Protection program was set to expire the senate votes to extend it. Today in the bays alex barr and what congress is going to do now. Reporter laura, this was a bit of a surprise that this extension was agreed to last night since theres not often a lot of bipartisan agreement in washington these days. This is one of these issues important enough. Lets be clear whats being extended is the deadline to apply. So now that deadline will be extended until august 8th. So that allows any Small Businesses with fewer than 500 employees that have not yet asked for this aid to jump in and request it. Whats kind of interesting is theres still 130 billion left in the pot to be distributed to Small Businesses. Thats a little surprising because early on this money was just flying out of the coffers and congress had to pass another installment to reinstate the money there. Theres question why theres so much left on the table. Some Small Business owners say they need help and need more help than what th
Now. And a very good wednesday morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on the commute this morning. First well start out with meteorologist kari hall with a look at the forecast for us. How is it looking for us today, kari . Its going to be a nice day for the bay area. As we check out Pleasant Hill and our temperature trend for the morning as we get this wednesday started, its going to be in the mid to upper 50s and then at 11 00 were at 76 degrees, a really nice morning for us with a clear sunrise. We look at our high temperatures, slightly lower in a few spots with oakland today reaching 73 degrees. For san jose expect a high of 80. Very comfortable. Were still reaching 91 in ukiah while San Francisco will be in the mid60s. Wide range in temperatures today and throughout the next several days. Well talk about that and a little bit warmer for the inland areas is coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the
Now in april this year the Federal Reserve bank in new york reported that minority and women owned businesses are significantly more likely to show signs of limited Financial Health and more likely to be classified as at risk for distress the nonminority Small Businesses. Further companies are three times likely as Healthy Business to close because of a two month the ppps program established under the cares act and administered by the Small Business administration and treasury for distress with responded to the covid19 pandemic. Recent analysis of the color of change in the United States found only one in ten africanamerican owned businesses received the requested funds through the program. I have heard from many a minority owned businesses who did everything right, they did not give a low number or loan in the first round, many minority businesses share the enhancement act was not adequately designed to enhance or assist Small Businesses. Thank you to the partnership of the Financial
And we thank you for making us part of your morning. Good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im Marcus Washington. Mike is keeping an eye on that commute. He will tell us what we need to know before we head out the door, and right now we want to start with meteorologist kari hall who has a look at that forecast for us, what we can expect. Kari, with that sun rise behind you, im seeing sunny skies and warmer temperatures. Yes, its going to be warm as we head to the weekend. Were looking at a little bit of a break for some of us. This is a view from the cupertino hills. Most of our temperatures are in the mid50s but we go from there to the low 80s today. I think pretty much throughout the whole afternoon you can enjoy some time outside with a good amount of comfort as we look at our temperatures with livermore reaching 86 and some mid60s in San Francisco. Well talk about those hotter weekend temperatures. Mike, whats happening out there for the commute .
12000 previously the trumpet ministration says it could withdraw all forces from the country by next may if the taliban meets all requirements of the deal including severing ties with al qaeda reducing violence and engaging in power sharing talks with the Afghan Government jesse its been nearly 2 decades since the us invaded afghanistan so its well beyond time for our government to end its occupation there well brigitta lets lets go back in history and look how all d this came about 1st ok we were allegedly attacked by Osama Bin Laden on 911. 00 so therefore we had to go there to get him that was without question were going to go get bin laden in afghanistan but that turned out to be a front bush and cheney really wanted to invade iraq that was their ultimate goal afghanistan didnt mean nothing to him they had to do it to satisfy the 911. 00 but then they went after iraq and everybody kind of forgot about afghanistan thats why its been sitting there now for 20 years of guys have been d