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This years b. E. T. Awards show featured artists gathered. As well as a performance by First Lady Michelle Obama as she presented beyonce with a humanitarian award. Those are some of our top headlines on this monday, june 29th. Happy monday, everyone. We do begin this half hour with the devastating new numbers on the pandemic. More than 500,000 lives have been lost worldwide, and more than 125,000 of them in the u. S. Alone. Some areas that reopened are now backtracking. Beaches across south florida will be closed for the july fourth weekend. The pittsburgh area is the latest to shut down bars. Cases are on the rise across much of the country with only two states reporting a decline in new infections. Abcs zohreen shah has more. Reporter this weekend, 10 Million People infected and more than 500,000 worldwide who have lost their lives to the coronavirus. In the u. S. , seven states breaking records this weekend, including florida with nearly 9,000 new infections. Broward county and mia
Take shape across the nation. This is a live picture that we can show you of an event being held right now in brooklyn, new york. As you can see, there are people with the microphone, there are people Wearing Masks and they are sort of social distancing and most importantly, it appears very peaceful. Isolated incidents of violence did mar largely peaceful protests all across the United States last night. Some businesses still struggling with that double whammy of damage from both looting and the enduring losses of the coronavirus pandemic. We will speak to one Business Owner who is desperately trying to cope. With so many people gathered so closely together in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, will we still see a second wave of the deadly outbreak sooner than the fall . We will take you straight to the front lines. Dr. James gasparino works in the trenches at Brooklyn Hospital center. He will give us an update on what he believes will be a new coronavirus spike. And what he expec
Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec
Legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist tim draper, he was a very early investor in twitter. We have him in a fox business exclusive on exactly what he thinks and how serious he believes this new move by President Trump ostensibly against twitter and other social media names might really mean for Silicon Valley. And we are looking at many different stories at this hour, specifically let the bidding wars begin. Yeah, the Housing Market. How about that. We know that more states are allowing the reopening of so many different businesses, including Real Estate Brokers who had been during the lockdown banned from pretty much facing facetoface potential buyers. Re realogys ceo is here on just how strong he believes the snapback in recovery for the real estate business really truly is going to be. And the coronavirus lockdowns have taken a toll on americans Mental Health. The hottest app in wellness, in the wellness world, is now focused on pretty much helping you get your mind in the rig