Colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, normal activities like work, school, Healthcare Services are increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick in the use of broadband. One estimate shows average Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. Good news is that theres been some progress in connecting all americans. The fcc has recently released broadband deployment report shows
For 12 months and get xfinity flex a personalized streaming dashboard for all your favorite apps. Click or call today. Next at 5 00, the reality on e bay are mtrter regulations stay in place. Coronavirus and homelessness. The new crisis in a San Francisco neighborhood and the new plan to target more than a thousand tents on city sidewalks. Also tonight, from the elevator to the hallway to desk configures, we have new insight into what offices will look like when the economy reopens. Plexiglas becomes a booming business. The north bay company now creating chat changing workplace. Plus the gym of tomorrow. What Fitness Centers are doing to get you back when the lockdowns ease. Now your health, your safety, this is abc 7 news. Going to take a lot longer than people are saying. This is serious. Never experienced anything like this in our lifetime. The long road ahead. As california begins to reopen, finally, were getting some answers as to which bay area counties might move forward into ph
Suspending production in South Carolina green arrows across the board. The dow will open about 600 points also looking at the green on the nasdaq and s p 500 if you take a look at what is happening in the treasury as well s p indicated up 72 points in the treasury, youll also see what is happening on the yield in that front. It is the 10year that is yielding closely at 7. 04 . Lets get everybody updated on the latest on the pandemic numbers. Nearly 11,000 people in the u. S. Have died from covid19. The country has more than 361,000 cases. New york has 131,000 of those cases. New jersey reaching a grim milestone with more than 1,000 deaths in the state. Overseas, we have positive numbers from italy that reports its lowest daily number of new cases since march 17 spain reporting its lowest number since march 22nd. The second time since january, china reported no new coronavirus deaths reporting 30 new asymptomatic cases and two with symptoms. President trump has struck a deal to buy mill
Unfolded, here are some of the highlights from todays news conference. The white house today pledged immediate help for individuals and Small Businesses. This came on a date when we learned that 6. 6 million more americans wild unemployment claims last week. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is said people who have their banks direct deposit information already on file with the irs will get direct payments within two weeks as part of the stimulus bill. Im pleased to report that within two weeks the first payments will be direct deposit into taxpayers accounts. As the president said, he authorized me to say that anybody who has Social Security recipients will not need to file a new tax return and will have that. The secretary said there will be a website for people who dont have direct deposit on file, and they can provide information in order to get their payment. On the medical front President Trump said today that he has again invoked the defense production act to ensure that manufact
Covid19 crisis. California now house more than 10,000 cases of covid19 and 233 people have died. Los angeles county has the most confirmed cases with more than 4000 followed by Santa Clara County at more than 1000 and San Diego County at 849. A south bay nursing home has at least a halfdozen residents and staff who tested positive for the virus. Jesse gary joins us now in san jose with the details and what is being done to keep the problem from getting worse. Reporter late this afternoon officials with the Canyon Springs postacute care facility increase the number of covid19 cases they are reporting. They reported three, now its cials to call relatives of d residents and as a precaution, tell them to come get the relatives, bring them home for a 14 day quarantine. Officials say multiple positive test results were revealed, one as recently as this week, two residents and four staffers are infected with covid19. One resident was discharged before the test results were known, the other is