Least scientists make a breakthrough discovery that could save a dying coral reefs all right its time to boost your news i q. Very usual sighting off the coast of california in fact its so rare that we here at r. T. America wanted to get a birds eye view of the unexpected arrivals along the coastline youre looking at here exclusive drone footage of dozens of massive oil tankers sitting idle along the Pacific Coast with nowhere to go because these oil tankers have angered due to the Global Demand for fuel collapsing all due to less driving and less flying as millions of americans are being forced to stay home during this coronavirus pandemic r. T. Correspondent toshs sweet is in long beach with the story. With people flying and driving last the oil industry is taking a hit and as you can see there are dozens of oil tankers up the coast here in Southern California but the line of work there was far north as San Francisco with simply no place to unload in this exclusive video youre looking at 20000000 barrels of oil floating off the west coast roughly 3 dozen ships scattered throughout the waters from long beach to San Francisco with nowhere to go as facilities for storing crude are nearly full these tankers are acting as floating storage for oil these oil tankers up and down the california coast are carrying roughly 20 percent of the worlds daily consumption of crude with stay at home orders lingering for almost 2 months the need for oil has sharply declined and across the country Oil Storage Facilities are at their capacity which is why oil has been pushed on to tinker to float out at sea pumps are still running extracting oil from the ground and all that oil has to go somewhere so brokers were betting that storage would be more valuable than oil next month leading some on monday to pay potential buyers to take it off their hands Marathon Petroleum corporations refinery in martinez california has been idle chevrons also going to refinery has cut back on their process seen as well oiled gain ground in Financial Markets wednesday and thursday more than 40 percent after reaching record lows on tuesday u. S. Benchmark crude was trading as low as 650. 00 a barrel tuesday more than 80 percent lower than the start of the year however oil strength over the last few days has done little to make up for crude enormous 75 percent loss this year there coronavirus pandemic has drained about a 3rd of Global Demand with so many refineries here in california the big question is when will they stay at home borders be lifted but its quite california being past the peak of coburg 19 cases governor gavin newsom saying today that he still cannot give an exact date as to when things will get back to normal reporting and long beach the taj a sweet r. T. Right there. Theres no doubt the u. S. Economy is in peril the latest unemployment numbers are out bringing the total number of americans out of work to 26000000. 00 meantime Many Americans are still waiting for their government stimulus checks to arrive all the while there are reports now that dead people have already gotten theirs. Joining us in studio shes been following the story so far and how i dont fill me in here how is this even possible dead people getting checks for it so on the surface it looks really bad but theres actually a whole thing going on here and what that is is that dead people yes again have already gotten their stimulus check the government has even admitted to this happening but its a double edged sword because the i. R. S. Is trying to send out these payments as quickly as possible as everybody is suffering but each state keeps track of death records which are that reported to the i. R. S. But while the coronavirus is killing tens of thousands of people theres obviously going to be a time lag and that is ultimately another. Boy do we know how many how many deceased people have received money so we do not know that number right now but we do know that the i. R. S. Has issued 80000000 payments and ultimately some 170000000 people will be getting paid but unfortunately this is not the 1st time that weve seen this little fiasco happened back in 2009 during the Great Recession we had 52000000 people they got a check for 250. 71 of those people were dead which was a good 17000000 dollars and one percent of those payments given out now you do have President Trump saying that you know hey sometimes you give the bad check to you give a check to the wrong person were going to try to take it back but then you have legal experts manila saying that if you were alive when this stimulus plan passed and then you die legally you are entitled to that check so it would go to next of kin maybe possibly this is all New Territory fair and so since were on the subject subject of checks there are alive people that arent so not getting their checks. So what about those unemployment numbers so it is not looking good at all the dow jones actually predicted that last week there would be 4300000. 