For the paycheck protection program. Now, all of this as the virus and its infections reach 4. 9 million nationwide and unfortunately, 160,000 deaths so far. Nbc jo ling kent is in los angeles with more on the jobs report and lee an caldwell on capitol hill covering the latest on the stalled relief talks. Jo, let me begin with you. Walk us through the numbers and what they say about the state of the economy this morning. What we know is this economy is a slow recovery. Thats what were feeling on the ground when we talk to people, and thats exactly what this jobs report was saying today. The good news is for the thirty month in a row, the Unemployment Rate is ticking down. 10. 2 . You saw good job gains with leisure, hospitality, retail, professional business services. Thats all good news. Overall, in this pandemic, you do see the 22 million jobs have been lost and weve only really seen a recovery about 9. 3 million of them. So that basically means that weve seen a lot of people go back
Crazy about, i dont know what is. But instead of the president apparently telling putin how upset we are and how were not going to okay, good tuesday morning. Im Ayman Mohyeldin here in new york. As we come on the air this hour, were following live breaking developments on multiple fronts, a lot of important stories playing out now. First of all, the Supreme Court set to hand down more decisions any moment now, were keeping an eye out for that, and an important ruling perhaps on the president s taxes and financial records. Were also live on capitol hill, where doctor Anthony Fauci and other Top Health Officials are testifying before a Senate Committee on the coronavirus pandemic. What they have to say about more than half of all states now seeing a rise in infections. Also, leading the European Union, moments ago, to announce visitors from the United States will not be allowed into europe this summer. Europe lifting travel restrictions for 15 countries, the u. S. Along with brazil and