Place in northern california. We are uicont our ongoing coronavirus coverage. Today, President Trump signed into law a new 484 billion stimulus package. The bulk of t billion will replenish the io paycheck proteprogram. This second round of relief also includes funding for hospitals, testing and disaster joining me now by skype is a physician and Congress Member Congress Member thank you so much for joininus. Thank you for having me on. Lets start with the paycheck protection program. What about the momandpop shops . You know, what we saw in the first interaction, the first round of 50 billion was the bigger firms that had relationships with banks got the bulk of the money. We really want to make sure that tse resources got down to the smaller businesses, as you saw the momandpop businesses are ally devastated by this. You know, for credit baions, communits, that was the place where a lot of the smaller businesses me back. We also wanted to make sure this money didnt go to hedg and we
Youre not hanging out with all that wrapping paper, maybe youre dashing to the stores to return the lovely things you got. Boxing day, right, in canada and in the uk, the day after christmas . Make so many emails about final clearance, 70 off so if youre shopping are having fun with your family, a lot of us take this time to think about what we are going to do, start of the new year. A lot of people think the new year is truly the best day to start something new. However, experts say just wait a while. Researchers at Washington University in st. Louis say spring is truly a time of new beginnings and it can be easier for us to change our behaviors than. One psychologist calls it the spring renewal. He says cold weather and shorter days of the winter make it tough to stick to those vows to be fitter in new york and it gets rain and dark at 5 30. I like the idea of waiting until spring. Something that different cultures and religious have look to in the past, like passover in the spring,
Childs mother clings to life tonight after she was allegedly stabbed during the Early Morning kidnapping in san jose. But first rob fladeboe has details of the kidnapping and the suspects capture. He comes to us now live from san jose rock. Thats right becky and grant at last word the stabbing victim here a young woman is it remains in critical, but stable condition as you said her child is safe and being reunited with family. The suspect is in jail tonight thanks to a very alert customers of a Central Coast gas station who spotted the suspect based on an amber alert and then took action. Heres more. Cell phone video captures the chaotic scene as customers of the can a marketplace in San Luis Obispo county confront and detain an amber alert suspect wanted in connection with the stabbing and kidnapping monday in San Jose Store manager tammy hall shot the video here of missed what happened i spoke to her by phone are not going anywhere would like it were talking about 24 yearold agana of
Safety. Not just for that consumers shopping just said this the people in the streets as well as the sad thing to see specially this is all those shopping in and around union square were not overly optimistic, but hopeful things can improve we do hear it all the time we just need to see. Some progress. The mayor also made it clear that there are billions of dollars of tourist money thats at risk. This is money that comes into the city from tourists she says of things are turned around that money which is often spent to improve things as they are now we go away. Thats why shes also encouraged residents to reach out to their their top priority as well. Live in union Square Dan Kerman Kron 4 news and thank you for that well the politics of San Franciscos dirty streets has really been front and center for months now it was a big topic on inside bay area politics, this weekend. The host gather again in is in our newsroom now with more on that catherine thats right pam, i sat down with San F
Number of cars being hit by objects along highway one o one continues to rise, so does the reward the chp is offering for information leading to an arrest since thursday, 12 more cases have been reported in the chp says is now willing to offer 14,500 to anybody who can help them with this cake kron fours noel bello has more on this months long investigation. A total of 62 cases of objects being launched at vehicles have been reported to the california Highway Patrol since february though that is a small fraction of the amount of vehicles that travel this several mile stretch of highway each and every day the chp says theyre taking this Public Safety issue very seriously we are getting a lot of these each day from citizens calling in we have a lot of investigative assets out in the field, we have a fulltime task force. Its a stretch of highway now causing concern for drivers in Monterey County over the last 10 months, dozens of vehicles, including a school bus and other windows shattere