Krona virus and its new security bill against hong kong. Job cuts for renault the french car maker plans to lay off nearly 15000 people was a deal with the crisis made worse by grown a virus. And help for 2000000. 00 of spains poorest hit hard by the pandemic the government approves a plan for a minimum income. Crowds of protesters are out in cities across the u. S. Calling for justice over the death of a black man during an arrest in the city of minneapolis a policeman has been charged in the murder of george floyd but that is not well the anger minneapolis has gone just past 10 and a curfew came into effect just over an hour ago or testers there showing no signs of abiding by ignoring threats of jail time or fine the mayor of minneapolis ordered a curfew after 3 days of protests which have seen buildings burned and looted. And this was the scene in brooklyn to your protesters chanting no justice no peace and a standoff with Police Outside a stadium there earlier demonstrations were a
Picked up. Gusts are still at 45 Miles Per Hour. Thank you, steve. If you are driving you might see slowing. You might see some wind. Lets go take a look at what we have with the morning commute. It looks like my east shore picture is not up. We will put a pick sure of the toll plaza up instead. There are no major problems there. Traffic is moving along nicely. There are no major issues on i 880 in oakland. Lets go back to the headlines. Thank you, sal. We are following a developing story. A string of fires burned overnight. Our reporter joins us to talk about why firefighters suspect that these are arson, alyssa . Reporter good morning, one person has been arrested on suspicion of arson. Others are being questioned. Firefighters are still at the scene. This fire started burning yesterday afternoon. The fire was first reported after 6 00 p. M. Burning along the santa teresa foothills of south san jose. Firefighters responded to this area, believing these firefighters found fires that w
Sen. Sanders our job right now is to think big, to act in an unprecedented way both in terms of health care and the economy. I asking all americans, asking am every democrat, every everyndent, i am asking republican. Bob welcome to Washington Post live. Im bob costa, National Political reporter at the post. This morning i joined by senator am Bernie Sanders independent of vermont, the former democratic president ial candidate. He joins us from burlington, vermont. Thank you for being here. Sen. Sanders a pleasure to be with you. Bob lets cover a lot of ground. We have 30 minutes to get into some issues. First up, the pandemic. The death toll continues to rise. Millions of americans are out of work. As a u. S. Senator, what do you want to see in the priority in the next round of legislation . Sen. Sanders the first thing we have to appreciate is how unbelievably severe and horrific the current moment is. I think you can argue that we are experiencing that is unprecedented in the modern
Independent and asking a lot ofd republicans. Welcome to Washington Post live. Im bob, nationalst political reporter at the post. This morning i am joined by senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont, former democratic president ial candidate. He joins us from burlington, vermont but good morning, senator. Thank you for being here. Good to be with you. Lets cover a lot of ground. We have 30 minutes here and getting two issues. First up, the pandemic. The death toll continues to rise and millions of americans are out of work and as a u. S. Senator what do you want to see as a priority in the next round of legislation . The first thing we have to appreciate is how unbelievably rare the current moment is. I thank you can argue we are experiencing something that is unprecedented in thern history f this country. Europe has 80000 people that have died from the virus and 30 Million People have left their jobs in the last couple of months. The first thing we have got to do, as a nation an
You and your family. We would love to hear from you. Our phone lines are open. For the eastern half of the country. 202 7488001 for the mountain and city time zones. 202 7488002 if you are a medical professional. We begin with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Around the world, 3. 1 million confirmed cases. The death toll in 185 countries is 216, almost 217,000. In the United States, the death toll has surpassed 58,000. Joining us from princeton, new jersey is the president and ceo of the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. He served as the former acting director of the cbc. Today, named on the restart and recovery commission. Thank you for being with us. Guest nice to be here. Host your region has the highest percentage of covid cases in the country. How do you balance the Public Health with the desire to reopen the economy . Everyone wants to get the economy back up and running. People are suffering. People are out of work. People lead income. You want to make sure that a