The frontline workers of this pandemic. A powerful tribute. You cant say enough as time passes and their work continues on the front lines. We join them in thanking all of those First Responders. We sure do. Song captures it better. They certainly are the champi s champions. We are back on this saturday morning, may 2nd. Lets check the headlines. There is hope for a new potential coronavirus treatment. The fda granted emergency approval for the drug remdesivir to treat patients severely ill with the virus. This comes as states start getting back to business this weekend with malls and restaurants all across the country opening their doors. 34 states now have partial reopening plans in place with 15 still under strict stayathome orders. Prime minister Justin Trudeau announced a nationwide ban on assaultstyle weapons in canada. The move comes less than two weeks after the countrys deadliest mass shooting in history. A gunman killed 23 people in nova scotia. It includes 1500 models of the
Our nbc news exclusive with a top chinese official lashing out morning some governors are starting to lay out plans for reopening, in fact, their economies days and weeks ahead others are extending after the president raises the stakes demanding china stayathome orders. Compensate the world for the at least 11 states now are personally reopened. Virus. It should have been stopped we can also tell you six states, including florida, texas, and at the source, china. It should have been stopped very nevada have stayathome orders that expire tomorrow much at the source but it California Governor Gavin Newsom is announcing a four phase plan wasnt. Now we have 184 countries going to slowly reopen the state through hell. Here is what he told savannah earlier this morning on today. Just ahead, why the chinese im worried we could erase all the gains in a short period of time. Weve made so much process and are accusing the president of we dont want to run the 90yard blackmail. Dash new hope. You
Low 50s in santa rosa. Plenty of cloud cover through the morning hours. Emeryville, the sun coming up in another 30 minutes. With that, mostly cloudy skies and some 50s throughout the mid morning hours. 60s start to arrive closer to noontime with the clouds be beginning to thin out a little bit, and then well call it sunny by later afternoon with numbers mainly in the mid to upper 60s away from the coast of liz . Lisa, thank you. Before we the new mask orders here, i want to point out that lisa and i have our face masks here and w ar tm ith any toim youre in an essential business or at work, you will be required to wear a mask. Now in effect for these counties, alameda, contra costa, san mateo, San Francisco and marin, a similar order already exists in sonoma county. Employees and shoppers must wear them any time youre at the grocery or drugstore. Youre required to wear one while waiting to enter any of those places. San Francisco Mayor london breed also encouraged everyone to keep you
Relations should not be used as a diversion. Four of the victims in the crash that killed kobe bryant and his daughter gianna have filed wrongful death suits over the helicopter company. Bryants widow sued the company in february. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, april 20th. Thank you for starting another week with us. We do begin with the push to curb the coronavirus and reopen the country. Congress appears to be nearing a massive new deal for a second wave of loans to Small Businesses crushed by the pandemic. President trump saying an agreement could come today. As the white house looks to restart the economy, mitt romney is the only republican senator excluded from a new Bipartisan Task force. The president admitted hes holding a grudge after romney voted to convict him at the impeachment trial. Abcs rachel scott has more. Reporter lawmakers signaling they may be just hours away from a deal on the next round of relief. Were close. Again, we have common ground. Im ve
This is the. Here is our first group of semifinalists a freshman at northwestern university, from evanston, illinois. A sophomore at the university of florida, from longwood, florida. And a senior at indiana university, from greenfield, indiana. And now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek [cheers and applause] thank you, johnny gilbert. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. To the first of our semifinal matches in this Years College championship. Only the winner of todays game gets to come back later this week to play for 100,000. Thats a lot of money, and i do want to thank lending tree for being our sponsor this year. Hope you guys had an enjoyable easter weekend. Now we put you to work. Good luck. Here are the categories. Followed by. Then you deal with. Youre gonna love this one. And finally. Each correct response beginning with that letter of the alphabet. And, tyler, speaking of beginning, you get to make the first selection. Id like to take arts culture for 1,000, alex. This lon