Into our edd department of Employment Development department now at 9 more than 22 million americans have filed for unemployment as the president lays out guidelines to reopen the country for business. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, todays unemployment numbers are the largest and most dramatic rise in claims on record since the department started tracking back in 1967. The totals though come as no surprise since businesses will remain closed during this pandemic state agencies are having to hire more workers to help overwhelmed the state labor departments some states are expected to run low on money for state Unemployment Benefits as part of the federal Economic Relief package Congress Expanded Unemployment Benefits to include an extra 600 a week the size was given out by the state in california 2. 7 Million People across the state filed for Unemployment Benefits. As kron fours 10 per second tells us many are still waiting for money and some can even get through to the Em
drug resistant acbiera and how the slow methods of research is making matters worse. how augmented reality is helping people face their darkest fears. again in turkey where the government is defending its decision to carry out isil target ins syria and kurdish targets in northern iraq. ankara has stepped up attacks. kurdish forces have kaefshd out three strikes on syrian and iraqi soil. first on thursday night, the strikes in iraq targeted kurdish camps belonging to the pkk, a group considered a terrorist group by ankarat inside turkey moj raids. they say 590 isil and pkk suspects have been taken into custody in two days. let s go live now to the turkish city of kiris on the border of syria. mohammed jamjoom is there. what has the government had to say about the latest strikes, mohammed? adrian, this is a huge shift in military strategy for turkey. turkey has made it clear, they were reluctant to get involved with the conduct. they have gotten involved in a two-pronged
soaker of an afternoon. it will be soaking out there as we head into tonight throughout your tuesday. it s going to take us on another 36 hours before we start to dry things out and another batch of rain we ll pause out and zoom in starting to rain with steady moderate pockets of rain one of which moving into fredricksburg right now and get ready if you are outside in rockville it s going to be at your house by 12: 45:00 p.m. so about 45 minutes before the leading edge of this rain arrives. d.c. closing within the next 15 minutes it should be raining outside. you ll see all of the rain from raleigh into south carolina all moving into our area so it s going to turn really soggy in a hurry and we are not going to see breaks in the rain from here until we get to wednesday. here s the future cast for the rest of the afternoon if you have plans have a back up your evening commute will be wet. most of this will be light in nature but none the showers around 6:00 p.m. for your eveni
trump was saying that he would decide when to re-open the country. now he s telling state governors they re calling the shots. that according to a source familiar with the phone call they had several hours ago, and this comes as johns hopkins university reports there are now more than 671,000 cases of covid-19 in the u.s. the white house also revealing new coronavirus guidelines in hopes of restarting the economy. the three-phase approach involves testing, the state of medical supplies and how hospitals are doing, but they are not mandatory. top health expert dr. anthony fauci said there s still a long way to go before going back to any kind of normal. when we get to the point where we re going to take those steps towards trying to get back towards some form of normality, it would not be a light switch on and off. light switch on and off is the exact opposite of what you see here, which is a gradual gradation with the first thing and the only thing in mind as the health peo
he says he consultedwith dr. birx, dr. fauci and dr. redfield of the cdc. they gave the governors this packet here. we are going through it with the guidelines. he says this is what he is going to announce later formally at the press briefing. jake what he told these governors on this call according to a source who had access to it, what they told our colleague ryan nobles was the president was talked about this phased reopening of the country, reiterating that idea he believes some states can start to open before that may 1 deadline saying they should feel comfortable based on their own data. if they do, though, he did acknowledge there are some states that will not be ready to do it by then so the question really, how did these states take this? a lot as you seen today, they established their own guidelines. that s not just the states on the east coast and west coast. we also saw mid-west states join us to make their own partnership for how they are going to coordinate this