First of all, update you on our hiring effort. You know, we were at record low unemployment in february, so we had low staff and low federal funding. Fast forward now, this historic demand for benefits and we are getting more increased federal funding, so we are now in the process of hiring 4,800 new staff to come help us with the unemployment and insurance demand that we are dealing with. Were doing that in an expedited fashion. Theres a great web page to give you the information about those positions that were filling, all aimed at trying to help us increase capacity as much as possible to deal with this historic load. Are you seeing any differences in the past week in terms of the claiming coming in as california starts to reopen and peopl are startg to go ckwo . Are you impact on your end yet . Well, we continue to see hundreds of thousands of new claims each week and well have some new numbers out again tomorrow as we do every thursday. And we have paid, the last week, more than 2
That is right, onshore flow is starting to kick in along the coast right around the bay and you can see the low clouds across our cameras towards downtown San Francisco. That indicates some changes. And it is a little cooler along the coast and the bay but inland youre still going to heat up. Temperatures are in the 50s and 60s and through our afternoon, we are looking at 70 in San Francisco, 76 in oakland, 90 in san jose and 92 for concord. Which will be 5 to grees above average. A heat advisory is in effect for all of our inland locations from 11 am until 7 pm. I am tracking our next weather system and i will have the details on the future cast coming up. We have an update on this breaking news from overnight. Five people were shot in san jose and we learned that the suspect, a man with a gun, is still on the loose. The shooting happened before 10 00 last night at William Court and 24th street. A group of people were hanging out outside when a man just walked up and shot five of the
Clouds and areas of fog around the bay. Check out our daytime high. 92 in concord, heating up to 93 in livermore, mid 70s in oakland and upper 60s in San Francisco and 63 for pacifica. Because of those hot temperatures inland, heed the advisory once again is in effect for all the inland locations from 11 am until 7 pm. I will let you know when we will cool down with our next chance of showers coming up in a few minutes. Were following those new unemployment numbers that just came up showing that 2. 1 million americans filed for an appointment in just the last week. That brings the total since the pandemic to more than 41 million or nearly 41 million. We have not quite hit the 41 million mark but that is since midmarch and that means one in four American Workers has lost their jobs since the pandemic began. Things are slowing a little bit as far as those numbers compared to last week and the week before but the problem for Many Americans as they are not returning to work even when their