Most to them and their families. Well look at one of the crucial demographics for President Trumps chances of reelection. Stay tune, we have fox Business Team coverage, Jackie Deangelis in our new york newsroom, blake burman standing by at the white house which is where we begin. Blake. Reporter connell there was another phone call between treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and speaker of the house nancy pelosi to go over at least the hopes of trying to put together another covid relief package. We can tell you it lasted about an hour. They exchanged language on proposals. Were told there is expected to be another phone call tomorrow. This is the readout afterward at least from the side of the speaker of the house that they continue to say there are big gaps that remain. Deputy chief of staff for nancy pelosi tweeting the following saying, quote, one major area of disagreement continues to be that the white house lacks an understanding of the need for a National Strategic testing plan. T
It is tuesday, august 25th. Is it smoky in there this morning, kumasi. I find it gets smokier as the day goes on. Early in the morning, oh, its not too bad. And then it comes back. No, were not done here. For anyone without air conditioning, you might be like me. The windows open in the middle of the night woke you up. I hope that did not happen to you. Mike is back right now to give us a forecast for today. Mike, i hope you have some good news. I do. But let me tell you, even those of us with air conditioning are suffering as you can probably tell from my voice this morning. It tends to draw it in. We cant our houses air tight enough. Everyone is suffering, just different degrees, i guess. I want to show you the fog out there because it is mixing with the smoke and low visibilisibii in many areas and slowly funneling off towards the east. Air quality is unhealthy in the south bay. Unhealthy for everybody in the east bay valleys. Its moderate around the bay, thanks to that localized se
Concord this afternoon. So temperatures right around where we should be for this time of year. Were going to warm things up looking ahead to tomorrow. Less of that onshore flow and talk about that and also hurricane laura. Have details on that as well. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic for the latest on a crash on 880. Yeah, mary i was kind of looking at 880 a little more closely. We had a Traffic Alert at whipple thats now been canceled and all lanes are clear there. Then this delays south of there into fremont. There may be an accident actually in the area involving a couple of vehicles and we have very red on the sensors here and a lot of slowing as you work your way in this area. This is south 880 heading into fremont. Looks like were getting first reports of a crash in that area. So thats going to add to busy ride thats already been happening on the nimitz freeway this morning. 680 looking okay in both directions if you want to use that instead. And if you are taking
Bid. The dollar was a little stronger but now we are into that risk on field. You have a bid into gold, a bid into the 10 year yield. Old futures almost hitting a record high. Coming up, we are going to break all of this down with southwest ceo. He will be joining us later on in the hour as well as the founder of robin track. Looks atg he everything robinhood traders are doing. U. S. Initial jobless claims arising for the First Time Since march last week. Joining us now Narayana University of rochester professor of economics and former minneapolis fed president. He recently wrote a bloomberg piece that talked about what the fed can do in times like now, in particular when it comes to inequality. What should they be doing and what help should they be getting from washington . Narayana thanks for having me on. I think the fed should be doing all that it can to stimulate the economy in the current setting. That will further their current mandates in terms of trying to get inflation back u
Impact of the coronavirus on workers and the steps the federal government can take to better protect these workers. The coronavirus pandemic has already killed more than 90,000 americans, more deaths than any other nation. Throughout this crisis, our nations essential workers have continued to serve their communities at Great Potential risk to themselves and their families. They are the true heroes of this crisis. I am deeply honored that several of these heroes have joined us today. These heroes treat patients who are sick with the virus and comfort the families of those who have lost loved ones. They respond to emergency calls and keep our communities safe. They stock our grocery and drugstore shelves. They keep our transit systems running, and they clean our hospitals and offices to prevent the virus from spreading further. Tens of thousands of essential workers have been infected with the virus, and many have lost their lives. Im particularly concerned that many essential workers s