P president driscoll, you may start the migrant. Meeting. Due to covid19 and the Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the tre tree restrictionn teleconference, this meeting is being held teleconference. In our published notice and on the web page we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or by leaving a voice mail manage. I will ask all members of the board to mute themselves to minimize background noise and keep your cell phone remote, as well. Board members will unmute themselves to comment. There is staff in the background managing the Technology Functions during the meeting to switch from my slide presentation to whom ever is speaking at that moment. Thank you to all who have put this meeting together. Technology and this device is increasing and there will be more changes, all to make the meeting and the interaction go smoother. At this point, can we ask ase commissioner to unshare his screen. Square with arrow and not an x. Thank you. Item number 13
Property damage in minneapolis now approaching a billion dollars. This developing story. The Minnesota Attorney general elevating the charges against the former Police Officer accused of killing george floyd. Now its seconddegree murder. And charging three other officers with aiding and abetting murder. Tonight, we welcome former state Department Official chiron skinner on a new and deer russ debate taking hold across the country. The real crisis, the crisis america has in governing itself. The failure of leadership across america to stop rioting and protect innocent americans. Are the media and politicians actually fueling the problems . We also have louisiana senator bill cassidy on the death of innocence and allout war on Law Enforcement. Conservative commentator kristin tate, how the media says she botched a major story involving the president and why the media has to get the story right now more than ever. Also House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member jim jordan with us tonight on
Was the heroes act and sounds bureaucratic but you understand this money goes to our firefighters and Police Officers and doctors and nurses, Child Protection services and even the people that pick up the trash, the people who make our communities work. And theyre the ones who have suffered. Governor hogan of maryland, a republican, said up to 550 billion is the revenue loss of state and local governments from the pandemic. Host your governor Ralph Northum says the state may keep part of the restrictions underway as reopening gets underway and you represent a portion of Northern Virginia. Why are the concerns of Northern Virginia different than say, more rural virginia . Guest we have the only governor in the country who is also a physician. That gives us a little advantage and i think the governor northum struggle with the fact you get to southwest virginia to wytheville and marion there are very few cases and in Northern Virginia where i live its a hot spot and were not quite as bad
Relief measures congressre has passed there was 150 billion sent to the state and local governments, much of which have yet to be spent and frankly we dont know what the actual need is until we have a better sense of what the revenue loss is to the state and local governments. They are sounding the alarm and justifiably worried about what happens if the downturn in the economy continues and what that dght mean for their revenues. So, they are looking to washington, d. C. For assistance, and i think that as i said earlier, there was 150 billion that went out to state and local governments and thereve been concerns about how they could be used. They were stipulated that they had to be used for these expenses and many state and local leaders were concerned that that didnt give them the flexibility thatee they needed o meet other types of needs. The Treasury Department has come out with an interpretation that would t allow the 150 billion already appropriated to be used to pay firefighters
Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Kristin englund from the Cleveland Clinic and later, author Rick Atkinson joins us to iscuss the 75th anniversary of ve day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] host u. S. Workers continue to lose their jobs and file for Unemployment Benefits at a record rate. And in todays report on the overall jobs number for the month of april could be the worst since the great depression. It is friday, may 8, 2020. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend this first hour asking you how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Heres how to joins us. For those of you in the east and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain pacific time zones, thats 2027488001. You can also send us a text. That line, 2027488003. Include your name, where youre texting from. On twitter, were at twitter.