Veterans, Small Businesses, seniors, and rural residents have told my office about unexpected delays as they wait for their medicine, paychex, bills, and mailin ballots to arrive. Postal workers, mail handlers, letter carriers are all committed to getting the mail out every day. They have shared stories of mail piling up in ways they have never seen before. Years, thean 245 Postal Service has carried on a tradition of reliable ontime delivery. Dedicated postal workers and a letter carriers have delivered a male through wars, hurricanes, rain and snow, and they have always done it on time. Last week after the new postmaster general refused to give me clear answers about the causes of these delays, i launched an investigation. Im working to find out what changes are causing these delays and why they were put into place in the first place. As part of my investigation, i want to know about how families and Small Businesses across the country are being impacted. If you have experienced an u
Caller there are many many millions who are not coming back and some Small Businesses that are struggling an advantage. Airbus flies after boeing sees deliveries drop to the lowest level in six years from from the iata director later in the show. And swinging to the first ever quarterly losses as the lockdowns hit sales. But stores will reopen in most markets in june as it bisdishest a bonus dividend a warm welcome to street signs. Lets kick off with the fresh outlook from the oecd coming out now seeing negative growth of negative 6 and negative if a second corona outbreak occurs. The euro area gdp is forecast at negative 9. 1 in 2020 negative 9. 5 if a second outbreak occurs and the uk negative 11. 5 and negative 14 next year if another outbreak occurs. They have presented two scenarios. One where the virus continues to recede and one where a rapid contagious continues through 2020 and looking at what would happen let me run you through these for 2020 global gdp seen down negative. 6
Through that day after christmas and just keep keep to keep a hold of those gloves in those carbs because yeah its going to be chilly today youre going to find out why you got you look outside of San Francisco, its nice and clear overhead and no cloud cover really to our north. Although there is a plenty of it to our south the showers begin to trudge out of the area just a couple light sprinkles on the peninsula. Theres nothing more than just a few drops of water on your windshield its been pretty persistent right there on the southern end of the peninsula. Look at the Southern California is dealing with tho i 5 closed due to heavy snowfall Still Holding on to snow in the kern county mountains that includes to hatch a p pass as you head down into the Antelope Valley as well as the eastern deserts where theres rain and then some heavy snowfall being seen that is just snarling traffic in the southern part of the state so if youre heading down there today, be wary of that i just want to w
Where you are seeing some heavy showers in san diego and imperial counties and then the snow just piling up on those mountain passes down south temperatures in the 40s and 50s for the bay right now livermore for spot back into the 50s while still a few spots in the 30s in the north bay like santa and sell most santa rosa and say whoa lena. Now that youre not too bad, but definitely chilly enough at 42 degrees keep the jackets ready to go into the afternoon sunshine is going to help but feel a lot better this afternoon though so keep a jacket or sweater on him and youll be fine a really nice thursday ahead, at least for us here locally robin. All right. Thank you john checking in on traffic we still have a trouble spot in the east bay that started late last night theres a closure in place here on foot hill road between for now and council would crews are still on scene investigating a fatal accident a triple fatality that happened shortly before 10 oclock last night to look for those of
Opening statement. Todays hearing of on current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution, civil rights and Civil Liberties over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the requirement of section 5 of the Voting Rights act. To consider other ways to strengthen that civil rights statue. Im not sure why we say reinvigoration. That seems to be one of the words we tossed around. Section 4 was cut out so we need to have a section 4 to activate section 5. Section 5 has been made dormant by the Supreme Court saying section 4 wasnt adequate so we need to find a new test to awaken the dormant power of section 5. Voting rights act of 65 is widely considered the most effective civil rights statute ever enacted by congress to protect the fundamental right to vote. One of its central enforcement provisions was section 5. The provision required certain jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination against