Reopen as coronavirus cases spiked across the country and we have Team Coverage this morning on the plans to scale back or reopening kron fours will tran is live in Contra Costa County. Lets start off with kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is live in Marion County which is allowing some businesses to reopen this morning but not as many as originally planned sarah. Thats right robin im live here in court amid are at the town park where one thing will be reopening just in time 4th of july and those picnic barbecue areas here you can see they still have the orange tarps all over the tables in the barbecued areas theyre going to take those off because starting today. These picnic barbecue areas are allowed to reopen including other businesses to spite a spike in coronavirus cases in ring county Health Officer halting the reopening of some business in places and activities while reopening a few types of places and businesses take a look at your screen you can see the places that can move forward wit
Custody thousands are taking part in black lies matter protests across australia to on a flawed and denounce Racial Injustice at home and warnings of a bleak chance for peace in the middle east following israels threat to an expansion of the occupied west bank. Thank you for joining as libyas u. N. Recognized government is winning more territory as it says its now sees the town of bani walid which is about 180 kilometers away from the capital tripoli on friday forces loyal to the u. N. Recognize government seize control of the nearby city of tire hona warlord 24 have to had been using it as a launch pad for its offensive on tripoli and this came a day after Government Forces regain full control of the capital have task forces however just. Holds sways of territory in the east and south of libya lets bring in our correspondent Mahmoud Abdullah was who is on the phone from bani walid so more gains mamma would for the government of national for. How significant is the capture of bani wali
Symptoms, hanks says he and his wife and rita wilson feel better. In a tweet announcing their improvement, hanks reiterates sheltering in place and says this too shall pass. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 23rd. From abc news, this is world news now. Thank you for jning us on this monday. We begin with the battle over that rescue package to address the pandemic. Talks on the economic rescue bill resumed this morning after democrats and republicans failed to strike a deal. As the virus continues to spread across the country, President Trump activated the National Guard in the three hardest hit states, saying the federal government will pick up the cost. And after one of the worst weeks on wall street, s p 500 futures fell 5 minutes after opening gaining the maximum drop allowed. More now from abcs zachary kiesch. Reporter talks resumed on capitol hill as lawmakers worked to put together a package, now expected to provide at least 2 trillion in Economic Relief ami
Good monday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. The United States has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world trailing only china and italy. The death toll in the u. S. Now tops 400 people and thats forcing more drastic measures. At least 11 states have now agreed to shut down all nonessential business. President trump has authorized the National Guard to respond in three states with the most cases and he says large shipments of medical supplies and respirators will arrive in the coming days. On capitol hill, growing frustration overnight after the senate failed to pass a 2 trillion economic stimulus package. Talks resumed this morning but wall street is not happy. The markets fell sharply overnight. Meanwhile scientists are now studying at least 69 drugs in the search for a possible treatment for the virus. Abcs in epte ornhtreside trump announcing the National Guard will be deployed to the three states hit the hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, new york,
And starting saturday march 28 Weekend Service will be cut as well instead of opening at 6 will open at 8 instead of closing it not at midnight the close at 9 this will be the same as well for sunday, all riders must be in the system by a 45 to have a guaranteed ride to their destination part officials are unable to say how long this new schedule is going to be in effect because its really just a day by day thing were were working through here with the coronavirus outbreak learning about more cases and then we still have the sand home order in effect so as long as they see ridership im a ridership decline, im sure theyll continue on with this new because it really is looking like a ghost town at this park station in daly city. For now ill send it back to you darya. All right, thanks a lot of sarah and californias disaster declaration for the coronavirus and that means the federal government, well pay the California National guard to help with our relief efforts here weve already seen t