Thanks for joining us today. I am tom called, director of the center for International Security and cooperation at stanford and am also a senior fellow at the institute for International Studies at stanford and we are honored to have William Perry and tom collina to discusstheir brandnew book. You can see the title on the slide at your screen. The button the new Nuclear Arms Race and president ial power which puts readers at the front row and offers policy descriptions for a safer future. As many know doctor perry served as the 19th us secretary of defense in the Clinton Administration and is a worldrenowned expert on national security, defense policy, arms control and has a long history here at stanford. He is a senior fellow at fsi and the Hoover Institution and was codirector of fsis center for International Security and cooperation from 1988 to 93 and completed his bachelors and masters degree at stanford which is impressive to me because i didnt get into stanford as an undergradua
Fellow for International Studies here at stanford. Going to discuss the brandnew booking see the title on their slide on your screen, the button the Nuclear Arms Race for president ial power which puts readers on the frontline of Nuclear History and offers policy prescription for a safer future. As many of you know he served as a 19th u. S. Secretary of defense nick Clinton Administration defense policy armscontrol and along undistinguished history at stanford he is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution as well part he was the codirector of the center for International Securities in 1998 to 1993 and completed both his bachelors and masters degree in mathematics here at stanford which is particular impressive to me because i did not get into stanford either as an undergraduate or graduate. Hes now the michael and barbara emerita at stanford. Its great we can see you today, we also are thrilled to have his coauthor here. So tom is a director is 30 years of washington d. C. Experienci
Here are the latest numbers broken down by county. This week. There have been nearly 400 new cases about a 4 jump. Santa clara and alameda counties both have more than 2200 cases reported the complete list of local covid19 cases can be found at our website kron 4 dot com. Tonight only 3 bay area counties have entered phase 2 in reopening their economies thats napa solano and sonoma counties. Starting monday, San Francisco and san mateo counties will begin easing into phase 2 and today marin county announced it will also move into phase 2 on monday may 18th the details on what that means will be released tomorrow. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties remain in phase, one as the bay area begins to slowly reopen Infectious Disease experts are warning the coronavirus is not gone and people should continue to practice a Public Health directives that got us to phase 2. Kron fours gayle ong joins us now live with that part of the story gayle. And medical experts are cautiously optimi
And ordinary budget presentation governor Gavin Newsome thursday presented his proposed version of the state budget axing 19 billion from his original spending plan in january as the states economy struggles amid the coronavirus newsome anticipating unemployment could peak at 24. 5 in california with a 22 drop in overall state revenue the billion budget keep some programs like boost the minimum wage and maintaining the states earned income tax credit for working families along with continued commitments to health and Public Safety but the governor prepared to throw out 6. 1 billion in Program Expansions and new proposals including extending state Health Insurance to undocumented seniors. The governor also proposing to cut state worker pay by 10 including Health Care Workers and Public Safety personnel. His own salary also included you will hear of cuts that. Not make none of us crowd. But the values nonetheless we are holding on to for now new some plans to use 16 billion from californ
Set them back years as anything like it was in 2008 and its going to be horrible. I mean we lost 33 thousands of teachers for students, California Teachers Association president ito be boyd says the cuts will result in layoffs furloughs an increased class sizes ultimately the students will suffer any loss to our classrooms who are for students to benefit. Well be devastation. The governors proposed cuts include a 10 reduction in the States School funding formula and a 10 cut to both the usi and California State University systems. The School Funding is less than what the governor and vision earlier this year, but it may be enough to maintain current Academic Year services, the proposal, however is still a significant setback for schools everyone is going to feel the pain and its unfortunate that. Our students our children that we actually educate have to feel that pain again hasnt been that long ago that occurred before. Governor newsome says hes trying to soften the blow and avoid wha