Rebecca roanhorse. So, we are not going to take audience questions but feel free to chat amongst yourself in the chat feature and let us know where youre viewing from. Well re recording the event so folks who couldnt join us live can watch this later on and ill give you a quick rundown of the format. Were going to give each author seven to mine minutes to talk about anywhere upcoming books and then we joy will lead a chat of the group. So without further adieu ill pass things over to zerina and well take it away. Zerina maxwell the msnbc political analyst, commentator, speaker and writer the and the senior director of progressive programming for pierus xm cohost of signal boost. Take it away. Im so excited to be here this evening. I know so many of us are struggling through our individual circumstances during this quarantine, and maybe were thinking and wondering what we can do in this particular moment to make the world around us just a little bit different and a lot better. So, i can
Like in the fall. And mothers messages. New moms tell us about living throsi a their hopes for the future. Mothers never give up hope, but first, heres todays effe vaccine and unless something very unexpected happens, our viral enemy will be with us for many months and possibly many years. The former head of the cdc warned the scope of this pandemic is unprecedented. The worst thing that can happen is three to four weeks from now we see the numbers are really going up and then we have to decide whether or not were going to reverse course and ask people to stay home even more. Nearly 3. 17 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. It brings the total to more than 33 Million People over the past seven weeks as lockdown orders started. The president is taking heat for not wearing a mask during his tour of a mask factory in arizona. I actually did have one. I put a mask on i had a mask on for a period of time. We didnt see you in a mask. I cant help it if you didnt see me.
Good morning i am pam cook, it is april 21 on Tuesday Morning and thank you for waking up with us and its check with Steve Paulson on the weather forecast. It feels pretty nice out and much warmer than it has been the past few weeks. It will be warmer today and it will be the start of a rather dry stretch and it looks like the end of rain for april. Yesterday we had some in the beginning of the month saved us but all good things must come to an end. 40s and 50s. 54 in san jose and pressure through the roof, 30 point in san jose and pressure through the roof, 30. 20 which will continue to go up, west northwest wind today and the clouds are going right down the coast and they are clearing from northwest to southeast and it will take time for some. Some clearing north but mostly cloudy skies to the south, the next system is on its way to portland and seattle and extreme Northern California but not for us highs which have been below average are on their way to near average and they will go
Weight steve, i can read your lips. Its one of those things. Okay, we have to make up a forecast. Okay. We will talk more about that. You know about what is happening in traffic right now. I do, as a matter of fact traffic is doing very well and weve had mostly fair conditions and traffic continues to look good and carpooling is not something you can do with social distancing so all the lanes are open and all the toll plazas dont have anyone taking money although you will be charged in the mail. That have been no major issues on bridges and highways so far. Already looking to be another rough day there for stocks after the three major indexes fell yesterday between one and 2 1 2 the dow dropping nearly 600 points and the s p 500 and the nasdaq dropping 89. Right now it looks like another 500 point drop are so for the dow. The big drop was partially part of the bottom of the crude oil prices, oil prices have we can because of oversupply and a collapse in Global Demand due to the decline
Barricaded but it is not known if the suspect was hit by the gunfire and Police Negotiators are on scene talking with the suspect trying to attain a peaceful resolution but now lets get alive to governor gavin newsom for his Daily Briefing on the coronavirus prices in progress. That is the spirit of todays announcement. A spirit that defines californians for all, a new website that we are launching to initiate a much more comprehensive approach to capturing that spirit of generosity and the spirit of contribution and the spirit of service that resides in millions and millions of californians. To organize this in a deliberative way so people can share their action and their passion in a more deliberative, and ultimately more impactful way. We have developed partnerships with nonprofits throughout the state of california and we have organized agencies within the state of california in a much more prescriptive way. We have launched this initiative in order to launch an army of volunteers