And ventura counties to be clear bars are not open in either of these county Santa Clara County state officials there have not yet said when bars there can reopen in bars and. Contra costa county are set to start reopening this wednesday kron fours dan thorn getting reaction in martinez tonight. He joins us with more whats becoming a rather confusing situation. Dan. Well thats right ken local bar owners tell us that they are simply looking for better directions from state and local Health Leaders, these businesses were just days away from reopening, but now it looks like that may not happen. People looking to get back in the bay area bars may have to wait a little longer governor Gavin Newsome announcing on sunday hes recommending watering holes in contra costa and santa clara counties close up its ban. A bit harsh to isolate want industry over and over again the owners of firehouse bar and grill in martinez reopen to customers on june 9th. Following county Public Health rules customer
Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
Minutes ago out of washington dc that relief measure designed to help americans who are suffering from the coronavirus pandemic moving forward tonight, thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne. The us house just passed the Coronavirus Relief package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first announced the measure last night and the house took it up late this evening kron 4 grant lodes joins us in studio with latest on the bill that is now heading to the us senate indeed ken and pam desperately needed this because we need testing to be free. So that people get tested, you know what sort of data you have and this includes paid sick time for people who dont have it so that you dont go to work if you need to work to make rent. And in fact other people so critically important to get this passed and bipartisanship is a tough thing to find in washington these days, but kudos to them. They got it done the goal of course to give Americans Health care assistance and Economic Relief d
Social Media Companies to react after paul pogba receives racist abuse. Good morning, once again from the farm in leicestershire as the bbc continues its focus on farming. Today will be talking about gm crops as the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, comes out in favour. Its a beautiful start of the day, chilly, we could have some rain and increasing winds coming in from the north. In the south, were looking at drain cloudy conditions. Well have further details in 15 minutes dry and cloudy. Its wednesday, the 21st of august. Our top story borisjohnson will repeat his demand for fundamental changes to the brexit Withdrawal Agreement, when he meets the german chancellor, Angela Merkel, in berlin later today. Allies of mrs merkel have accused the Prime Minister of making a completely impossible request and actually not being serious. In a moment well get the view from germany, from our correspondent jenny hill in hamburg. But first, our political correspondent, iain watson in westminster. Iai
To do more. Social media silence the right when they dont like. Nations prepare to Honor Fallen Nypd officer robert mora who died in a ambush last week. These wakeup call for so Many Political leaders who have been soft on crime. Tom brady is officially retired. Not a single mention of new england. He doesnt mention the patriots once . Yeah, it hurts. Brian we start with a fox news alert. This happened overnight. An offduty nypd officer coming under fire, what officials describe as an attempted robbery on his way to work. Another officer shot as new yorks finest prepare to say goodbye to a brother in blue. When these two individuals shot at a passenger driving a car, he didnt shoot at a Police Officer. They shot at a civilian. And then to find out that they shot at Police Officers sent a message. They had no regard of who they were trying to kill. Steve they were trying to car jack them. This as two virginia Police Officers shot yesterday. The accused killer taken into custody. His mot