The start of trading this morning after long Holiday Weekend, Dow Jones Industrial average better 500 points and s p 500 is also higher by 56 and nasdaq up 174. This after the dow, nasdaq and the s p 500 closed tout week of gains of better than 3 on the week as you see across the board. Another milestone today, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange will reopen but not quite business as usual. A look at the new restrictions coming up this morning. And turning to the 2020 race, former Vice President joe biden looks to take on President Trump on the economy, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria the easing of lockdowns and optimism of Vaccine Developments leads to gain this morning. Ftse 100 up 87, cac quarante in paris is up 63 and dax index in germany higher by 79. Spain announcing it is opening to foreign visitor this is july and germany ready to lift travel restrictions for other European Countries. In ash asia overnight markets looked like this. Planning another round of st
Anticipating moving into early to next week. Contra costa county will decide about that on monday. Santa clara county in the south bay currently remains in phase one and its not yet providing the date on when it will move into phase 2. That decision not to move forward in Santa Clara County is fueling some frustration for Business Owners despite making significant headway in the Hospital Capacity testing in infrastructure. County Health Officer doctor sara cody says conditions there havent changed much. But the San Jose Downtown Business Association very unhappy that local orders dont match what other lawmakers in the bay area and the state are putting into place. Its really frustrating that were all not on the same page here there was a youre going to be open by this date folks can start planning been scheduling weddings again in making plans right now its so up in the air. Everybody still twisting when too much that is no way to run a business thats no way to bring it come back. With
Demanded the director of the centers for Disease Control walk back his warning about a 2nd wave of coronavirus uncomfortably robert read thiel did not do so disputing the headline about the initial interview but confirming he had been accurately quoted i didnt say that this was going to be worse i said it was going to be more complicate our more difficult and potentially complicated because well have flu in coronavirus circulated same time. The president sought support from another of his medical experts dr Deborah Burkes and been very original this is years ago they will know. We dont know if its a small confined here or there we put it but 8 i think the great thing is will be able to find it earlier this time and i think thats what were talking about well find those cases earlier so what dr redfield said we would be able to stay in containment face president continue to push back against potential future threat and an answer to a reporters question argued the virus may not come back
A pathway back to normal life. But in other parts of the u. S. The scenes a very different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democratic led states people are taking to the streets urging a return to normal life we are still a free country at least for now and people have to make a decision and thats their personal decision if they dont want to be 6 feet apart or 7 peter peter parker i cant i cant dictate to that to them despite declaring that individual governors are in charge President Donald Trump seemed to encourage the protests in a series of tweets on friday all 3 states have democratic governor has his tacit support is seen as deeply political in a time of crisis i know is there a lot of protests out there and i just think that some of the governors have gotten carried away you know you have a lot of people that dont have to be told to do what theyre doing theyve been reall
A 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 per cent increase in the number of reported does with the current challenge of all painting testing kits its likely that the real numbers are higher than reported or rossi has signed is that an epidemiologist and professor at Massey College he says the pandemic poses a major threat to africas densely populated cities. Enemy of Public Health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries the uk hard to rise by overcrowding its actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as Health Care Infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are diseases such as tuberculosis it beat aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore in fewer and lead death be done and lead to soonest disease and death so its a perfect recipe so dry an epidemic in the 2 explo