and i do not think you will have to use that in the future, that statement, even without because i think they will have it, but we are going to be back and we are opening our country. And i hope that the g
Because george floyd is not here. He should be here. He should be alive but hes not. Nine days ago, the world watched floyd under his last words. I cant breathe. He pled for his life. The world heard him call out for his mother and cried out, dont tell me. Two days ago, when i became the lead prosecutor in this murder, i asked for time to thoroughly review while the evidence in the case. We looked at the evidence that is available and the investigation is ongoing at this time. I also said that i know what is asking a lot of people to give us time, particularly people who have suffered for centuries, to be patient. We did get that time. Strongr, a very experienced team which included kenny attorney mike freeman, his team, and my team. And weewed the evidence have something to announce today. It, i want tonce say thank you for the patients of the people in pursuit of justice. Im here to make these announcements right now. First, today, i filed an amended complaint. Murder in the Second D