Need to to back up because the numbers are telling us that we have. The problem we can do that that would be and we hope that doesnt happen, but we know we can. So the doctor also said that we will continue to see what she called an smooth waters with the numbers for the next few months or even a year. She said that people still need to remain vigilant. And heres a look at the coronavirus cases and deaths in the bay area Alameda County is now reporting 65 new cases today and Contra Costa County has 37 new cases in all there are more than 11,000 cases and 404 people have died from covid19 in the bay area as always you can find the complete breakdown by county and city on our website kron 4 dot com. A day after San Francisco entered face to allowing retailers to open for curbside pickup. The citys Health Director says it could be at least another 2 to 4 weeks before the city can move further into phase 2 and that is concerning for local restaurants, which are included in till phase 3. Th
Sit down and talk. Shes calling coronavirus economic shutdown total insanity and shes here to explain why she believes that las vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman on this edition ticket. Was going to politicking on larry king as the u. S. Covert 19 death toll can be as sure rise and the disease invades the white house President Trump focuses on reopening the economy with the majority of states following his cue joining me now to talk about her hopes to reopen her city for business is Carolyn Goodman mayor of las vegas. A position shes held since 2011 shes called the current Coronavirus Business shut down total insanity and generate a lot of controversy of the photo and the idea of using vegas as a control group for testing whether social distancing actually works the mayor joins us from the view change any of you opinion gowan you know i think what i was trying to get across is we werent broken you know you dont build a city with such great. Tourism and convention numbers if we hadnt already
Giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests are both really advocating for improvements to workers safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos planned to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former Vice President amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isnt just a side effect but that its ev
What happens after yesterdays big move the dow down yesterday by 2. 1 the dows worst performance going back to may 1. A lot of this was happening as we were getting comments not only from Stan Drunkenmiller and dave tepper talking about his concerns about this being the second most overvalued market he had ever seen. Comments from fed chairman jay powell all of those things adding up saying what do we need to worry about and where do we need to be concerned . Watching the treasury markets, you will see the yield for the 10year right around 0. 61 so that is with a little more pressure. Watching wti this morning, you will see that is up about 5 i think it is 2r5iding near session highs of 26 a barrel. Andrew thank you. Every day, we have a huge show another big one this morning what is on the lineup this morning. The ceo of verizon, New York Times, mohammad eleran to join us and eric schmidt who will be working with the governor of new york states and work places looking to him and that
Here are just a few bay areabased companies that have announced big job cuts recently. Uber is laying off 3700 workers. Lyft is cutting 982 positions. Airbnb laying off 1900 people. And we dont know how many local workers are affected at those three companies. We do know that the oakland as are laying off nearly 800 people. The San Francisco giants cutting 1200 jobs, and bon appetit management is laying off more than 1500 workers in San Francisco. I think in the shortterm, there are going to be some sectors that are going to have trouble coming back, even under the best Public Health response. Uc berkeley Public Health policy professor Jesse Rothstein says that includes restaurants and Small Businesses, but includes even powerhouses like uber who thought treating drivers as independent contractors made them less susceptible to layoffs are finding thats not true in this pandemic. But even when all this begins to quiet done, some things may never go back to the way they were. Set your ex