Good thursday morning. Thank you for joining us. President trump says he considers himself to be a war time president. From all indications it appears this Health Crisis were going through is about to get worse. As we continue to follow the guidelines on social distancing were seeing this graph on your screen showing the sharp increase in coronavirus cases across the country. A sixfold increase in one week. New york city has reported its numbers of cases have more than doubled in one day. Hospitals say theyre expecting a tsunami of patients. In response new yorks governor has ordered businesses to keep 50 of workers home. Italy reported its deadliest day so far. 345 deaths in 24 hours. Doctors fear the United States could be less than two weeks away from similar conditions. Abcs alex presha begins our coverage from washington where some members of congress have tested positive. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. The country continuing its fight against what President Trump has
Still rock bottom. 30year bond looks like, this up 17 basis points with the year on the 30year at 1. 192 . Supporting the economy and threat of coronavirus. President trump floated the idea of payroll tax yesterday and help for industries and that sent futures higher last night. We will take a look on exactly whats involved. Voters in 6 states are heading to the polls today. Investing in apple, history, how you could own one of the first Apple Computers ever made and fully functional. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria we have a bounce going on, all positive following the big selloff and rebound this morning. Cac quarante in paris up 3 and a half percent and. In asia overnight, green across the board as well. Take a look at this, the numbers up, shanghai composite, Chinese Market up almost 2 right now, overnight rather. The Japanese Central bank has been buying equities. Also this morning some of the top stories that we are watching this morning, chinese president xi jinping
Pandemic began, china reported no new cases today. But as we know, the crisis here in the u. S. And in other parts of the world, it is far from over. John Hopkins University has reported about 9,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the u. S. 150 people have died, including a sixth person in santa clara county. It is day three of sheltering in place for much of the bay area. Solano county began its shelter in place order yesterday. Napa county will start its shelter in place tomorrow. With all the kids out of school, more schools are offering meal pickup today. More than a dozen places where kids in San Francisco can get breakfast or lunch while school is closed. Abc 7 News Reporter Julian Glover live for us in San Francisco. Julian. Good morning, reggie. Help is on the way for those families here in San Francisco who may be worried about putting food on the table with the shelter in place order in effect. We know now that Rosa Parks Elementary School is one of the latest schools to co
Solano county began its shelter in place order yesterday. Napa county will start its shelter in place tomorrow. Some people are wondering whether the u. S. Should implement tougher restrictions to stop the spread of the virus. Jobina is live with the gu governments response at the federal level. Were getting more from dr. Jerome adams. Speaking to gma he said most of the power to implement Health Restrictions belongs to individual states. Federal offi issued guidelines like banning nonessential travel and limiting groups to ten people or less and if everyone follows those rules, we should be on track. I want everyone to act as if you have the virus. Whenever youre interacting with someone else, imagine you have the virus and act as if you want to protect them or you have to protect yourself from getting it. Calling on social Media Influencers to get younger adults on board with social distancing. Messages from people like kevin durant and kylie jenner h l or people at home. I find it i
Listen so if you read the print please turn as head to the woods and thats really that we meet with global news makers going to talk about the stories that 00 hi im Steve Clements and i have a question how bad are the problems of big money and powerful corporations in american politics and are they eroding people stressed in elections their elected leaders and even democracy itself lets get to the bottom line. In the last president ial election cycle more than 2000000000. 00 was raised and spent by the top 2 candidates donald trump and Hillary Clinton this time around we have some fabulously wealthy candidates mayor Michael Bloomberg tom stier and even donald trump but were still waiting for proof and its never released tax forms while other candidates pride themselves on not accepting any big money with the top one percent of this country getting even richer and the poor getting poorer and the middle collapsing out of the middle class and concentration of money in fewer and fewer hand