The new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you with the latest from the president. Reporter the latest is about an hour away, connell. Were set to hear once again from President Trump, he will be once again bringing back the coronavirus briefings for the first time in many, many weeks. The brief from the white house is they say that the president will be talking about medical advances and the look ahead. That is why they say these are coming back. However when you hear from the top democrat in the senate, there is much different story as Chuck Schumer said today, these briefings shouldnt happen at all. These are going to be short briefings of the president mainly delivering information to the American People that is needed on therapeutics and vaccines. President trump should not take the podium. Every time President Trump takes the podium at one of these briefings he is a threat to public health. Reporter up on the hill earlier today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell outlined rep
On the world by china has infected an additional 2. 8 million americans and culled 86,000 and killed 86,000 more. 3. 8 million have been infected. 141,000 have now been culled by the china killed by the china virus. Daily cases up by 154 in that same time period, but as the president reminds the leftwing National Media expect radical dem defeatists, is the most important number in all these statistics is the number of deaths. Daily deaths have actually fallen by 68 since the Task Force Last briefed the country almost three months ago. The white house, says President Trump, will be delivering a message about promising advancements in therapeutic treatments as well as the biotech race to invent and to produce a vaccine. The president and his administrations operation warp speed already cutting down barriers for five early potential vaccine candidates and incentivizing those companies to proceed with their efforts to create that vaccine. They include astrazeneca, moderna, johnson johnson,
Following all action in gold and oil on the cme well go to blake first. Reporter the word being used by both the United States and china goodwill after President Trump announced he will push back a scheduled tariff increase on october 1st, back, october 1st a couple weeks to october 15th, because of a celebratory anniversary that will be taking place in china. The treasury secretary earlier today, steve mnuchin, saying that the u. S. Agreed to chinas request. The vice premier asked us to delay it and the president agreed to that. I would hope that china reciprocates. This was done as a goodwill gesture to the chinese. Reporter spokesperson for Chinas Commerce Ministry saying quote, we welcome the goodwill by the u. S. Meantime the market earlier today took notice of a headline from bloomberg which said the president s advisors are considering an interim deal to delay tariffs however the white house has not publicly said that is the direction which this potential trade deal with china i