Im julie haener working from home tonight. It has course is announcing new efforts to combat the virus as the number of cases across the country continues to rise. There are now more than 3600 cases here in the bay area. Santa clara county has the most with more than 1200 cases. California as a whole has 15,000 cases. Thats about 1000 more than yesterday and 349 people have died statewide. In the United States there are now more than 337,000 cases and nearly 10,000 deaths. The death toll is expected to jump this week. Today the president also announced new measures to try to fight the coronavirus. Reporter the federal government implementing new measures to help bolster the countrys fight against the coronavirus outbreak as the number of covid19 cases in the u. S. Continues to climb. This is an allout military operation that weve waged. President trump in the Coronavirus Task was delivering an update on the white house, outlining some of the new steps are being taken this week includin
Stock, especially with all that we have been seeing with that bad news this morning. Reporter well, thats exactly right. I think marcus thats because the markets was expecting and wall street was expecting this move and washington moved so quickly to fix it. Lets look at that number. The official number is 3, 283,000, the number of people filing for unemployment in the most recent week measured. That makes sense when you think about it. Of course, we expected that number. Look around you. The stores are closed. The restaurants are working at halfstaff. But the stimulus bill can ease that pain. Both sides got what they wanted. Democrats were able to get some supervision over some of the oversight of the money going to corporations. We got money to workers as well. Its going to be the Unemployment Benefits that are written into that bill that got expanded and extended that probably will help your family most. I know a lot of people think of that check and think of that. But i think its t