Virtually. And all of you, thank you. Are, a week later. Not quite a week, but in the next week since we passed the heroes act, im so very, very proud of the substance of it. I have said that our chairs of the committees in jurisdiction were dazzling in how they put thether initiatives to meet needs of the American People. Three and im proud of the courage of my members to support the legislation and couldnt have been more proud than to hear the debate on the floor. When they talked about meeting the needs of the American People while the other side was talking about taking a pause. Well, we dont agree with that. We dont take a pause because again, hunger doesnt take a pause, paying your rent doesnt take a pause. The list goes on. The legislation had three main pillars, all of which have been supported in a bipartisan way. In one or the other of the previous covid bipartisan legislations. First, honor the heroes. Health care providers, first responders, police fighters firefighters, ou
The change will put the county in line with the state, which loosened restrictions last week. So, what this means now, for our city, is incredible. Because we are talking about many of those Small Businesses, and various neighborhoods, where you see many of them, the shots are close. San francisco says no more than 10 workers can be at a retail site at any time, no more than 50 workers at any time can be at warehouses or manufacturing sites. New at 11 00, face coverings are now required to be worn by people who are out and about in palo alto with pal unanimously approved the new order. It requires face coverings to be worn by anyone who enters a business, store, healthcare facility, or takes public transportation. It also includes stanford facilities, located in the city of palo alto. I think that it is very important that we protect each other. And the only thing we have right now to do that is all of us wearing masks. Especially when we go to the Grocery Stores and other businesses.
And i want to thank my colleague and Ranking Member, senator cantwell, for her cooperation in this regard, and for all of our staff. Convenes toe today discuss the state of the Aviation Industry. Witnesses, which are limited in number by the guidance we received from the senate, include nic calio, president and chief executive officer of airlines for america, todd president and chief executive officer of the American Association of airport effectives, eric fanning, president of the chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries association, and remotely, dr. Hilary godwin, dean of school of Public Health university of washington. No part of the American Economy has escaped the impact of the covid 19 pandemic. The air and transportation sector has suffered a particularly painful blow, one intensified by Global Travel resections and stay at home orders, Domestic Travel has declined over 95 compared to last year. Flying with 12 passengers on average. Half of the u. S. Passenger aircr
8th state to reach the 1000 mark following new york, new jersey michigan, louisiana, massachusetts, illinois and connecticut, 29,198 people are infected in the United States more than 37,000 deaths with close to 702,000 cases and across the globe more than 154,000 people have lost their lives and more than 2 Million People have the virus here in the bay area there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 reported deaths and are you stream you can see how the numbers break down county by county Santa Clara County still leads the bay area with 73 deaths. And more than 1800 cases. Alameda county has 40 deaths 28 deaths in San Mateo County 20 in San Francisco. Back to our top story tonight, a daly city fathers out of the hospital after battling covid19 for almost a month. His Community Came together today to celebrate his victory. Kron fours dan thorn was there for the event. Showered with applause ken lewis taking in the fresh air while taking his first steps out of the hospital. Its the end o
A similar loss on the s p. Big loss on the nasdaq composite. Why the nasdaq down so much . Well, just look at this. Big tech being taken to the cleaners this morning. Start with apple. Look at that. Its still a trillion dollar company, way down this morning after its Financial Report late yesterday. Ive got more on all this. Amazon, huge drop, down 120. They are plowing their profit into coping with the virus. Microsoft, not much impact from the virus but its caught in the downdraft. Microsoft is down nearly 2 , 3. 46. Next case, the political news. Topping that this morning is joe biden. He has denied a Sexual Assault allegation. He says quote, this never happened. Ive got more on that in a moment, too. Got a big weekend coming up. Texas opens up a lot of businesses. Who will go to the store, the barbershop, the restaurant . Thats going to be a pretty good indicator of the urge to get out of the house. In california, the governor has relocked down the beaches. How will that go down .