They went missing in marylands Chesapeake Bay. Well have the latest. And remembering bill withers, the voice behinds some of the most beloved and soulful songs of the 70s passes away. Well look back with an extremely rare and revealing interview he gave us just a few years back. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. [ sirens ] hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. I want to come way under. The virus continues to spread nationwide. Nowhere is the situation more urgent than in new york city. Highest single increase in the number of deaths. They had a chance to order ventilators over the years. They had a chance to order very big but didnt choose to do it. Stocks closed down for the weeks after a much worse than expected jobs report. The three major indices shed another 1. 5 . We have the greatest economy in the world, probably doing all of you the best ever, everybodys doing the best ever. All of a sudden, yeah, shut down the
U. S. Naval Institute News reporter sam lagrone talks about the role of u. S. Navy hospital ships in the coronavirus response. Washington journal is next. The men and women of the greatest country on earth are going to defeat this coronavirus and reclaim our future. After sleep deprived nights and marathon negotiating sessions, we have a bipartisan rescuent on the largest package in American History. Host republican and Democratic Leaders in the u. S. Senate announcing a deal at 1 30 a. M. This morning on a 2 trillion coronavirus aid package. Good morning. We will get your thoughts on that this morning. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. Youcan join us as well if text us with your first name, city and state that 202 or8003 at 202 7488003 go to twitter at cspan wj. We have learned about what is in the deal the lawmakers have reached. Theres 500 billion for major corporations. 360 7 billion for Small Business loans. 130 billion for hospitals across
We felt more appropriate to begin to advance the process the route all 58 counties and the state of california. We have been working with our local partners and that has been broadly supported. While it is a erectus, a guidance, it is limited authority and from an enforcement perspective all the expectations that it will be advanced and will be adopted. A ban on all sporting events and concerts will be in effect through the end of the month and extended if necessary. At least one southbay First Responder is being treated after testing positive. A second firefighter is receiving results on testing at this hour. Jesses life for us at sanders international. Jesse, we talked about three tsa workers yesterday, now possibly two san jose firefighters. Reporter good afternoon, while we do have the second firefighter who d. Even so, more than 50 firefighters in off the job due to possible exposure to the coronavirus and a source just called me right before this broadcast and told me several san
To sitting in traffic. A new report finds americans lose about 88 billion each year stuck sitting behind other peoples taillights. Thats an average of 1,400 each. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 9th. Good morning, everybody. We hope you had a good weekend. Were sorry that you lost an hour but were glad you are here with us. We begin with new details about the coronavirus. The cruise ship thats been stuck off the coast of San Francisco with thousands of passengers and crew members on board will dock today in oakland. The 21 people who are infected will move to hospitals, the rest will be quarantined for two weeks. The outbreak is taking a toll on the stock market. Dow futures are down about 1,000 points. A likely rough start when trades begins later this morning. The tennis tournament scheduled to begin today at indian wells in Southern California has been canceled. It is the largest u. S. Sporting event so far to be called off over concerns about the spread of t
Quarantine it, will be a pretty strong enforcement of quarantine. The key is you have to have separation. We have to have separation or this thing takes longer to go away. But the real, really important, and i think you can say this for your country, i think we can say it for a lot of countries, for all countries hope fullly it is going a way. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths. You know, we call it cases, how many cases do you have . Relative to other countries we have very few cases. Relative to certain of major countries that really have a bigger problem than us. Interestingly i think we have the greatest doctors in the world. We offered iran assistance. Iran is having a tremendous problem and we have offered iran assistance if they would like it. We will help them. We would be glad to help them. Reporter mr. President , pentagon determined that iranian backed militia fired rockets that killed two american solders in iraq. Should they expect a response . I would rather