Safeway stores, a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables on shelves this may be linked to a coronavirus related deaths at one of their Major Distribution Centers kron fours dan thorn talked with shoppers who know to see empty shelves see has more in this report from Pleasant Hill Pleasant Hill. Sent to a shoppers are telling us here they started noticing a shortage of produce on the shelves here about a week ago and we spoke with an employee who works here at the safeway that says that they too started noticing the low stock and it may be possibly connected to an issue that happened at the Tracy Distribution Center safely has confirmed that one of their workers at that center died earlier this week because of complications with coronavirus the company is also acknowledge there is a shortage of staff at their Tracy Distribution Center. But its for quote a variety of reasons they did not explicitly say was because of the covid19 debt in the meantime viewers have been reporting that the prod
Into our edd department of Employment Development department now at 9 more than 22 million americans have filed for unemployment as the president lays out guidelines to reopen the country for business. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, todays unemployment numbers are the largest and most dramatic rise in claims on record since the department started tracking back in 1967. The totals though come as no surprise since businesses will remain closed during this pandemic state agencies are having to hire more workers to help overwhelmed the state labor departments some states are expected to run low on money for state Unemployment Benefits as part of the federal Economic Relief package Congress Expanded Unemployment Benefits to include an extra 600 a week the size was given out by the state in california 2. 7 Million People across the state filed for Unemployment Benefits. As kron fours 10 per second tells us many are still waiting for money and some can even get through to the Em
Work of our National Innovation initiative. Now, another 17 years later, here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Today well hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by the Council Board on this stage is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation potential and to chart a new path for competitiveness in the 21st century. And as this slide shows, just a little less than a year ago, with our core leadership team, we began to build this effort. And by august we had pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners, nearly 60 leaders from across this country from industry, from academia, from our Labor Union Community and our National Labs. And the commission has already started their work. As deborah mentioned, todays launch is our 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future traject
Horsing Vice President michael the deciding vote. We will speak to california congresswoman Maxine Waters about devos and why she is already talking about the need to impeach donald trump. Your words, your actions have shown us that you dont respect us, that both you and all of your nominees for your cabinet us andre dangerous for all of our families. Amy plus, we will take a look at Donald Trumps foreign russia tom iran to mexico. Pres. Trump we are taken advantage of by every nation in the world virtually. It is not going to happen anymore. It is not going to happen anymore. Amy we will speak to harvard professor stephen walt author of the recent piece, trump has already blown it. And we will also talk to an iranianamerican doctoral student who has just returned to School New York after being blocked from reentering the country thanks to trumps muslim ban. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol
Education secretary. But unless a third republican votes against betsy devos, she be 5050, will horsing Vice President michael the deciding vote. We will speak to california congresswoman Maxine Waters about devos and why she is already talking about the need to impeach donald trump. Your words, your actions have shown us that you dont respect us, that both you and all of your nominees for your cabinet us and are dangerous for all of our families. Amy plus, we will take a look at Donald Trumps foreign russia tom iran to mexico. Pres. Trump we are taken advantage of by every nation in the world virtually. It is not going to happen anymore. It is not going to happen anymore. Amy we will speak to harvard professor stephen walt author of the recent piece, trump has already blown it. And we will also talk to an iranianamerican doctoral student who has just returned to School New York after being blocked from reentering the country thanks to trumps muslim ban. All that and more, coming up. W