Coronavirus crisis. This is two hours and 30 minutes. I want to begin by thanking our pannestist and esteemed members for joining us. This week our country passed a grim milestone, more than 100,000 americans have lost their lives due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of americans continue to contract this virus every day. Over 150 more here in South Carolina on yesterday. And the day before, wednesday, marked our largest singleday increase of covid19 deaths. Local Community Leaders across the country, democrats, and republic ans need strong federal leadership to help them combat this deadly threat. Communities need federal help to get the protective equipment and testing supplies they need to protect their front line medical workers and essential employees. Unfortunately the administration is leaving it up to the states. Forcing them to compete against each other in order to purchase equipment and supplies from the private sector, leading to higher prices and greater shortages. W
Praised, the house of representatives is not in session, the seventeenth session, it is our responsibility, how we ran for office, important things need to be decided and we need to be part of it for the good of the nation. We will complete 3 straight weeks, relating to the National Public Health Emergency we face, not one, three weeks, not one, hearings and some committees, next. Activity on the floor of the senate, now. Noble brought to the floor. Yesterday a resolution said the United States should be involved in the Global International effort to fight a scene on objected to on the republican side. The reason the senator objected to it, Senate Foreign relations committee, he wants to take up the measure in his committee at some later date. I encourage that senator to do it quickly. A sense of urgency across america in terms of this national Health Emergency that we face. There is not a sense of urgency on the republican side of the aisle. Despite the fact for three weeks weve not c
A lot of news to cover this morning, marcus. Absolutely. We want to start out with a look at the forecast for you, and meteorologist, kari hall, has been tracking what we havecan et for this thursday. Its going to be another beautiful day. As we head to martinez, we will see temperatures in the 50s and then by noon in the 70s. It will be slightly warmer today. I will talk more about that and also very hot temperatures in our forecast, and thats coming up in a few minutes, marcus. Thank you, kari. Happening today Solano County restaurants are now allowed to reopen their doors. Other businesses will also be able to reopen provided they meet the safety requirements. Todays terry mcsweeney. The long wait is over at downtown joes in napa. Its like we are starting all over again. Joe, who opened the restaurant, 27 years ago, jamie is grateful to be here with her sons. It was nice to not come up with what to do for dinner. Napa is the first bay area county to move into the next phase reopenin
To return the money. The deadline for a response is today. I left a message, and they sent the following statement yet the company has a current market value exceeding 150 million. The intent of this was for business that needed the money. Reporter how and why did quantum qualify in the first place if if they really need this ppp loan. Reporter julie, we know quantum has more than the 500 employee limit. How did the company qualify . As long as we didnt have more that be 500 emmoye ployees given location. So there was an eligibility factor that allowed us to look at location by location. Reporter it seems these companies have a lot of room to get around these requirements. In some industries we have upwards of 1500 employees and still be small. Reporter according to s. E. C. Filings, quantum reported more than 402 million in revenue last year. Records show the ceo made more than 337,000 last year. Plus he was awarded a stock option of more than 1. 9 million. Wasnt really happy about th
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