Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
Reporter onesixth of the students lost their home in the fire. Today vanessa formerly of Fountain Grove blended it. It was a lot in one day. It was stressful but i have my family that is what i need. Reporter those lessons were never on the curriculum. They are now the lasting ones. In santa rosa, wane freedman, abc7 news. A standoff in the south bay as a man wanted by police has been hold up inside his hotel room. At the wyndham garden inn. When they tried to contact him. He barricaded himself in his room. Officers forced to evacuate an entire wing of the building. Some forced to sleep on sofas in the lobby, but the hotel continuing to operate as it continues. The police say there may be other victims. 24yearold luis cruz of fremont seen here was arrested last week. He sent several photos of himself to a girl who is a member of the congregation. The evidence of the suspects phone suggests that he might have sent pictures to other minors. We are learning two families are in fact relate
Students get to return to two schools damaged in the wildfires. I am dan ashley. And i am dion lim. Wayne freedman has their story. Reporter homecomings of the unanticipated kind. Saint rose and just up the road Cardinal Newman high school. It was a lot. But i think that there is much more to gain from it than what we lost. Reporter students staffed and parents entered the gym, they saw the victories on the wall. Their recovery from the aftermath of north bay fires that burned half the buildings on the campus. The people mattered most and we were able to stay in our school. It is great to be together. Reporter more than 600 students in the same place for the first time in 15 weeks. This is our first Natural Disaster that we experienced and it hit us in a way we never would have expected. Reporter onesixth of the students lost their home in the fire. Today vanessa formerly of Fountain Grove blended it. It was a lot in one day. It was stressful but i have my family that is what i need. R
Appreciate that in one state, in my state, we have more than 40 of the nations entire surface water resources. So were talking over three million lakes, over 12,000 rivers. We have approximately 174 million acres of wetlands. There are more wetlands in the state of alaska than in the entire rest of the country combined. So all you colleagues, all you folks in the 49 other states that are concerned about the impact of this rule, i dont mean to diminish your problems, but think about where we are in alaska, where we have more wetlands in the state of alaska than in all of the rest of the country combined. Out of 283 communities in the state, 215 of these communities are located within either two miles of the coast or a navigable waterway. We live on the water. Even in the inland part of the state where i was raised and went to high school, the lakes, the rivers. Up in the North Country here where you have just the small little lakes. Out in the whole southwest alaska, you fly over it, yo
First net is their first priority. Because this is no pra jorty of comment about people that we work with, but first net is a secondary item for them. They have a fulltime day job and we pile on top of that. We probably dont get the urgency that we feel about things. So to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions well obviously follow all the rules and regulations but we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. Id like to see what we can do about improving that and also taking responsibility from commerce and obviously e we wouldnt do that until such time were prepared. We went through that process with our finance organization. Initially, they provided support for us. Today we do a lot of that work ourselves. So i think we have demonstrated we can bring in the right resources with the right talent and training, put the controls in place to cause people to feel comfortable to fullfill that. Id love for you to submit more of that for the record