Evening hours. Now on abc 7 news live desk update. A new shelter in place order is in effect for much of the bay area. Here at the live desk, im breaking down the new restrictions that are in place. So, first off, well start with this. Health officials in seven bay area counties have extended their stay in place now, moving forward some of the new rules here. Playgrounds and dog parks are closed. Golf courses, tennis and basketball courts, pools and rock climbing walls are also closed. We spoke with people who are not happy about this. Closing the dog park seems draconian. Do we need to do that . When you are walking on a trail, how often do you get within six feet of people . I will support it, but im not happy about it. I would assume it is based on valid data. Essential businesses like Grocery Stores can stay open, but they must have social distancing protocols and limits on buying certain items and you cannot bring reusable bags. We should mention that most construction is prohibit
Citizens. O more money needs to be put against hospitals and states and workers there is an unprecedented amount in the legislation but to say theres nothing here im going to talk about this with specificity but 100 million, pretty good start. 75 billion of which was to hospitals. To say theres nothing for workers, the Unemployment Insurance provision comes from the democratic side of the aisle. Its the most generous by far and addspl more mone add more mo Unemployment Insurance than the Current System has. By the way it has a time more funding for the rest of this year than is currently being spent. And we also agree that those jobs should be able to get a tgenerous check while we work through the virus and get the economy up and going against what they walk through some of this. The coronavirus is some urgent for us to address. Its closed businesses and schools and changed every aspect of our daily lives. Its left us uncertain and for Many Americans its left him isolated, literally s
33. 00 coming across the country were now looking youre born with a tree. Because the numbers are growing up that quickly. Also refugee camp becomes a virtual prison as bangladesh locks down hundreds of thousands of rotting go. Under siege at a sikh center in the Afghan Capital of kabul as gunman stormed a ceremony. Welcome to the program the largest lockdown in the world this wednesday is in india where 1300000000 people have been told to stay at home the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the order which is expected to be enforced for the next 21 days ports roads Railways Services and ports are being closed in an effort to stop corona virus spreading through the dense population its feared 1000000 people could be infected by mid may elizabeth problem is following events for us from the indian capital a major lockdown obviously across india and the reaction is being sort of being housebound really dawning on millions. It is so and they have had a few days to get used to it so things ar
[ inaudible question ] we wanted to find out but were getting out, we got out. We had good meetings request the taliban and were going to be leaving and bringing our soldiers back home weve been there almost 20 years. Done a great job weve got rid of terrorists. Now its up to other countries to get rid of those terrorists [ inaudible question ] we have discussions to go, but weve mad a lot e a lot of prog. Okay thank you. The president ahead of a meeting this afternoon with ceos from pharmaceutical companies, maybe giving just a peek of what we might expect to hear around 3 00 time. With that, stocks are close to session highs. Eamon javers, maybe you can tell us more about what we could expect today yeah, carl. We expect well see about eight ceos of those pharmaceutical companies here at the white house today. The idea is to sort of gather all the big brains in one room at one time and let the president know exactly what the expectations are for a vaccine and for treatment for the cor
Stores. Secondhand clothes. How customers are cashing in. And from the shocking Sticker Price for these fancy oreo cookies to the date night these offduty cops will never forget to a special music milestone. Take on me all the trending stories for your wednesday morning. Take me on take on me. Good wednesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with that breaking news overnight about attorney general william barr. Yes, sources say barr discussed possibly resigning if President Trump continues to tweet about the justice departments criminal investigations. All of this comes just one day before the president s longtime friend and adviser roger stone is due to be sentenced. Abcs Andrew Dymburt is in washington with the new details. Andrew, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. This is really all about the tweets. Last week barr spoke exclusively to abc news and said the president s constant tweet something making his job impossible and now he may quit. A serious shake