Historian, author, and tour garrett peck. Tool hasrance related been featured on cspan, book tv, and a program with henry rollins. He was featured on a documentary history channel. He is the author of 11 books including prohibition in washington, d. C. how dry we werent. Prohibition was a before we get started i want to invite all of you to join us in the lobby following the presentation to enjoy a sample cocktailibition era courtesy of sounding spirits gin. Ding spirits garrettet me introduce peck. [applause] peck thank you, everyone for joining me at our wake, our try wake. We will commemorate we are not going to celebrate this. Adventure tonight we will have a chance to celebrate with a french 75 cocktail in the lobby. I appreciate everyone coming year, and as well for cspan2 come out and film asir for the national audience. Thank you so much. This is a rather triggering image, especially for a year drinker like myself. They are pouring beer into the sewer its a tragic. When i cover
Breaking news. U. S. Stock market futures are limit down even as the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stave off recession in the face of a global coronavirus threat. Life in america changing rapidly as governments at every level take drastic and unprecedented steps to try to slow the spread of the pandemic. Major retailers including nike and apple, shutting their doors for weeks. Well talk about the fallout for the u. S. Economy it is monday, march 16, 2020 squawk box begins right now. Good morning im becky quick at cnbc headquarters joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin u. S. Equity futures hitting limit down after dropping 5 that means they cant trade any lower this morning those are the curbs set up by the exchanges. You will continue to watch whats happening with the etfs, however, because they are not held to the same restrictions. Can you see the dow etf is down by 9 . The s p etf down by almost 9 . That gives you a better idea of where the major averages would open if we were open h
Parents become the latest seem to be disrupted by the coronavirus as they came with strasburg is called off. Saudi arabia has reportedly arrested 2 senior members of the royal family the wall street journal says the crown prince muhammad bin nayef and the kings younger brother prince had been the lizzies all solid being held over an alleged coup attempts well just here as alexey obrien reports. The Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammad deny a physical to the throne and 27 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seeing him and his brother detained as well as the saudi kings youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes that there is term or within the family in the form of criticism but that doesnt justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass Security Forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their priv
Viewers like you. Thank you. This is bbc worl news america. E death toll from the coronavirus in italy overtakes china. President trump says he is slashinged tape to get drugs to those infected but he insisto help ithe way. We are working on scaling these to allowan more americans to access different drugs that have shown really good promise. Plus, selfisolating with lifelong friends and how they are making the most of their coronavirus clamp dowve wine. Ha a supply of cheers. [laughter] for those you watching on pbs world. U. S. And around the news from italy, more people have died from the coronavirus there than in chinah emgedrom chi. Li g no new infections. Italians are subject to an extended lockdown. Ts have reprom rome. In this theater of war, the heroes hardly rest. Northern italy is seeing the highest rises. The hospital is overwhelmed but resilient. A strg commitment from all doctors and nurses and come in even when they are not on shift. After they are on at nhe,y t cr never
Manufacturing actually picked up, but only two manufacturers say that sales dropped because of the coronavirus. One retailer said that inventory was hurt because of production issues in china. You look to the San Francisco fed district where the virus is largely been rampant in this country in seattle. I should say the hardesthit area in this country. Theyre dealing with a drop in airline travel. A drop in demand for aircraft from Southeast Asia and difficulty getting parts for solar manufacturers. So not a lot of pain in that district either. Ii want to stress that overall Manufacturing Activity continued to expand across the country and Consumer Spending which has been the lynchpin of this economy actually picked up last month. Now lastly i just want to note that one other concern of companies aside from the coronavirus is actually the president ial election. Now the Federal Reserve will use the information in two weeks when they formally meet for a policy meeting and determine wheth