00 new jobs our new unemployment claims it was actually higher than that 4400000 now you can see by looking here at this chart the only good news is that last week there was a decline of 810000 but that still its 4400000 that is would be the equivalent to everyone in the entire city of chicago and phoenix filing for unemployment now the department of labor comes out with their new rate calculation in 2 weeks but its projected to be around 23 percent the rate during the Great Depression was 24 percent of the grand total over the past 5 weeks 26500000 this has protesters continuing to take the streets in some states not following the social distancing roles and calling for the country to get back to work arguing that these stay at home orders are destroying the economy by employers lets have it was good and those half are struggling out that are working were struggling because we dont have the other half what im looking to home with family members that i know that have been impacted by. Their business on the road cant sustain this very long or so i have friends and neighbors and businesses gone there daryn theres a lot of businesses of you might be able to you know. Now the house is expected to vote and approve the 484000000000. 00 corona virus relief bill which the Senate Passed on tuesday so its now the house that will be sending it over to the president s desk which president has promised to quickly sign it now this bill is geared toward Small Businesses and hospitals and another big ad is the 25000000000. 00 for coronavirus testing in manila this bill follows a similar one approved last week however that one actually ran out of money so fast it was scooped up mainly by restaurant chains and National Hotels so that resulted in this latest bill having to be put forth through the house still a lot going on there aaron friends i thank you for. In that report. Other news making headlines around the world fireworks were literally on display in one pair suburb as Police Clashed with residents it all happened after a motorcycle collided with an Unmarked Police car riots soon followed resulting in protesters setting off fireworks and then police using tear gas in this latest incident comes as residents abiding by lock downs during the pandemic are growing restless. And the Trump Administration is installing surveillance cameras at the Us Mexico Border in response to 19 even though the number of people crossing illegally has dropped reports reveal 60 cameras and 540 additional troops were sent to the border this month c. B. P. Says the cameras are manned by the military and will be removed after the pandemic has ended. And the world could soon face shortages of biblical proportion within the next few months that dire warning coming from the United Nations food agency who point to covert 19 as the major part in the global problem heres arties alex smile a bitch with a closer look at the impact being felt in north america. It was not the news that World Leaders wanted to hear at the same time while were dealing with govan night event and addressing the Un Security Council the executive director of the World Food ProgrammeDavid Beasley made it clear 135000000. 00 people around the world are headed toward starvation with the coronavirus potentially taking an additional 130000000. 00 down that path and a worst Case Scenario we could be looking at famine and about 3 dozen countries and in fact one of these countries we already have more than 1000000 people per country who are on the verge of starvation in a number of nations that already have difficulty feeding their people its not only covert 19 that is making things worse but also locusts from africa to south asia swarms of the destructive insects are disseminating crops millions of acres of vegetation have been left barren by the bugs in 23 countries and its thought that the current locust population could grow up to 400 times its current number by summer potentially spreading to new areas. Add that to the strains of covert 19 things do not look good for these already hurting nations you know their parts of the world the question many are asking is can covert 19 affect Food Supplies in highly developed countries like canada and the us this is what the u. S. Secretary of agriculture had to say last week govan 19 is impacting Food Processing facilities as you know for americans to be maybe worried about access to good food because of this i want to assure you the American Food supply is strong resilient and say this week however things dont seem quite as certain worked in at least 7 major u. S. Meat plants has been halted this week in iowa tyson foods part Processing Plant that employs 2800 workers was closed after at least 180 of its employees tested positive for covert 19. Approximately 20000. 00 pigs a day are handled at the iowa location and combined with a tyson plant that has shut down indiana together they account for about 18 percent of the u. S. Has hog slaughtering capacity. A usa today investigation found that 150. 00 of the nations largest meat Processing Plants which includes pork poultry and beef are in counties where the virus is spiking when it comes to beef the u. S. D. A. Has said that production is down 19 percent from last year at this time meaning that there will be less beef and of that it will be more expensive adding to the problem 2 out of 3 of canadas biggest beef Processing Plants are suffering from covert 1000. 