Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
Carlile. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody, welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. How are you guys doing tonight . I cant hear you because im alone. So alone. Im alone, right, pete . Oh, you are so alone. Stephen thank you. Pblazer, im all dressed up fora cocktail party. But, evidently, the network thinks we should do a show. Whats up . Lets see, whats up . Okay, heres big news. In the democratic primary, theres big news, because there is no democratic primary. Because today, senator Bernie Sanders announced he was dropping out of the 2020 democratic race. I guess during a pandemic, crazy ideas like medicare for all just dont resonate. Bernie addressed his supporters this afternoon in a live stream. I want to thank the many hundreds of thousands of americans who attended our rallies, town meetings, and house parties from new york to california. Some of these events had over 25,00
And musical guest Brandi Carlile featuring jon batiste and stay homin. and now, live on tape from a safe distance, its stephen colbert. Stephen hey, everybody, welcome to a late show. Im your host, stephen colbert. How are you guys doing tonight . I cant hear you because i am alone. So alone. Im alone, right, pete . Oh, you are so alone. Stephen thank you. Now as you can tell from my blue blazer im all cressed up for a cocktail party, but evidently, the network thinks we should do a show. Whats up . Okay, heres big news. In the democratic primary theres big news, because there is no democratic primary because today, senator Bernie Sanders announced he was dropping out of the 2020 democratic race. I guess during a pandemic, crazy ideas like medicare for all just dont resonate. Bernie addressed his supporters this afternoon in a live stream. I want to thank the many hundreds of thousands of americans who attended our rallies, town meetings, and house parties from new york to california.
Attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and Coalition Forces and a number include colluding many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its president ial election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt t
Down to 0. With and for you. Is it too late to stop Climate Change scientists warn time is running out as millions of young people demand to weld lead as now but will that passion turn into Political Action this is its a story. Hello welcome to the program im wrong come on were running out of time to stop Climate Change thats the warning from the United Nations where the agency as well and leaders meet in new york from major u. N. Climate conference the World Meteorological Organization Says Carbon Emissions increased 20 percent in the past 4 years which are on track to be the hottest on record and ice sheets are melting faster than be full causing sea levels to rise by 5 millimeters a year scientists warn that even if every country meets the carbon emission cuts agreed in the paris climates agreement in 2015 the world would still be 3 degrees warmer which is potentially catastrophic. Its this see thats forced millions of young people to protest from asia to africa they rallied to dema