Here are just a few bay areabased companies that have announced big job cuts recently. Uber is laying off 3700 workers. Lyft is cutting 982 positions. Airbnb laying off 1900 people. And we dont know how many local workers are affected at those three companies. We do know that the oakland as are laying off nearly 800 people. The San Francisco giants cutting 1200 jobs, and bon appetit management is laying off more than 1500 workers in San Francisco. I think in the shortterm, there are going to be some sectors that are going to have trouble coming back, even under the best Public Health response. Uc berkeley Public Health policy professor Jesse Rothstein says that includes restaurants and Small Businesses, but includes even powerhouses like uber who thought treating drivers as independent contractors made them less susceptible to layoffs are finding thats not true in this pandemic. But even when all this begins to quiet done, some things may never go back to the way they were. Set your ex
Commitment to bringing you live gavel to gavel coverage of the u. S. Senate. You can continue watching this hearing online at cspan. Org. And now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, we continue to depend on you to fulfill your purposes for our lives. You have told us that your purpose for us is that we live for your glory. As our lawmakers strive to do your will, bringing honor to your name, have your way in all they say and do. Send them your help from celestial portals, so that they will please you and be your ambassadors during these challenging times. Rescue them from anything that will keep them from remembering that nothing is impossible for you. Be exalted, o god, above the highest heavens. Let your glory shine in our nation and world. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me
For 12 months and get xfinity flex a personalized streaming dashboard for all your favorite apps. Click or call today. Next at 5 00, the reality on e bay are mtrter regulations stay in place. Coronavirus and homelessness. The new crisis in a San Francisco neighborhood and the new plan to target more than a thousand tents on city sidewalks. Also tonight, from the elevator to the hallway to desk configures, we have new insight into what offices will look like when the economy reopens. Plexiglas becomes a booming business. The north bay company now creating chat changing workplace. Plus the gym of tomorrow. What Fitness Centers are doing to get you back when the lockdowns ease. Now your health, your safety, this is abc 7 news. Going to take a lot longer than people are saying. This is serious. Never experienced anything like this in our lifetime. The long road ahead. As california begins to reopen, finally, were getting some answers as to which bay area counties might move forward into ph
Being prepared and overcoming challenges. Usaa has been standing with them for nearly a hundred years. And well be here to serve you for a hundred more. Is positively to do the new test site that Christopher High School in the town of gilroy. We have to have these type of services throughout the county. Only then will we be able to reopen our businesses. For now the Testing Capacity at the new site is limited to 132 people at each site per day. That is why they are prioritizing who can get tested first they are starting with people who worked at who work at Skilled Nursing facilities, First Responders and healthcare workers and anyone with symptoms of tenderloin housing clinic. Eventually they want to expand the testing to more people. We are trying to get enough tests so everybody can be tested. The importance of that is as people slowly start to get back to work we want to make sure that people know that they are healthy and they know that if they are not we can more quickly follow u
Which says. Follow the science the science is in focus on capitol hill hearing will come to water as experts testify on the next steps needed to combat coronavirus theres nothing more important in the fight against this virus then developing a vaccine in washington, im karin caifa. California may be days away from loosening restrictions on the current shelter in place order. Governor newsom is expected to announce those changes tomorrow, however kron fours Haaziq Madyun spoke to an east bay health officer. Well explains why the existing order will remain in place in contra costa county. As california approaches stage 2 in reopening the economy later this week officials at Contra Costa Health services say the county is not quite ready that is based on several indicators yet to be reached that would signal it is time to move away from the existing shelterinplace orders says Contra Costa Health officer doctor chris far in town we want to look at the number of chases in that area going dow