Unusual sight, San Franciscos high and the shopping district today union square, the streets are mostly empty the stores are boarded up as people stay at home. These clothes to stores and offices represent a loss of jobs and now due to the pandemic huge numbers of people are filing for unemployment benefits. This all comes as lawmakers in Congress Debate how best to help the American People right now there is a trillion relief package on the table but lawmakers have not yet been able to finalize the details when it is passed it is expected to issue direct checks to American Families bailout for the Airline Industry and the billion loan program for struggling Small Businesses as that debate continues on capitol hill, millions of americans are out of jobs. We talked was loree levy with Californias Employment Development Department in sacramento today. She told us her department has been slammed with demand for unemployment claims over the past 2 weeks as of last thursday, the department
Will be bright and sunny. It will be windy and cold throughout the day. Wind chills in the morning is brutal. Its going to be 10 at joint base andrews and it wont change much throughout the day. There will be sunshine and a little improvement on friday. Not because the air warms up but the wind chill will diminish. There is a wind chill advisory in effect late tonight along the blue ridge and points west in the mountains. A twoday deal tomorrow and friday. We will pull out on saturday. When i join you here in 15 minutes we will talk about a wintry mix possibly on friday before it warms up. Michelle . Michelle thank you. A big question for some parents and students will school buses start on a sub freezing morning. It has been a problem in the past. Q mccray is in arlington with how schools are making sure everyone gets to the destination on time tomorrow. Q, what is the plan . Q yeah, well, listen the students on time, michelle, they have to start early here. At the Arlington County Pu
The other crop potentially at risk are strawberries. 15 acres word alone at butlers orchard. Like the cherry trees most of the strawberry bushes are in the early stages of bloom. No doubt the temps will be cold tonight but the orchard recorded freezes as late as may 15. The or chard coowner is cautiously optimistic. They are still protected by the plant. They havent grown that month. This week with the cold weather im all about that. Dont get too far ahead of ourselves. The formal average temperatures are great for us. They dont want the the 70, 80degree days too. Early for that. Kevin a closer look at some of the strawberry bushes. The takehome the more open the bud is the more vulnerable it is to cold weather. At 5 0 technology is aiding here when it comes to the cold snaps. Live in germantown, im kevin lewis. Thank you. Just to the north, the story is snow. Enough snow out there and enough cold that the new york yankees New York New York posg day. Its too late for snow. Dumping snow
Trying to go big. Hes a key part of the success of many Silicon Valley startups. Hes a approviesoris at Stanford School of business. His book is scaling up excellence getting to more without settling for less. This is, by my count, his sixth book. Joined by Martin Jonathan elias of the economist and Colleen Taylor of tech crunch. So this idea of scaling up i saw one founder i think they use this all the time, go big or stay home. Go big or go home. Its more complicated than that. Thing get weird when you get big. They do get weird. And its interesting you mention heresay and the ceo. We just interviewed her recently. And shes kind of got that attitude thats the best founders do its time to hit the gas, and theres times to hit the brake. Its the old thing, if you is a really fast car, its good to have really good brakes. One of the things from talking to claire, they do at heresay is theyre clear about hiring people and kind of brainwash them and weeding them out so theyre all on the sa
Sfo. Or sing all the flak from southwest about seven of them canceled today all the way through the afternoon. Were also looking at the Virgin Airline flights. 250 flights around the country have been cancelled and to order. Some of the murder laid over two hours. The problem is its going to get worse. Affect for today to tomorrow. This is what looks like on the map. Why theyre going out early this morning at 6 00. They dont want to be made in the afternoon. it means that we get a call 7 run early and enjoy the beautiful views of the bay bridge to try to beat the heat. reporter one man complained this morning that the giants never home game today they settle be a perfect day for baseball still perfect data had to the beach will find temperatures run around 80 degrees. This is weather their ground to work or take in the day off this morning. They want to embrace these High Temperatures as long as the last. Traffic would never hides but at least one. That the five big west bound for rich