Receive the extra unemployment benefit. Right now the negotiations are underway and extending it back east in washington d. C. Ktvu is joining us live, and ali, is it possible that a deal could be struck by the end of today . Well, certainly its possible. Its not looking likely at this point. Most believe that there will be eventually be some compromise between the democrats and republicans to extend this program. The question is when they do, what will that new program contain, and how much money is it going to come with. There are 30 million americans getting Unemployment Benefits. Since the early days of the pandemic, most of them are knowledgeable for an extra 600 a week for the unemployment assistance program. It expires today. Democrats and republicans work on an extension, but they have not reached an extension yet. We will continue on with the discussions today with the senator and Speaker Pelosi perhaps an inperson meeting tomorrow on capitol hill as we stay engaged. The democ
Has ordered people to wear face masks in public if they cannot social distance. One of the big focuses right now is on Contact Tracing, trying to identify who may have come in contact with an infected person. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes is live in San Francisco with this important part of the investigation and how it can help reduce infections. Chris . Good afternoon, liz. For people who are hearing this term for the first time, it simply means the ability of Public Health officials to track down every Single Person that a covid19 positive patient came into contact with. And you can imagine as cases have grown how complicated this task is. Well, today mayor london breed announced the citys ability to do widespread Contact Tracing investigations and how it will help reopen the economy. Have a listen. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine, or to basically give them the relief that they are not infeblged. It
And, goodnight with dolly, sharing stories and smiles with americas sweetheart. Im going to be reading a very special book today. Nightline starts right now with byron pitts. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Tonight, the new horrifying record. Since yesterdays broadcast, the covid19 death toll in the u. S. Jumping by more than 1,000 in a single day. This as the white house moves forward in formalizing new guidance on Wearing Masks in public. Now, to the growing list of communities across the country, trying to get ahead of this national emergency. Convenon center in detroit. Lieutenant colonel greg turner is preparing for a new kind of war. Flooding, normal playbook stuff. This is not in our playbook. We will build partitions. Reporter but with 22 years of service to his country, he is no stranger to crisis. This reminds me of my time spent in new orleans, 2005, responding to Hurricane Katrina. This is different, because its nationwide and something were not used to, but were re
Bank warns anticorruption protests could cause the economy to collapse the demonstrators say the bank is part of the problem. Im chris cuomo welcome to the program went 1st coming and fears are growing in europe that it could be a cold one russia and ukraine have failed to agree on a new long term natural gas transit contract thats raising fears of possible cuts in europe as russian gas bound for that you transits through ukraine theres agreements over gas payments have long marred the countrys bilateral relations with russia and a controversial pipeline project isnt exactly helping to pacify the baked this is the end of a very long pipeline 200000 steel tubes running 1230 kilometers under the baltic sea the energy megaproject nord stream to is almost complete. Russia says the old pipelines that brought its gas to western europe have reached their capacity in. Limit north stream 2 adds to more lines but it also makes russia far less dependent on the pipelines that cross ukrainian terri
After the move to berlin nov 9th. No deal in sight russia and ukraine cannot agree on a new long term gas transit contract but just people on your of fearing theyll end up sitting in the cold also coming up mario draghi says it is time for more europe not less as he takes his leave the following the European Central bank and lovenox Central Bank Warns anticorruption protests could cause the economy to collapse the demonstrators say the bank is part of the problem. Im chris cuomo welcome to the program when tour is coming and fears are growing in europe that it could be a cold one russia and ukraine have failed to agree on a. New long term natural gas transit contract thats raising fears of possible cuts in europe as russian gas bound for the e. U. Transits through ukraine theres agreements over gas payments have long marred the countrys bilateral relations with russia and a controversial pipeline project isnt exactly helping to pacify the debate this is the end of a very long pipeline