Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Kristin englund from the Cleveland Clinic and later, author Rick Atkinson joins us to iscuss the 75th anniversary of ve day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] host u. S. Workers continue to lose their jobs and file for Unemployment Benefits at a record rate. And in todays report on the overall jobs number for the month of april could be the worst since the great depression. It is friday, may 8, 2020. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend this first hour asking you how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Heres how to joins us. For those of you in the east and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain pacific time zones, thats 2027488001. You can also send us a text. That line, 2027488003. Include your name, where youre texting from. On twitter, were at twitter.
Are you laid off . Are you on furlough or parttime . Are you an essential worker . We will get to your calls momentarily. The jobs numbers for april this morning, we will certainly report that when it is available. This from the Associated Press this morning. A devastating jobs report for april show virus impact, writing the u. S. Government on friday is poised to report the worst jobs report since a big Record Keeping began in 1948. The Unemployment Rate for april could reach 16 or more, according to economists surveyed. 21 million jobs may have been lost. If so, it would mean that nearly all of the job growth in the 11 years since the Great Recession had vanished in one month. That is from the Associated Press. This is the wall street journal. 3 million more, file jobless claims. The u. S. Braces for what is expected to be the worst employment report on record u. S. Workers have filed nearly 33. 5 million applications for Unemployment Benefits in the seven weeks since the closures we
As more nations and states move toward reopening, we ask what needs to be done to make it safe. We hear from Johns Hopkins university. We hear from Johns Hopkins university. Lets take a look at how we are setting up in these markets. We had mixed messages from wall street overnight as investors try to make their way through the global reopening. Asianlook at how the session is shaping up. The globaler we saw cell overnight, there could be little and the way of conviction for asian markets this morning. Futures fluctuating in the asian session. Off by slightly here. We have kiwi stocks getting grounds by. 2 . K futures in Chicago Holding on to three day ahead of a heavy earnings day in japan that will include names like toyota and honda due out later this afternoon. Today we are washing for the topics potentially push into a bull market with optimism for parts of the economy restarting. We could see wider headwinds weigh on the asia session. Checking in on what is going on with bonds, a
Guide our senators to live so honorably that they will bring glory to your name. Lord, inspire them to yield their allegiance to you, striving always to receive your approval. Thank you for hearing and answering their prayers, as they fervently seek your wisdom. Guide them through the challenges of these times. Lord, remind us all that we are mere sojourners in time, heading for the better land of eternity. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senat
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