And im peter dhabi here in doha with the very latest on the disaster in beirut the fires are burning into the night as rescue crews search for more survivors and victims. While countries around the world offer their support to levon on which is already in the grip of its worst economic crisis in decades. A massive explosion has brought catastrophe to lebanons capital beirut killing at least 78 people and injuring thousands more as a shockwave smashed through the city its erupted from a port warehouse where about 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate had been stored for years is believed to be set off by welders the blast was felt 160 kilometers away in cyprus countries around the world including lebanons traditional folk. Israel or offering help is in a hole in beirut begins our coverage. A massive explosion in the heart of the lebanese capital. Was. 6 the blast essential quavers across beirut shattering windows destroying buildings. And injuring hundreds. The streets were filled with panic an
So im going to start with a few housekeeping announcements. First of all, the president s annual physical results are ready for release. The full memo will be released shortly. In summary, the president remains healthy. Also, id like to congratulate the winners of last nights primary elections. President trump has now endorsed candidates and has a 640 record. And primary races since the midterms demonstrating the string of the president s agenda across the country as evidence in the 64 consecutive congressional special and primary elections over the past 13 months. So next, i want to transition to talking about some of the things going on around the country. The First Amendment does not give anyone the right to riot. The First Amendment does not give anyone the right to loot. The First Amendment doesnt give anyone the right to burn down buildings. The First Amendment does not give anyone the right to deface property. And it does not give anyone the right to assault private citizens and
Straight weekly gains of more than 3 . The stocks index heading lower given their exposure to china and some of the heightened tensions you have between the u. S. And china. The only one of the major averages in the red. The risk off tone means you are getting a lift up on the long end of the curve, up five basis points. To give us a risk off tone. I want to talk about some of the Economic Data that we saw. To. Manufacturing pmi rose aprilsmay from alltime low. Manufacturing picked up a bit but stayed below 50. For more, i want to bring in our International Correspondent michael mckee. What is some of the manufacturing data this morning telling us about where we are . The basic message is me will not see a recovery. Shaped recovery. The chinese numbers, which came out over the weekend were down a touch. They reopened earlier, so their numbers are higher. Europe is next. Germany is up, italy is down. Here in the united states, some improvement but still below 50. These are basically psy
The winners of last nights primary elections. President trump has now endorsed candidates and has a 640 record. And primary races since the midterms demonstrating the string of the president s agenda across the country as evidence in the 64 consecutive congressional special and primary elections over the past 13 months. So next, i want to transition to talking about some of the things going on around the country. The First Amendment does not give anyone the right to riot. The First Amendment does not give anyone the right to loot. The First Amendment doesnt give anyone the right to burn down buildings. The First Amendment does not give anyone the right to deface property. And it does not give anyone the right to assault private citizens and to Assault Police officers. The First Amendment, however, does give you the right to peaceably assemble, and the greatest example that we have seen of peaceful protests, an absolute embodiment of the First Amendment, is the march on washington. On a
Could be imposed there within weeks and confined to their homes the neighborhood in argentina where hundreds of people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. Welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump has made his frustration with social Media Companies official he signed an executive order a few hours ago seeking to have the likes of twitter and facebook we classified as publishers and stripped them of legal immunity over the content on their sites hes been angered by twitters labeling of 2 of his tweets on postal voting as misleading and referring users to a Fact Checking page trump says the fact checks were editorial decisions and amount to political activism they had unchecked power to censor restrict and shape and alter virtually any. A form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences theres no president in American History to force a smaller number of corporations to control so large a sphere of Human Interaction and that includes individual pe