The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will read the communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , april 9, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable roy blunt a senator from the state of missouri, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask to be recognized, notwithstanding the previous order, for a session today. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. More than 400,000 americans have tested positive. Nearly 15,000 have lost their lives. Nurses, doctors, and e. M. T. s are fighting this disease literally day and night. An important public and important Public Health measures are creating an economic catastrophe. This morning, we learned that 6. 6 million more americans filed for unemployment in just the last week. That means, mr. President ,
Rural areas. May not have broadband, so i worry about those communities who may be low resource or under resourced. Those are just a few of the things that i worry about. Thank you, our time is up. Dr. Patrice harris, we would like to present you virtually with our notable National Press club coffee mug along with our hope that we can share a cup of coffee here at press club in person in the near future. Thank you for joining us today. Dr. Harris thank you for having me today, and thank you. I will enjoy that mug. My thanks to our National Press announcer tonight at 9 00 eastern, netflix director and former u. N. Official michelle fix. Ith her book, the that was something i discovered in my research that there is a believe everybody is the same because everybody is treated in the same way. If people do not have experiences, with that logic, we are not only denying difference but any quality. Afterwardstch tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan two. Announcer congressional efforts are underwa
Conversation through our washington journal program. Cspan, created by private industry. As a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. The u. S. Senate gaveled in this morning. Mitch mcconnell attempted to approved by unanimous consent and increase to the Paycheck Protection Program. The ranking democrat on the Small Business committee objected and said the majority leader had not negotiated with democrats on this package. Senator Chris Van Hollen also the floor and tried to call up another Small Business bill. This is about half an hour. Our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have00 tested positive. Nearly 15,000 have lost their lives. Emts areoctors, and fighting this disease literally day and night. An important important Public Health measures are creating economic catastrophe. This morning, we learned that 6. 6 million more americans filed for unemployment in just the last week. That means, mr. President , more than 16 million amer
Studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area , we are looking live from our camera on top of our roof at kpix 5 , looking at coit tower lit up in red white and blue. Good morning, everyone. It is friday, yes, the end of the week. We made it. It is april 17th. I am michelle griego. Lets say that one more time, it is friday. Thanks for joining us this morning on friday. Lets get the check of your forecast with mary lee. Good morning to you. Good morning, we are starting off with cool temperatures. Today, we are going to continue with our cooldown and that continues into the weekend as well. Is a live look with the Treasure Island camera and you can see are temps this morning of the low to mid 50s with those clouds, so as you go through the day, we will actually see if not a little bit below average, by as much as about five degrees below average. We will talk about what you can expect for the weekend and the next chance for showers and that full foreca
Highs and partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies, upper 50s in San Francisco, low 60s in oakland, 67 in concord, upper 60s in san jose and 74 fairfield. We will talk about our weekend forecast coming up and now lets check in with gianna for the latest on a Traffic Alert along the peninsula. Weve got to trouble spot here and that we are seeing quite a few brake lights as well, this is northbound 101 just south of broadway for commute as you head into burlingame. If you are hitting the roadways this morning, heads up, 101. A couple of cars, it is stuck off on and lanes. Chp has issued that alert and we will let you know when lanes open, but right now, traffic is definitely backing up. You know, still not a lot of volume on the roadways, so you know, traffic is traveling pretty quickly along onetoone so you makeup up on this pretty quickly with those brake lights. If you are taking onetoone, just a heads up if you want to avoid any of that, you can use 280 which is moving nicely in both dire