In washington, lets kick it off with blake. Reporter we are seeing a backtracking away from china in a couple different places across washington today. Lets start with what we first reported exclusively on foxbusiness. Com on monday evening which is that the white house part, President Trump and his top advisers wanted to see the federal Retirement Savings plan that relates the federal government workers not have any exposure whatsoever to chinese equities. There was a fund that was shifted, about 4. 5 billion into chinese equities, that was expected to go into play, the white house said they did not want that to happen wanted to answer by the end of business today, that fund responded to the white house and said that they will not be putting the nearly 5 billion worth of government Retirement Funds into a fund that has significant exposure to china. Thats a big win for President Trump in his own visors who thought not only there was a risk for the workers but a National Security risk
Is that idina menzel, on the phone with her agent . Thats exactly where she lives, kansas city, missouri. Uber is cutting jobs because of the effect the coronavirus is having on its business. The company is slashing about 3,700 recruiting and Customer Support positions worldwide. Thats about 14 of its workforce. Ubers ceo is also waiving his salary for the rest of the year. Add gap to the list of retailers opening this month. It plans to reopen 800 Stores Including old navy and Banana Republic before the end of may. New protocols will include updated cleaning routines, plexiglass at registers, and no access to fitting rooms. Some Department Stores are also looking ahead and engineering how their future might take shape. It comes as nordstrom unveils the changes it is making to protect both its customers and employees. Here is abcs eva pilgrim. Reporter stores are reopening, but shopping as we know it is changing. Nordstrom announcing the closure of 16 stores in an effort to weather the
Several weeks under an order that the owner believes is unconstitutional. He tells us he barbers are booked for the day. To be safe, hes requiring his customers, many of them First Responders and military veterans, to wait outside for their turn. The barbers are wearing gloves and face coverings and are wiping down seats between each appointment. He says he needs to pay the bills and support his 13 barbers. He says the lockdown has gone on long enough, believes the pandemic shutdown order is feardriven, points out that of the more than 440,000 people who live in solano county, there have been 263 cases of covid19 and in his words, only five deaths. He doesnt think its right his Small Business must remain closed while big businesses like costco and walmart are allowed to stay open. Shame on the government for allowing all of them to be essential and us not to be essential. Reporter your business requires you to touch people. And this is a situation when were exposed maintain social dist
The top advisor. I am not worried. I get things done. I do not worry about things. I do what i have to do. It is the second time. Someone with close ties has tested positive for the virus. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us. Yesterday it was the president valley. Today the Vice President spokesperson. Tonight there was word that a assistant also has a confirmed case of the coronavirus. Live coverage. She has the white house response to all of this. President trump said both he and the Vice President were tested today. Those test came back negative. The chief of staff said theyre implementing new precautions in white house that has not always follow the cdc guidelines. The coronavirus has now been found in 2 staff members. On friday, the Vice President is 25yearold how secretary tested positive. She is a wonderful young woman. She tested very good for a long period of time. Then all of a sudden today she tested positive. She is the wife of steven miller. The news comes just
Livermore is at 49 degrees, the city unfortunately is not recording data, we were hoping to get that fixed, the system is off the coast, it has a ways to go for us. There is a decent southwind, i expected to pick up, look for highs to be way below average to the north, then, partly sunny skies with rainfall, looking impressive. 60s and 70s all the way into wednesday. Lets head over and see if there is anything going on. Sometimes things pop up. Is that the case . Right now, traffic is doing very well, although, you can tell that there are cars out there. We see more cars, it is little by little that we see some slowdowns on the past. Slowdowns here and there, there are more people but not enough to have traffic jams like the prepandemic days. Lets go back to the headlines. Tesla is suing Alameda County, getting their plant in fremont open again and workers to safely back on the job. Live on that story, the tesla ceo claims that the county will not let this happen, so he is taking actio