The viruss global spread and confirmed cases in the u. S. County by county. Our coronavirus webpages youre fast and easy way to watch cspans unfiltered coverage of this pandemic. Good evening, the house today passed and the president signed a 2. 2 trillion emergency stimulus bill to help families and businesses impacted by the economic shutdown as the result of the coronavirus. Friday, march 27. Nearly 200 cities, reporting a dire need for taste masked, ventilators, and other medical equipment, in part because of that, the president today invoking ormally invoking the defense production act to require General Motors to produce mo miami, the firstever curfew taking place at 10 00 p. M. Tonight. Developing as this pandemic spreads coast to coast. We want to focus tonight on the impact it is having on Grocery Stores of the food supply and the Restaurant Industry. For the first halfhour here are 2027488000. S, and if you are a grocery worker or employed by a grocery tour Grocery Store chai
Ventilators. In miami, the first curfew during this crisis taking effect at 10 00 tonight. Residents told to stay home until 5 00 a. M. , some of the developments as this pandemic spreads coasttocoast. We want to focus on the impact it is having on Grocery Stores, the food supply, and Restaurant Industry. Here are the phone lines. Four eastern or mountains or central time zone. 202 7488001 four mountain or pacific time zone. If you are a grocery worker, 202 7488002. Find us on social media, we will read your tweets. Good friday evening, a lot to talk about. Thank you for joining us. We want to share with you some news, two members of congress confirming that they are battling covid19. Republican congressman mike kelly from the 16th district, i started experiencing symptoms earlier this week, i consulted my primary care physician, my doctor ordering a test for covid19, which i obtained at the drive through. My test came back positive this afternoon. I will serve the 16th district from h
Facing some pretty significant challenges. The first is that we do not have sufficient staffing to realize the benefits of the technology. And the best way i can describe this is i think this thinking was the technology was going to do it for us. And what we are finding is that the technology has incredible potential but it needs bodies to react to the information. So what happened when we moved to the Transportation Management center and the new radio, we were running a call centre. An emergency or incident would come in the controllers would industrial on a piece of paper the key concern, they would dispatch somebody to respond to it. Our goal was to go from a call center to a Service Management center. But a few things happened. The first thing is the call volumes increased. This is very good news. It means it is now easier with the technology for our operatorses to reach the control sent center and to be able to ask for help and support. The second thing is the time for call increa
Potential but it needs bodies to react to the information. So what happened when we moved to the Transportation Management center and the new radio, we were running a call centre. An emergency or incident would come in the controllers would industrial on a piece of paper the key concern, they would dispatch somebody to respond to it. Our goal was to go from a call center to a Service Management center. But a few things happened. The first thing is the call volumes increased. This is very good news. It means it is now easier with the technology for our operatorses to reach the control sent center and to be able to ask for help and support. The second thing is the time for call increased. We now have the ability to track all this information digitally. But the Digital Information takes more time to enter than just scribbling on a piece of paper. But our Staffing Levels for various reasons remained relatively flat. So weve taken the same number of people. They are now managing more calls
Legitimate concerns about this project. Personally i would absolutely favor looking into evening matters, metering spots that arent metered right now and speak directly to the businesses. Dont assume that the city planning model will work for these businesses speak to our friend and to her other businesses there and see what is it that you need. It may be they need a couple of pickup zones because they do a lot of delivery business. Okay. It may mean they need 30minute parking. I dont know what it is. But lets found out specifically what her business and the other affected businesses need and try to manage that. Finally, theres been some discussion about the length of the pilot. I would like to ask you to right now is there any serious downside to making this a ninemonth or 1246 month pilot. I realize 12month pilot. I realize we want to go through different life cycles, different conditions so we know that the safest is for cyclists and others but it seems to me that nine months or 12