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Cape canaveral. First time in almost a decade americans are going to be sending americans into space. This is a big moment for elon musk and his spacex company. In fact will use tesla vehicle to bring the two astronauts out to the ganttry here. This is launchpad 39a. That should ring a pell, where all apollo flights took off, including apollo xi, the one that landed on the moon. You will see see key players there. People on cocoa beach. They say better part of valor keeping your distance. Try te...

Jobless claims news, over last nine weeks, over 40 million americans applied for first time jobless benefits this is expected to be about the worst of it. We might see an unemployment report tipping 20 or so. That could be the worst of it or at least that is the hope. Lets getted read from Jackie Deangelis following what is happening on the virus, following what is happening on the markets putting it all together. Hey, jackie. Reporter neil, with respect to a bumpy ride the markets are a little ...

Bedeviled the world and this could be a sign they had been long waiting for. Hope springs eternal here and you obviously need something beyond just phase two trials that look promise. Well get into that with a top doctor. Meantime look what is going on in wall street here and why everything is looking green thus far. Jackie deangelis on that. Hey, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, neil. Everything is green as you said. Moderna seeing a huge pop on this news today and the dow is up more than 800 p...

That trend remains the empire states trend. Never mind deaths and overall cases are stubbornly high. The trend is the improvement. We were up a lot on major market averages. As you heard from stuart, the nasdaq now in positive territory for the year. Dow jones industrials, s p 500, sprinting ahead, with the dow down 50 on the year. Really recouped losses. Nasdaq over 9,000. That is startling development as technology continues to be own a tear. It got a little bit of extra spring in the test wit...

Experts like to see but for most of the 14 days that has been the case. He did posit in these remarks to reporters we dont want to make the same flu mistake made in some parts of this country more than a century ago where parts were reopening a little early and things got worse and the flu hit all over again, in fact worse than the first go round. Were following that. Following what happens to airline stocks, taking it on the chin as one of the most biggest, prized investors says im out of here....

Come back parade. Not startling, but reminder these companies are trying to conserve cash. They look to do it reining in the advertising budgets. The effect on broadcast industry, cable industry, newspapers, publishers, that could be pervasive this is not a shocker. Something i want to pass along. Also broadway right now, it is all blacked out. There are no shows. That will continue to be the case at least through labor day. Were getting word from broadway producers this will be case at least th...

States, again launching these initiatives right now to really unwind this process. By the end of the week the country as a whole will be 50 freer, if you will, or less locked down when all of this started. So that is a Big Development here. As people get back, a lot of them look forward to the memorial day weekend which they can see themselves going to beaches and the rest. The trend is share friend. Certainly concerner of wall and broad a very big trend at that. Well pick that apart with techno...

That could be delay ad little bit. May 15th, on time could be pushed back a little bit for presumably that portion of new york. He doesnt spell it out. The fact that he was talking about maybe having the state sort of bifurcate a little bit open up sooner up state than down state, saying the may 15th deadline is moving target for down state that includes the worlds Financial Center and that is going to be a big issue. Well see how all of that goes. Well hear very soon from new Jersey Governor Ph...

Thing back. In the new york, new jersey, area, some promise that the worsthit states are at least pondering openings as soon as tomorrow. The very latest read on all of this from jackie deangelis. Hey, jackie. Reporter neil, as reopenings continue in slow phases across the country, reminder this mornings weekly jobless claims added three million more people to the list of unemployed. The number was higher than expectations but it was lower than it was last week. So that was positive. Remember th...

Attention on the show. The fact that the concentration of cases, still seems to be overwhelmingly in the new york city metropolitan area. That includes all five boroughs. Outside the Greater New York city area. Now that is not necessarily a shock. What tends to be here is the idea that when it comes to the number of new cases and the deaths it is about two out of three in both cases that come from the new york city metropolitan area. Why would i mention that . Because on the 15th of this month w...