hospitality sector. it s good to see some of those come back. but if you look under the hood of this you also saw that in february we lost nearly 70,000 educator jobs at the state and local level. and as you say, the challenge of long-term joblessness, which is one of the hallmarks of this crisis, is not getting better. so what we really need to do here is we need to provide relief and support immediately in those areas of the economy that we know are struggling so that we can get the trajectory of this recovery up significantly. to that point democrats say that is what is in this bill and it will help precisely those people. that includes unemployment benefits extended through september, a third round of direct stimulus payments, $1,400 going directly to people making $75,000 or less, single parents with kids earning $112,500 or less and couples making $150,000 or less. the bill includes $350 billion for state and local governments, $130 billion for schools, $160 billion f
some have taken to social media to criticize local leaders for the way they have spent tax dollars. so, why spend money on studies? yesterday, ktiv s tiffany lane asked local leaders that question. not one of the major markets in the country, doesn t mean we can t use ideas from some of those bigger arenas here. the tyson events center was awarded 68-thousand dollars for a study to look at physical improvements, as well as, a review of concessions and programming. the cone park project had the most expensive study for fiscal thousand dollars. parks and recreation director matt salvatore says that is because the study also included a preliminary design. we would have basically put together a rough idea of what we thought this project would-how it would have been done and we would have hired somebody to design and it wouldn t have given us the info up front, said matt salvatore, sioux city parks & recreation director. salvatore says without the study and design, they would
took off on foot with money, phone and shoes. no word yet on who the victim is but we did see a man without shoes getting into the back of a police car. investigators say one of the suspects was wearing brown timberland boots and one was wearing a black north face jacket. now coincidentally there have been three other muggings nearby in and around central park since monday night at west 95th street and west drive, west 91st street near the reservoir and east 86th street. these all happened late at night and into the overnight hours. police at this point do not believe that this armed robbery from this morning is connected but still, people we spoke with last night say all of this has left them on edge. my mom used to always send me every article any time anything would happen here being like please stop walking through the park at night but will you stop? yeah, i think i probably will. i usually don t walk through the park at night for reasons and again, police are sear
deadly virus, we re covering all angles with chairman of medicine of newark beth israel medical center and dr. peter leoni, infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the university of north carolina chapel hill. he joins us now by phone. before we get to all of those stories, there are new stories tonight that i want the two of you to respond to. bob, i will start with you. according to the star ledger in new jersey, a woman, a passenger at newark liberty airport is in quarantine. she did not feel well. she s a health official returning from africa. it would appear that we have another ebola case on our hands, your reaction. my reaction is those people who come from this endemic area and caring for the patients should be quarantined and should be quarantined for 21 to 30 days, and it s irresponsible for us not to quarantine them and irresponsible for them to wander around the streets. gerri: we ll get to that. dr. peter to you, about this woman in new jerse
officials over response to the deadly virus, we re covering all angles with chairman of medicine of newark beth israel medical center and dr. peter leoni, infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the university of north carolina chapel hill. he joins us now by phone. before we get to all of those stories, there are new stories tonight that i want the two of you to respond to. bob, i will start with you. according to the star ledger in new jersey, a woman, a passenger at newark liberty airport is in quarantine. she did not feel well. she s a health official returning from africa. it would appear that we have another ebola case on our hands, your reaction. my reaction is those people who come from this endemic area and caring for the patients should be quarantined and should be quarantined for 21 to 30 days, and it s irresponsible for us not to quarantine them and irresponsible for them to wander around the streets. gerri: we ll get to that. dr. peter to you