A beach front Beach Front Park rather in los angeles and many r. V. Dwellers are not really happy about it a live report on that straight ahead now russia sends 9 planes packed with medical aid and supplies to virus stricken italy the mission being dubbed from russia with love all right its time to boost your news i q. First up amazon boss jeff bezos saved himself over 300000000. 00 by dumping 3400000000. 00 in amazon stock before the coded 1000. 00 pandemic hit the United States and hes not the only one a number of high profile execs have done exactly the same just under 10000000000. 00 worth collectively of stock was dumped by corporate bigwigs between february 1st. And march 19th leaving many wondering if anything suspicious was going on so joining us to explain investigative journalist and cohost of boom bust ben swan weighs in all right ben so bezos made this transaction in early february so he was way ahead of the coronavirus curve taking center stage do you think he was just i guess ahead of what was coming or do you think there was Something Else that might have motivated him to dump the stock. You know i dont believe for a minute that he was somehow the swami and had this feeling like the markets were just suddenly going to go down and so he decided around february 11th to sell more stock than he sold in all of the Previous Year and 2019 in 12 months he sold less stock than he did in just a couple weeks in february so that tells you something right there. Was a centrally dumped as you said anywhere between 3. 00 mil 1000000000. 00 and 4000000000. 00 worth of stock it was a very surprising move in fact i was looking at headlines back around february 11th and at the time the headline said things like it was just dumped 4000000000. 00 for the stock and no one knows why there was no rhyme or reason for it there was no indication at the time that oh this this makes sense because x. Y. And z. Are happening in fact everyone was saying no ones really sure why this is happening than a couple weeks later we find out that of course the stock markets are crashing and you know it seems like maybe those was ahead of the curve but you have to look at it and say did he have information. Well then i mean from the outside doesnt this kind of seem counterintuitive you know about the coronavirus fears because if an amazon stock way up because of their their new role its kind of shifted from you know an ecommerce site now more of this vital delivery and logistics capacity. No one stock is way up right now and even amazon has seen its stock drop look at amazons getting a lot of business right now and so theyre proving out their Business Model in a lot of positive ways but that doesnt mean you cant dump the stock and then on paper saving yourself money look he saved himself hundreds of 1000000. 00 as you said about 300000000. 00 on paper obviously eventually that stock will probably come back up almost definitely it will but on paper he savings of about 300000000. 00 by dropping that stock when he did and of course you can always go back and buy it later at a lower price if you choose to do so but its also important to remember middle of that. At this particular point that were looking at the other members of congress who also did the same thing around the same week almost of the exact same time that jeff bezos is doing this sitter richard burr did the same thing he dumped about 1700000. 00 worth of stock and it was his own cell at the time he bought nothing new he just sold after he received. Intel briefing from the c. D. C. And then Kelly Loffler of georgia she and her husband sold about 3000000. 00 worth of stock at the same time now for her part loffler has come out and said look i dont buy and sell my own stock thats being done by a 3rd party had nothing to do with me in which are birds case he did it himself and by the way hes from South Carolina he also has now recommended him so far for an investigation by the Ethics Committee which is basically like saying i want my family to investigate me not not an actual you know prosecutor ok i dont know what to make of obviously the people in congress because they do we know for a fact they do get the intel directly from the top down but on amazons part what about that what about their role shifting right now during corona virus theyve kind of like i said they now are kind of being used for their their logistics and their delivery capability is right. Well they are is and right now amazon it looks like in king county in which is the home of seattle but in washington they are now delivering coronavirus test kits theyre picking them up and delivering them its a program thats been funded by the bill and Melinda Gates foundation these are not regular drivers by the way according to amazon these are drivers who have been given specific training in how to handle you know medical supplies and medical kits but yes they are expanding their role certainly in that way and in the u. K. Is talking to amazon about doing coronavirus delivery for test kits there as well so you do see that expansion i would say one of the bigger upsetting things about amazons expansion right now is the use of alexa use a lot of a lot of their tools to monitor peoples behavior and then passing that information on to the feds thats been happening also so well and it was all maybe helpful in terms of handing out kids theyre also being pretty invasive into a lot of peoples lives by sharing information with the government who wants to monitor everyones behavior right now yet you and i always talk about that subject thats why i have unplugged alexa shes not welcome in my house anymore good last last thing here ben a lot of Blue Chip Companies big names like boeing and all these cruise liners they are asking the government for a bailout now how might this affect their stock. Well look i think everyone as you said is asking for a bailout right now and it looks stocks made a little bit of a rally today it wasnt huge but a little bit of a rally some things are up a lot of these will come back but yes youre absolutely right that everyones asking for a handout the private jet industry luxury jets is asking for a bailout from the government saying we may go under why would taxpayers pay to camp private jets existence boeing as you said is asking right now for a huge bailout but boeings problems are not coronavirus related theyre related to the crash of those max 737. 