, plenty of examples of the kind of courage, kindness and selflessness that we will need to get through one of the most difficult times in our history. Michelle and i have been amazed at the incredible bravery of our medical professionals who are putting their lives on the line to save others. The Public Servants and Health Officials battling this disease. The workers taking risks every day to keep our economy running. And everyone who is making their own sacrifice at home with their families, all for the greater good. If there is one thing we have learned as a country from moments of great crisis, it is that the spirit of looking out for one another cant be restricted to our homes or our workplaces or our neighborhoods or our houses of worship. It also has to be reflected in our national government. The kind of leadership that is guided by knowledge and experience. Honesty and humility. Empathy and grace. That kind of leadership does not in our state ffices. S and mayors o it belongs
Less normally. Lets start there, jim, in terms of the market overall. I have a lot of insight this morning to share on the credit markets where i tend to be focused of late. Like to come to you. When you see a rally, the likes of which we may at the open this morning, what are you thinking what i think about when i see this, the market got oversold, people last night went home thinking theres no possibility of any sort of deal. Without a deal all you have is the fed making sure theres liquidity but nothing in the hands of the people. If you dont get money in the hands of people, people will look at the landscape and say its really just falling apart something has to get done. Now theres an expectation that something will get done. If we dont get something done today with the senate, youll give up this whole rally youre banking on the politics getting together for something, otherwise this rally will be comical and you will wish you never bought in. Well be able to offer hopefully peopl
Skype today. You have a big day for the dow admittedly, were talking a lot about numbers in the last 15 minutes or so listening to Governor Cuomo go through troubling numbers in new york sta state. 37,000 total cases deaths up 100 in the past 24 hours. Lets keep everything into perspective as were talking about all this and thinking about the folk who is are hurting as a result of this virus. Tell me what youre thinking about today. Youre in the midst of a big day. Could be the best week for stocks since the 1930s yeah, my plan to take trades where i can get them super size core positions. On the show yesterday probably light exposure as the day went on when the market popped 5 yesterday, i found it troubling on top of the big move we had the day before i did take some exposure off late yesterday afternoon still, extremely well invested at this point where it was a week ago in terms of cash. Today were having another 5 day and im a little perplexed the vix is telling us, if its an accu
Globe would be the shutdown more restricted access to help fight the spread. Well the coronavirus pandemic is only timing its grip on europe this friday to the point where italy is calling in the army to enforce a lockdown in the region of lombardy that is where we will start as we go around the world this hour italy 1st of all with just over 3400. 00 people have died that is now more than anywhere else in the world including china infections of now surpassed 40000. 00 there as well in spain the numbers growing at an alarming rate a 1000 people have been killed and fictions are up at 20000. 00 almost in the middle east iran Just Announced another 149. 00 deaths bringing its total to more than 1400 president Hassan Rouhani is calling on iranians to stay united to tackle the crisis and in the United States the governor of the countrys most. State california has told everyone 40000000 people stay indoors stay home 1000 infections have been reported there so here is the team this hour on A
This doctor is a bit of a super hero herself here because she was the first to link the water to high levels of lead in the children of flint. The word lead when youre a physician or pediatrician signals what in your brain . There is no safe level of lead. It impacts cognition. How children think actually drops by two levels. It impacts behavior leading to things like developmental delays and has lifealtdering consequences. Youve heard a lot about the future of driverless cars. But what about this . Thats right, 18 wheels on the road and nobody in the drivers seat. Dont be surprised to see this on american highways soon. How close are we to a day when these trucks have no driver . Well be operating on the public highways with real cargo with a real fleet in 2021. ticking im lesley stahl. Im Bill Whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im jon wertheim. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking cbs money watch sponsored by lincoln financial, helping you cre