Are you laid off . Are you on furlough or parttime . Are you an essential worker . We will get to your calls momentarily. The jobs numbers for april this morning, we will certainly report that when it is available. This from the Associated Press this morning. A devastating jobs report for april show virus impact, writing the u. S. Government on friday is poised to report the worst jobs report since a big Record Keeping began in 1948. The Unemployment Rate for april could reach 16 or more, according to economists surveyed. 21 million jobs may have been lost. If so, it would mean that nearly all of the job growth in the 11 years since the Great Recession had vanished in one month. That is from the Associated Press. This is the wall street journal. 3 million more, file jobless claims. The u. S. Braces for what is expected to be the worst employment report on record u. S. Workers have filed nearly 33. 5 million applications for Unemployment Benefits in the seven weeks since the closures were put in place to combat the coronavirus pandemic, showing a wave of layoffs that is likely to push april job losses to record levels. They say that u. S. Workers filed 3. 2 million jobless claims last week. It was the fewest since the week ending march 14 before the pandemic caused claims to spike , but still, 15 times early march readings. Toy say layoffs are expected cause nonfarm payrolls to reach the Unemployment Rate climbed to 16 in the april jobs report. That is from the wall street journal. The 7488000 the line for eastern and central time zones. 2027488001, mountain and pacific. And there may be further federal aid ahead. Legislation being developed by the democrats, anyway, on the house side. Coming in for a pro forma session. This is politico. Negotiatingisnt with republicans or the white house on the next aid bill. In her news conference, she was asked if she is concerned about the mounting budget deficits these packages are causing. Speaker pelosi were talking about now is a stimulus to our economy at a time when people are crippled with concern about their physical wellbeing, as well as their economic wellbeing. Stamps,about food direct payments, and unemployment insurance, they stimulate the economy. Their purpose is to meet the needs of people, but they are a stimulus to the economy. And far better to spend our money that way, the republicans are supposed to be these budget hawks, had no hesitation whatsoever in the dark of night in the speed of light, passed a bill that takes almost 2 trillion in debt in order to give 83 of the benefits to the top 1 . So when we look at the needs that our people have, not the 1 , bless them all, we dont begrudge anyone their achievements, but there is no upside for our economy unless it is consumer confidence, unless people understand that the wellbeing of our working people and our families is what keeps our economy strong. Yes, im concerned about the National Debt but i think its it would be penny foolish to say im sorry, we cant do snap to give you food, because there is a National Debt. Theres a National Department we just did 2 trillion for the wealthiest people in our country , but we cant feed one in four children in our country because of the National Debt. So i think that i think that the secretary the chairman of the fed, chairman powell had said it again and again, publicly, he said think big. It to me. Think big. Think big. The Interest Rates are very, very low. Think big. And thats what were doing. Host nancy pelosi from yesterday. Houston today for a pro forma session. No legislative action expected next week. Your calls and comments this morning on how the pandemic has impacted your job. Steve in charleston, south carolina, first up. Caller good morning, bill. Hope you and your family are doing well. Host thank you. A question. Caller well, first, i am retired but i do have a job. And i work for a company that staffs sporting events and concerts and that kind of thing. We have a 12,000seat venue in the North Charleston coliseum and when this thing first hit were in the concert season is basically what were in. And all those have been canceled and i he has no source of income. Im not getting any income. The earliest reschedule ive seen is for october. Thats just devastating to him. On the other hand, im not sure i want to get down in the middle of 12,000 screaming Jimmy Buffett fans too. Its a mess. Were in the biggest mess ive ever seen in my life. Youre darned if you do, darned if you dont. You certainly dont want to kickstart the second wave of this thing. So its just the biggest darn mess ive seen in my life. Weve got this evil viral pyramid scheme going on. Host so steve, the venue you work for, you said october was the earliest that they thought they would reopen for concerts . Caller so far, thats what ive seen. It may change. But i havent seen anything in my email yet. You know we have professional tennis matches and sports venues at baseball. Its all over the country, obviously. Host and the artists are reluctant to tour as well, right . Which states will be open, etc. Caller im sure. And i understand. But think of all the other logistics involved the truck and the Truck Drivers that bring the roadies that are on the road and the Food Beverage industry. In the hotel industry. And the hotel industry. Its just awful. All the spinoffs are hurting too. Host great to hear your story this morning, matt. Lets go to matt in vista, california. