When i did. More fallout in the u. K. After the Prime Ministers chief advisor refuses to resign over the trip he made during lockdown. And theres people around the world are cooped up at home because of the pandemic well take you to a part of qatar where bird life is booming. With sports including marine times. At an achilles injury and training with ac milan which could rule him out for the season and potentially and his career in. Hong kongs leader is trying to ease fears about beijings planned new security law activists say its going to mean the end of the special one country 2 systems arrangement with china but carol has appealed for people to wait to see the details and promises the legislation wont trump alone hong kongs rights and freedoms. We are very free society so for the time being people have this freedom to say whatever they want to say but ultimately what is to be provided in this piece of legislation is for all of us to see in order to be assured that hong kongs freedom
Fight against the pandemic one of the worst hit countries in asia reports no new local cases. And the u. S. City of miami starts to lift its lockdown restrictions despite a high number of cases. Im going to go with sports is italy its football season looks set to be scrapped players are about to start training again but the country sports minister wants to follow france and the netherlands and focus on next season instead. Its 10 g. M. T. And we start in europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record shrinking by 3. 8 percent so far this year thats the eurozone sharpest drop since records began in 1995 so yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world all that comes after germany which is europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year because straight to don. It came it joins us live from len so dominic we were expecting of course the ec
Businesses to reopen. It comes as a vacaville woman promises to reopen her hair salon in just a few hours defying those shutdown orders. Start filing for unemployment assistance from the state. The aid applies for people who do not qualify for regular state benefits. Im laura garcia. And im Marcus Washington. A look at traffic coming up in about eight minutes with mike inouye. First, meteorologist kari hall is tracking the forecast, shaping up to be another warm week for us, right, kari . Yes, especially today. Were looking at temperatures that will be in some spots near record highs and ill be watching those numbers in concord where we start out at 60 degrees but already at noon were in the low 80s and well see the highs reaching into the upper 80s later on today and then for the coastal areas were staying in the upper 60s in San Francisco. Low 60s in half moon bay. The valleys, thats where it will be hot. Ill have a look at those numbers and how close well get to a record in some spo
And if you dont get the quality right, this business wont be here for you. Miami is my hometown, and its also home to over a million cubanamericans. Since the castro revolution, cuban families have come here to build their homes and their businesses. They bring their culture while embracing something that is distinctly american the American Dream. Grafton furniture is a shining example. Started in 1964 by esteban grafton, the Custom Manufacturing Company Makes everything from sofas, chairs, to tables. Steve this ones 154 by 96. Lemonis his son steve now runs the business and designs most of the furniture and is 50 50 partners with his wife, mary. Their son, also steve, is there to learn the business and keep it going for another generation. But when the economy turned in 2009, so did the companys fortunes. Steve the market was soft. Finances were really bad. Lemonis when business slowed, the company and the family began piling up debt to keep the doors open. Today, with limited funds,
There are always little fireball moments. Stevie boom, boom, boom. Lets set the stage, baby. Lemonis in the last seven years of doing the profit, ive visited nearly 100 businesses. Lets go make some money. [ horn honking ] ive traveled the country trying to fix the people. And you do 1 million a year. You should be proud of it. Man but we dont know how to keep any of it. Lemonis . Fix the process. See . It is flimsy. Dont ever make these again. You dont sell them. And create a few products. Woman it reduces anxiety and depression. Lemonis i kinda like it. I spend countless days working on these companies. Man [laughs] lemonis how much money did you burn through . Man 650,000. Lemonis but we cant always fit everything im thinking into the show. [ musical powerdown ] so, tonight, were gonna give you an inside look at a business from season 3 grafton furniture. Over the next hour, im gonna take you behind the scenes to find out how a struggling Custom Furniture company. And what is it wor