And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att first, the sir Francis Drake statue was taken down, then less than 24 hours later, the name came off of the high school. The governors new strike team. Their mission, fixed states overloaded unemployment system. Were locked into our typical summer pattern for now. Ill show you whats changing for the weekend coming up. San franciscos latest weapon against covid. Millions of dollars in support for immigrants and undocumented families. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. So, yeah, its a little scary for me because, to me, its life and death. Tonight, relief is finally on te way o californians who have been unable to get unemployment benefits. Governor newsom announced a new strike team to address the numerous problems and the backlog. This is an issue abc 7 and 7 on your side have been on since day one. In fact, weve received abou
Amy hollyfield is live in berkeley for us this morning. Reporter School Districts across the bay area are discussing this now. What will Distance Learning look like. Berkeley voted on its model last nilts. O nght. One standout headline is what they decided on high school kids. They will be doing Distance Learning for the entire semester until the december break. Middle school and Elementary School students are saying that they will be Distance Learning for the first eight week. Oltslo remotely four days a week. Elementary students not in front of the computer as much, they are saying that they will meet with their teachers live online for about 30 minutes every morning and then will be 2k3wi6 given independent assignments. The school board has set up a town hall meeting for monday to help aunts questions about this new very unique way of educating students, so a good time for parents to come and ask all their questions. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. And San Francisco mayor breeze says th
Reporter governor gavin newsom is promising to fix the states overloaded unemployment system with a strike team. Newsom explained there should be no barriers between californians and the benefits they have earned. He pointed to Unprecedented Demand due to job loss during the pandemic and an antiquated system creating what he calls an unacceptable backlog of claims. His office estimating there could be about 1 million claims eligible for benefits with added information. Welcomed news for valerie dean. I hope that it brings about action for so many people. I mean, i think that theyre just completely overwhelmed and i feel for the Unemployment Department employees. Reporter dean initially reached out to 7 on your sides Michael Finney for help after losing her job at a Printing Company because of covid19, edd started paying her benefits, but then the money stopped. According according dean, edd flagged her for a job from three years ago. Deducting penalties this year. She went seven weeks
Ramadan in the age of coronavirus muslims around the world begin observing the holy month under lockdown and tight restrictions and venezuela is celebrating one of the lowest rates of the illness in the world but doctors say the numbers on misleading. Thank you very much for joining us we begin with yet another grim tally of desk coming out of the United States from the new coronavirus 3176 people have died in just 24 hours and that takes the total number of deaths to nearly 50000. 00 the highest anywhere in the world globally there are now 2700000. 00 infections and over 190000 deaths on the economic front the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 relief bill to keep Small Businesses afloat and provide funds to hospitals they passed with bipartisan support and will now go to president dollar triumphal final approval meanwhile more than 26000000 americans are now. Unemployed in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wi
Economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and thats happening as we speak and its actually very exciting and. People are just its just thrilled to see it because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work you see that whether its a demonstration or just in talking to people theyre going to get back to work and theyre going to get back to work very fast aljazeera as was in jordan has more on the millions of jobs lost. 4400000. 00 u. S. Workers filed for unemployment last week pushing the countrys unofficial jobless rate to nearly 13 percent its more evidence the co that 1000. 00 pandemic has damaged the u. S. Economy i do long and shot. Me and with my. Hat in hand is being. A gentleman from ask congress is voting this week to spend another half a trillion dollars to help Small Businesses and hospitals but when it comes to helping State Government reeling from the loss of business and personal tax revenues the republican leader