It needs to be fixed. Reporter and again. The sidewalk is sinking or the buildings are going up. Reporter the sidewalks are singing, you can see the gaps at just about every single seat corner. Its more complex than putting in cement on the cyber. Reporter Rachel Gordon is with the Public Works Department at San Francisco, she says the problem was predicted when the neighborhood was envisioned. The bay is built on a landfill. We knew going in, it used to be the old rail yards. It is made on landfill. We knew there would be settling. Reporter it is up to the Building Owner to flip the bill to shore up the sidewalk. It i joked its like venice. Because, you know, it really could just be water around all of these buildings. Reporter Jennifer Smith stolen is the Vice President of operations at mercy housing. She says for longterm the nonprofit cannot afford to continue to pay for this. The fixing in the amount of money we have available to make the fixing is really not going to add up. Repo
Welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick it off with the big story. Election day is now just eight days away. So at this point, my friends, you can forget about getting in shape for it because election day bodies are made during the primaries. This year, votes for are not waiting till the first tuesday in november to cast their ballots. The Record Number of americans taking advantage of early voting across the country. An unprecedented 57 million ballots have been cast, more than 40 to have the total votes counted in the 2016 general election. At one of new york citys premier venues snaking around the block in brooklyn while marching bands drum up excitement. Incredible turnout in the lines. Ive never seen this before in my life. Americans dont even have to be earthbound to vote. U. S. Astronaut kate rubens casts her ballot with help
Eastern on cspans q and a. White House National economic counselor, larry kudlow, talk to the Washington Post yesterday about the outlook for the u. S. Economy and was asked about the status of Coronavirus Relief negotiations. Robert good to have you here. Thank you for coming. The u. S. Economy grow at a record 7. 4 percent between july and september. It has recovered two thirds of the ground it lost during the first half of the year during the pandemic, but many economists remain wary because the figure comes as the country is still entering this time of rising coronavirus cases and the economy has not entirely healed. So lets begin with these new numbers. Do you acknowledge these record gains follow record losses . Larry of course i do. The shutmic because of ins last spring generated a very heavy economic toll. Very heavy. You have a 33 increase, annualized increase in the third quarter. Thats a record. I want to go underneath the hood here because i think this is a selfsustaining
Im Margaret Brennan. Were going to begin tonight with a nationwide scramble by millions to get home for the holiday and by Public Health offi officials to slow the staggering spread of the coronavirus. Tonight, cbs news has learned the c. D. C. And White House Coronavirus task force are now considering shortening the recommended length of covid quarantines, not because of new research, but simply to get more people to follow the rules and stay home if theyre exposed. Across the u. S. , every week, new infections are accelerating faster than the week before. Tonight, los angeles county, home to 10 million people, is debating a strict new lockdown that could leave streets and restaurants empty. And l. A. s mayor says cases are climbing so quickly in his city, theyll be out of hospital beds by christmas. Nationwide, things are even worse. A recordshattering 85,000 americans are hospitalized with covid19 tonight. Doctor tells cbs news they are running low on help and running out of hope. A
Economists remain wary because the figure comes as the country is still entering this time of rising coronavirus cases and the economy has not entirely healed. So lets begin with these new numbers. Do you acknowledge these record gains follow record losses . Larry of course i do. The pandemic contraction because of the shut ins last spring generated a very heavy economic toll. Very heavy. You have a 33 increase, annualized increase in the third quarter. Thats a record. I want to go underneath the hood here because i think this is a selfsustaining recovery. The numbers are gargantuan. I am going to read them off. You have Consumer Spending up 41 , housing up 59 , Business Investment in equipment up 70 and automobile production up almost 1200 . My take is this this is selfsustaining. It is going to spill over into the Current Quarter and next year, policies permitting. But the one missing link and a lot of people have not talked about this, you are going to get a big inventory rebuild. I