Airlines ucsf cardiologist was returning home after treating covid19 patients in new york in one tweet he writes i guess united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days every seat full on the 7. 37 is it simply a another you know like i for united douglas kidd is the executive director of the National Association of Airline Passengers even before the coronavirus pandemic his organization petitioned for more space and safer flight he says because fewer people are flying new standards should be implemented right now. The health and safety of the passenger has to come first as a part of its social distancing policy united says theyve been limiting seat selections in all cabins so customers wont be able to select seats next to each other or middle seats where available. But as documented by doctor weiss his flight had lots of passengers the airlines are really taking a lot of measures i actually just take me to make sure answer high range aviation expert, an Airline Captain la
The university of washington kron fours noelle bellow joins us from our newsroom tonight with a closer look noel, pam and ken researchers at the universitys institute for Health Metrics and evaluation have been projecting the numbers nationally. And state by state based on a number of factors today at named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths. Are going up more than researchers expected now if you take a look at this graph you can see that by june first the institutes per project 4,276 deaths in california one month after that 5,555 deaths and by august 4th. Theyre looking at 6,806 1086 deaths in california now thats a jump of 1420 deaths since the institutes previous projection now just yesterday. The state added 2,244 coronavirus cases and 64 related deaths about 900 of the new cases and 45 of the new deaths were reported in los angeles county, the. The institute is also tracking the nationwide deaths. The latest model now projecting 137,184 d
Your morning drive obviously not going to be a lot of traffic but not a huge impact theyre either but your drive home could definitely be on the slick side san francisco. Still its nice and clear right now the lights there on that in the skyline and we are still looking at a quiet it sure is like i explains here. But what we are seeing to our west as those showers starting to head our direction you see the advance of these double lines of showers that have been pushing in over the past couple of hours. So what we are seeing right off the north coast of the state right now right off the humboldt mendocino counties is where that rainfall is sitting its going to take a while to get to us so thats why were still free of it this morning. Areas further north in the bay are your most likely spots to be picking up on rainfall ahead of the rest of the bay area. We certainly got the cloud cover ahead of that raid know as you can see these bands of clouds really settling in for northern Sonoma Co
Vote vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are one. The 60vote threshold having been achieved, the bill is passed. Senate will be in order. Please remove your conversations from the floor. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i withdraw amendment number 1419. The presiding officer the senator has that right. The amendment is withdrawn. The senator for alaska. Ms. Murkowski i modify the amendment amendment number 1407 with the chaplains at the desk. This modification includes, among other things, acceptance of amendment number 1419 offered by the senator from kentucky, mr. Mcconnell, for the senator from iowa, ms. Ernst. The presiding officer the senator has that right. The amendment is so modified. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the deck for the substitute amendment number 1407, as modified. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned
That revenue is just a bid among federal programs and shared with the state, local and tribal governments. Finally, we will hear testimony on two measures that would boost revenue sharing from onshore renewable as well as offshore development. Both bills under consideration or sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy has introduced s2418 which is the coastal act and senator mick sally has introduced f2 666 which is a public lands are knowable Energy Development act. As a cosponsor of the coastal act i want to thank senator cassidy for introducing legislation that would bring revenue sharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore developments. Progress laid the foundation through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy security act back in 2006. At that time the bill did not include alaska. The coastal act we are considering now what establish a Revenue Sharing Program that would include alaska. At the current time our offshore production is pretty minimal