Everybody. Im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight. There are now more than 42,000 cases and 720 deaths in the bay area were seeing the most cases in Alameda County more than 9600 but the still it has been deadliest in Santa Clara County which has 180 deaths. Well we are doing. Should not change regardless of what list the white house puts us on what we need to do is what we know we need to do all along which is individually we need to take responsibility. So wearing mask for socially distancing. San jose mayor sam liccardo theyre responding to White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator doctor deborah birx she called out san jose is one of 12 cities in the u. S. That she says are quote lagging behind need to do a better job of slowing the spread. According to the Santa Clara County Health Department san jose specifically has seen 500 and im sorry 5,523 cases of the virus and doctor birx said they are tracking cases very closely and the city they are wor
Turning lower. The virus setting new records across the u. S. Californias hospitalizations jumping to a new high. Rates of new cases also hitting new levels. I want to bring in kailey leinz, who has been all over the Market Action today. We were hitting a lot highs yesterday but the selloff seeming to accelerate in the final hours of trading. Snapping eight five day winning streak on the s p 500, as we approach the close today. It seemed to be a story of tech outperformance throughout much of the day. That weakness heading into the end of training. The nasdaq holding up relatively better than some of the other major averages. It was still down by about 0. 9 . But that was not as great as the laws we saw on the nasdaq or s p 500. The russell 2000 down the better part of 2 . Much more sensitive to the Economic Growth story. That seems to be the issue today, that investors are kind of pondering whether or not the recovery will take a lot longer than perhaps previously thought. You saw tha
America. In florida with cases surging a new crackdown on businesses and citizens flouting social distancing. The mayor of miami joins us live. Russia bounty outrage. The new report overnight now saying Top White House officials were aware early last year and President Trump got a written briefing in february about intelligence that russia was paying the taliban to target u. S. Troops. The white house still denying the president had any knowledge of the plot. The parents of Fallen Soldiers responding this morning. An abc news exclusive. The Golden State Killer, after terrorizing california for decades, admitting to his crimes in a room packed with his victims and survivors. His former brotherinlaw speaking out only on gma this morning. Wicked weather. New wildfires in the west, evacuations under way in colorado. Hundreds of families fleeing their homes. Flash flooding in the east. Dramatic water rescues in kentucky and severe storms striking new york city. This morning, ginger is track
Sadly this is an empty place right now were in the eighth week of the coronavirus lockdown here in new york city and having a class how to published during a pandemic reviews that time with friends and colleagues in the independent book world to find out how they are doing and what they are doing and maybe to pick up some inspiration along the way. I am speaking with two of those from the indie folk world two neighbors from brooklyn. One is jessica from my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to spea speak. I want to talk shop and give people some inside baseball about her new life as independent book people. Lets start with you, jessica. What has this done to your business . [laughter] it is a lot really fast it has been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Midmarch we feel there were a couple of days do we need to consider closing in and somebody said we absolutely have to and then you also have to send everyone home and in
Politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. You have to unmute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the thing that it brought up brought to mind or brought null mill enemy he was now in the early how 200s there was a panel u. S. Discussion of the future of books and people making prediction about he future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology and most of the people saved at that time did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. And in particular, younger readers more than any other Demographic Group preferred print books. So, the idea that Book Publishing needed to change with this technology, maybe it did some ways but not maybe in ways that people thought, and im wondering first, priscilla, i dont know if you remember that time or the kind of craziness that win along with it, but do you feel that i dont know ho