Im exposed or welcome to the Program Germany says it is getting on top of the corona Virus Outbreak Health Minister yes ban says it is thanks to emergency measures decided last month authorities here ordered shut schools restaurants and shops and impose social distancing each infection infected patient now is only passing the virus on it to 0. 7 other people suggesting the virus is in retreat Officials Say early widespread testing has helped keep death rates low. Germany streets are still empty its stores still closed a result of the countrys strict physical distancing measures. After almost a month the restrictions are proving successful germanys hospitals have i. C. U. Space to spare at least 10000 intensive care beds are available this means the Health Care System has not yet been overwhelmed by the pandemic according to authorities this is because germany managed to flatten the curve and reach an important milestone a much awaited drop in the infection rate. A reproduction number w
At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to
If you can see her, that is good. Welcome, everybody. We have gone to a pool camera. We have a few folks i would like to introduce. First of all, we are announcing our new covid19 relief fund, one of the two cochairs is with us here. With sarah andrews, will be coordinated the state volunteer effort. She is the chief of staff at the office of Economic Development normally. Michelle barnes, mike johnson from Gary Community investments, one of our key Nonprofit Sector partners on this. We just rolled out yesterday our new coronavirus covid19 webpage that is on our governor site. It is covid19. Colorado. Gov. If you are having trouble accessing it, we are scaling up its ability. It does work most of the time if you try again in a few hours. This is our effort to get more Accurate Information dynamically updated. We are moving away from just, here is an update once a day, to whenever we have information that we can make public, we want to make it public. That will be done on the colorado s
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Minutes ago out of washington dc that relief measure designed to help americans who are suffering from the coronavirus pandemic moving forward tonight, thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne. The us house just passed the Coronavirus Relief package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first announced the measure last night and the house took it up late this evening kron 4 grant lodes joins us in studio with latest on the bill that is now heading to the us senate indeed ken and pam desperately needed this because we need testing to be free. So that people get tested, you know what sort of data you have and this includes paid sick time for people who dont have it so that you dont go to work if you need to work to make rent. And in fact other people so critically important to get this passed and bipartisanship is a tough thing to find in washington these days, but kudos to them. They got it done the goal of course to give Americans Health care assistance and Economic Relief d