You know that. Reporter there are a lot of it is not intentional, i just firsts today. The first full day of senator Kamala Harriss role as joe bidens running mate. The first time the two will wanted to put together a list make an appearance together. Today where i think we have the release ad of the campaign. Made a lot of progress. Reporter and a moment captured in their new campaign it is by no means an exclusive ad, joe biden made his choice for a running mate. List of the considerations that california senator kamala we are advancing over the harris. Is the answer yes . Course of this legislative session that concludes on august 31. Absolutely yes. With that, and concluding my presentation. Reporter they will talk all right. About working together, you have been listening to Governor Newsom talking about a lot of things. Restoring the nation and the we can sit here and rehash it all. No need to do that. Fight for working families. Tonight they will go to a if there were a few high
The vote 11 40 eastern, a final vote around 1 30 this afternoon. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain lord god, in these difficult and challenging times, remind us that the earth belongs to you, and you have not abandoned it unite us with the understanding that you are our father, and we are all members of the human family. We pray for all who have been impacted by the pain of this us to crisis season. Use our senators to make the weak strong, the sick healthy, and the broken whole. Lord, surround those who have been shaken by anguish with your divine presence and peace. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , jun
Book the world. Francine lacqua in london. Extraordinary markets yesterday. Francine extraordinary yesterday but today they are taking a breather. On folks yesterday was moderna. Say if we haveto better news on the early trial of this vaccine. There is a huge fund being put in place by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel. Again now, a bit more temperament or a little bit slower as we expect some countries to go against it. More subdued markets than yesterday. Tom interesting. Markets pulling back in the last few hours. With over a world news in new york city. Federal reserve chairman says the central bank is prepared to use its full range lendingd plans on rate neil zero than rate to near zero. Ritika President Trump is taking the antimalaria drugs he has promoted as a treatment for coronavirus. That is despite government warnings that hydroxychloroquine can have serious side effects. The president says he has been on the drug for about a week and a half. Mike pences press secretary test
To the Drug Companies to even the tech companies. ,rude is above 30 a barrel 32. 22. Yield is at 68 basis points. At 7. 1270. An we have president xi speaking today to the world health organization. Coming up later this hour, we will be speaking with the ceo of moderna, which is reporting some good initial promising results for vaccine tests. Us atne bancel will join 10 30 eastern. Guy looking forward to that conversation. The market certainly responding to that. Mostin europe, the beaten up sectors are rising the most strongly today. You can see the mining stocks up by 6. 9 . Car stocks are up really strongly as well. They are all outperforming the stoxx 600, which is up a healthy 3 . The commodity story absolutely front and center, as a result of which we are seeing Commodity Currencies doing very well. You can see the aussie dollar trading up by 1. 15 . Up by 1. 15 . As you say, we are seeing rising around 0. 71 . Vonnie exactly. Chinese president xi jinping addressing the World Hea
Again. We will move as quickly as we can but should we not be able to accommodate every member in person today, we will be accepting statements for the record until thursday, april 30. This important hearing i want to mention the chairwoman has been in our thoughts and prayers we wish you nothing but the best as you recover. Small businesses and entrepreneurs play a Critical Role within the american economy. Not only do they employ half of the nations workers but created two out of every three new jobs in the nation. You only need to take the poll from main street america. It is demonstrated Small Businesses and employees and the Response Congress created with a Paycheck Protection Programs with as many Small Businesses as possible during emergency. A low interest loan can be forgiven if used for payroll and Small Businesses have a tool available to assist them as they weather the storm experiencing extremely high demand and within a two week span all the money was exhausted i devote m