Many students today take the s. A. T. During the spring, during the school day. Thats about 700,000 students who missed that chance. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by life isnt a straight line, and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected, with Financial Planning and advice for today, and tomorrow. The william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. At www. Hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Major new developments in the covid19 pandemic. The United States reaches 90,000 deaths out of 1. 5 million cases, as more of the country loosens restrictions. There is potentially promisin
And the nasdaq is indicated up by 66 points lets take a look at whats happening in the treasury market the other thing worth watching, wti, crude oil prices. Last i saw up another 7 to 31. 51, so seeing wti above 30 a barrel the tenyear note is yielding 0. 64 . Andrew thank you, becky. Hope everybody had a great weekend. We have an update as we do every morning these days on the pandemic lets give you the total numbers right now. Global cases have reached 4. 7 million with 1. 4 million right here in the United States. More than 90,000 people in the United States have now died from this virus changes are coming to our nations airports as well. The tsa reportedly preparing now to check passenger temperatures at about a dozen locations as soon as this week. Airlines have begun urging the government to take steps in an attempt to keep potentially sick people off planes and make travelers feel more comfortable flying again, which is going to be so crucial not only to everybodys health but t
A protest against stayathome orders while massive lines at a Food Bank Show the scale of the economic crisis. And saluting the class of 2020. What graduation looks like during a pandemic. For High School Seniors across the country. Cannot stop a graduation, but, first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Our window of opportunity is closing. Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history. A vaccine expert fired by the Trump Administration warning things will get worse if the country doesnt improve testing now. Looks like an angry, disgruntled employee who frankly, according to some people, didnt do a very good job. Governor cuomo has just extended the stayathome order for new york state until june 13th. Not underestimate this virus. It has beaten of the Senate Intelligence committee as the fbi investigates stock trades. Just because youre accused of something in america doesnt mean youre guilty of it. President trumps Maralago Club partially
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy talk to reporters on capitol hill about the federal response to the coronavirus. He also announced a republican led task force to investigate chinas role in the spread of covid19. Rep. Mccarthy thank you all for joining. Today on this national day of prayer, as millions across this country paris, i ask that we lift up those who have lost their lives. We lift up their families, that we pray for this nation, pray for those in the medical community who were going every day from the truck driver to the former to the cashier to the farmer, to the cashier. We lift you up. On monday i put forth a plan to reopen congress. It is the only plan that has been put forth. This is not about opening up the campus. It is about restoring the voice of every american, needs the
We never expected we could. A lot of learning in terms of how our community can act together, and that was across all parts of our community. And that has been one of the and the samenings, time we have learned things that are challenging, things like online commencement, trying to do more commencements for may more commencements for may and december. Those are a few things we have been learning. Steve how will the online commencement look this weekend . Secretary burwell we are very excited about the online commencement. Tower 2020charge graduates, all 3000 of them, in my home. My provost also did his part. We are fortunate this year that we have fess Henry Louis Gates professor Henry Louis Gates, many of you may know, incredible professor from harvard, many of you may have seen his Television Series about finding his roots, and he will be speaking, in an incredible address. And as part of the commencement ceremony, we asked members of the community to take short messages, everyone fr