Washington journal. Thank you very much. I want to go to the map from and point out on march 1st. New york city had one case of coronavirus. My question is this has spread so quickly, rapidly across the country. Well, we know that unlike pass nza, where you can the inspection from yourself to maybe one other person, the the coronavirus can be spread more easily to 23 other people. Have doubled the amount of people that you can expose to the virus. So in a city as dense in is, ation as new york city obviously so many more people can get exposed to one person. Then, obviously, we have transportation, airlines, flying all different parts of the country, so the virus can spread to allckly parts of the country. Quickly, it can be people. Ed people to how long can it live without a host. Right. Spread by droplets, you can cough on someone and expose directly or someone could cough on to their hand and put on a doorknob. R estimates are show egg if its plastic or steel, the 23 days. An remain
Stock, especially with all that we have been seeing with that bad news this morning. Reporter well, thats exactly right. I think marcus thats because the markets was expecting and wall street was expecting this move and washington moved so quickly to fix it. Lets look at that number. The official number is 3, 283,000, the number of people filing for unemployment in the most recent week measured. That makes sense when you think about it. Of course, we expected that number. Look around you. The stores are closed. The restaurants are working at halfstaff. But the stimulus bill can ease that pain. Both sides got what they wanted. Democrats were able to get some supervision over some of the oversight of the money going to corporations. We got money to workers as well. Its going to be the Unemployment Benefits that are written into that bill that got expanded and extended that probably will help your family most. I know a lot of people think of that check and think of that. But i think its t
Large gatherings plus. Not even celebrities are immune to the coronavirus and saying is a finding new ways to reach their audiences and keep people entertained. Coronavirus deaths have reached another day high initially almost 800 its government is now ordering all but essential factories and businesses to close confirmed cases worldwide have passed 300000 thats according to a tele by Johns Hopkins university or a challenge begins our coverage of the corona virus pandemic. This military convoy in northern italy is carrying a grim cargo 30 coffins with the bodies of 30 corona virus victims headed to a small village for chromate because there are too many covert 19 dead in the nearby city of berger and with italy recording its deadliest day of the outbreak yet with another nearly 800 deaths that could be more convoys like this needed spain now has the 3rd highest number of infections worldwide with around 25000 the death toll has passed 1300 now to help madrid and barcelona are convertin
Okay should be and we also have the white sandy of course everybody in the bay area and across the country in the world should be doing this in order to help slow the spread of the coronavirus and we do have breaking news this morning just in to the kron 4 news room. Corona virus related deaths in the bay areas now 25 is 4 more deaths were reported just this morning in San Mateo County. Heres a look at the numbers. Santa clara county now with 375 cases, 16 people have died. As we mentioned 100s, 65 cases in San Mateo County with now 5 deaths, San Francisco county has 152 cases and one death to the east bay now where Contra Costa County has 86 cases and one death. Alameda county with 124 cases and 2 deaths in the north bay marine county has 53 cases that are 24 cases and Solano County 34 cases and one death in Sonoma County and napa county has 3 cases. Wifi help is on the way for people impacted by coronavirus overnight the senate reached a deal with the white house that would send mone
2,255 points. Right now we are down 2,003 points. At 1 00 p. M. , money started fluttering down, the Federal Reserve making a move to support the bond market amid the coronavirus collapse. The s p 500, by the way, had been down 240 points and of course, we had 689 points getting slashed off the nasdaq. Right now the s p is down 219 and as we look at the nasdaq its down 619. Despite the feds move, the s p and nasdaq joined the Dow Jones Industrials in a bear market. This as the 11year bull market is officially about to come to an end. The selloff kicked in pretty much right at the open and five minutes in, triggered once again for the second time this week the Circuit Breakers that halted trading for 15 minutes. Lets show you some metrics here. The oil patch. Take a look at this. It is playing a huge role in this selloff once again. Oil is crashing, folks. We do have it down to 31. 32. Thats a loss of 5 today. Much of this comes after President Trump announced a travel ban on flights fr