Posted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, my name is dave darcy and were glad youre able to join us for this live conversation with president and ceo day diane yentel and ibram kendi. We encourage you to submit questions for doctor kendi and if you start to have a question for our support team, click here on that right side of the screen. The event will be available on the site within 24 hours and is now my pleasure to turn it over to diane yentel. Thank you dave and welcome everyone to todays conversation with doctor ibram kendi on Racial Equity before and after the covid19 pandemic. Im glad almost 5000 people have registered today. Im heartened and encouraged by the level of interest in this topic so i am diane yentel, president and ceo of the National Housing coalition, where a Membership Organization dedicated to achieving socially just Public Policies and ensuring that the lowest income people have decent, accessible and affordable homes. And as part of that work you ha
Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
The bay bridge thats an easy at the minimum typical for this morning and no backup at the toll plaza right now. Back to you. 5 00 right now and were tracking Hurricane Irma this morning. The monstrous storm is ripping its way through the atlantic leaving behind a path of death and destruction. Right now the massive system is on its way to the Dominican Republic and cuba and eventually florida. But this hurricanes wrath is already being felt throughout the caribbean. Were showing the devastation in barbuda this morning, thats where nearly every building on the island is just damaged, many are destroyed. This storm continues to churn through the atlantic. And within days Hurricane Irma may have florida in its sight. This morning monitoring evacuations, theyre under way right now in the keys right there. Now, right now millions of people are scrambling to get to higher ground. And we have Team Coverage to get up to speed on this deadly hurricane. Meteorologist kari hall tracking that but
A look at radar, a lot of rain well to the north of us but still light showers here. Ill talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Mike is now checking in on san jose. The speed jensers looking great, you like to see all the green. Typical patterns build in trivalley and hayward. San jose northbound 101 we see that typical slowing starting to kick in once again. But a crash northbound 880, im told its over on the should dwoernt see any slowing and i havent seen it. Over here we do have slowing and now were going to green to yellow. 26 minutes for the upper east shore freeway traveling west over towards the bay bridge toll plaza are where the metering lights are on and the toll plaza is full. Back to you. In our top story this morning the death toll is kroeg growing as Hurricane Irma moves closer to the florida coastline. Youre taking a live look at our satellite pictures this morning track track being the tax reforms current badge. The category five storm swept through the carib
Major highways are clogged with cars. You can see from the Helicopter Shot as evacuation orders are sending people inland and to the north in order to get out of irmas path. Local leaders say that people who chose to stay in the areas that are now under evacuation wont have any help later. We boarded up the house, and were hoping for the best. Thats all we can do right now. Its a mad house. I dont want to run out of gas on the road. If you stay, you think youre a tough guy, then youre on your own. We have Team Coverage this midday as the bay area already prepares to help as soon as irma hits. Lets start with meteorologist kerry hall. This storm track, is it still aim towards Floridas Atlantic coast. It is, and unfortunately we havent seen anymore shifts off towards the east, which would make it a lesser blow to florida that the point, but we are now seeing that major hurricane just to the north of hispaniola right now moving towards the turks and caicos and we have some more hurricane