Breaking news. U. S. Stock market futures are limit down even as the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stave off recession in the face of a global coronavirus threat. Life in america changing rapidly as governments at every level take drastic and unprecedented steps to try to slow the spread of the pandemic. Major retailers including nike and apple, shutting their doors for weeks. Well talk about the fallout for the u. S. Economy it is monday, march 16, 2020 squawk box begins right now. Good morning im becky quick at cnbc headquarters joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin u. S. Equity futures hitting limit down after dropping 5 that means they cant trade any lower this morning those are the curbs set up by the exchanges. You will continue to watch whats happening with the etfs, however, because they are not held to the same restrictions. Can you see the dow etf is down by 9 . The s p etf down by almost 9 . That gives you a better idea of where the major averages would open if we were open h
[inaudible conversations] good morning the subcommittee will now come to order. Welcome to everyone that is here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. According to dhs National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. Thirtythree states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and in the district of columbia have legalized for adult use. State laws and federal policy are 1000 miles apart. The federal governments still strictly prohibits even restricting legitimate medical research. Widespread availability of cannabis is the purpose of the hearing to examine the pressing need for medical research of cannabis and the chemical compound with cbd being one of them. Half a century ago the congress listed cannabis as schedule one substance including heroin heroine, lsd, and ecstasy. Schedule one drugs have no medical value in high potential for abuse. Scheduled to drugs such as cocaine and vicodin even schedule
[inaudible conversations] good morning the subcommittee will now come to order. Welcome to everyone that is here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. According to dhs National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. Thirtythree states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and in the district of columbia have legalized for adult use. State laws and federal policy are 1000 miles apart. The federal governments still strictly prohibits even restricting legitimate medical research. Widespread availability of cannabis is the purpose of the hearing to examine the pressing need for medical research of cannabis and the chemical compound with cbd being one of them. Half a century ago the congress listed cannabis as schedule one substance including heroin heroine, lsd, and ecstasy. Schedule one drugs have no medical value in high potential for abuse. Scheduled to drugs such as cocaine and vicodin even schedule
Annual News Conference in moscow. This portion of the 4 1 2hour event included questions about russias relationship with ukraine. His opinion of british Prime Minister boris johnson. And the Impeachment Vote against president trump. Hello. My question will be about sports and mainly about the situation, complicated situation that the National Sport has found itself in. Recently on the night in december, the executive comedy has taken unprecedented decision to ban all russians rom all the major sport events that include Olympic Games, paraOlympic Games and winter both winter and summer. And the reason for such a ecision was failure to correspondent to the demands to the road map for the moscow dumping agency and of the information they handed over to he world Antidoping Agency. So they were deprived of their rights so they were basically isqualified too. And the country that suffered from the sanction, the people who suffer the most are our innocent athletes. What must needs to be done
Impression of british Prime Minister boris johnson, and the Impeachment Vote against President Trump. Olga good afternoon, mr president. Olga bogoslovskaya, match tv. I am from a sports channel, and so my question will be about sports, or more precisely, the difficult situation with Russian Sports. Recently on december 9, the Wada Executive Committee took the decision to ban russian athletes from participating in all major that include the olympic and paralympic games, both winter and summer. The reason for that decision was the discrepancy between the data provided by the Moscow Laboratory and the data provided by wada informers. The russian and the information they handed over to the world antidoping agency. So, they were deprived of their rights. They were basically disqualified, and the country that has suffered from the sanctions, who have suffered the most are athletes, innocent athletes. My question is, what needs to be done . What do athletes need to do . And how will Russian S