Jackie deangelis are both in new york. Speaking in new york laura engle is on Staten Island where a local Business Owner continues to defy shutdown orders. Well get to that. Start with you, blake, new developments on covid relief. What is the latest . Reporter i believe Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is on the senate floor or headed there. If we have the video and take it connell that would be fantastic. If not literally it is happening as we speak. We of course wait to see what eventually come of this. Live look on senate floor, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Just got there. So were still trying to see exactly what he says Going Forward on a pathway potential covid relief bill. We do know, connell that tomorrow the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers put forth this 908 billiondollar plan will actually release their legislative text. That should have an impact on how washington views that proposal. The president s top Economic Advisor larry kudlow was asked about it earlier
And then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package and i want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if you are absolutely. Retailers and consumers what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet Holiday Season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. Well for more on this im joined by our Political Correspondent. As you reported there. State of almost full lockdown has been announced as expected at one of the main takeaways. I think one really has to emphasize how quickly and comparatively smoothly this agreement was reached between chancellor merkel and the 16 regional leaders that is unusual because in the last 2 or 3 months they have met several times and these have been meetings that have been characterized by real infighting by acrimonious exchanges by trying to push through or to encourage strict measures and by the regional leaders refusing to accept those measures and wanting e
The county has even gone to court to get a temporary restraining order to prevent the church from holding large indoor services. In san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Marianne, thank you. Its hard to see all these restaurants suffering here. The message in marin county is to stop dining indoors. The number of new cases per day have doubled in marin county. Right now restaurants are allowed to operate their 50 capacity indoors. The county wants to scale back to 25 . It is voluntary right now. But it could be mandatory by next tuesday. Well, cases are surging across california, the state is seeing a huge jump in its Positivity Rate. This graph shows the rate of positive infections across california. You can see quite the roller coaster ride the past six months. Weve peaked in midjuly, you can see right here. Then we went down and just three weeks ago, our Positivity Rate was at its lowest point, 2. 6 . Take a look at it now. 3. 8 . That quick spike may indicate the state could
Citizens living in poverty has jumped from 9 percent back in june to over 11 percent in september and that number is still rising showing no signs of future decline but things things arent all bad for some u. S. Citizens you see while main street crumbles from disease oppression and degradation wall street in our billionaire class well my friends they have been thriving you see while millions upon millions of us have lost their jobs in Health Insurance all across this country u. S. Billionaire saw their combined net worth surge by more than 930000000000. 00 bringing it the collective wealth of just 644. 00 people to a staggering 3. 00 trillion 1. 03 trillion dollars in just 644 people. A thats according to a new an analysis recently released by americans for tax fairness and the institute for public studies who have been tracking wealth inequality in america since the start of the cold 19 pandemic yes according to their numbers these greedy for. You saw their wealth rise by more than 3
Charles it is the Great American comeback. On november 26th, 2018 General Motors announced the closing of its lordstown, ohio, plant. A devastating blow to hardworking americans right before christmas. Politicians promised to step up but there was skepticism. Not anymore. Lordstown motors is showcasing the 2021 endurance electric pickup truck to President Trump at the white house. The company is reporting 40,000 preorders for the new truck so far, it is working towards becoming a publiclytraded company, making this story even greater, the truck produced in that old lordstown plant that gm closed down, something that did not escape the president. President trump the area was devastated when General Motors moved out and then we worked together and we made the deal on the plant but beyond the plant, i mean its incredible what happened to the area. Its booming now. It is absolutely booming and really great. You also have room for expansion in that plant. Oh, yeah. Well come out with multip