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host tell us your story, matt. Whats going on with you and your line of work . Caller shipyard in southern california, which there are a few. We still havent been impacted by this. I dont know where it is at. Very few of my friends are affected by it at all. Host so in the shipyards, theres still ships coming in, still trucks coming in . Caller naval ship repair, actually. Host i see. Ok. So its essential work that it is, military navyrelated work . Caller i believe so. Host all right, matt from california. For those of you on the west coast 2027488001. , eastern and central, 2027488000. A couple of comments on facebook. This one from john who says this. Im an essential worker dodging the virus every day. Do your part. Wear a mask, he says. Russell says, my entire industry is shut down. Doesnt indicate what that is. And this from john who says that history, 75 years ago today at 11 59 p. M. , the war in europe ended. Americans built the arsenal for defense, sent our grandfathers and grandmothers to war. Sacrificed at home. We were united in defending freedom, defeating a brutal enemy in saving the world to be made better. God blessed with us the greatest generation. We then faced new challenges with the knowledge of our power in this unity. We overcame them. Now we face a new enemy. A virus as ruthless as any. We must draw on the lessons of our shared pasts. We must unite, support our efforts, and defeat it and with all the skills that we have, do your part. John, referring to 75 years ago today. It is ve day, victory in europe day. The 75th anniversary of the triumph of the allied forces over germany. And i want to let you that we will be joined this morning by historian and author Rick Atkinson this morning at 9 00 eastern and our partners with American History tv. Rick atkinson, the author of the american trilogy the guns at last light about the final year of the war, 9 00 eastern. Welcome your calls and comments as we welcome Rick Atkinson this morning. Back to your calls. This is william in maryland. Good morning. Caller hello. Hello. Host good morning, william. Youre on the air. Caller yes, so i produce an event in maryland and run a nonprofit called juice box jams. And its our fifth year. And at this point, were looking like we have to cancel it in july. Weve reached out the Governors Office multiple times to figure out what phase we need to be in. And at this point, our only option to do an event is one of these drivein events which is kind of weird keeping everybody in their car, driving in the county fairgrounds and letting them do a drivethru festival. So for them, im sure were done for this year looking to move on to next year. Host do you think typically, how many people would you draw to an event like that . Caller its about 4,000, 2,000 to 4,000 people. Its a nonprofit. We let in military veterans, first responders, their wives, husbands, children, significant others, all free. Last year, we did close to 1,500 people free. So for us, its really hard because we relied on donations and input from the community. Liquor sponsors and all that money is gone. For an event like ours, we make zero dollars. We lose money every year to support our community and were not getting any feedback from the local government on what our options are. I wanted to move forward with the governor by just getting an approval that i can do a drivein event. I can get someone to say that is approved. And as a nonprofit, we dont want to do something that is without strict approval. Went to do something and have everybody look forward to. So far, not happening. Host marylands governor came out with some new guidelines yesterday for outdoors events and yours was not covered in that . Caller no. Live events like that with that number of people are just not covered. We can go the beach. We can go to private beaches. We can golf and stuff like that. But, you know, and i wouldnt feel comfortable producing my event with 4,000 people either. I would much rather do something and theres plenty of space there. The idea is to have hourlong events. So you buy that 1 00 p. M. Ticket, you come in, and you pull through all the vendors, you order some food, you park at the end, and you watch a concert for one hour, and you leave. Theres 200 tickets per hour. That is kind of our working model. You can order from one of the food trucks. You can drive by the vendors and hop out and everythings cleaned after you. And really, theres no money to be made here. Its really to help a community, shed some light, give some hope. Were all moving forward. Host well, thanks for calling in. Hope youre able to pull it off in some fashion. Peterson foundation with their survey. Nearly seven in 10 americans say their incomes have taken a hit from the pandemic. We go to winter haven, florida, next and hear from brian. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing . Host doing fine. Thank you. Caller yeah. I work for a Grocery Distribution Center and were actually nationwide. And weve experienced layoffs , and they offer furloughs to employees that want to take time off and they can actually use time out of their vacation or they can go on furlough without being paid. But weve actually since florida has been opening up or reopening over time now, weve actually our business has picked back up. So we did experience an impact at first and it wasnt too, too bad but like i said, now were just picking up. Gov. Cooper good afternoon, everybody. Sorry about the technical delay there