Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im darya folsom and breaking news, the wall street journal reports over. Is closing one of its downtown San Francisco offices and laying off about 500 people who work there. The journal reports uber ceo made the announcement in an email. This morning, 2 employees uber says its in response to the coronavirus pandemic in all 3,000 people are being laid off in this latest round in the company is going to shut down 45 offices, worldwide. Experts say that uber is cutting about a quarter of its workforce. This month. So now we know how the bay area will be affected. Other news this morning, San Francisco, san mateo and marin counties are entering phase 2 reopening their businesses today that means Retail Stores and Small Businesses doing business with Curbside Pickup napa solano and sonoma counties are already in phase 2. In the east bay alameda and Contra Costa County they are still in large part lockdown but Health Officials say theyre going to make
A new covert 19 infections. According to the refugee camps on the greek islands are at risk of a devastating corona Virus Outbreak. And on a mission to save lives cuban doctors traveling to corona virus infected countries reject criticism that they are being used to spread propaganda. Or to get in the u. S. Where President Donald Trump says he wants to see social distancing guidelines in place until april 30th to try to slow the spread of the grown a virus the u. S. Has now recorded more than 130000 infections thats more than any other country trump says the outbreak in the u. S. Is likely to peak in 2 weeks. Because youre talking about a potential of up to 2200000000 and some people said it could even be higher than that so youre talking about 2200000 deaths 2200000 people from this. And so if we could hold that down as were saying 2100000 its a horrible number maybe even less but 2100000 so we have between 10200000. We altogether of done a very good. In other developments england ste
Chinese city where the virus was 1st recorded well have a live update on life after a lockdown. And the challenges facing Health Workers in the philippines as the number of coronavirus cases rise is that. In the u. S. President donald trump says that he wants to see social distancing guidelines in place until april 30th to slow the spread of the coronavirus trump says the outbreak is life the peak in 2 weeks there are now more than 140000 known infections in the u. S. Thats more than any other country. England stefani chief medical officer has warned that it could be 6 months before strict social distancing measures are lifted their the u. K. Government introduced tight restrictions on Movement Last week placing the country on the almost total lockdown its only has recorded a drop at the number of deaths for a 2nd day and while the infection rate in spain has declined more than 800. 00 people died there in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of deaths to more than 6500. Born ou
Correspondent kimberly how it is standing by for us in washington d. C. In our bureau there while castro is on capitol hill will be talking with them throughout the proceedings over the next few hours lets go 1st to heidi so heidi what can we expect over the coming hours as both sides give their arguments and are we likely to hear anything new at this point. Well this opens yet another chapter in the impeachment proceedings against trump you know we 1st heard from those facts witnesses then it was the constitutional scholars and starting today will be hearing from the attorneys for both parties who will help in this nitty gritty case of the House Judiciary Committee drafting the articles of impeachment that trump will face in essence these are like the indictments that you that a defendant would face in a trial and what we expect to hear 1st are Opening Statements from both sides those could be quite drawn out afterwards there will be opportunities for questions from the various member
Foreign policy. Well keep you posted on updates or changes as they develop. Again live coverage of the House Judiciary Committee when they resume. Lets see the Senate Democraticic leadership News Conference and show you what we can until the Committee Gavels back in. Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming. Im proud to be joipd by colleagues feinstein, merkley and hirono. We know what happened last month. Mass shootings claimed 51 lives. In el paso and dayton and in odessa. To say nothing about the dozen ever eras of lives lost every day, every single day to gun violence here in america. We just wrapped up our caucus lunch. We heard a powerful moving speech from the dayton mayor. Nann waly. She drove home the point of how gun violence has scarred and scared too many communities across the country. Over the august recess leader mcconnell promised the senate would hold a keebt on gun violence when we return to washington. We are ready to have the debate right now. Enough is