Restrictions but many businesses and states are seeking additional financial assistance. 8 30 a. M. Eastern treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin will join me live on how to help recover from the pandemic. Retail continues to struggles. J. Crew to file for bankruptcy this morning. We are expecting that. Take a look at futures, indicating a decline 266 points and nasdaq lower by 73 on top of selloff on friday which led the u. S. Markets in the red for the week, take a look, mornings with maria is live right now. Tensions between the United States and china are growing. Dax index in germany down 368 points right now. Sharp decline there. Manufacturing and construction starting back up in italy today. Shops set to reopen in ten days followed by bars and restaurants in june, in italy. In asia overnight losses in hong kong and south korea. Hong kongs gdp for the First Quarter decreasing, much steeper fall than expected. Hong kong down better than 4 . Markets in china closed for holiday as well
Return to work. And to stay ahead of the pandemic, america will need an additional 100,000 contact tracers, according to Johns Hopkins university. By one count, states have hired or announced plans to hire about 66,000 so far. Does the lack of a federal standard put your state at risk and surrounding states at risk . I certainly think if the feds were to participate, if the feds were to establish, as you say, National Standards or some rules around compatibility with respect to one state to another because youre right, there is a lot of back and forth between states. And people move. They dont just work, they move. I think that could be very helpful. Reporter as more americans test positive for the virus, researchers say confidentiality is key for contact tracing. That means shielding the identity of every covidpositive patient. Even from the people they may have infected. Contact tracing is critical. Virtually nobody disagrees with that. But out there in the public, there is a concern
Chance of scattered showers and whether that will linger through thursday, back to you. Day, clotting. Happy mothers day to all of those moms out there. Coming up, studies show the thank you for joining us and waking up with us on this sunday morning. Lets bring in meteorologist coronavirus is disproportionately affecting people of color, how the numbers stack up nationwide and what doctors are saying right here in the bay area. How a mother daughter demo rosemary for a check on how our mothers day is shaping up. Team is keeping the business a lot of people want to get out were moving along in a very a little bit. You can go on a walk, hike or backyard picnic. That also good rosemary, right . I agree. Good morning frank. Difficult time. Stay with us. We are looking at cloudy skies. California phones offers free specialized phones. Like cordless phones. Temperatures are cooling into our afternoon. Outside right now in the 50s. As we get into the second part of our day, we are looking at
Of ther the nomination ambassador to be the secretary of the navy. And Charles Brown to be chief of staff of the air force. And dr. Anderson to be deputy undersecretary of defense. We thank you all for being here. Appreciate the contributions you have made. All three of you have impressive careers and we appreciate the fact that you are coming back again. Things arese necessary. I have to ask you the required questions. I would like an audible yes or no on each question. Have you adhered to the laws and wrecked lesions governing thelations governing nation . Yes. Will you comply with requests for communication . Yes. Will you cooperate in providing witnesses in response to congressional requests . Yes. Will those witnesses be protected from reprisal for their testimony . Yes. Do you agree if confirmed to give honest testimony to this committee . Yes. Do you agree to provide documents including email in a timely manner when requested, or consult with the Committee Regarding any basis fo
I call it transition to greatness. Mothers day weekend mess. Bitter cold and wintry weather, even snow this morning for the plains, to the east coast. More than 125 Million People feeling the chill with some places even colder than they were on Christmas Day. Will it warm up by tomorrow for mom . Dylan is back with your forecast. All that, plus remembering the real tiger king. Roy horn after the legendary duo Siegfried Roy dead at the age of 75 after contracting coronavirus. From his vegas stage show, the tiger attack he survived, well look back at his imagine al life today, saturday, may 9, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. We thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. It is a big saturday morning because we could not be happier to welcome back our friend dylan from maternity leave. Welcome back and just in time for mothers day. Just in time for mothers day. Just in time for cold weather. I did