Testimony from the white house is Coronavirus Task force. And . They are testifying about the governments response so far to the pandemic and expressing some concern. Little spikes in the virus could lead easily to more widespread outbreaks, taking a live look right now at capitol hill with that testimony is coming in remotely today, because members of the Coronavirus Task force were exposed to a white house staffer who tested positive for covid19. They say they are focused on beefing up testing and tracing to allow states to safely reopen and gave a warning if that is not properly done. There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control which paradoxically will set you back, not only leading to some suffering and death the could be avoided, but could even set you back on the road to try and get economic recovery. Doctor bhati warning that the government needs to be able to respond to new outbreaks. President trump is ready normal there just seem
Important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things were thinking about currently at montpelier. So, it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in claude moore hall, the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups that are visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in Museum Studies from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. And shes going to talk to us today about madison and the lead up to the constitution. Thank you. All right. I need two seconds to get my powerpoint up because you cant do anything
Head. Thank you both for joining us today via zoom. How is it going . Good. Good. Not sure who wants to start. This big announcement is the one californians have been waiting for. The biggest takeaway i got from today was the governor saying, were still in stage one, essential only. We are wakeeks away from stage o when schools, childcare centers, open spaces and nonessential offices can reopen with social distancing. I guess, phil, i will start with you. Whats the reaction in the bay area among mayors and county supervisors . So far, they are actually in the lead on this. They have had more stringnt guidelines than the governors up until this point. They are taking a look at it. It was interesting, what happened was the bay area council, a collection of the biggest employers in the bay area, took a poll of ceos. About 178 of them. They found seven out of ten said they wanted the businesses back to reopen within the next 30 days. That is going to be a challenge for the governor. Yes, i
Portal for child care, but again, you can talk about the workforce, those needs of essential workers, and those that are active in searching for Job Opportunities that have been displaced without talking about the need to take care of their children. Some 20,000 vouchers have been set aside in our efforts to address the childcare needs of thousands and thousands of critical frontline employees. We also put that site up that identifies over 28,000 slots that are available today if you go to that site on covid 19. Ca. Gov. You can type in your zip code and you can see a number of licensed facilities and and around your community with available slots and information about health and safety, more work to do, t that our in that space, we will have more resources to invest in that space, coming from the federal government, some 350 million that we will be working with the legislature to distribute as quickly as we can. But again, im very grateful for the work the department of social service
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac