This morning based on nine separate institutions indicating that we could potentially see another 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june. A reminder that the house is in recess this week. The senate is in session. 2. Ve coverage on cspan as we approach memorial day weekend, we want to hear from you, your top concern as your state begins to reopen. All 50 states reopening this week. If you recently returned to work, here is the number. Anyou are a Business Owner, essential worker, here is the number. , here is thes number. If it seems a little bit different today, we are coming to you from my home and also a satellite location where this program is being directed. We will get your phone calls in just a moment. I reminder that the Senate Government Homeland Affairs committee will be holding a hearing this morning looking into a couple of things, including joe biden and his son hunter and his connection to the Ukra
Just wasnt enough and this time around most of the funding will go toward the popular Paycheck Protection Program that ran out of money earlier this month. Its intended to help Small Businesses stay afloat during this pandemic and want to break down where all this money is going exactly take a look. So in all this stimulus package will cost about billion. An additional 310 billion of that money will be added to the Paycheck Protection Program. The bill also dedicate 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion will go to more testing that comes at a time when all levels of government are recognizing that we need more tests before lockdowns can be lifted. And we returned to normal house leaders approved the bill this afternoon with overwhelming bipartisan support including our own representative maxine waters, the dedicated her vote. Her sister. She said is dying from complications with the coronavirus. Im not only rise in support of this legislation this the enhancement act. I also would li
Once again pass are now 4. A Bipartisan Legislation to address the coronavirus crisis. If lawmakers pass a bipartisan bill for billion to help Small Businesses hospitals and to pay for coronavirus testing across america. The bill is now on its way to the president s desk. Were seeing that patients are responding within the first couple days following the single joes drive and what weve seen from the blood work and the clinical responses has been utterly amazed. San francisco, researchers are using an existing drug to treat coronavirus patients and they say theyre seeing promising. Results. It is friday april 24th, im James Fletcher thank you for joining us our top story this morning heard a moment ago all eyes on georgia today as Governor Brian Kemp plans to reopen his state and restart the economy. Its a move the President Trump disagrees with jim acosta has more. It was a major reversal as President Trump came out against georgia Governor Brian Kemps moved to reopen businesses in the
Yearoveryear, and that is demonstrating that both on the revenue side and on the expense side, the impact of the restructuring is making itself felt. Iose would be the things would focus on. The overall performance, obviously, is weighed on by the cru and the losses in the cru, but even there, we are progressing basically in line with our plans both for deleveraging and cost reduction. We also had earnings news out from daimler as well as volkswagen, and youve got some earnings lines coming in from barclays. Anna absolutely. We continue with the banking theme. We have Net Operating Income coming in at 4. 70 one billion pounds, a touch below the 4. 60 one billion that had been penciled in by analysts. Theres been a lot changing, of course, since the month of march, especially the volatility, as we know. Interesting to look at what has happened in the Investment Banking part of the business as well. 3. 62 billion dollars, well ahead of the estimates for that particular part of the busine
Bay area take a look at your screen there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 steps you can see those numbers broken down for your county by county check out Santa Clara County staffs at 73 and more than 1800 cases you can also see that these numbers are on our website kron 4 dot com. So if you want to look at your specific county just check it out on our website. Now lets get to our top stories this saturday morning as people are now required to wear a mask of some form or a facial covering in most bay area counties. 6 counties are now requiring everyone wear a covering of some sort when theyre outside they are San Francisco, san Mateo Alameda contra costa marin and sonoma counties. Santa clara county also urging residents to wear a mask, but at this point thats not an order. Now heres why its so important to wear a face mask in public take a look at this laser light experiment shows how droplets from coughing sneezing and talking can spread the virus on the left you see the droplets