Good afternoon. All here today to a hearing entitled acting americans from covid19 scams protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the Health Crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In addition to the threat this pandemic poses to americans, the Economic Impact resulting from responsible Public Health protocols have been felt in every corner of the country. It has become clear that preventing practices and dedicated resources including expanding testing capability and the availability of personal protective equipment are absolute necessities to a responsible path forward in extinguishing this Health Crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency and coordinated recovery, there are scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially the nations most vulnerable communities, like that of our nations seniors. Networks Consumer Reports consumers across the u. S. Reported over 136,000 Different Cases of covid related scams totaling appro
On cspan2 at 9 30 a. M. The Dc Circuit Court of appeals heels oral arguments in the perjury case against Michael Flynn and at 1 00 a virtual townhall with virginia senator mark warner and representative gerry connolly. Next a look at efforts to combat fraud and exploitation during the coronavirus pandemic with officials from the Justice Department, fbi and us secret service. They testified on price gouging, the hoarding of personal protective equipment and the filing of fraudulent applications under the paycheck protection loan program. The Senate Judiciary hearing is just under two hours. Good morning, thank you very much for attending the hearing and more will come in throughout the morning. Mister craig carbonito, phil hughes, associate attorney general, assistant director of the criminal investigative division, fbi, the assistant director of the office of investigations of the United States secret service. We are talking about this before, fraud related to the cares act, scams agai
Vulnerable populations reexposed. Tonight the abc 7 news iteam is digging into the number of covid19 patients released from the hospital returning back to Skilled Nursing facilities and the problems that can cause. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. And imam ma dates. Lets get right to stephanie eera who is track the numbers. Reporter we just learned 78 positive covid19 cases in San Mateo County are from assisted living and Skilled Nursing facilities. Dozens of those patients required hospitalization, likely returned back to care facilities running the risk of exposing others. Thats what san mateo supervisors are working to prevent. Permanent dying in n homes. Reporter this is eric love, a residet that the Skilled Nursing facility in burlingame. Our conversation via face time as slough selfisolating in his room. According to love and a current staff member, one drents and one Health Care Provider tested positive for covid19. We just wanted to confirm the yes, somebo
Experience is the ultimate knowledge. Reporter a singer and author. His latest the biker. Ive called several office and cell numbers. Their home as seen on google maps, emailed and reached out on facebook but have not heard back. Anthony has shared an easter message. And told how he is enduring the shelter in place. Thats what i thing. That while legal troubles head his way. There are many people who have contacted us who are looking to receive our assistance, and all of them to the t dont want any other family to go through what they gone through. Civil rights attorney is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of several gateway residents and their families. Staff was encouraged. They were pressured to come and work, even though gateway knew the staff was positive for the virus. So you have a situation here that was just a tinderbox ready to explode. Pointer also says hell be addressing prosecutors for their investigations into the deaths at gateway. Nursing home advocates tell me the legal ac
The oil news really make up for that . As you can see, crude is up about 25 or so, but the rest of the market trying to hang in there as well. Every economist was very surprised here that the jobless claims were double what they were last weekend, more so than a lot of economist had been expecting. Indeed, 10 million jobs claims in two weeks, that really gets your attention. What is going on with bonds . I want to take a look at the bond market, i do think we have the board there, david. I dont know, we are going to have to leave it there, sorry. David ok, thats all right. Any sense of exactly what went on between President Trump and mohammad bin salman . The only headlines that we were getting is that he came out with a tweet saying that he expects saudi arabia and russia to cover the option by about 10 million 10 Million Barrels per day or so. Not sure if this is 10 Million Barrels per day or not, if that was barrels per day, that would be 10 of the Global Demand we had seen. For the