A role or legal obligation and role responsibility plays a major role on sesame street and the mr rogers neighborhood it doesnt appear to exist at all here in washington d. C. Because fresh up the news of one of the worst contractions of the economy in u. S. History with millions upon millions upon millions of folks facing joblessness the victims of potential sickness or even death thanks to a Global Pandemic the United States congress the senate in particular has decided to take a 3 day weekend no im not making it up yes Chucky Schumer Mitch Mcconnell an arrest and decided to take friday the 31st of july off despite the fact that the covert 19 emergency 600. 00 weekly federal Unemployment Benefits expires and you guessed it friday the 31st of july all but guaranteeing that tens of millions of americans will see. Their incomes drop by 50 to 75 percent with another rent payment due in just 24 hours so while Mitch Mcconnell is resting his corporate job on a mint julep in his old kentucky
Testing positive in march. Positive in march. Lets get started. Mayor, i want to start with your personal experience with covid. You were the first elected official to contract covid. How has that affected your response to this crisis . I was not only the first elected official, but i was the second or third case in the county. Dade county has experienced thousands of cases since then. It was interesting for me because, number one, i had to go directly into quarantine. I was quarantined for 18 days but was able to continue to function as mayor, to give people some sense of hope that if they did contract covid19 take yourself back to early march when there was so much unknown, so much fear about the possibility of getting it. It gave people a tremendous comfort to know that somebody was documenting their experience. Second, i was very asymptomatic. I was asymptomatic before i was tested and my symptoms, i would classify as mild throughout. I never got a 100 degree temperature. I had a c
Already starting today . Today but better for the rest of the weekend. Yes, and we are going to see lets head outside as we check out dublin and parts of the some of those temperatures along the coastline staying cool but trivalley that will be heating up again today. We have some temperatures that will start out in the upper 50s still heating up inland. And low 60s here at noon. We are in for hot weather as we were at 78 degrees. Some low 80s as we go into the check out dublin and our temperature trend in the upper 50s to start the morning. Afternoon with a wide range in temperatures still. Its all about location as well and then we have to get in the see some low 60s near the coast Outdoor Activities early before it heats up. And highs over 100 degrees for the far north bay. We will talk about whats ahead we are looking good before noon and the 90s. With the winds picking up in the right now, mike, the winds are full microclimate forecast. Not too much of an issue as mike has a look
That science is on the side of the parents and students. Not the union. Safely open the school and keep a school open. Doesnt require that 100 of the participants be vaccinated to accomplish that. Examples throughout our country of schools that are able to reopen safely and do so while following mitigation strategies. Martha during the debates, President Biden said clearly i am the Democratic Party right now. Today the Wall Street Journal called on him to lead on this issue. Writing this in an oped. Perhaps you heard a few thousand times as the Biden Administration will listen to science. The science says schools can safely reopen. The white house is still listening, make that bowing, to the nonsciences who run the teachers union. How about the science of impact of Generational Learning Loss that were experiencing right now . We have yet to see the numbers. But my anticipation is that they will be difficult when we do. What about the emotional toll of being deprived of Human Interactio
Karen bass, and several other members of the black caucus who you will be hearing from momentarily. Thank you for joining us on this emergency town hall meeting, living while black in america, 401 years later after our ancestors were first brought to the shores of america in shackles, we now that while we have come a long way in this country, we still have a long way to go. We are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continued to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. The covid19 pandemic, a twin crisis, both a Public Health crisis and an economic crisis, has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted in an adverse fashion the africanamerican community. In terms of pain, in terms of suffering, in terms of economic dislocation and in terms of death. And then, of course, youre dealing with the continued epidemic at the same time of Police Violence, Police