Being seized off the streets. Tributes to john lewis. The kind words pouring in for the civil rights icon this morning. New jersey senator cory Booker Joining us live, sharing memories of a man he called a mentor and a titan of american history. Close encounter. The moment a shark is spotted in cocoa beach, florida, heading towards a small boy. The quickthinking offduty officer who may have saved his life, tells us his story. And baseball is back. The first spring training games of the season. Cardboard cutouts in the stands and this masked hitters home run day. Will players stay healthy to complete the season . Coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Stand at more than 140,000 this morning. With the numbers rising in more than two dozen states. As the crisis intensifies, many states experiencing desperate stress on their medical systems. And the rising numbers forcing a widespread rethink of opening plans, indianapolis officials voting to delay the start of the school year by two weeks, and i
Several Democratic Senators came to the floor to push for more coronavirus Economic Relief to local and state governments designed Health Emergency workers. Here are the speeches leading up with senator ron wyden of oregon. Senator from oregon. The covid19 pandemic has thrown our country into a nightmare level crisis of joblessness. The congress has not done enough to stop it and has not done enough to save the jobs of our people. I have come to the floor this evening, the distinguished democratic leader, to call for the senate to pass legislation that is all about saving key jobs that form the backbone of our local communities, our firefighters, our First Responders, our teachers, our families, and so many others. They need our help. They need it now. Senate democrats have been warning since march, covid19 cases exploded and our economy went into lockdown, that our states, cities and towns are now facing budgetary disasters unlike anything gone through in recent memory. The shortfall
We take you live to the u. S. Senate where to date lawmakers who will be on a defense programs and policy bill. You are watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will ohm the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and mercy, in these divisive and polarized times, remind us that words have consequences. Help us to remember that we are accountable to you for every idle and careless word we speak. Lord, teach our senators to be obedient to your commands, doing your will as your presence fills them with joy. Today, surround our lawmakers with the shield of your favor, as they labor to deep our nation to keep our nation strong. May they be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Manifest your power through their labors so that this nation will be exalted by righteousness. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of alle
Senator cory Booker Joining fellow democrats today in announcing support of new Police Reform. Supporters say the Police Reform legislation is overdue and unprecedented, democrats hope to push the bill through the house and hope to have a vote in the senate by july 4. This bill is in response to the nationwide protests. It is and it was drafted by the Judiciary Committee and the black caucus, or than 150 democrats have signed on as co authors. For those who wish we will now kneel for our moment of silence. Reporter on capitol hill house and Senate Democrats took any for nearly 9 minutes in emancipation hall before announcing the new justice and policing act. A profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession that requires highly trained officers who are accountable to the public. We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change. The bill includes federal mandates the police funny and dashboard cameras, limit transfer of military weapons and a b
Is david asman. Joining me on the panel gary, zachary liz. Attended christine on the Stock Exchange. Was it the Oil Price Crash that set this all . Reporter several factors, one has to revolve not necessarily the virus itself but the panic around the virus as well as oil, it is so difficult to price and the Economic Impact and what the virus is going to do to companies acrosstheboard which is why you sell the selloff today and we have a Circuit Breaker halt all markets when we saw it fall down 7 . That helped liquidity but using acrosstheboard everything over 7 lower for the day. Oil hitting a low we have not seen since 1991 and that really did hurt shale producers across the country across the globe and it shifted investors to move their money into safer bet like ten year treasury bond and thirtyyear treasury bonds. We saw the ten year drop to 31 basis points, that is 0. 319. Not even percentages anymore. And the same thing for the 30 year yield, it fell below 1 . These are numbers we