Updates from congress. Sign up today, it is easy. Cspan. Org connect and enter your email in the word for word signup box. Announcer new York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a temporary state ban on residential and commercial evictions continue through august. In his daily coronavirus briefing, Governor Cuomo talked about other steps to help new yorkers who are struggling financially. Gov. Cuomo good morning. Pleasure to be here. Thank everyone for being here. Social distancing, ic. A pleasure to be at the new York Medical College today. County executive george latimer, also home to our great Senate Leader Andrea Stewart cousins. And it is a beautiful day. It is so beautiful, i want to go the after this cant take motorcycle outcome go for a ride. Going to wear my mask. Protection the covid virus, also keep the bugs out of your mouth, works on both fronts. Anxiety, ie of high understand that, a flood of pressure all across the country, but even more in times of tying its, it high anxiet
Joins soledad to talk about his new book. Soledad why is the title i dont want to die poor . Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. The coronavirus is breaking parts of the nations Food Supply Chain. Meat processing plants around the country have shut down as workers contract covid19. Other Food Processors are cutting back because large buyers, like schools and restaurants, are closed. Some farmers are now forced to dump milk, destroy crops, and slaughter their animals, while we see people turning to overwhelmed food banks across the country. Our correspondent Jessica Gomez has more. Jessica well, soledad, the u. S. Department of agriculture is still working out details of its coronavirus Food Assistance program. It includes 16 billion in direct payments to farmers; another 3 billon will be used to get food from the farms to food banks and other nonprofits. While the usda acknowledges it wont nearly be enough, for already cashstrapped farmers, the help cant come soon eno
Evictions beneath the shiny veneer of saudi arabias planned mega city and a virtual vigil in the us for a black man shot dead while jogging in georgia after the arrest of a father and son but his murder. For weeks we have seen the lines of the food banks stretching for kilometers the job center is overwhelmed with people it is given us a picture of how badly the u. S. Economys been hit by covert 19 but now we have the most concrete figure yet and it is 14. 7 percent that is the Unemployment Rate for april which tripled from the month before put another way were talking about more than 20000000. 00 jobs gone and some perspective now this is worse than the financial crisis old a recession which followed the financial crisis of 2008 it also creates a new post will recall that was previously set in 982 when unemployment regionally 11 percent so it is no exaggeration to say going right back this is the worst crisis for the u. S. Economy since the Great Depression of the 930 s. When one in e
Its military to enforce the coronavirus lock down nations. So the news out of iran is that the government says it has launched its 1st military satellite into orbit that is on the likely to increase tension with the u. S. In the past washington has blamed iran. Of using its or to sort of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development though iran denies that weve got same bus ravi with us in teheran to the talks are now actually saying that the moving pictures we saw still pictures but actually this launch happening tell us what will you know about it. Well what we know is that iranians in the world this morning woke up to news of what was essentially a secret operation carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps from a location in iran central desert this morning the i. R. G. C. Say that they have successfully used a 2 stage rocket to launch a military satellite into earths orbit now we do know that above us at around 400 kilometers in thermosphere the nur of the n
Her car crashed into this taxicab from the national taxicab. A 60yearold man was driving the taxicab. We dont know their identifications quite yet. But right now chp told us where they believe that the volkswagen sedan began driving the wrong way. We did get multiple calls at multiple locations. One of the locations was northbound 101 at the 280 split. So it is very ss traveling for quite some time. So because the far left lanes are open the paul ab exit is now closed. Giana i think you have some more work arounds for this mess right now. Yeah, i do. Youre going to want to use the 280 northbound 101. They opened up two lanes. They had all lanes completely shut down just after midnight this morning. The two left lanes are open. They are diverting traffic off. Youre going to see some delays there also. Some delays will continue there also. You can see on our maps here 280s in the green. Youre definitely up to speed. Right now were seeing delays as far back as candle stick so a slow ride