Behavior and our health. Plus millions of people in the australian city of melbourne have been locked down again the government says it is the only way of preventing a catastrophe. Im susan was going to thank you for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in brussels on her 1st International Trip since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic she will meet with the heads of the e. U. s main institutions to discuss germanys e. U. Council presidency which is that to be dominated by economic recovery michael is expected to make the case for a massive relief fund for european economies struggling with the coronavirus endemic this is the 2nd time that germany has headed the important e. U. Body. And after her arrival chancellor merkel took time to speak to journalists heres what she had to say. Just as many as i am happy that my 1st trip abroad after the outbreak of the pandemic is to brussels and to the European Parliament today i will present the priorities of the german
Hey, connell. Cohn cohn were connell were getting hit grim milestones with the covid19 it would appear. Total number of cases will top 200,000 by end of the day. The in new york city the death toll has topped 1000. 43,000 plus infections, death toll at 1096. Now one of the issues here locally has been how to keep the firstresponders safe. If you look at the nypd, the new York City Police department, 15 of the workforce has called out sick. You know that adds up to about 5000 workers. So a little bit more than that. Over 1000 Uniformed Police officers in new york have tested covid19 positive. And some others told us they have had trouble actually getting the test or, you know, waiting a number of days to get the results back. They have to sit out on the job while they wait out the results in some cases. Similar situation at the fire department. Similar situation at ems. All of that is going on. While help is coming in on the medical side, we talked all week long about the huge hospital
Far too fast an increase and far too slow a decrease. But we all make mistakes, dont we good wednesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carpal kwinquint nilla with Morgan Brennan fed chair powell is expected to testify in just a few moments. Well bring you his testimony in full once it begins. Ahead of that weve got every angle covered. Steve liesman, rick santelli, bob pisani, tom porcoli. Fed chair powell is telling joint congress that rates are on hold unless there is a big change to the outlook. The operative sentence, we see the current stance of Monetary Policy as likely to remain appropriate as long as incoming information about the economy remains broadly consistent with our policies of moderate economic growth. What would it take to change course developments that would cause a material reassessment of our outlook, which is say the bar is kind of high bmo writing the chair stayed true to the patience script, confirming that rates are likely in an extended Holding Pattern p
Pederson addressed the u. N. Security council on efforts to find a political solution to the conflicts he outlined the make up of a proposed Constitutional Committee is also post for a nationwide ceasefire steps on deescalation towards a nationwide cease fire absolutely essential because the violence and killings must stop because there is no military solution because the dissolution 2254 terms or so is ceasefire with a shared international on the whole to come back to reduce terrorism in the manner that protect civilians Uphold International Law is vital in the its own the rights and would help the political process james bays has more from the United Nations headquarters in new york. So a moment off some opportunity on syria but it is worth remembering what is going on in the north of syria province which is where many people have fled to as the Syrian Government and their russian allies have picked off the various what we call deescalation zones it live is the last one the populatio
To walk long distances in search of supplies in the mountain if you do and i have a wife and children and i cant find water ive got 5 dollars to buy water but i dont know where to find it with tensions still high the government continues to call for a National Dialogue to. Violence is not the best way to make your voice heard theres a major impact on the countrys economy especially if it means haiti is locked down not unwilling to negotiate opposition leaders have once again called for mass demonstrations. There was a lot. Over the weekend with the opposition calling on some of the more militants its of demonstrators to use up on the protests to give people an opportunity to leave their homes to go out to the markets to fill up their vehicles with. To go out look for water and all these lies but the opposition had said already that he wanted the protests started again on monday and thats exactly what groups of protesters meeting up early is higher urgently we can confirm that at least