Trump denounces cancel culture, but tonight, why the president is telling his followers not to buy goodyear tires, the tire of choice for the president ial limo. Plus, the president attacks his own party for calling his handpicked postmaster general to testify. Evicted for partying as major universities struggle to stop the spread of coronavirus, one big College Kicks students off campus because of a dorm party. Toxic plume why a dramatic explosion at a Plastics Factory in texas is leading firefighters warning nearby residents to stay indoors. Tracking tropical threats three storms are on the move tonight. Will they hit the u. S. . Well have the latest storm track. And a welcome back like no other. The students start learning once the teachers get poppin. This is e c evening news wi norahd, reporting odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. There are two major headlines as we come on the air, including just hours from now, when senator Kamala Harr
Sorting machines ripped out procedures changed over time stopped for money and as a result the mail has slowed considerably he blames a lack of staff because of the coronavirus democrats dont believe him just this week i heard from a good stitch with diabetes who feared her family was at risk of losing their insurance after learning her payment had arrived a month late after it was mailed her story is sadly one of many being heard across the nation official post office data. These new documents show that the delays we have all heard about are actually far worse for their part republicans say its not a problem nancy pelosi goes politically postal and that is the reason we are here today for phony political theater to once again bash president charm just in time for this sunday talk shows and the Republican National convention the bill is passed so now the house has voted to reverse joyce changes and give the post office 25000000000. 00 the reason this is in such a political importance i
Those that were hit hardest early by the pandemic continue to hire back and the Unemployment Rate has declined to ten. 2 percent but we have a long way to go despite the solid job gains last month the past three months we are still down about 13 million jobs we still have not recovered about half the jobs lost. Ten. 2 percent unemployment is pretty tough. Just for context to go back to the financial crisis ten years ago the highest Unemployment Rate was 10 percent on the nose and that was for one month. We have a long way to go. Then to point out what makes me nervous is the rate of improvement have slowed the june job number four. 8 million jobs added. The rate of employment is flowing and that it will take a long time to get back what we lost in march and april. Host do think that rate of improvement to the numbers we are seeing do not show theme effect of the states have to shut down again . Yes. It was reflected in part because its we saw these gains and then the re intensification
Strikes. Partly cloudy skies. 74 livermore and san jose in the 24hour temperature change i dont think ive seen that. Everyone is in double digits. Anywhere from 1015 degrees warmer than yesterday in the cloud cover has a lot to do with it along with yesterdays warm to hot temps. They are hotter today and we are way above average on these highs and we will continue to do that into early next week. Over to sal now. 6 01 a. M. Anything new you want to get to . Bridges are somewhere . Right now we are off to a good start, steve. Many people thought on friday even if they have to drive the drive early or something is going on because it is lighter than usual now and some of these commutes. I can show you the bay bridge whole plaza. We usually have some slow traffic and fridays is lighter volume and we see what happens in the next halfhour. 6 01 a. M. And lets go back to the headlines. Thanks, sal. The agency that runs californias power grid expects the demand for power to shoot up. Ktvu all
Atis clear we are looking the strain on School Districts we have not seen in a decade. How do states, families and School Districts cope with the massive physical strain of the Great Recession and how do you expect this crisis to be similar or different than what we just went through in the last decade . Fiscal strain. Providedderal aid under the recovering act during the Great Recession was really important but only covered one quarter of state budget shortfalls. It ended too soon when the state is still struggling to meet their needs. Result states enacted those laughs and spending reductions laughs andthose spending reduction slowed the economic recovery in a significant way. Of schoolhe impact level was pronounced. The school year was shrunk. The reductions in arizona and arizona entered its fullday kindergarten. Those kinds of effects were widespread and in many cases are still with us today. I mentioned haven heading into the pandemic there were 77 thousand fewer teachers and oth