Village just sites and streets of jerusalem normally bustling with pilgrims have been brought up to easter coronavirus restrictions in this years celebrations will be muted. Im full gal welcome to the Program United States now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country including china almost 86000 people in the u. S. Have become infected and the 1300 have died the crisis has hit the economy hard fewer than a record surge and unemployment claims and the countrys biggest city new york is struggling. These are desperate days in new york with more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases in the last day alone medical facilities a critically of a stretch a long line of worried people will. 8 outside this hospital in the borough of queens just to be tested for the virus. Almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the Current Health care system. Thats why the authorities a trusted please stepping up their response this hospital in manhattan is setting up
Coronavirus lockdown but where are the customers. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program british Prime Minister Boris Johnson has the coronavirus hes the highest profile political leader confirmed to have the virus so far the u. K. Health minister has also tested positive on thursday night johnson joins the nation and applauded workers at the National Health service a day later after receiving the positive test results he posted a video in which he said that hed been isolating himself but he said that he would continue to lead the nations response the pandemic. Hi folks i want to bring you up to something thats happening today which is that ive developed more of. The corona virus thats to say a temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the chief medical officer ive taken a test that has come out positive so you are working from home im so far isolated. Lets go straight to w. Correspondent Charlotte Potts who is standing by in london charlotte a critical time for the countr
American households. The worlds youth confront life in the age of a pandemic unprecedented restrictions are keeping the millions of young people at home and away from each other but that hasnt stopped many from helping people hit hard by the crisis. Yes welcome to the program italy has set another grim record for the most deaths from corona virus in a single day almost 1000. 00 people have died in the last 24 hours bringing the total death toll to over 9000 thats the highest number of any country and Health Officials say the worst may be yet to come hospital wards are still full although doctors say the number of patients is now of studying contagion. Rates appear to be slowing giving hope that the strict social controls may be working but the lockdown is hitting the Italian Economy hard the homeless are among the most affected churches and charities are overloaded with people looking for basic supplies. Now for more lets bring in journalist sima who is following the developments from
580 and strong moppets ago and alameda as well. 880, 580 and that will be left out there and havent seen measurable rain fall in a while and were finally getting much needed moisture through mill valley and tiburon picking up in areas of orange and coming down about three quarters of an inch per hour. Interstate 80 slick and snowy up there as well especially across the west slope of the sierra and lows 23,000 feet. Winds are piing up and sustained winds in pleasantton and southbound west direction and breezy and northern east bay hills and gusty conditions associated with the storm temperature wise in the 40s and 50s right now and afternoon highs not going to be that little warmer today and not much warming but later on this afternoon, jaquline. Were track ago couple of hot spots and well begin along 101 and this is near highway 116 and traffic looks okay. Its starting to build just a bit but heading in that northbound direction and folks will encounter delays and were trackingen ax th
Delivery. Is this for real or ahead line . Here is a real deadline. A new polar for tax arrives next week and varney and company is about to begin. High market spurs not doing much i have to tell you the truth. We are down 27, 16888. Same for the s p 500. A broader based in decatur. That is down slightly, two points on a 1900 index. Look at goals, we moved above 1300 in the last week for ten days, were down 2 a day, 1336, not much movement. Oil trading is where the movement is in the markets today, were down 101 per barrel. Seems like before i went on vacation we were testing the one hundred 5, 106. Maybe i should go away. You said it, not me. Stuart 100 a barrel, maybe gas goes down too. The ten year treasury, the yield just over 2. 5 , 2. 51. The yield dropping a bit today. That is a very important indicator. Now we have amazon. It wants to test its delivery drones near seattle and the ftc is suing amazon over in apps purchases. It balances out and they like the idea of drone deliver