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HiI'm Carl Azuz with your 10 minute
explanation of what's going on in the
world
today's show is all about numbers the
shrinking number of restaurant workers
the crazy numbers of
lumber prices but we're going to start
with this one 331 million
440
that's the number of people living in
the united states according to the 2020
census
the u.s constitution in article 1
section 2
says that an enumeration a count of
america's people should be carried out
every 10 years
and that this is how the number of
representatives in the u s house is
determined
there are 435 voting members in that
chamber of congress
the constitution says each state gets at
least onebut most states have significantly more
than that the bigger their population
the more representatives they have in
the house because americans commonly
move around
it's not unusual for some states to lose
house seats while others gain them
and there will be changes in store for
the years ahead here's cnn census acting
director dr
ron s jarman six states will gain seats
in the house of representatives
texas will gain two seats and colorado
florida montana north carolina and
oregonwill each gain one seat seven states
will each
lose one seat in the house california
illinois
michigan new york ohio pennsylvania
and west virginia political analysts say
the changes benefit republicans more
than democrats
and though democrats control the house
now the majority they have in order to
do thatis a slim one democrats hold 218 seats
republicans hold 212 seats there are
five vacancies
the entire house of representatives is
up for election every two years
with 2022 being the next vote if
americans were to vote in that election
in a similar way to how they voted in
the last one it's possible republicans
could take control of the house
based on the changes from the u.s census
count of course
that won't be the only factor the house
makeup often flips back and forth
especially in a president's first term
but it's one reason why the census is
significant to the u.s government
up next help wanted after coronavirus
entered america
restaurants were some of the hardest hit
businesses during the mandatory
shutdowns of last year
the national restaurant association says
that as of last december
more than a hundred and ten thousand
places to eat and drink had been
shut down either temporarily or
permanently
in 2020 five and a half million jobs
were lost from march to april
alone today some of those jobs are
coming back
and restrictions on indoor dining are
being lifted if they haven't been
alreadybut many of the restaurants that
survived are facing a new challenge
they can't find workers we have a
war of survival a new war of survival
philippe massoud never thought he'd be
facing a shortage of restaurant workers
in the middle of the pandemic
we have no staff to open for lunch at
all nearly 10 million americans are out
of work
but massoud can't find anyone to fill
his 15
open positions from manager to
dishwasher
normally you get at least 30 40
50 people 60 people we only had three
people respond to our ads
and none of them showed up in january
seven percent of restaurant operators
named recruitment and retention as their
top
challenge by march that number was 25
percent
one issue some employees have left the
restaurant industry for good
like john jasnecki who quit in january
after16 years as a server and bartender
i had intended on being a lifer but with
unstable
pay and after contracting covid19 he
knewit was time for a career change covett
was very stressful
yelling at people to put on their masks
is not what i want to do every day
jazzinecki now works in maintenance for
several high rises in downtown denver
it's a different world working nine to
five as opposed to five to two
restaurants in miami have been at 100
percent indoor capacity since october of
last
year but carlos gazi tua says he doesn't
have enough staff
to open his dining room florida is a
bellwether state
we are we've been open a lot longer than
many states in the united states so
this is a coming to the theater near you
and he says it's only getting worse
he can't fill more than 30 percent of
his positions
even after raising wages he says the 300
dollar weekly expanded unemployment
benefit is stopping people from coming
back to work
people should keep the unemployment
benefits if they go to work now
and they commit to working to the end of
the year the expanded unemployment
benefits don't expire
until early september we're supposed to
go hire people to retain them
but at the same time you're paying on
employment it creates a conflict of
interest so to speak
right so for four months what is the
plan
lose more money and do what we can to
stay open
vanessa urkavic cnn new york
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck
homebuilders and
new home buyers probably don't care they
just wish the animal would chuck more of
it there's a national shortage of lumber
in the u.sand it's selling at its highest rate
since 2006.
why the american business magazine
fortune says it's supply and demand
last year lumber producers were
temporarily shut down because of
coronavirus concerns
at the same time people working from
home decided to buy more wood for
projects around the house
so lumber started disappearing from
stores like home depot
another factor interest rates for home
loans started hitting
record lows last year so people flooded
the housing market because their dollar
went further
all of this resulted in very short
supplies of wood
while there was tremendous demand for it
so lumber prices went through the roof
hitting record highs that drove up the
cost of building houses
it drove up the cost of buying new
houses so when will this
end nobody knows some experts say prices
will start to settle this summer
others say will be in 2022 before lumber
prices come back down
ten-second trivia which of these events
was not part of the first modern
olympics in 1896
tennis fencing shooting or tug of war
tug of war was an olympic event but not
until the second
olympic games in 1900
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a lot of olympic sports have been added
since 1896 at that time there were 10
different games played by the 241
athletes in attendance
this time around 44 sports are listed
for the 11
000 athletes expected after a year-long
delay the 2020 tokyo summer games are
set to kick off on july 23rd
with the paralympics following on august
24th
fans from other countries will not be
allowed people who bought tickets
already are getting their money back
for some of the athletes test events are
now underway
we're at the tokyo aquatic center one of
the venues which will be used for the
olympicand paralympic games with less than
three months to go before the start of
the olympics
this is one of the first test events
being held since the games were
postponed
more than a year ago test events like
thisserve as a dress rehearsal for olympic
organizers
an opportunity to work out the kinks
ahead of the games
in this case only a limited number of
japanese athletes are participating
here in the mix zone only 12 journalists
are allowed in
at any time as a result because of kovan
19
this virtual setup is one option being
considered
to allow equal access to athletes when
it comes to anti-virus measures its
clear olympic organizers
are still figuring things out this is
the media room inside the aquatic center
where social distancing
doesn't seem to be an option while it
hasn't been decided this is what the
tokyo olympic and paralympic games
could look like empty arenas with no
fans and athletes competing to the sound
of music
which does help mask the silence despite
a fourth wave of infection growing in
tokyo being placed under its third state
of emergency
order olympic organizers and the
japanese government remain committed
to holding the games as scheduled this
summer
blake essig cnn tokyo
late last year in southwest kansas a
mother took her two daughters christmas
wish lists
attached them to a balloon and let them
go
they never made it to the north pole but
one of them did float more than 500
miles away to northwest louisiana
where a deer hunter found the balloon
and the wish list
through the magic of social media and
with the help of family and friends
the men not only returned the list he
got the girls almost everything
on it and that included a puppy which he
and his wife drove to deliver themselves
it was like a visit from luizi's santa
claus and we bet the puppies left some
gifts of his own around the house
who would have thought that a christmas
craft could have blown up like that
ballooning into a national news story
it's the kind of thing that's easy to
get carried away with even when there
are strings attached and it proves that
christmas wishes are not
just full of hot air I'm Carl Azuz
today's shout out takes us to eastern
africa where we're thrilled to be part
of your day at the international school
of kenya
that's a wrap for CNN