Reopening. How officials are weighingoo arn streamingnrealistic andthattile on cbsn bay area, another bay area county poised to allow more businesses to reopen. Good evening. Elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Tomorrow morning Contra Costa County will become the latest that will relax restrictions. And tonight reporter joe vazquez has the balancing act the counties are facing when it comes to reopening. As more bay area businesses wrestling with questions. If the virus is just as dangerous, how can they afford to reope open . And how can they afford not to . Many businesses deemed nonessential are opening their doors. The bay area has gotten International Acclaim for shutting down early, flattening the curve. But he wonders if well become victims of our own success, given so many other parts of the country are opening more quickly. San francisco took the most cautious approach relative to almost anywhere else. Im really proud of the city for doing that. I imagine were one of the last
Moderate rain. Here is a look at the Sales Force Tower camera as we look east and tracking some showers pushing across parts of the east bay. I will show you high def doppler coming up. We have a lot of brake it is because of this lights out of the alatoona instability that is slowing pass. Delays are from tracy towards pushing out of here. We will see a few more isolated other areas. Remember, we want to bring showers and it is a possibility but also some clearing and a little bit of sunshine. I will show you the future cast take you hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. Lets take a live look in you the good news happening in capitol hill. You see where treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and Jerome Powell are going to face a scented grilling . They will give their first report about the Economic Stimulus Program implemented by the 2. 2 trillion cares act and the hearing is coming on the heels of report from a new Congressional Oversight Commission that it found the Treasury Departmen
President trump says hes pulling the u. S. Out of yet another international treaty. And European Countries face a tricky balancing act as they seek to reopen to tourists without driving up Coronavirus Infection rates again. China is planning to impose tough National Security laws on hong kong following months of mass protests against the Central Government the draft law is expected to be rubber stamped at chinas biggest political gathering in beijing but activists fear it will be used to crackdown on hong kongs Political Freedoms and is likely to make relations with the u. S. Even worse american senators say theyll introduce legislation to impose sanctions on chinese officials for violating hong kongs autonomy katrina you reports from beijing. On the eve of Chinas National Peoples Congress the announcement of a National Security law which criminalizes secession foreign interference and the subversion of state power in hong kong. Could be issues and treat hong kong as an inseparable par
Or was it the real economy rearing its increasingly ugly head every day that the average goes down, the dow slipped 102 points, s p shed 7 p. 8 , are we having Great Depression style unemployment 38 million jobless claims or another garden variety sell off in the wake of another major rally . Ill give you a hint its not the economy driving the bus. I know the markets incredible rebound the last two months seems totally out of sync with whats happening in the rest of the country. Wall streets become divorced from main street and were told thats unsustainable the thing is im not so sure this morning on squawk on the street, i kicked this idea around with david faber and carl quintanilla. David was incredulous i thought we were seeing a garden variety selloff, not some reckoning mass sell off in unemployment. Another 2. 4 Million People filing for jobless benefits this very week. Remember we get those claims thursday morning lets start with the positives that help stem the bleeding today
In professional sports, south korea, where fans are not yet being taken out to the ballgame. Hello. Thank you for joining us. A senior washington official who was removed from his key role in the u. S. Coronavirus response has attacked the Trump Administration handling of the response and accused his former agency of abuse of authority or gross mismanagement. Bright was Deputy Assistant health and Human Services secretary. In a whistleblower come plane whistleblower complaint filed tuesday, he said he was reassigned because he tried to prioritize science and safety over political expediency. Im joint live on mike hanna in washington dc. Mike, this broken the past hour. What can you tell us about dr. Brights complaint. Director bright was a of the Biomedical Advanced Development authority, certainly a senior official. He was essentially in charge of developing vaccines for any virus that would hit the united states. Now he has filed an official complaint with the office of the special c