The time we are meeting right now. And more than 22 million initial unemployment claims filed in the past month. Some regions of our country have lost as many jobs over the last month as they did during the worst year of the great recession. These statistics are not just numbers on a page, madam speaker. These are our neighbors. They are our family, they are our friends, their health is at risk and their economic reality has changed overnight. Since the start of this pandemic, congress has provided more than 2 trillion in emergency relief. To get Small Businesses the financial help they need to survive. To help hospitals and Health Care Workers on the frontlines. To expand testing. To provide every american access to an affordable vaccine when it is developed. I could go on and on and on. We need to make sure that these resources are going where congress intended. That they are helping struggling americans, Small Businesses without any rampant fraud or accuse and companies arent taking
61,000 in the state of illinois. Sadly, we are quickly approaching a death toll of 100,000 americans, while more people continue to contract this coronavirus, another alarming trend has come to light. The coronavirus disproportionately affects minority communities. Black illinoisans make up less than 15 of the states overall population. However, they account for 34 of all coronavirus deaths. In chicago, black residents account for 52 of the total coronavirus deaths despite comprising only 30 of the citys population. Madam president , recently a survey of latinosat in illinois who make up 17 of our state population surpassed lack illinoisans in confirmed cases of coronavirus. Now latino illinoisans account for 23 of confirmed cases in the state, the most of any race or ethnicity. On a call last week i learned of the 34,000 africanamericans who had been tested in illinois, 36 were positive for coronavirus, of the 24,000 latinos tested 62 tested positive. 622 . Compare that to the 73,000
The state reported 2500 new cases just yesterday making it the biggest oneday gain in confirmed cases here in the bay area. We have nearly 90 hundred coronavirus cases in the bay area and 328 people have died. We will bring you the governors News Conference once it gets underway. The San Mateo County Sheriffs Department is investigating after the date shot and killed the woman in Half Moon Bay. The bow woman fired at the deputys first. Sara zendehnam has the details. You dont hear about this happening in Half Moon Bay. It was a shock to those living there, especially for the woman who called 911. Reporter up quick and bizarre conversation. She told me be careful tonight because theres going to be a race war. Reporter followed by a more alarming site. I saw her walking down the street with a rifle in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other hand. Reporter thats why Half Moon Bay businesses. With to interrupt and take you love to sacramento. Governor gatto newsom in his daily update. C
Mr. Burgess will you yield for parliamentary inquiry . Ms. Eshoo i want to do my Opening Statement. Pardon me. I already recognized myself but afterward. Ize you i never thought id be holding or that we would be under the sad ng circumstances, but i think its one. Essary pain. Untry is in americans are afraid. Sick. E theyre hungry and jobless. Nd over 80,000 souls have been lost. And the government that was supposed to protect them has failed. There are heroes and they have isen, extraordinary, ordinary americans showing courage, compassion, and a sense of and duty beyond what could have or should have them. Sked of regular americans have risen not. Their leaders have we are the greatest country on earth, and, yet, we have the cases and the most deaths in covid19 of any nation the world. Why . The inept, ineffective and extremely late to what was pond clear to many scientists and in ic Health Experts january. Hat basic delay cost precious lives and is continuing to cost lives. Theant
Video of what it looked like late late last night when the driver was coming along southbound 85 when according to chp the driver lost control either because of drugs or alcohol we do know that because that person was arrested 2 people during the rollover were ejected from the suv a few others actually were trapped inside. They rushed the survivors to the hospital we do know that one person still alive at the hospital whether male or female we dont know the driver. This might not come as a surprise to a lot of people that driver was not seriously injured along with dui theyre also looking into possible speeding. As a factor in all this because of shelter in place the freeway was probably a little bit wider or free or i should say that in normal circumstances because there are so few cars on the roads these days that that gave probably the driver more opportunity to go faster than normal. So that is certainly one thing that theyre looking into they actually daria they thought that they