This number, down 664 points, for a loss of about 8. 5 . Crude oil at the moment, it has been vicious and quite a violent downside move, even after the ones last week that were very ugly. We see crude oil setting at 28. 70 but in the aftermarket, we are just above 29. Call it straddle. We are right at 29 a barrel. We have major developments this afternoon putting even heavier pressure on the markets. Canada moves to close its borders and the nations airlines are seeking up to 50 billion in aid to support the massive plunge in bookings as of course, social distancing affects all forms of travel. In this hour, we do expect that live News Conference held by the white house by the Coronavirus Task force. 3 15 p. M. Eastern, 14 minutes away, as you heard. We understand the secret service has now started taking temperatures of those in attendance. Heres a couple questions we at countdown want to know. Will we see more stimulus announced . Will the status of the nations airports change at all
Crisis. Shes expected to announce new restrictions that would limit the amount of time people spend away from their homes. These would be sweeping new measures and well bring you that as soon as it happens live in San Francisco. Already this morning, the mayor announced a program to provide paid sick leave to private Sector Workers by the covid19 pandemic in San Francisco. The workers and Families First program will include 10 million in funding to provide additional five days of sick leave pay. All businesses eligible for funds and those with fewer than 50 employees. All places that offer nonessential services for Santa Clara County closed to the public for the spread of covid 19. Theyre encouraging residents to conduct business and service in conditions whether he ever possible. Other county department that provide essential Services Like hospital and Law Enforcement are staying open. Theyre calling on bars and nightclubs to close and governor ordered restaurants to limit the amount
Be hopefully a best case not a worst case and thats what were working for if you have. Your own confusion to cross what is about your own test the other is about containment efforts is the administration considering more aggressive containment options like a quarantine a National Curfew for sure we have it very much yeah we have that very much and we are weve been pretty aggressive we were early with europe but we were very very early with china and other places and fortunately we were and as far as containment here we are were coming out with strong suggestions and you know its becoming a little bit automatic you look at people theyre not doing certain things for instance that obviously not i would say the Restaurant Business is booming in bars and grills and old people are self containing for to a large extent. We look forward to the day when we can get back to normal to be such a Secular Party are you considering instituting a nationwide lockdown a nationwide quarantine of the n. S.
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Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and