What the governor said a moment ago, he is tired of being behind this virus. We have been behind it, playing catchup from day one, trying to put a plan in place that puts him ahead of it, plans what he believes will be the apex in terms of the virus and the impact on the state of new york in the next two to three weeks. Before we go back to the numbers, another thing the governor mentioned in albany a moment ago, his brother chris, who host as nightly program on cnn, is positive for covid19. His symptoms, according to cnn, are mild. Chris cuomo will continue to host his nightly program, they say from his home on a daily basis, again with mild symptoms. The governor has been talking about his brother who he says is his best friend here for the last few minutes. Before that he did go through these numbers. Lets put them back up there. 75,759 cases in the state of new york and 1500 deaths. 1550 is the latest number, up from over 1200 yesterday. These numbers, to neils point continue to ri
2. 3 billion trillion dollar stimulus package that is providing relief to Small Businesses. One of the biggest of that is 386 billion set aside to help Small Businesses with loans, checks, money that can be outright grants, Edward Lawrence has been following that because a lot of banks are handling the transactions, bank of america was up and running on this. He has the latest on all of th that. Reporter very interesting, Community Banks have led the charge on the spanking figure going forward, at 830 this morning, Steven Mnuchin has been on top of this to make sure. Look at the latest numbers, as of 1130, there was 2330 banks loans that have been given out for a total of 889 million that is direct stimulus into the u. S. Economy for the Small Businesses to keep people on pay checks and to give people pay checks and keep their lights on and pay the rent. On the jobs numbers, we expected was going to be bad but the number was really a surprise. Look at this a 4. 4 unemployment over all
White house news. Hillary vaughn on capitol hill. We start with you, hillary. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi says she basically had to do jujitsu to shape the senate bill into something her members could stomach. She spent the past few days while the bill was delayed in the senate pushing to make the focus workers first instead of corporations first but House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy is criticizing pelosi for this delay saying while this bill was held up in the senate for several days while they were back channeling to pelosi, trying to work out a deal with the white house, several, hundreds of people around the country were wondering when they would get muchneeded relief and some of the relief is in the form of cash paid directly to americans who need it most. Anyone making under 75,000 get as onetime payment of 1200. For couples making less than one 50,000, they get 2400 in a payment. Americans waiting for money still have to wait on the house to pass this bill. One way or
That, you see some famous sites of new york as it passed through the statue of liberty sailing into lower manhattan. World trade center in background of one of these sites, brings up memory this ship has been here before. Three days after 9 11 it helped out with first spenders then. It is back for a second go around. You have 12 operating rooms. 700 beds put into circulation right away. Mayor de blasio speaking, talking about new york has been asking for help and now the help has arrived. Heres the mayor. I cant tell you how much this means. It is so much more than even we realized at this moment, that our nation has heard our plea for help here in new york city and there could not be a better example of all of america pulling for new york city than the arrival of the usns comfort. Some major, major moment in this long battle. Connell mayor de blasio thanking by name both President Trump and defense secretary mark esper in participate of his remarks. You see numbers. New york needs hel
Outside of china sent investors running for safety. Stocks are down following a selloff of overseas markets. For it ended at was down more than 1000 points. Right now, it is down by almost 3 losing 830 points. Depending on china for much of the business down about 3 1 2 right now, the nasdaq taking heavy losses done by three full percentage points. More than 70,000 people worldwide have been affected by the coronavirus. China is where the virus originated and it still has the majority of cases and deaths. However, the rapid spread to other countries is raising anxiety about the threat the outbreak may pose to the global economy. South korea is now on the highest alert after flu cases spike. Italy reported a sharp rise in cases and the northern part of the country is under quarantine. The new widow of nba legend kobe bryant sue the owner of the helicopter the crashed last month during her husband like. The lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant said the pilot was careless and negligent flying