Nearly 760,000 americans have now been infected. First, lets start with the latest in negotiations on capitol hill with kasie hunt and Shannon Pettypiece over at the white house. Kasie, give us a quick check on where negotiations stand this hour. Reporter this has been a scramble through the weekend. They were anticipating potentially a deal late last night. As of this hour, they still dont have a finalized agreement. The last my sources told me is that theyre still working on some of the testing provisions. Theres going to be 25 billion in this bill to help try and ramp up testing. There are some differences between democrats and republicans about how much of that should be done by the public sector, how much of that should be done by the private sector. Of course the major center piece of this, 310 billion additional for the paycheck protection program. Thats the fund thats aimed at help keep Small Businesses employees on the books through this crisis. That money ran out in 13 days a
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