Continue off the floor and the republicans 1 trillion economic aid plan in response to the covid19 pandemic. Senators have been staking out their positions with floor speeches. Now, live to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god, our refuge and strength, give us reverence for your greatness. Guide our senators around the pitfalls of their work, enabling them to have hearts sustained by your peace. May they surrender their will to you, as they trust you to direct their path. Remind them that leadership can work miracles with cooperation, but rarely accomplishes much with conflict. Inspire our lawmakers to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Help them to strive to live with such integrity that they give you the honor do your name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I
Being seized off the streets. Tributes to john lewis. The kind words pouring in for the civil rights icon this morning. New jersey senator cory Booker Joining us live, sharing memories of a man he called a mentor and a titan of american history. Close encounter. The moment a shark is spotted in cocoa beach, florida, heading towards a small boy. The quickthinking offduty officer who may have saved his life, tells us his story. And baseball is back. The first spring training games of the season. Cardboard cutouts in the stands and this masked hitters home run day. Will players stay healthy to complete the season . Coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Stand at more than 140,000 this morning. With the numbers rising in more than two dozen states. As the crisis intensifies, many states experiencing desperate stress on their medical systems. And the rising numbers forcing a widespread rethink of opening plans, indianapolis officials voting to delay the start of the school year by two weeks, and i
Active out there. Reporter and is still very active. But just up to a few minutes ago it looks like theyre putting away the ladder truck that you see right here. They were putting out hot spots for hours. Like i said, just a few minutes ago they started wrapping things up. But there is no word yet on when this fire will be considered contained. I had never seen a city fire spread this fast before. It was amazing. Reporter huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky as flames burned six buildings in san franciscos intermission district. The flames were three times as high as the building was. I mean it was fully engulfed back there. Reporter firefighters said the fire started on erie street, the backside of a wholesaler that sells steeled fabricated building supplies. In 10 minutes the whole building was gone. Reporter bruce bartfelt tells me the business was started by his father 75 years ago. This is what it looked like before the fire. The 73yearold says he arrived to open up s
Pattern. A friend of mine brought this point up yesterday. If this were in November December january, we would have about 10 days of rain. That is true. These are little areas of low pressure that are coming in and we hope this holds as we get to the winter months, but right now it is just giving us a really stuck pattern and theres not much changing here. Cold coast, if you are in ukiah, vacaville, it is really hot. Other locations are really nice. Absolutely blocked in here with lowes about 55 and highs of 78. I cant complain about that. A little bit of northwest breeze. Fog heads back to the coast keeping them in the 60s around the bay. Inland it is 80s to near 90. These are all a little bit below average. Santa rosa, san jose, San Francisco, oakland and livermore is one above. Over to sal and we will say good morning. Thats right. Wednesday morning, steve, and the traffic is nice and boring, just the way we like it. We dont want a lot of excitement. I was told that there is some gu
Nation, testing directly happening at a transportation hub in San Francisco. They are hoping to make it as easy as possible to test members of the Latinx Community in the mission district. Again, the new testing place is at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza, they will be doing testings wednesdays and fridays from 7 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Again, that starts today and will last for the next three weeks. So the goal here is to catch the virus before it continues to spread throughout the Latinx Community in the mission. These are people who are often essential workers and dont have the opportunity to take off work to wait all day to get a test. You can go to where the problem is and help test and help mitigate, then you can reduce the transmission within that same community. And thats what were trying to do. Reporter the popup testing site at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza is made possible bay ucsf, b. A. R. T. And the city. The groups organizing the testing also realize