City council had the biggest turnout ever for a virtual meeting. For two hours, people sounding off about safety and quality of life. Reporter the community is riled up. Reporter the mayor is getting an ear full. It is a 70 room motel that marin county wants to buy and convert for longterm homeless housing. We were informed about it a couple of weeks ago. Reporter the home key program solicits properties to buy. Three emerged in marin. Adding over 100 homeless beds. We shouldve moved faster a long time ago. For mac advocates praise supervisors for moving ahead to push with negotiations. We need to step up and open our hearts. Reporter mobilizing late, the neighborhood of point marin. Several hundred homes and apartments are just steps away. Many people feel blindsided. It feels like spend the money quickly before it disappears. Reporter funding expires that years and. State law doesnt allow cities to reject projects tied to the pandemic. It is alarming to be so close to the neighborhoo
It may be modified a bit. Spending may be modified. The pattern of household spending. The California Academy executive director said federal aid is helping but not enough to prevent layoffs. It is a harsh reality and one of the things we do understand is that they hope to rehire if they can but theyre not alone in terms of the pain Stanford Universitys president announced in a letter today theyre possibly looking at layoffs and furloughs starting in july. It is a harsh new reality, jeanette, thank you. San ramon based chevron plans to cut 15 of the global work force. The layoffs come amid the sharp drop in demand for oil and gas during the pandemic. No word if there will be layoffs at the san ramon headquarters. Theyre looking to boost their staff to handle the flood of unemployment claims that have been brought on by the coronavirus shut down. The department is looking to hire 1,800 people to add to the 3,000 workers already on the job. Federal money will pay for the additional staff
People tried to hail the heartache of the two Mass Shootings this weekend. The Dayton Police chief announced monday that police were able to stop the shooter identified as 24yearold connor betts of bellbrook within 30 seconds after the attack began the sunday morning. One surveillance camera shows the desperate scramble and people running away trying to avoid the shooter and you see them emerge on the screen and fall to the ground as people were calling 911. There were shots fired and people hurt and somebody hurt. Reporter he died on the scene and the police chief said he was wearing body armor and was armed with an ar 15 style rifle that illegally purchased online. Police chief said he had the magazine to kill many more. All of those were completely at full capacity including the loose rounds found on the ground near him as well as in the backpack that he carried and he wouldve had a maximum of 250 rounds in his possession at the time. Reporter in el paso the death toll rose to 22 vi
Dow. And also happening right now, point, click, strike, the same day amazon celebrates its most high profile shopping event of the year, prime day, thousands of amazon workers in the United States and europe hitting the picket lines, protesting overworking conditions, wages, and much more. This is bulls bears, im christina partsinevelos and joining me on the panel today, jonathan hoenig, liz peek, Gary Kaltbaum but first lets go to susan li in minnesota where you have the amazon fulfillment workers striking actually right behind you. Susan what are they telling you . Well in what they said is the first of its kind across north america we do have workers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center just outside minneapolis, minnesota walking off the jobs on one of the most important days for amazon and what they are protesting not wages because we do have amazon listing the minimum wage up to 15 an hour, in fact amazon says the average wage is around 16 to 20 and that includes benefits but they ar
Quit this weekend. The owner Charlie Hallowell left the group in december. Stop drawing pay admitted to misconduct and apologize. With a review launch and reforms promise. There are many more stories to be told. Reporter from at least 17 employees describing a degrading environment. The chef made crude comments about sex and regularly propositioned them. The stakes are high. We felt the need to honor the women who had come forward. Women who spoke up said they were harassed at all three restaurants. Top staff at the other two are not threatening to resign. It was not reporter as long as he is profiting they cannot be there. It feels necessary. If feels empowering to be taking back a measure of control. We are trying to hear them out. It is not something that can be done overnight. Reporter is spokesman acknowledges negotiations a lot of peoples jobs could be at stake. Reporter does believe the situation can be fixed. They do support the company. They want to be part of the solution. Re