The 4 Police Officers were fired immediately it was just you know as soon as it was over that they were fighting we did it. Every single commentator in the United States condemn this i mean even the most right wing commentators the the pro police crowd the sean hannity Rush Limbaugh or judge Jeanine Pirro they all condemned so there was no attempt to say oh you know this was this is understandable reaction on the part of these now if you contrast that with what happened 3 years ago same city in minneapolis when a Young Australian woman white australian woman who was shot dead by a black Police Officer the black Police Officer was apparently threatened by a woman in her night gown and he shot her debt. There were no protests there were no riots though and though condemnations anyone even knew about this event the Police Officer was placed on suspension on full pay wasnt fined immediately and after some time couple of years went by he wasnt be prosecuted and sent to president bush well b
Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
To work. It cannot be all at once athena jones has more. The clock is ticking toward President Trumps possible may first target to end the Virtual National shutdown and trump is seemingly growing anxious to declare the country open again amid the coronavirus pandemic. But some state leaders worry a push to ease social distancing. Could cause even more harm i fear if we open up too early and we have not sufficiently made that Health Recovery and crack the back of this virus. That we could be pouring gasoline on the fire even inadvertently is still a long way to go were not getting out of this in a couple weeks or probably even a couple months, weve got to keep this momentum going in new york state which has the highest number of cases anywhere in the world and the most deaths in the country. Governor andrew cuomo says the human costs of the crisis cant be compared to any amount of money lost in the economy we need to Public Health strategy that is safe. That is consistent with an econom
Government is proactively telling people not to go to work , we cant give people the incentives and the aligned job skills to try to reenter the workforce. That would happen in a later phase. Right now, we are just trying to help families and households make ends meet so there is not as much financial suffering in the economy. We need to think about this into different phases. Right now we are in the relief phase and then we will start opening things up and what kinds of incentives will be needed to get the workforce back to its formal self. Phase, whats relief is your sense and how much bigger the number can go in terms of the jobless numbers . Guest the real answer will depend on how long the Public Health crisis is drawn out. If we dont go back to work on a broad basis for several more months, it is clear there will need to be an additional large package. I dont know if it will be the same as the prior one, but we have seen the Small Business loan Program Helping Small Businesses ke
Some shower activity has already popped up to the north. There will be low snow would t get in there. Maybe the bay area hills as we head towards wednesday. So kind of hit and miss right now. Thats going to be the pattern here today and tomorrow. You could get some brief heavy downpours. The coldest air is already to the north. That wont settle in. Some all right. We lost steve for just a moment. Well check back in with him in just a little bit. Our time is 5 01. Well, the number of coronavirus cases here in the bay area keeps going up. There are now 886 cases including 17 deaths. This map showing the breakdown county by county. Santa clara county now has 321 cases. 13 fatalities. San mateo, San Francisco, andalameda counties are also well over 100 cases each. Statewide, california has more than 2,200 coronavirus cases including 42 deaths. Governor newsom is calling for more hospital beds to handle the surge in patients. Our time is now 5 01. San mateo county reported its first coronav