Cases and new york has opened its first drivethrough testing facility the doctor behind that program is going to join us in just a few minutes here kelly. All right bill, thanks our team of reporters is covering this story for us bob pisani is watching this rally fade and then try to come back today Rick Santelli is tracking the bond market where yields are moving up. Eamon javers is at the white house awaiting a press conference from Speaker Nancy Pelosi any moment now and from President Trump at 3 00 p. M. Eamon, what can you tell us . We got new information from the white house. The president was scheduled to hold a meeting with ceos and got as list of the ceos here and this gives you a sense of what the president is working on right now. Theyre saying that it included in this meeting are richard from walgreens, Brian Cornell of target, Doug Mcmillon of walmart, Steven Rokowski of quest, matt from roche and a number of other ceos i apologize for butchering some of the names in the p
Market rs doing because they did see a significant bounce around about midday when the president said he would be addressing the nation at 3 00 p. M. And with it came the eck peckation that he would declare a state of emergency. That took us off the lows of the session. Were splitting the difference it was up 1339s at the high, 85 and currently 865 points lots to discuss. Straight to eamon javers who is outside the white house. Eamon, what are the key things we might be expecting from this from the president well one of the things were going to be looking for is whether he makes any mention of the bill na that nancy pelosi said hes going to pass as early as this afternoon in terms of dealing with the virus a Senior Administration official told me that the white house still objects to several provisions in that measure will the president embrace it or discard it thats a key question. Lori ann is reporting that Steven Mnuchin was on the phone with speaker of the house nancy pelosi shortl
Conference in the white house rose garden is imminent. Hes expected to declare a National State of emergency over the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has taken the lives at last count of 41 americans and infected more than 125,000 people around the world. As we await the president to appear before the m cameras, we will take it the second it happens, markets on the verge of closing out the worst week since october 2008. We are firmly still in a bear market right now. What if anything can the president say to pull the markets out of this weeklong tailspin . To our floor show traders. We are teeing it up in front of the president. You have been on the markets front line. Tom at the nyse, phil at the cme. What Market Indicator will you most closely watch as the president speaks . Well, we saw extreme fear yesterday and they always say when no ones worried, thats the time to worry. Well, yesterday everyone got worried and they came out with massive action. Mnuchin reminded me of mario dra
Will open up access to up to 50000000000 dollars of very importantly for important and a large amount of money for states and territories or localities in our shared fight against this disease in furtherance of the order emerging every state to set up Emergency Operation centers Effective Immediately youre going to be hearing from some of the Largest Companies and greatest retailers and medical companies in the world as to anyway. Behind me and that side of me im also asking every hospital in this country to activated some urgency prepared as planned so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged in new york and various other places are also very sing gauge i just spoke with Governor Cuomo we had a very good conversation and were working very strongly with many states including new york. The merging see orders im issuing today will also confer broad new authority to the secretary of health and Human Services the secretary of h. H. S. Will be able