Quarter gdp. All coming up at 8 30 a. M. Eastern and investor reaction. Reaction from u. S. Labor secretary Eugene Scalia, hes here live at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Ahead of the numbers, markets mixed. Markets surged yesterday but this morning dow futures up 75 but the s p and nasdaq futures negative. This on top of yesterday when the dow closed above 25,000 for the First Time Since march tenth with big rally yesterday at the close on wall street. As you see the dow industrials up 553 points at the close yesterday, nasdaq was up 72 and s p 500 yesterday up 44. President trump versus social media. White house reportedly set to take executive action to hold companies responsible for stiffing free speech and the Michael Flynn controversy deepens this morning. Attorney general william barr announcing brandnew investigation more unmasking, looking at what happened before and after the 2016 election. Plus major travel destinations returning, las vegas resorts ready to welcome guests once again, d
The ground because it is so dry from 10,000 feet down to 5,000 feet. You can see when the rain moved through san jose, didnt leave much behind. Lets talk temperatures and cloud cover which well have a lot of clouds. Waking up mild this morning. And notice 54 to 59 at noon and the coast will become breezy this afternoon and keep you in the 50s. The rest of us will join you by 7 00. Thanks, mike. Starting today a north Bay Community is taking extreme measures to stop the spread of coronavirus. Bolinas will test every one of its residents no matter what, if any symptoms, they may have experienced. Live for us. Testing will get under way at 9 00 a. M. The tents are set up behind us here. Every one of bolinas nearly 2,000 residents. 1,600 people have signed up so far. This is in partnership with ucsf. The two people spear heading it a venture capitalest and a pharmaceutical executive said they raised more than 300,000 to be able to do it. We asked ourselves could we do this in a way that wo
On slowing the spread of the virus. New cases of it on the decline in major hot spots including new york. Dr. Tony fauci saying the death toll in the u. S. Could be 60,000 versus earlier estimates of 240 people dying. Donald trumps Approval Rating hit alltime high for him amid coronavirus pandemic and also showing an overwhelming majority of americans are concerned about a recession. The virtual opec plus meeting which included saudi arabia and russia ending in a tentative agreement to temporarily cut production by about 10 millionbarrels per day. But mexico could derail the plan. Oil declining near the trading session over concerns about the Production Cuts that they wouldnt be deep enough. U. S. Markets are closed today in observance of good friday but yesterday u. S. Stocks rallied, dow, nasdaq, s p all up more than 10 for the week. S p having the best week since 1974. In asia overnight markets were mixed, you can take hang seng and hong kong closed for good friday. European markets
Hi, molly. Molly wonderful to be with you, im molly line in for arthel neville. As these talks continue on the hull, millions of doses of Modernas Covid vaccine are on the way after the fda approved emergency use friday night. Meanwhile, some detail of that stimulus deal still need to be hashed out including how much to give out in direct payments. House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy blames the holdup on speaker pelosi. Speaker pelosi finally admitted after the election that he he held up to try to make it an outcome of the election. This whole time when we could have had covid relief for those unemployed, the number of small bids out of work. I am very hopeful we get this done today. Molly a lot of hope that progress is being made. Congressional correspondent chad pergram is watching it on capitol hill for us. Where do we stand on this potentially being wrapped up . Reporter they think they might vote tonight in the house of representatives, but just before i came on the our here, th
Been tested. Over 32,000 lives have been lost. President Trump Holding a series of meetings today on reopening the country. Much hes expressed his wishes to get americans back to work as quickly as possible. As continued unemployment ree. Andrew cuomo is continuing the new york pause plan for another month. The new york pause policies, the closed down policies will be extended in coordination with other states to may 15th. I dont want to project beyond that period. Thats about one month. One month is a long time. People need certainty and clarity so they can plan. I need a coordinated action plan with the other states. So one month will continue to close down policies. What happens after then, i dont know. We will see depending on what the data shows. And good day once again to you. Brian williams alongside electronically at least katy tur once again. Katy . And brian, the stock market dipped this morning following another day of devastating unemployment numbers. More than five million