Good morning im Claudine Wong and thank you for watching waking up with us nice to have you join us and we get right what top stories this morning because is and call for elected leaders to protect the people who are most vulnerable against coronavirus data shows more than 5000 confirmed cases Skilled Nursing facilities across california, 3100 residents and 2100 Staff Members and at least 500 deaths eveso we can stillg a answer your calls. Now. And we are monitoring our system 24 7 are linked to Nursing Homes within the state. Nationwide numbers show more to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, than 10,000 people connected to Nursing Homes have died, thats keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. About one widespread testing and were still on the road. Solving Critical Issues as they arise. Go to xfinity. Com prepare. Thank you. For people on the streets and in shelters. Welcome back a cities in the Health Department is looking into one of the cali
Really an earth day kind of guy. Thank you pam, and dave. We have a nice forecast for earth day if you like temperatures warming up and lets face it, its been kind of a cool a, the warmaking to jews with patchy little clouds and now san jose has checked in at 49 and san jose at 49, 3026 on the pressure and south southeast at three but High Pressure is large and in charge and its not going anywhere anytime soon it looks like its going to hang around for the rest of the month. Temperatures are on their way up above average and a couple days ago they were below but not anymore, 60s, 70s and 80s and let the if theres any improvement. Thats right. At the off ramp there, on 680 and 84 essentially theres a truck that was carrying ethanol and it came off the side of the road and kind of one into the ditch there it is on the side. Heres a life picture where you can see the traffic and the lanes are closed off on south 680 and it would be a much bigger deal if this were a normal commute. With a
Americans are receiving stimulus payments from the federal government for those who havent, you are able to track the status on a new website created by the irs. Cristina rendon shows us how it works. Reporter millions of americans are checking their Bank Accounts for direct deposit on the federal government. It will help to pay off some of the bills, you know, it is not enough. The irs launched a new feature on their website wednesday called get my payment. It allows taxpayers to file their returns for 2018 or 2019 to input their Bank Information to receive the payment by direct deposit. You can also check the status of your payment. Many say they are receiving messages like this one, payment status not available. The irs said the site is operating at record volumes. Physical checks are expected to be sent out to the end of the month. I do understand its not delaying anything and im satisfied with that. I dont imagine its a big deal. Im sure people will be very happy to get a big, fat
Unfolded, here are some of the highlights from todays news conference. The white house today pledged immediate help for individuals and Small Businesses. This came on a date when we learned that 6. 6 million more americans wild unemployment claims last week. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is said people who have their banks direct deposit information already on file with the irs will get direct payments within two weeks as part of the stimulus bill. Im pleased to report that within two weeks the first payments will be direct deposit into taxpayers accounts. As the president said, he authorized me to say that anybody who has Social Security recipients will not need to file a new tax return and will have that. The secretary said there will be a website for people who dont have direct deposit on file, and they can provide information in order to get their payment. On the medical front President Trump said today that he has again invoked the defense production act to ensure that manufact
Nearly full with no buyers insight. The otherworld benchmark bench crude is down by 62 since new years day and falling. Demand to so will refineries now working at only 69 of capacity a level not seen since the great recession. Oil refinery giants marathon closed three other refineries including the one in concorde across the county. Many producers keep pumping oil because shutting the wells down may seriously damage them. Or decrease their future production. U. S. Producers with their higher production costs will be the 1st to shut down. Causing big losses for their shareholders and bondholders. Very likely many of these committees are going to go bankrupt is the price of oil were to go back up they would start producing oil demand for gasoline down 50 diesel down 30 . Jet fuel down 75 . As of today the aaa fuel gauge ort says the average price of a regular gallon of gas, across the nation a dollar 81. That is 0. 34 per gallon less expensive than a month ago the dollar three a gallon