00 jets that killed hundreds of people that was where their problem started from so everyone right now is lined up everyone is asking for money from the government and whats really scary about this is that the longer this the shutdowns go on the more that government will ultimately decide the winners and losers they were able to really decide who survives as a company and who does not and right now the reason the congress cant get a bill passed for this you know 2. 00 to 4. 00 trillion dollars in emergency funding to go through is because lawmakers keep stuffing it full of special projects and rules they want to put on companies to say if youre going to survive as a company here are the new rules you have to abide by and so there are so many problems with this this is why government is not supposed to keep businesses in business its a huge problem and its only going to get worse meanwhile all the regular folks are going what about us all right ben thank you so much for china from a far looks like well be doing this for a while my friend ben swan catch him on boom bust at 4 pm eastern here on r. T. Thank you manila thanks. A lot angeles county is making way for kobe 1000 patients at get this a beach front r. V. Park even asking the residents there to pack up and move out at least temporarily arties natasha sweet as the wife and playa del ray with more details to this natasha whats going on there. Yeah manila you know Los Angeles County has named dr weiler beach an isolation zone for kopechne 800 patients just to give you an idea. Were about 15 minutes south of santa monica and this r. V. Park is normally extremely popular as you can see because of the spectacular views that it has for right now its close to both the visitors and residents and so normally this 3 mile shoreline is packed and right now it has a different kind of energy Los Angeles County officials are asking the public to avoid this area as they establish on a virus isolation zone dock while r. V. Park will reportedly serve as a temporary housing for those without homes or to those who cant sell isolate there are as many as 70 r. V. s here at the site i guess were asked to vacate due to the need for Emergency Shelter related to the pope but 19 virus on its website the state park noted camping reservation holders will be contacted via email for refunds there have not been any reported cases in this part of los angeles with 4 new deaths reported this afternoon that brings the death toll in the county to 11 was to a 164. 00 confirmed cases and its not only impacting the elderly at least 42 percent of reported cases are hitting those between the ages of 18 to 40 in california the number of prone a virus surges to more than 2200 with at least 40 deaths reported in San Francisco director of Public Health says the worst is yet to come in california and in the meantime many state parks around the country are closing and new mexico theyve closed all of their state parks to campaign and pennsylvania has also closed some of its state parks as well reporting in playa del ray touched suites are to. The right in the mission thats being dubbed from russia with love russia has sent much needed equipment and manpower to italy in an effort to bolster that countrys fight against the coronavirus alex mileage has the report. As the coffins pile up italy remains in desperate need of help to battle the deadly coronavirus pandemic so the barry bonds are we said he is. Wrong we are here. A since sunday more than 10 russian planes full of people and medical supplies have landed in italy. The Russian Defense ministry broke down what is on board the parade of giant by l. 76. 00 military aircraft the military transport aircraft of the Russian Air Forces will deliver to the republic 8 mobile teams of Russian Military specialists by religious and doctors automobile complexes for aerosol disinfection of transport and territory as well as medical equipment among the doctors and scientists are some of russias top minds military specials whove had 1st hand experience fighting breaks of disease in africa such as swine fever and anthrax some even helped develop in a bowl of vaccine these experts will be working with cuban medical specialists who are already helping italian doctors although the spread of the virus seems to be slowing the challenges in italy remain containing covert 900 and dealing with the high number of cases the country has more than 63000 confirmed cases of corona virus in just a little over 6000 deaths so far more than 7000 people have recovered from the illness italy stepped up its lockdown measures this past weekend now ordering all Industrial Production and almost all private and public offices to close meanwhile. There are no breaks for the hospitals with morgues full coffins are spilling over into chapels and doctors are working to the bone those on the front line have an Important Message for the rest of us dont dont think thats a good thing at. And you cant have been everywhere. If you dont. And if you. Were to im alex marlowe which. Mean time china set to lift travel restrictions in whom bay province starting tomorrow for all its residents that scaled back however wont apply to the city of hahn which we all know as the center of the corona Virus Outbreak the announcement comes as china claims to have brought their outbreak under control according to officials han may see their travel restrictions lifted by early april. And back here stateside boeing will suspend factory operations at its puget sound facility