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Gilead sciences, as you heard from maria, positive news from a government trial of their remdesivir and also from two of their own trials. Positive news on a treatment. That sent futures straight up earlier this morning and look at the stock, also straight up, 6. 8 . Thats the effect of this effective trial of remdesivir. Up go futures, up goes gilead stock. More on this in a moment. A second reason for the dows gains, investors expect a strong recovery for the economy starting in the summer. Th...

Another 15 days. The u. K. Government under fire for suggesting Health Workers reuse protective gowns as supplies run low. And the number who died in africa passes a sound including the nigerian president s chief of staff. The number of deaths and infections from corona virus continues to rise in many countries but so is the pressure on many governments to ease or lift their knockdowns spain has joined italy and the u. S. In seeing more than 20000 People Killed by the virus Officials Say the pea...

Simonetti is watching the markets and Hillary Vaughn is on capitol hill. Lets kick it off with hillary. Reporter melissa, Bernie Sanders is out of the 2020 race but he is not off the ballot and he is still has his eye on the Democratic National convention this summer. I will stay on the ballot in all remaining states, continue to gather delegates. While Vice President biden will be the nominee, we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the Democratic Convention where ...

We all voted to give that 12 weeks. All of us know exactly why the can keeps being kicked farther and farther down the road. Its because the majority cannot muster the majority of their own members to support bipartisan funding bills. Because the governing party which controls the house, senate, and white house has not been able to govern. Senate republican john cornyn can always y, seemed to be kicked down the road. And here we are again with republicans doing exactly that. Mr. Speaker, lets ca...

Stumbo pleaded not guilty. Their lawyers argue they had no intention of committing any violence. A man convicted of shooting a Dubuque Police officer in 2009 will be in court this afternoon. Afternoon. Eddie chest is being sentenced for the third time. Chest was given two consecutive 25year sentences in 2011 for attempted murder and robbery convictions. He appealed, saying prosecutors breached a plea agreement but a judge upheld the sentence. The court of appeals agreed with chest leading to tod...

Undoubtedly satisfied, then he would not have had the rationale to go in and to conduct the invasion and might have been ugly but Saddam Hussein might have stayed in place. But nevertheless he felt it was necessary for based on the intelligence we had about those weapons he thought it was in the interest of the world in the absence of that kind of agreement that an invasion was appropriate. I supported him in that because we tried the u. N. And i supported him when that didnt work on the invasio...

Should immigration be tied to this spending bill . This is a subject at hand for the week. This is the number for republicans. You can land by six social media. You can send us an email. This immigration story is front and center as you can imagine on a lot of the papers this morning. This is usa today. Friday is the deadline for congress to act. This is wall street journal. Deadline nears on security funding. There is the setup this morning on what should be an interesting and active week on th...

And they fear that there could be a second potential wave of coronavirus victims if more governments open too prematurely. Right now 37,000 of fellow americans have died of coronavirus. The states down south and west have not even hit their peaks yet. Dr. Anthony fauci, National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases says social distancing does play an Important Role in stopping the spread. If you get a test today, that does not mean that tomorrow or the next day or the next day or the nex...

Right now. Good morning, you are watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. Im carley shimkus. Rob im rob schmitt. Thanks for getting up early with us today. The u. S. Nearing the peak, the fda making that declaration as new york, the pandemic epicenter of the world, does report a drop in new cases. Todd piro us live as the white house hopes to reopen the economy next month. Todd, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, carley. Good morning to you, rob. With so many of those prepeak ...

People being tested positive as well as some fatalities. We know that in the south we have the lowest resilience to coronavirus. In the south we have the highest poverty rates, we tend to have older populations and younger populations that are vulnerable. We have one of the weakest health care infrastructures and because half of the states that have not expanded medicaid in the southeast, we do not have the infrastructure to take care of and serve those in need. We have had some of the highest r...