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Discussed the federal response to the pandemic and affordable Broadband Internet access. Clyburn i probably represents the sixth Congressional District of south carolina. I also serve as the House Majority whip. Chair of the House Select Committee on covid19. Houseair of the democratic rules Broadband Task force. This week, members of our task unveiled our plan to connect all americans to affordable Broadband Internet. The covid19 pandemic has laid bare the Digital Divide that exists in our grea...

Financial crisis and experts say this is probably going to get a lot worse kron fours rob fladeboe joins us live to tell us about the growing demand for help from local food banks dropped. And thats right catherine does give you kind of a snapshot of a the demand for help putting food on the table Second Harvest food bank. Which services santa clara and San Mateo County i would normally provide food for about a quarter of a Million People per month. This month. The number is a 100,000 people. Le...

Government says apparently this is the sharpest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis. Experts say this is probably going to get a lot worse kron fours rob fladeboe tells us about the growing demand for help from local food banks. The California National guard is helping Second Harvest food bank track and distribute thousands of boxes of food to hungry people across and the tail and santa clara counties as the demand for food amid the covid19 pandemic keeps growing every day says Vice P...

The areas of the city with the most cases so far match up with these factors. Let me give two examples. The 94107 zip code currently is one of the highest rates of cases in the city. That makes sense from what we know because the m. S. C. South shelter is in that zip code, which is the location of the citys largest outbreak, with 96 cases among guests to date. The 94110 zip code has among the highest number of cases in the city. This likely reflects crowded housing conditions, including multifam...

Homelessness and supportive housing. Thank you all for joining us here today. As of today, may 4th, we have 1,624 cases of the coronavirus here in San Francisco and sadly, we have lost 29 people to the virus here in our city. And if you want more information, you can please visit datasf. Org covid19. Its or tracker with detailed information around testing and other helpful information by zip code that people may be interested in seeing. And today, i had a couple of things to talk about specifica...

August. Another curveball for parents. Governor newsom is now floating the idea of starting the next school year early to make up for lost time. And the plan is getting mixed reaction from parents this morning. Good morning, everyone. It is wednesday, april 29th. Good morning, friends in the quad box. Good morning. I think, i know its getting, yes, hello, friend, in the studio. I think some kids might be happy to see their friends with that story. I dont know. Definitely a lot of sides to that o...

Reporting live this morning, julian glover, abc7 news. The governor also says the new school year could start as early as july. He says the best way to make up for the learning loss because of forced school closures. Schools are still adapting to them. The San Francisco Unified School District announced marked credit or no credit instead of getting a letter grade. School leaders understand that some students had difficulty transitioning to Distance Learning. Graduating seniors have until the end...

Governor newsom giving his Daily Briefing on the covid 19 response, right now number wise we know there are 31,000 cases in california and close to 1200 people so far have died from coronavirus in the state and here in the bay area there are more than 6400 confirmed cases with close to 200 people who have died. Now lets go to Governor Newsom right now with just stepped up to the microphone. We have been able to organize this and help support our 6 million kids not physically in the classroom but...

It is just before sunrise in Golden Gate Park and you are not hallucinating or ranoid park rangers were out in force early but to be blunt this is not any other year. We pushed everybody including media crews to the outer perimeter. Guards turned vehicles around. Only foot and bicycle traffic are around. There is fencing around the entire area. Now back to our top story, governor gavin newsom giving updates. That are not physically in the classroom but we hope and expect our learning every day. ...

Particularly under the circumstances made more acute in terms oundational of our ability to not just promote the promise of education but to actually deliver on it. Ive been very proud of the work folks have done from the superintendent of Public Education to the president of school board, linda both of which , are on the phone today but ive also been very blessed by know very well, nd thats my wife, the first partner of the state of california. She, in part sher wip with of my ship with members...