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Three of governments response to the outbreak. We could soon learn more. A massive trilliondollar stimulus bill, a package that could put checks in the hands of every single american, and time is of the essence. Two members of congress now becoming the first to contract the virus. Another putting himself in selfquarantine protectively this morning. Over at the white house, President Trump signing one relief package on paid sick leave, and free testing. The president taking rare executive powers ...

Nationwide quarantines. As americans are continuing to adjust to life in isolation we are getting a very clear picture of how the pandemic is affecting the u. S. Economy. The Labor Department reporting today that the number of initial unemployment claims rose to 281,000 last week, up 70,000 from the week prior. The New York Times is reporting that just under 630,000 claims have been filed in just 15 states this week. However, that has not stopped wall street from staging a small rebound after an...

Home, dont go out. Dont be with big groups of people. I think were going to do something that gets money to them as quickly as possible. That may not be an accurate way of doing it, because obviously well have a good idea by the end of the day what we will be doing. We want to make sure americans get money in their pockets quickly. We want to make sure Small Business owners have access to funds. We want to make sure that hotels, airlines, we have an entire package. The president also said all 50...

Serious travel warning that the state department can issue, telling all americans do not travel abroad. It is pretty clear here, wolf, what the state department is indicating. They are taking the coronavirus very seriously. This is a travel warning that is originally reserved for countries like afghanistan, syria, where americans could travel and face situations that would lead to death. So you can see hower is cruse this should be taken. For americans abroad right now, the state department is t...

Rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce. Furthermore, mexico has taken action to secure our own southern border and suspend air travel from europe. The actions we are taking together with our north American Partners will save countless lives. Dana this also comes after the state department issued a level 4 advisory telling all americans they should not travel internationally. And if they are abroad, come home or be prepared to stay where they are for a long time. The presi...

Asymptomatic person. Some of the restrictive measures were seeing as this happens across the country. New promises from the white house. We have millions of masks which are coming and which will be distributed to the states. They will be here soon. Were having them shipped directly to states. Reporter critical supplies now on the way. But the president was light on specifics. Its not clear when theyll arrive, nor where the white house is getting them. States meantime moving swiftly to try to con...

With more than 19,000 deaths. This, as the senate, at this very hour and you just saw the Senate Minority leader chuck schumer, and we heard previously from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell this hour the senate is set to hold a procedural vote to begin a debate on a 2 trillion covid19 emergency stimulus package, as the number of covid19 cases surging here at home. They are trying to work against the clock to get this done. We can tell you that several previous votes have failed, so we are ...

Dozens of experting warning that quote, americans must be persuaded to stay home and isolated and care for the infected outside of the home. And the travel restrictions should be extended and production of mass ventilator must be extended and the testing problems resolved. According to a brandnew report out just this afternoon in the Washington Post is that the top Infectious Disease director tony fauchi has cautioned donald trump specifically of loosening the restrictions too soon. From that br...

Economy from the coronavirus. Investors were also shocked about the ban from travel from europe to the u. S. , the concern there is that its going to slow down the u. S. Economy even more because visitors on any given month bring in billions of dollars. Now stocks did briefly, very briefly, move off their lows today when the Federal Reserve announced it would pump 1 million of liquidity to calm the mark. By the look of things, the dow was down over 2,000 points today. It looks like that didnt wo...

Relief package today. Stunned americans will go to their mailbox and find checks to help with their bills. Why . Because the senate stepped up. Right now stocks are on the upswing, the dow up 934. All of this comes as the number of coronavirus cases rises to almost 60,000 across the country. Joining us now, nbcs Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Garrett, can you delve more into what this package does . When you say stimulus, that makes things better and brighter, but what this does is dig out of de...