The first day was interesting. It was great. We greeted in the parking lot. We had to take temperatures and parents as to some questions about health, making sure that everybody was healthy at home and the students themselves. Reporter this is a special limited Access Program for only a few classrooms following Strict Health department guidelines, ensuring everyones safety. Across the street, caleb kohn is with his two kids. Jojo and torrin. I asked him what he prefers for his family. Active class or online attendance . Obviously, smaller classrooms would make more sense, but i dont know. Its too hard to know right now. Reporter todays class started right on time. They were very excited to be here. Sat down in their desks and we just waited for morning meetings to start. We are watching this very carefully and again, i will say it. I have said it many times. With the guidance of public health. Reporter caleb says he hopes the Pilot Program works out. Let them get some energy out, but t
Thoughtful way. This was a very Important Movement for the Antiwar Movement. It was not just in the streets. It was in the senate and congress i12. Haswell. Congress as well. You had not seen this before. What is your impression . Your first reaction to the tone of this thing . It is a very serious piece. These are very earnest men, they are both republicans and democrats, moderate and liberal. People who come to the conclusion that United States should not be fighting in this war. The tragedy has mounted so much over the years they are trying to stop it. They are trying to use the legislative branch to bring the war to an end. In a sense creating a bit of a constitutional clash with the president of the United States. It is a very moving piece. Those are all very prominent senators. I knew them and work with them. They looked much younger in these pictures. They are really earnest about what they are saying. They were very convincing to the Television Audience that watched them. They
Too soon could have dire health and economic consequences. There is a real risk you may trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control which will set you back load on the high seas warns container volumes may fall as much as 25 in the Second Quarter. How the virus will hit global trade. Protectionism is a key risk and getting bigger as part of this pandemic as countries saw trying to protect their businesses it is no doubt in my mind it is the wrong strategy the french group pulls out of the take of the bermuda based partner turning shares sharply lower. The uk economy contracted a record 5. 8 in march Economic Activity in the First Quarter slank 2 output in the services and output fell sharply but not as low as expected. Retail sales plunged 19. 1 as the lockdown weighed heavily on the sector it is the biggest monthly fall since the brc began the index in 1995 weve been looking at that data but we know there is worse to come in the Second Quarter when we warn the contraction could
Recognized, those of us in the senate and the house, recognized that we had to take special effort to protect the economic viability of the Small Businesses in our country. They did not have the reserve capital. They did not have the resiliency in order to deal with this prolonged downturn in our economy. Eight weeks ago we came together, democrats and republicans by a 960 vote and passed the cares act. I was proud that a significant part of the cares act responded to the needs of Small Businesses. We had a working group, a bipartisan working group. Senator rubio, the chairman of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Im the ranking democrat. We were joined by senator shaheen and senator collins. And we worked on an expedited way in order to see what we could do to help Small Businesses get through covid19. And the cares act provides new opportunities for us to help Small Businesses during this unprecedented disaster. We passed the p. P. P. Program, Paycheck Protection Prog
My colleagues the status of where we are in regards to the professions in the cares act that relate to Small Businesses. First i want to make it clear that our top priority for americas businesses, whether they be Small Businesses or large businesses, is to get this covid19 behind us, to stop the spread of this deadly disease, to give confidence back to the American People that its safe to pursue their economic desires and, therefore, to have businesses be able to go back to a situation where they have customers and they can be open for business. We have appropriated significant resources in order to make sure we do whats right financially to deal with this deadly disease. And we have provided the tools to to protect our economy. So let me talk a little bit about the attention to Small Business. Im pleased and proud to be the ranking democrat in the Small Business and entrepreneurship committee. I serve with senator rubio, who is the chairman of the committee. And we have worked togeth