Website and look at how states were prepared or not prepared for this pandemic. As you look across all 50 states and u. S. Territories, where were the missteps . John well i would start by , saying that federal funds have decreased. The funds that provide states resources they need. To prepare for an emergency like coronavirus. After 9 11, we saw a dramatic increase in Emergency Preparedness funds made available to states and local centers for the rest of the country. Over the years, those funds have been significantly decreased. The Public Health Emergency Preparedness fund from the cdc that went to the states and big cities actually decreased by a third. The hospital preparedness money that helped Hospital Systems prepare for an emergency like the one we are facing have actually been cut over the years by 50 . A starting point in terms of assessing how well states are doing is recognizing that they have lost some valuable resources over the years that they need to be prepared. Host i
7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Announcer 2 earlier today at the white house, treasury secretary steven mnuchin, the chief negotiator for the economic aid package, talked with reporters about how checks to Many Americans would be handled. After that, larry kudlow. Would love that if you could give us some time. I am Kelly Odonnell with nbc. [indiscernible] abc. One of the things we have been hearing from small businesses, they had to close because of local requirements are they didnt have the cash flow for retaining employees. Obviously the way the passage was constructed, you were incentivizing people to hold on to employees. What would you say to business you can hire the people back. The Treasury Department and sba has in working aroundtheclock. We have a program up and running, on friday, where the existing sba lenders and banks, theynions, contact will be able to make eight weeks of workers salary plus additional money for overhead. If you let workers go, you bring back w
today we are starting to warm things up. even further. so our inland areas yesterday. yeah, you ve already been feeling a little bit of that heat, but we re going to add a few more degrees on to it today. and tomorrow and for your first day of summer today, it s going to feel like the middle of summer. we re sitting right now. you can see skies are nice and clear across the bay area. nothing major up that morning commute. you have a very smooth morning ahead of you. as far as weather goes in our most comfortable time of day ahead of us as well. right now we re in the 50 s 60 s to 70 s over in pittsburgh and brentwood petaluma an app on the cooler side in the 50 s berkeley, timber on your nice at 65 degrees. as we work our way through the day unimpeded, sunshine is going to warm things up really quickly and brace yourselves for these daytime highs. we re going to be in the 90 s right along the bay and triple digits for our inland areas. very exceedingly hot day to kick off t
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