On the free cspan radio app. Immediately following the live session join Jeffrey Rawson of the National Constitution center leading a discussion with scholars. President elson is the of Flight Attendants. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. Host tell us about your organization, what it does, how many members you have. Guest im the president of the association who represent 50,000 Flight Attendants at 20 airlines. Host of those, what is your sense of how many are still working . Guest we have a little over 100,000 Flight Attendants in the United States and right now approximately 40,000 are either completely out of work or on some sort of voluntary leave or furlough. The rest are not necessarily going to work because demand anddown to 3 in march there are others who are continuing to pay because what we are able to accomplish in the cares act but that is only through september 30. Host what is the overall situation look like for commercial travel . You talked about demand being down
A similar loss on the s p. Big loss on the nasdaq composite. Why the nasdaq down so much . Well, just look at this. Big tech being taken to the cleaners this morning. Start with apple. Look at that. Its still a trillion dollar company, way down this morning after its Financial Report late yesterday. Ive got more on all this. Amazon, huge drop, down 120. They are plowing their profit into coping with the virus. Microsoft, not much impact from the virus but its caught in the downdraft. Microsoft is down nearly 2 , 3. 46. Next case, the political news. Topping that this morning is joe biden. He has denied a Sexual Assault allegation. He says quote, this never happened. Ive got more on that in a moment, too. Got a big weekend coming up. Texas opens up a lot of businesses. Who will go to the store, the barbershop, the restaurant . Thats going to be a pretty good indicator of the urge to get out of the house. In california, the governor has relocked down the beaches. How will that go down .
Deb. I want to talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we are going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, many questions of testing in this room for number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, there are a few things we could do with that. One of the things is when we make policy of what we are going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hotspots, we need to know what the infection is there. We need to put a light on those dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. We are going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hotspots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In ot
Hes been under increasing pressure since reports of Sexual Harassment claims against him. Wynn denies the allegations and says he believes theyre part of a campaign led by his exwife. She denies any responsibility. He resigned from the Republican National committee a day after it alligations. Hes seen as a guy who kind of remade las vegas in the 90s and 2000s. And we have new information now on the other loss by Rob Gronkowski over the weekend. Police released his 911 call after he realized his home was burglarized while he was at the super bowl. From our station in boston. Where is your emergency . This isnt an emergency. This is Rob Gronkowski calling. While i was gone my whole house got robbed, while i was at the super bowl trip. I just got back. Reporter thieves gained access by breaking a window. The patriots returned to Gillette Stadium a short time later, arrived home and discovered they had had been burglarized. Speak with the home owner while he was away on his trip, his house
Be a dad. Oh, my god oh my god, no, youre not. Yes, we know you put two and two together. Hes real excited about being a dad or really relieved oh, she still thinks im in good shape. The coolness continues into the next video. The couple is having din we are the parents. Looks so good. Oh, the table is all set up. All nice. Whats for dinner . It looks really delicious. Oh thats so cute, honey, a bib. Dad pulls out a onesie, thats so cute. Not going to fit us, but thanks. They havent figured it out yet . No clue at all. If that doesnt do for you, a pregnancy test, right . They pick up the tests and they put them back down, they dont know what it is. Finally there are two tests in there and they hand one to mom and one to dad. Read it. Read it. At this rate, the baby is going to be born and theyre going to go, oh it says pregnant. Whoa that woke him up. They werent shocked when they first saw the bib and the onesie because the couple is going through ivf and they didnt know what a pregna