Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated some of them in my written testimony. I want to just spend a moment though reemphasizing the leadership that the attorney general of the United States eric holder, has focused on issue of officer safety and wellness. Im not sure he is getting enough credit for his leadership. Just a few years ago, when deaths were spiking, 171 officers killed in 2011 he held a summit in his office with about 40 L
And the Golden Gate Bridge. Since some clouds. Here are the headlines. As mark said is going to be cooler inland today. For the rest of the week with talking about that summertime pattern. Low 70s and oakland. George its back with a vengeance today. Drive eric ober 20 minutes. An accident six any southbound. The 580 riot was already over 50 minutes. Now its starting to back up towards livermore in dublin right at the 84 and a change. George the back door route through livermore is not working out well at all. There was a multi vehicle accident. Its been clear from the lands but traffic has still been backed up. At the white bay bridge to the westbound backup is at the foot of the maze. Mark firefighters say they are working to put out a fire at healdsburg high school. Mark reports say the fire started in the gym. Mark Officials Say it appears to be accidental. Mark mark darya new this morning. A car crashes into an east bay home. And forces neighbors outside because of a gas leak. Dary
Youre watching cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Holy and gracious god, thank you for the countless times you demonstrate the intimacy of your love for us. Through the affection of a loved one, a desire met, moments that grace our days with evidence of your hand in our lives. How easy it is to believe, having seen your power at work, your creative activity in the living of our days, in the healing of those we love and care for. We are truly blessed. Lord, we believe. Help our unbelief. We ask your blessing when we cant see, when the hurts, the evil and the confusion of the world obscure any evidence of your concern for us and deny your willingness or ability to bring order to our chaos. In this c
Continue. It will be dark for awhile. Were going to talk to a doctor on the front lines of that battle in a bit. But the other side of this, course ever of course is the unprecedented economic devastation, right . J. P. Morgan chase predicted unemployment will hit 20 . Thats Great Depression levels. The unemployment claims weve seen are off the chart in terms of filing. Retail sales fell 8. 7 in march, the largest monthly drop on record. And this is all we should say hitting low income households the hardest. The survey conducted at the end of march found 21 of low income workers lost their jobs compared to just 9 of high income workers. We seen seemingly endless lines of cars waiting at food banks around the country, this one in san antonio, texas served over 10 240 10,000 families that day. Also, the health risk is more acute for people who work in low paying jobs and still have those jobs and have to work on the front lines, janitorial workers, meatpackers who cant leave those jobs.
Promising in the sense of what it means for where we might be in two weeks or four weeks or six weeks from now, but it also means that what is happening now is as bad as it gets. More than 32,000 americans have died. We had our highest single day death total again today and that devastation is going to continue. It will be dark for awhile. Were going to talk to a doctor on the front lines of that battle in a bit. But the other side of this, of course, is just the unprecedented and very widespread economic devastation, right . Jpmorgan chase just predicted that unemployment will hit 20 . Thats Great Depression levels. The unemployment claims weve seen are off the chart in terms of filing. Retail sales fell 8. 7 in march, the largest monthly drop on record. And this is all we should say hitting low income households the hardest. The survey conducted at the end of march found 21 of low income workers lost their jobs compared to just 9 of high income workers. Weve seen seemingly endless li