00 outbreaks when combined the 3 facilities push up 95 percent of all of canadas beef the country is looking at cutting exports of meat to the u. S. To boost its own supply the u. N. Says while time is running out if we put our minds together and act immediately a global catastrophe can be avoided for r t m alex my love it. And a time of so much bad news heres some good stuff out of florida the florida aquarium in tampa announced this week that its scientists have made a breakthrough discovery that could one day help saving coral reefs are to correspondent john honey has more. Its called americas Great Barrier reef the coral reef system off the florida keys on the coast of florida the 3rd largest in the world its being ravaged by an outbreak of whats called coral tissue loss disease that started in 2014 well scientists that the florida aquarium in tampa announced that for the 1st time ever theyve successfully reproduced rigid cactus coral in human care and it could provide the necessary help to keep the florida reef system alive and healthy the aquarium released this video showing fully developed coral larva swimming immediately after release the next step is figuring out exactly how long the corals larva swims around before settling down and growing into adult coral roger german president and c. E. O. Of the florida aquarium said quote our. Wolf to say floridas endangered coral reefs continues and this historic breakthrough by our coral experts our 2nd in 8 months provides additional hope for the future of all coral reefs in our backyard and around the globe scientists hope to one day release the human grown coral back into the ocean assuming it continues to grow and even flourish hoping to replenish and restore the diseased and dying coral system last august researchers at the aquarium announced they were the 1st to get Atlantico Ocean coral to spawn in a controlled Laboratory Environment but before this latest discovery not much was known about how this specific type of cactus coral reproduced so its a huge breakthrough for scientists essential providing a much needed window into the creation of this very delicate coral life now its all about sustaining it coralie ecosystems protect coastlines from storms and erosion providing food habitat and nursery grounds for fish and Marine Wildlife and a source of income for fisheries and tourism so protecting these ecosystems is essential in protecting earths oceans and seas for our teeth john hardy. 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In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or remain in the shallowness. Across the country protests are popping up demanding local governments reopen their communities signs saying all jobs are essential becoming a trend crowd saying they dont want to handout but they do want their jobs back but coverage of these protests are viewed very differently depending on where your politics align so here to expand on this is Ruben Navarrette he is a syndicated columnist at the daily beast the Washington Post and a whole number of other outlets ruben good to see you so lets operate in it seems that the overwhelming majority of these protests in you know like lansing michigan phoenix arizona other cities are white truck supporters do you think that is an accurate assessment or is the media somehow skewing what were seeing out there. Miller thanks rick thanks for having me i think it is an accurate assessment as follows if you are pro business pro commerce if you believe that the restrictions or too much and that we all need to go back to work then you are more likely to be in the trump camp than the anti trump camp those are Trump Supporters those are republicans or conservatives it doesnt change the fact that this is impacted by the fact that you have many democratic governors like Governor Cuomo in new york and Governor Newsom here in california whove taken the lead in imposing some of these restrictions so it does kind of become a blue and red issue in that regard so i think if you characterize these protesters as Trump Supporters and mostly white from supporters of that thats fair. And a lot of media so are chiding those folks condemning them for not keeping social distance not wearing their mass or what have you but is that a distraction if they are they missing the point of these protests. You hear all of agree with you i think it is not fleshed out enough what is it the bothers me personally when i see protesters going around without masks heres what it is i have a set of concerns people who believe in these restrictions and dont want to open up the economy have a set of concerns and it comes to spreading germs and the very fact these people could be so dismissive of our concerns that they would protest without masks on really tells you where our politics is broken down i dont mind if theyre protesting i dont mind they have their signs that they have their point of view but it would help their cause a great deal i think if they at least pretended to take seriously the concerns of the 60 percent of americans who in a recent poll by the a. P. Said that they thought the restrictions were just right yeah there are several states where a lot of these governors are are pulling a lot higher than even President Trump during this time so that i mean thats i guess up for debate again depending on where your political views ally and speaking of republicans they were. Publican georgia governor brian cab was entertaining the idea of just basically flipping the light switch on getting everything back to normal as a pig you know because people need their massages and their manicures and their haircut but even President Trump weighed in on that and said whoa hold your horses but you know ultimately he said its going to be up to the states so where is the fine line when leadership is giving mix signals. Youre right the optics