The numbers have been in the millions for weeks after weeks. We can actually say its worse than we first thought. Take a look for yourself. Not only does 6. 6 million americans file for Unemployment Benefits last week. The new estimates say in the first week of the shutdown, theyve had too revise that number way upwards. It turns out one of the very first things that American Business did in the face of the coronavirus was fire workers. This is the largest number of americans all tolled, receiving Unemployment Benefits in history. Next weeks numbers will likely be bad as well. We know a lot of employees inem. The companys ceo accepting out a memo that reads today we will leave 1,000 people go and furlough approximately 1,100 more. Lets take you outside new york city. You mentioned marcus, more positive movement on the dow. The s p 500 up 23 from its coronavirus lows. Now, there were positive moves this morning as the Federal Reserve announced new maneuvers to get money to banks and ban
Patton. Next, he recalls his experiences fighting in the battle of the bulge and helping to liberate the buchenwald concentration camp. The National World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2014 for its oral history collection. It is may 29, 2014, in wellington, florida. What is your name . My name is harold berkman. 26, 1926n on february in brooklyn new york. Ive been a resident of florida since 1985. Im 88 years old and in order to accurately trace my military odyssey, ive drawn from four too,es one, my memory, my discharge papers, three, letters i sent to my parents when i was in europe, and, fortunately, my mother had saved four,ters, and number regimental and battalion history regiment at second battalion that had been declassified. A neighbor of mine who was an expert in terms of accessing the internet did the research for me. Lets back up for a minute. You said you are from brooklyn, new york . Did you were you raised and grew up in brooklyn . Harold the first 11 years of
It is may 29, 2014, in wellington, florida. What is your name . My name is harold berkman. I was born on february 26, 1926 in brooklyn new york. Ive been a resident of florida since 1975. Im 88 years old and in order to accurately trace my military odyssey, ive drawn from four sources one, my memory, two, my discharge papers, three, letters i sent to my parents when i was in europe, and, fortunately, my mother had saved my letters, and number four, regimental and battalion history of the 317th regiment at second battalion that had been declassified. A neighbor of mine who was an expert in terms of accessing the internet did the research for me. Lets back up for a minute. You said you are from brooklyn, new york . Did you were you raised and grew up in brooklyn . The first 11 years of my life, i spent in brooklyn. Then my father retired and we spent time in a town called monticello. That is where you went to school . That is where i went to junior high and high school. It is in my notes
I just want to say thank you to rick bruce, retired commander bruce. He could be doing many other things in his retirement years, but he is committed to this program for life and really really has made a difference in keeping it going and taking it to the next level. Thank you rick. Thank you. Any other items, chief . Yes, sir. I will quickly go through the crime trends for this week and we had two other reports. For crime this week, we are we had a fairly quiet week. We had no shooting incidents, no homicides in the past week. We are still at 29 homicides for the year compared to 37 this time last year so were down 22 . Overall were down 8 in part 1 crime. Our Violent Crime is down 10 a 22 decrease in homicides. Also, we have had a 22 decrease in our shooting victims. We have a total of 101 victims of gun violence this year so were 22 down im sorry, 84 this year compared to 101 this time last year. Our property crime, we are 7 down and continue to show a decrease in auto burglaries co
Commissioner taylor you had asked for Additional Information on a sexual assault. So we plan to add that to the Commission Next week. Well follow up on that next week. We have two additional reports. Next is the safe streets report. Commander dan poreia. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening president , Vice President , commissioners, director, chief members of the audience. Im dan poreia. And i am the commander of the m. T. A. My presentation is about our efforts for the Second Quarter of 2019 in regards to Traffic Safety. So i wanted to talk a little bit first about our efforts and our enforcement. Our strategy is to prioritize deployment in the highinjury network corridors that have been identified by data from traffic collisions throughout the city to increase enforcement and to educate members of the public especially the driving public about our strategies. Part of our enforcement include s lidar radar operations where were looking for people who are violating the basic speed