Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the
John lewis people may not know that he is responsible for john lewis was one of the major pushers who achieved the construction of the Smithsonian National museum of africanamerican history and culture. From the smithsonian archives, im going to read a little to you from what the smithsonian says john lewis did to get that museum up. 1998, new bills were introduced annually in congress by representative john lewis to create a national africanamerican Heritage Museum and memorial within the smithsonian institution. 1991, a smithsonian Blueribbon Commission recommended the creation of a National Museum devoted to africanamericans to clutch their to collect, analyze, research, and organize exhibitions on a scale and definition that matched the major museums devoted to other aspects of american life. Thecommission recommended museum be temporarily located in the arts and industrials Industries Building until a new, larger facility could be built, but the legislation stalled amid androversy
Adults have to wear masks at elementary schools, but student wont be required to. In middle and high schools, they will need face coverings on all the time. Social distancing will be required in aull classes. This is public and private schools. And it will be up to individual School Districts as to when and how they reopen. Oakland parents were asked last month to way eigh in on th kind of instruction they would like to see and results of that survey have been released. Lyanne melendez got a look at what parents are asking for. Reporter 4500 families participated in the survey offered by the Oakland Unified School district. Parents were asked how should the district reopen in the fall. A nonprofit helped with the survey. They want more regular communication with their teacher, they want more instructional minutes with their teacher. And they want more small group and one to one instruction in particular. Reporter most parents were fine with half day in school and half day of distanced
And the others and what we want people running thats thats hundreds of 1000000. 00 so far just this year yes didnt want to yes and so then you know once the pandemic hit churches had to close down and so the Catholic Church sent its lobbyists to washington d. C. Something that i didnt even know they had or that they needed but the Catholic Church puts their army of lobbyists millions of dollars worth since im to d. C. Before the 1st relief package gets passed and they said make sure we can get some of this money everybody knew lots of money was coming Catholic Church wanted it because they needed it as you said because they had to pay off all of these assault and continue to pay right so basically taxpayers gave them money to pay off their assault cases from these from these d bishops and such that are still in the business either still doing business what was a pope for pope francis says to to to whatever he says listen you just need to go in for 20 years you need to make amends with
Now were back. If you used as much gel and hairspray as i do, you can do anything with your hair. Lets talk about the weather. There are low clouds. It is 54 degrees. And here is your 12 hour planner. Mid to upper 50s this morning. What you will notice is as we head into the afternoon hours, bay and inland temperatures will pull back a little exbit. And a big warming trend for the weekend, that is coming up. Are and police in seattle are clearing the socalled c. H. O. P. Zone. This is a neighborhood that has been occupied for weeks by protest ertz. Th you can see that officers there, it doesnt look like they are having a lot of interaction with the protesters, but they definitely have a strong presence in that area. The Police Department says that they were acting on an executive order from the mayor of seattle. The Mayors Office says the city had to do something to address the violence in the area. C. H. O. P. Stands for capitol hill organized protest. And we know that 13 people have