Good afternoon thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. Lets start by bringing you right up to date on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections is now above 4100000 294000 lives have been lost but more than 1400000 people have recovered. France is taking its 1st tentative steps back to normality today its a lockdown is being eased back although some restrictions will remain in place for instance masks are mandatory and public transport while some see the overall move has been positive others fear that it could lead to a 2nd spike in infections auntie correspondent in paris charlotte devinsky has the story. From today thats monday many shops will be able to reopen schools will start to reopen public transport will be running more efficiently than it has over the last 8 weeks people hoping to get the taste of freedom for the last 8 weeks every time theyve left the house that had to happen a personal permission slip an act to say exactly why theyre le
Good afternoon and welcome thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. Well start with an update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections that is now above 4200000 284000 lives have been lost more than 1500000 people have recovered. France is taking its 1st tentative steps back to normality today its a week lockdown these being eased back although some restrictions will remain in place for instance masks are mandatory on public transport while some see the overall move as being positive for this fear it could lead to a 2nd spike in infections or do risky has details. From today thats monday many shops will be able to reopen schools will start to reopen public transport will be running more efficiently than it has over the last 8 weeks people hoping to get the taste of freedom for the last 8 weeks every time theyve left the house of had to have a personal permission slip and act to say exactly why theyre leaving the house for a select narrow set of
Additional federal assistance. Later, pbs frontline correspondent talks about pbs frontlines latest documentary host good morning, everyone. Confirmed cases of the 780 7000,s stands out 960. Conversation our with hazard pay for frontline workers. You think they should get paid more than their hourly wages or their salaries as it stands right now . We want to know your opinion. Other essential workers, 202 7488001. Business owners, is this feasible . 202 7488002 al , first also text us name, city and state. We will post your comments on twitter. We will get to what you have to in just ahazard pay minute. Some front page headlines we want to share with you this morning. Oil street journal, u. S. Costs less than zero after a sharp monday selloff. There is nowhere to store the oil that is being pumped. The president tweeting out late last night in light of the attacks from the invisible enemy , i will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend emigration into the United States. N
Lunch. Take a look at where we stand with the markets stocks are higher across the board as investors brace for the busiest week of earning season thus far the s p pacing for its best month since 1991, if you can believe that thats as Oil Continues to crash. Crude down about 20 today supply over flows and demand craters in our calmed economic world. As america looks to reopen the economy grads yually, purdue sas class will be in session this fall the University President Mitch Daniels said there is zero lethal risk or close to it for students he will join us shortly. Kelly, over do you thank you more than 140 S P Companies and 14 dow components are all reporting earnings this week lets get to bob with the latest it will be about quarter of the s p 500 reporting. We already got a kwooquarter reporting. Its confusing nobody has any idea what will happen in the Second Quarter in the Third Quarter a lot of people are dismissing the estimates. This story is the dispersion in the estimates a
14,200. We of the evidence suggests are on the downside of the curve and headed down. Down, netations is change in intimations intubation is down. The is not great news, number of new people coming into the hospital, new infections, is slightly down, but that is basically a flat line and that is troubling. 1200, 1300 new infections every day. Number of lives lost is still heartbreaking news, 422. Again, this is at an unimaginable level. But isropping somewhat still devastating news. The question we are watching now is we hit the high point and we are on the way down, how fast does the number come down and how far does that number drop . We have projections again, like we have projections on what the disease was going to do on the way up the mountain, we have projections on what the disease would do as a rate of decline. But again, just projections. Some projections have it going down and flattening at about 5000 people in hospitals still. Some projections have the andine slowing betwee