Ricketts brief reporters on the States Coronavirus response monday. He gave an update current case numbers and on the more than 975 hospitalizations. This runs just under an hour. Gov. Ricketts good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us on the states response to the pandemic. As usual, we will start off by reminding people that with the virus still in our commute, we need everybody to please continue to practice all the tools we gave you, follow our rules to be able to slower slow the spread of the virus. That means we need to keep that six foot of distance between you and other people when we wax you you are in public, and other people when you are in public. Secondsr hands for 20 at a time to kill the virus. Stay home when you are sick. Thats a big deal. I note nebraskans love to work and they want to get back at it. But if youve got any symptoms, you need to stayathome. Please go get tested, but dont go into work if youve got any symptoms. Of course that should be true even if y
Approve this unemployment payment. Because congress has the power of the purse, the unemployment payment would be 400 which is 200 less than what americans were getting before the july 31st deadline which might be short of what people really need right now and 100 of that payment states would be required to cough up. The request might be an unfair request considering that states have desperately needed funding as they prepare for School Reopenings and having to pay for the medical response to coronavirus among other things kron 4 political analyst michael yaki says the president s actions today were essentially a way to play on peoples emotions. I think that the American People are going to be asking themselves and this is a president who Still Believes that the coronavirus is just going to disappear magically. How sincere is e the fact that his chief of staff was to really represent him in the negotiations and apparently couldnt deliver on any of the items that the president said. Is
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. Its been really hard, not having a job and not being able to provide for my son. Unemployment uncertainty for area, and across tdeerate for he congress, but now President Trump announcing his own plan for new benefits, but it may not be a done deal. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, august 9th. Im liz kreutz. Thanks for joining us. Were breaking down where the Unemployment Benefits stand and President Trumps new executive order on evictions but first, as always, lets start with a quick look at the bay area folks with meteorologist Frances Dinglasan in for lisa argen. Good morning, frances. Good morning, liz, good morning, everyone. We have another gorgeous day in store for with us plent y of sunshine right now. Were dealing with fog thick in some spots. Heres live doppler 7 and the satellite radar image, low clouds along the coast spilling into the bay, Half Moon Bay the visibility is down to one mile becaus
Frances. We have lots of sunshine this morning, dealing with morning clouds and fog. Live doppler 7 you can see the coastal clouds as well but the fog is thick in Half Moon Bay, visibility is limited down to one mile, petaluma down to five miles. Our day planner toward the bay bridge sunrise at 6 20, temperatures and its going to get hot there this afternoon n the mid90s. We may even see tripledigit heat in a few spots around the bay, near 08 degrees and at the coast, still mild because of the sea breeze in the mid to upper 60s. Sun sets at 8 08, a few mainor changes in the sevenday forecast, ill tell you about that coming up. Breaking out of San Francisco this morning, a twoalarm fire is burning at a multiunit complex near dubas park. The Fire Department shared this photo of the building on the corner of waller and caramelitas street. The red cross will be called for residents who are displaced. No unchryes reported and we have calls to the department for details about what sparked th
News the president of the United States threatening executive action this hour as negotiations have collapsed. The president is about to speak from his resort in new jersey. He has just stepped out and told people assembled there hes going to be speaking in a couple of moments. It comes as the House Speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin describe the talks as far apart or at one point today very far apart. And new jobs numbers show an incredible slowdown in hiring, the United States down 13 million jobs since the start of the pandemic. So, the issue here is the 600 weekly jobless benefit which expired at the end of the july so people didnt get that this weeb. Currently more than 30 million americans are collecting those job let events. I want to go first to Jeremy Diamond at the white house. Jer mist just to be clear here, the president had what he called a lid. He was done for the night. He was going to have his private time. That was lifted and hes going to be com