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Good morning, everybody welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick here with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. A gain of just over 1 the dow now at 25,000. Now the dow is indicated up 162 points the nasdaq closed at its highest day. Now about 2 from its alltime high thats the run youve seen since the lows back in march treasury yields. Theyve ticked a little higher the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 75 crude oil prices yesterday, crude was up about 4 percent on this expectation that opec plus especially russia will extend those cuts put in place that was good for 4 as seen yesterday. Crude up by 1 to 37. 16 all of this against a tricky back drop. It is powering higher well talk to a lot of folks that will help us through this the need for Solutions Former white house and ceo of j j and they have big news on all of this. Getting an update of what has gone on. Reporting a day of mostly calm in washington, Late Afternoon in st. Paul, staging the protesters protesters ran past the
Thosepassover week for who celebrate passover. Thanks for taking the time to be with us today. We want to give you an update as to where we are. The number has increased. Which is nothing new. It has happened every day since we started this. It has been a long month. Something a little different in the data today, we are not 100 sure yet what the significance is as we are feeling our way through this. Number of people tested, 18,000. Positive cases are up to a total of 122,000 cases. The number of patients discharged, total discharge is 12,000. 1700 discharged in one day. The number of deaths is up. That is the bad news. 44,159. We pray for each and every one of their families. That is the worst news. But, the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping for the first time. What is the significance of that . It is too early to tell. This is the impact by state. As i said, the interesting blip maybe in the data or hopeful beginning of a shift in the data in the number of ca
Ok i may take it on the us president continues to tout a medication that is not proven to treat coronavirus and poses potentially dangerous side effects. And will explore the idea of immunity passports for people who for cover even though questions do remain about resistance. And sport can be bright reseize one of basketballs highest honors a former n. B. A. Superstar who died in a Helicopter Crash earlier this year is been inducted into the leagues all say. The beginning europe or crown of virus numbers are giving some cause for hope spanish Officials Say another 674 people have died there and yes that is awful but its the 3rd day in a row that the death row has all in from 100. But that all and by 135. 00 from the previous day the infection rate is also slowing it has announced another 621. 00 deaths which like spain is fewer than the day before warmer weather though is drawing people out of their homes in the u. S. President donald trump says americans should prepare for the toughes
Street, and the same experience that i just read supervisor preston had with regard to a potential Navigation Center in the Fifth District in the heart of our city. So i wanted to ring that note of optimism as we are all rolling in the same direction in different ways, but the people of the city and county of San Francisco should be commended. And with that, supervisor safai has made a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. And we are adjourned. Great. Is our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States, which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city, if we dont have all of the folks in california, california and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in fund