Decision to extend federal funding past the december 11 deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown. Your watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Bay black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who in your wisdom has so ordered our earthly lives that we must walk by faith and not by sight, increase our trust in your sovereign care. Remind our lawmakers that no problem is too difficult for you to solve. Lord, give our senators a faith th triumphs over despair, love that triumphs over hate, and courage that triumphs over faintheartedness. Empower them to be bold participants rather than timid spectators in meeting the daunting challenges of these times. We we pray in our powerful name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I edge allegiance to the fla of the United States of erica, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
Governor andrew cuomo ultimately calls the shots. Looks like that could be pushed back. Governor cuomo speaking to the press, noted a lost spikes in cases happen particularly in states that opened up Indoor Dining too soon. No way to verify that. The fact he wants to be cautious about that at same time he is ripping federal government response on all of this, is obviously going to get a response from president of the United States either with a tweet or something, later on. He has full throttle criticizes the federal government minimizing the entire coronavirus situation. Others middle east disagree with that. We should also say that is the latest period on june 28th. Eight deaths reported in new york state. We should emphasize that is record low number and is down substantially from the 800 daily highs we were seeing in march and april, it is still a stubborn trend that remains as do hospitalizations also going down here. The number of new cases is an issue that has come up again and
Raise false expectations proven they begin to lose confidence. We should tell the truth as best we know it, scientists know it. We should let them speak and be doing all in our power right now to deal with being able to confine the spread of this disease. We need more testing gets. Testing kits. We should be rushing the supply of those. It has gotten better. Up have nurses showing over theirbage bags bodies as protection. We need to get them the help they need right away. We know there is going to be more need for not just ventilators but i see you units icu units. We have never let the country down. Never, ever. Announcer 1 the Coronavirus Task force hold a briefing with Vice President pence and President Trump updating the response to the pandemic. Our live coverage begins at 5 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Announcer 2 extremists any of coverage watch it anytime extremists any lack of daily briefings from the president and White House Task force to update governors in the hardest hit st
Afghani as he and. Are sworn in as afghanistans president rival. And celebrations in sudan after its Prime Minister survives an assassination attempt on his motorcade. May have played its last match behind closed doors for a while as the countrys. Plunge into oil prices triggered by a dispute between saudi arabia and russia has sent stocks plummeting on Global Markets already spooked by the coronavirus billions were wiped off the value of Major Companies on monday londons footsie 100 suffered its biggest one day 4 since the Global Financial crisis of 2008 the index closed 7. 7 percent. Hong kongs hang seng index fell 4. 2 percent thats its biggest one day fall in 2 years and that spilled into other asian markets trading was hold. On the New York Stock Exchange for 15 minutes when the dow jones tumbled more than 7 percent shortly after it opened then it closed almost 7. 8 percent that. Wild crazy barrage wiley is a professor of International Business strategy at the university of surrey
Coronavirus fearing weighs on the market, surpassing 100,000 worldwide. We are expecting a briefing from Vice President mike pence a bit hear this evening. Though that survey was conducted in the middle of february before the outbreak took hold in the u. S. In just a few moments well talk about russ cost rich he says the u. S. Consumer remains strong and where he is putting to work now. Dan, what are you doing . Not a whole heck of a lot week on week, there was a bit of optimism. As investors star thinking about how to allocate towards equities visibility will be the big point. I think i dont think were going to get that anytime soon right now. That was the low for this move you had a strong reversal off of that we set ourselves up for a powerful rally, but most of that snsht has dissipated, so some say you will have to retest the low, and were doing it right now on a relatively tenuous way, so i still think, given the stress in credit markets, stocks are not yet convincingly saying we