The call, how theyre pitching pr supply and demand. The white house responding to the urgent need for more masks. When exactly can they expect to receive these masks . Well prioritize the president s press when will the masks start coming in . How theyll be distributed across the country. Fighting the pandemic. Researchers around the globe scrambling for a treatment. This morning a new approach. Will shifting the focus be the key to a cure . And home court advantage. The athletes showing off their skills all through the house. How theyre rolling on and still making baskets. To make the best of their situation. Hey, good morning. As you can see, whit is not on the desk with us this morning. Well hear from him in just a moment. First, though, lets dive into the latest on the coronavirus pandemic, now hittin eeciay here are the latest numbers. Overnight, cases of covid19 surpassed 300,000 worldwide with nearly 13,000 deaths. Here in the u. S. , the numbers are soaring, more than 26,000 ca
Now, your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. Its become a familiar sight during the Coronavirus Crisis, once packed downtown scenes, now desolate. The deserted weekend streets now just symbolize everyday life in our community. And this morning the impact of the coronavirus seeping further into the bay area, nearing 700 confirmed cases and claiming 11 lives. Good morning, its march 22. We have much to get to as our lives slowly begin to adjust to the coronavirus outbreak. First lets get over to lisa argen for a look at the forecast. Good morning. We are talking about more spring showers as you look live, a system spinning off the Central Coast will bring up shower activity into the south bay. The peninsula, maybe even a thunderstorm. Right now its around santa cruz, elsewhere clouds mixed in with sun. Its a level one on our storm impact scale so this afternoon, a few showers and later on the rain will get more widespread. Live shot from tam now, 52 downtown, Half Moon Bay 61. Beaut
[inaudible conversations] the cdc before the subcommittee this morning and has been several years march of 2016 since our last hearing on the budget of the nations leading Public Health agency. Before i do a formal welcome, i was made aware of this issue which is very troubling. And that is, that the administration is ordered the immigration courts to immediately remove coronavirus posters and it just says the immigration courts have been ordered nationwide by the administration to takedm down coronavirus posters from courtrooms and waiting areas. The executive office for immigration review under the department of justice mandated allex posters which explain in english and spanish how to prevent catching and spreading the virus had to be removed immediately. I just want to say that whatever your point of view on any issue that we face in this nation whatever your personal views are or your ideology , that we canno cannot, we cannot in this Public Health crisis play fast and loose with
3 . Right now the selloff continues in asia, stocks are trading mostly lower. Here are the numbers from wall street today. The dow fell 1031 points, the thirdlargest point drop ever. The nasdaq lost 155 and s p lost 111. Our reporter is in San Francisco , where they are feeling the impact of the coronavirus. They are already feeling the effects on the bottom line. They pulled out of this conference along with other companies and we are told that they are also taking extra steps to try to allay peoples fears about the coronavirus. The Cybersecurity Conference goes on in San Francisco but the economic boost might not be as big. Thirteen Companies Including ibm have pulled out. Wendy says her team saw fewer people at the opening night. They had hand sanitizers all over. They put one next to the booth. They offered sanitation services. Concern over the coronavirus led to a devastating day on wall street on monday. The 1000point drop reflect concerns over hundreds of new cases. Lockdowns co
With second largest point gain on record. Up 1,173 points yesterday for the duh industrials, that was 4 and a half percent. Nasdaq was up 334 points. About 4 . The s p 500 also higher by a quarter percent with a gain of 127 points. Coronavirus, crisis continues, california declares state of emergency as the number of patients in the golden state rises, the house passing 8. 3 billion bill to bat it will virus, the senate due to vote on that today. United and jetblue cutting flights to the United States, all that coming up. Samestore shelves, heared out of clorox and canned soups. Senator Bernie Sanders releasing ad barack obama praising him and joe biden hitting back and Mike Bloombergs expensive run to the end and is Elizabeth Warren coming next . Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria we begin with another volatile day in markets this morning. Take a look at markets overseas as we sea big selloff in the u. S. Cac quarante in paris down 91 and dax index in germly lower 120 points