This is kathleen from minnesota. Good morning. What is the state of Small Business in your Small Community . Everything is drivethru, but you cannot go in and sit down and eat. Its at disney had 30 two thousand jobs, so everything brickandmortar, you have to wear masks if youre going into the store. We are barely hanging on. The United States department of agriculture stopped giving out School Buses School lunches out on the buses. Host as we look at the state of Small Business including mississippi, what is your message to washington at this point . Where is Mitch Mcconnell . He put the bill on the table to be passed and he left town. Nancy pelosi put up the heroes act, and nobody is talking about recession. Nobody talking about people in the hospital that need ppe. This is dire. Just sitting at home ever since january of 2020, when the first covid19 came into mississippi. Ost thank you we want to hear from Small Business owners, employees, shoppers, folks like kathleen who live in mi
Mediate in the conflict in northern ethiopia. Fighting has triggered what the u. N. Is calling a full scale humanitarian crisis. Those who fled across the border into sudan are afraid of going hungry and say they are desperate for help. Has been outrage across brazil after the death of a black man outside a supermarket. Protesters have been demonstrating at branches of the french Supermarket Chain call for 2 security guards in brazil are being investigated over the killing. One of them is an off duty police officer. So give me a little brazil being black in brazil means you have your humanity stolen. You have all your rights store and you dont have the opportunity to come and go in peace. You have the Security System designed to have you accused, even when you were the victim and you were the target of any bullet that circulates in the city. There is no bullet lost when it hits a black body. You know, what we saw in porto allegro is the most despicable expression of structural racism,
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President elect joe biden has laid out his plan to revive the u. S. Economy. But stress that coronavirus must 1st be brought under control and he warned, lives are at risk. If donald trump continues to resist cooperating with the transition team, more people may die. If we dont coordinate book my chief of staff, ron klain, and all vaccines important solution to your vaccinated. So how do we get the vaccine . How do we get over 300000000 americans actually once again, its a huge, huge, huge undertaking. The u. S. National security adviser says hed like to see the blockade on council resolved. Within 70 days. Brian said a 1st step would be for saudi arabia and bahrain to fully reopen their space to crawl. Former World Bank Official francisco has been chosen by congress to be the new interim president. The said National Leader in a week to gust assumes the presidency ahead of elections called for april. It here appears. Government is sending more troops to the Northern Tier grey region de
Most restrictive teier. Thats purple. Kiviran contracosta and solano counties San Francisco had been in the least restrictive yellow tier. Now its in the red, the second to the worst. Marin and san mateo moved from orange to red. Take a look at this map. All of the bay area is classified in red or purple with either substantial our widespread coronavirus activity. This troubling trend is happening statewide. 94 of californians live in the most restrictive purple tier. Were tracking them all with this interactive map on our website, abc7news. Com. And abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz is here with the latest on the changes across the state, including an apology, liz, from the governor. Reporter thats right, dan. There was a lot of news at this briefing today. We did get that apology from the governor for attending that dinner at french laughtonery. Every bay area county but one moved into a more restrictive tier. The only one that didnt is Sonoma County and thats because its already in the m