in Washington State due to code 19 this will also include suspension of its maintenance activities on the ground at 737 max jets at moses lake for at least 14 days starting tomorrow the company says it will be cleaning impacted sites and work to establish rigorous criteria before letting employees return to work. And a global food report says the u. K. Doesnt make the cut the top 10 when it comes to being stocked and ready for anything bad and in sports regina hamm shares the newest look for the Los Angeles Rams that doesnt really have anybody very excited including me well be right back. Lead. Very aggressively people have sold dollars to buy these emerging markets because they can get a better yield on those currencies. When all liquidity disappear. Everyone is then short dollars. By those dollars back because. There are non dollar plays on the market. Freight train of the us dollar going higher. From donald trump in 2016 to 2020 there is part of the electorate that responds to antiwar anti interventionist rhetoric in fact there is evidence to significantly help get trump elected but the fact remains the establishment is to downplay and even demonize any candidate who questions orthodoxies this. Covert 19 and the dire warnings to contain this virus being heard all around the world as of today the total number of global deaths due to the virus is well over 800000 the number of infections more than 410000 china still leading the way with 81000 cases there followed by italy with 69000 and now the u. S. Rounding off the top 3 with about 50000 cases now taking a closer look at this country some 600 americans have now died due to complications from the virus so in an effort to fight the rising numbers across this nation the u. S. National guard has been activated in new york california and Washington State but almost half of all the u. S. Cases are up in new york alone here in the Nations Capital republicans and democrats are still clashing in the senate over the coronavirus rescue bill as nations across the globe struggle with how to cope with this new reality brought by the coronavirus and like in the u. S. The u. K. Is also seeing the same type of panic buying at their stores defra the department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs over in the u. K. In 28 teen released a food system report barely a page long at least the one they revealed to the public insurer all was well and good but experts say the u. K. s Food Supply Chain is at risk following brecks it but now further complicated by this Novel Coronavirus former u. K. M. P. George galloway joined me a little earlier to discuss this topic heres what he said. Well you know we didnt have a smile for our doctors and nurses who knew that we actually run out of food who knew the power of the body which is essentially legalised looting would leave the show. Absolutely from our own 7 am. In the morning ive just been into supermarkets from my own familys necessities theres nothing to be found manila people are descending like hordes of locusts on everything taken away much more than they can possibly need a lot of food will be going to waste rotting because it cant possibly be eaten the amount that is been bought in then theres the issue youve just highlighted the actually not just 50 percent nearly of all britons food comes from outside of the country but when you talk about fruit and vegetables its 80 to 90 percent coming from outside the country this green unpleasant never stops ruining. We cant even grow our own fruit and vege that is incredible george 80 to 90 percent i couldnt imagine i would have never guessed with the beautiful english countryside and weve heard President Trump rail about americas trade gap with china we all know that we know that its imbalanced the u. K. Has its own food trade gap of about 22300000000 pounds in the wrong direction with 46800000000 imported interview k but only 22500000000 went out so how does this gap impact the economy overall for britains. Well if you took whiskey of. The guy would be very much greater. The 4 things that you put in your mouth whiskey is by far and away our biggest export is extraordinary here we are on the island surrounded by fish. Never stops where our country is green from north to south these 2 west we are unable even to feed ourselves never mind think about selling our products elsewhere beef production many people think the british beef is a mark of d excellence but not as many people are buying as our buying Scotch Whisky saw we need to recalibrate this so many things once if this coronavirus epidemic is over because we are naked. The mare sea of blind forces over which we have no control not what breaks it was supposed to be about so ill be arguing for a very decisive shift to a buying british eating british growing british making british thats what we have to do every country has to be secure in the basics within itself otherwise that at the mercy of things and of d people are entirely beyond our control thats right george i covered 1000 has really laid bare the structural weaknesses in Food Supply Chains not only in your country but across the globe so what are your thoughts on great britains majestic systems and how delivery is unable to meet demand currently. Well. For the truckers of course wed all be dead so the teamsters and their british equivalent need to get organized and make sure. They are properly valued because without trucks wed be nowhere weve got to look at things afresh i think mandela we eat too much we eat too much of the wrong things we dont enough of the right things ive just been giving my own children a lecture on this we had too much process food we dont eat enough of the things that we need and we do much of the things that we dont want one this is over you everything is on the table. And the way we organize our society is on the table absolutely george and lastly we know that Boris Johnson is obviously busy trying to deal with this Virus Outbreak b