Docks in new york to help the citys struggling health care system. And lockdown in senegal but with limited access to clean water there are fears of how far infections could spread. But 1st to japan where the government is imposing a series of new social restrictions amid a recent surge in cases of coronavirus its also urging citizens not to travel to 73. 00 countries in regions thats a 3rd of the world its expected to close its borders to people coming from the us canada china south korea and from most of europe japan has so far been spared a major outbreak of the virus but the number of infections is now approaching 2056 people have died. And the world bank is warning the pandemic could force up to 11000000. 00 people into poverty across the Asia Pacific Region its expecting growth in china and developing asian economies will fall heavily warning significant economic pain is now unavoidable lets get the very latest now from across asia katrina is our correspondent in beijing so 2 ver
Morning. And yields, highs of the day with the ten year approaching 186 now. Road map begins with that blockbuster jobs report. Futures point to a strong rally at the open as employers add 266,000 jobs last month. Top white house economic adviser larry kudlow will join us, first on cnbc. Well talk about jobs, the markets and who knows what else. And uber safety concerns, Ride Sharing Company disclosing thousands of assaults in the past couple of years stronger than expected november payroll number boosted by hiring and healthcare, restaurants and transportation the return of those gm workers from their strike also played a role in auto parts wages up 3. 1 from a year ago looking for a little less than that, which had some wondering whether or not inflation is returning to the narrative. I think that you can actually look at a couple of the numbers different ways if you actually adjust the cost. You dont see that you just see 1 . I will say as i said in the tease i did with the people f
Continues. Host Jessica Vaughan is back at her desk. She serves as policy studies director at the center for immigration studies. Not a single democratic candidate thinks the current immigration system is working. President trump has called it broken repeatedly. If it were up to you to fix the system, where would you start . Guest i think i would start nothing why do we have an immigration system to decide which immigrants we want to admit and build from there . We want people to be able to build their bring their spouses and other close immediate family members. We want our employers to have access to a global bullet talent, skilled individuals global pool of talent, skilled individuals. We want to continue to have a humanitarian admission program. How many people should we be offering resettlement to . We could probably do away with programs like the visa lottery and certain other ones that have outlived any useful purpose. Host what should be the goal . What do you think is the righ
Christopher steele has agreed to be questioned by u. S. Investigators. A day after russia withdrew from venezuela, the Trump Administration strapping sanctions on travel to cuba. Trish regan primetime begins right now. Joe biden is taking a decidingly prochina approach to this 2020 president ial bid. Its dangerous for him and rhetoric that could be dangerous for our country. He doubled down on his prochina references today. Our workers are literally three times as productive than workers in asia. And they are three times productive. What are we worried about . Trish what are we worried about . Keep in mind it comes on the heels of his recent comments in iowa. China is going to eat our lunch . Come on, man, they cant even figure out how to deal with the fact they have this Great Division between the china sea and the montanas in the east i mean the west. They cant figure out how to deal with the corruption in the system. They are not bad folks. But guess what . They are not competition
[background noises] think you guys so much. Thank you for being here. Im Lisa Freedman report on the some reporter for the New York Times and im very gratefulul to have 2dollar pans beginning with this one that is really going to drill down into a lot of the things that are covered. First let me introduce our panel all the way to my far right that director at the center and regulation markets at the Brookings Institution. The bernard l. Schwartz chair of policy development and the fellow in economic studies at berkeley and the fellow for the initiative for disabled energy policy. Adie tamer in the center is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and an expert on infrastructure policy and urban economics. With a particular focus on transportation and digital technology. He hedine is working to better understand infrastructure policies from theic federal levl and how they Impact Economic Development social prosperity and and directly to my left Glenn Rudebusch a senior nonresident senior fel