We cant hear you. Here it comes. Yeah, for each question identify the organization. Hello. Identify yourself and your position. Im a humble tax reporter and analyst. There three of us. Im not an expert about Social Security, but my understanding is that surpluses of the program for a given year invest in a trust fund and treasury bonds. They have a low yield. There was a plan to privatize Social Security. It would seem to me that having a slightly more normal its endless. For example, raisings and eliminating the tax cap. We had to pick and choose which to include. Especially in the trade off, we collected only 12 of what is commonly proposed for Social Security. So we did not test the options that would invest the money differently. That would be a great question to ask. Yes . A microphone over here. Im hannah weinberger. I have a methodology question. How did you get people to Pay Attention to these Detailed Survey questions that i was looking in the report and it looks like it took
U. S. Agents collected records on 17 million phone calls between last december and january of this year. Wow were not going to comment specifically on every issue and as a matter of policy we made clear the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations. Connie said obama reassuassu merkel and he today not say whether u. S. Agents had done so in the past. Officials in seoul say their counterparts in pyongyang plan to release six south koreans. The men have been held in detention on charges that they el legally entered north korea. A spokesperson for south Koreas Unification Ministry said authorities in pyongyang sent a knowties saying they would return the men on friday. South korea welcomes the northeast action paced on humanitarian grounds. Return the detainees right now. A north Korean Online laterally cancelled the reunion of families separated by families of the korean war in the 1950s. A deadly typhoon struck the island south of tokyo last week. Lo
Little bit of an unnortherly breeze, not a howling one or anything but 70s, 80s to near 90 degrees. Temperatures even San Francisco looking g. You know, come o september is usually one of the best months on. 40s, 60s to 60s. A big spread. Coolest temps so far definitely up in the north bay. I havent checked the Santa Cruz Mountains yet. 56 oakland. Well go for a high of 79. Looks good if youre working downtown oakland. We have a big change brewing for that step up there but it wont be there today. It will start moving in and swiping in saturday for early rain north but not a lot. Hot inland to near 90 degrees. Temperatures will continue to be above for one more day. Then they are going to fall off the table tomorrow. Well have more on that coming up. Now heres sal. We do have some trouble on the grade. Southbound 680 between better knell and pleasanton, an jumpry crash. At least one person has been seriously injured. They have been taken to a hospital and there could be more injuries.
It is the top of the hour. Our bottom line this morning is it is milder and cloudier than this time yesterday. Sharon is watching the roads, of course. Marty is over at first warning weather. In some cases its a little bit wetter. Heres first warning doppler weather radar. What were seeing is very light shower activity. Its going to be pressing through the area for the next few hours. By the afternoon variably cloudy and mild. We have rain right now but its mild. That 47 degrees is 6 warmer than this time yesterday. By lunch 62 on its way to a high of 63. 63 was our temperature yesterday. 63 is normal for this date. Whats wrong on your way to work . Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning. Were seeing some of that rain n one of or traffic cameras. Were start together see more accidents. One of them on 32 eastbound at 108. That one temporarily blocking two lanes. A pedestrian involved report at patacso avenue. We still have that accident on eastbound cold spring lane
Especially worrisom worrisome fe with preexisting conditions. There are half a million known coronavirus cases in the United States. Experts say there are likely millions more americans who have or had the virus but have not gotten tested. Steve harrigan is live in atlanta outside of cdc headquarters where they continue to track the spread. Hi, steve. Reporter the u. S. Death toll as of this morning was 20,00 20, up just under 10 in the last 24 hours. Over the past five days, just under 2,000 americans dying each day. Last night, President Trump gave some insight into the decisionmaking process behind the next step to reopen the u. S. Economy. And its going to be its going to be based on a lot of facts and a lot of instinct also. Whether we like it or not, there is a certain instinct to it. But we have to get our country back. People want to get back. They want to get back to work. We have to bring our country back. And so ill be making a decision reasonably soon. Reporter a stay at ho