The time and sweeps are made to make sure customers were not stranded on platforms, the suspension will continue until further notice all trains will undergo a thorough cleaning in the meantime operators have been told to shelter in place until further instructions are given about who needs to be quarantined or tested. Transit Officials Say during the shelterinplace order ridership has declined. 82 across Santa Clara County. Now focus resources on bus services to adapt to Community Needs were standing by for any updates from the vta but in the meantime it looks like riders are going to have to. Make other plans other arrangements for their public transportation. In san jose Sarah Stinson kron 4 news. And new this morning, the Senate Approved one of the largest emergency aid packages in the countrys history to help with the coronavirus shortly before midnight they passed a trillion stimulus package to help boost the us economy suffering from the pandemic heres what the stimulus package
Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
Imperative upon to understand these people that have done these jobs many, many years, actually granting them some expertise that could be a qualifying factor to retaining these jobs. I would love to see a recent analysis, also, about those people in temporary and exempt positions by race and wage levels. Because when we took a good preliminary look at this, we saw that many people in management positions that were exempt were actually white individuals, while we see in the temporary positions, very lower positions that were paid much, much less, they were primarily people of color and African Americans and latino. So i think were in agreement, mr. Ponder, that that is absolutely not acceptable. And i would just want to say that i would suggest to you and also to miss ng from the Civil Service commission, that we are putting people into training positions, that we should be also allocating a pathway to permanent Civil Service. That anyone that comes into a training position, that they
Good afternoon, and thank you everyone for joining us here today. I am london breed. I am the mayor of San Francisco. I am joined by the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee along with other members of the board of supervisors. The director of the department of Public Health, our police chief, bill scott, and the department of Emergency Management director mary ellen care ron. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. As you know. The city has been working to prepare for what we know would be a significant Public Health challenge here in the city, and we are seeing it play it out all over the bay area and all over the world. As the city prepared its response, we explained to the public we would be year every step of the way what the challenges are and the steps we need to take to protect Public Health. Some of the challenges we have, of course, faced from an economic standpoint as well. Every step of the way i want be to thank not only members of puckly for your under
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