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Start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. Thank you so much for your eight years of service and encourage you again to pleas ....
Youre watching the weekly run out of top stories here not the international hawkins good to have you with us. Now we begin this hour with the latest figures on covert 19 the Global Pandemic is in a new month those confirmed cases are still soaring now supporting 3 and a half 1000000 there is some hope though 1100000 have recovered the grim number you can see there in terms of fatalities now stands at more than 246000. Only half of all workers across the globe are at risk of losing their jobs thats the stark warning from u. N. Experts and although this crisis has been provoked by cope with 19. Explains why the labor market was already under threat. The jobs of 1600000 people are in jeopardy due to coated 1000 lockdowns around the world hours have been cut incomes have decreased unemployment is rising but the problems did not start with the pandemic for millions of workers knowing income means no food no security and no future mill ....
Citizens. O more money needs to be put against hospitals and states and workers there is an unprecedented amount in the legislation but to say theres nothing here im going to talk about this with specificity but 100 million, pretty good start. 75 billion of which was to hospitals. To say theres nothing for workers, the Unemployment Insurance provision comes from the democratic side of the aisle. Its the most generous by far and addspl more mone add more mo Unemployment Insurance than the Current System has. By the way it has a time more funding for the rest of this year than is currently being spent. And we also agree that those jobs should be able to get a tgenerous check while we work through the virus and get the economy up and going against what they walk through some of this. The coronavirus is some ....
Democratic leader, who said this is a highly partisan bill, that is just not the case. Lets put the partisanship aside. Lets do what is best for the American People. Ill tell you that for the past several days, through a bipartisan process, we sat down, democrat and republican, in four Different Task and put together this legislation. As a result, the bill before you tonight reflects republican priority and democratic priorities. And i am going to take the time to walk through it and to talk about some of those so people understand what is in this legislation. I was pleased to see the democratic leader say at the end he believes we can figure this out over the next several hours. He said 24 hours, i hope it is not 24 hours. We cannot wait that long. We need to move quickly. We know what the markets are going to do. We have seen with the futures are. More important, we see th ....