Largest coronavirus lockdown has extended for a further 2 weeks but indias government is easing some restrictions. To u. S. Democratic president ial hopeful joe biden denies allegations of Sexual Assault by a former senate colleague. And in sports the English Premier League is stepping up plans for a return to action the league is mad to discuss what needs to be done for games to take a call in june. It is just off the 1500 hours g. M. T. The dramatic drop in oil prices over the past few weeks has been one of the main economic fallout of the Global Pandemic and agreement decided among the worlds Top Producers to cut output has now come into effect and it appears that the deal came to be only after President Donald Trump reportedly pressured saudi arabia threatening to withdraw u. S. Military support for riyadh now to syria sullivan java reports. Oil and water do not mix but politics in oil bond very well there is no official transcript of the conversation between the u. S. President an
Finally ends. Good wednesday morning, everyone. 71,000 people in the u. S. Have now died from the coronavirus. And now President Trump is discussing the way forward. During our exclusive interview he said it will be painful, but he said reopening the country is inevitable. 38 states have now started to lift restrictions, but half those states are seeing new cases of the virus trending higher. History made overnight on the new york subway. The system is being closed during the Early Morning hours for cleaning. Also in new york, theres progress in the race to find a vaccine. Pfizer has started human trials in the u. S. Meanwhile, today is National Nurses day. Nike is donating 32,000 pairs of shoes to health workers. But we begin our coverage with President Trump oneonone. This morning, President Trump opening up about his response to the coronavirus during an exclusive interview with abc news. The American People have to consider themselves now and i am considering them to be warriors. W
It is wednesday, may 6th. Of course, youre never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. Heres mike. I am just now seeing what youre doing. What do you call that . Sizzle. For the forecast. Just a little, not too much. I was going to say, you could do that while im doing the forecast but everybody would Pay Attention to you. Im kidding. Lets talk about the forecast. You can see the winds have calmed down considerably and theyll be back especially around the bay shoreline and the afternoon hours and high clouds quickly exiting ask the moon is down and now we just have to wait for the sunshine and sizzling temperatures. How hot it gets today. 49 to 52. Not bad this morning. Look at the 60s along the coast all day today while we hit the low to mid 70s around our bay and inland and 79 to 85 and this is just the beginning. More 80s and 90s coming up tomorrow and ill have that coming up next. Heres reggie. Also coming up tomorrow, mike, Governor Newsom expected to give us
Market gaining ground after the president signed the 484 billion tumulus bill into law, this provides billions in aid to Small Businesses, hospitals and a lot more small loans to start rolling out monday. He said he wants to help the oil and gas industry. One company is in the middle of the pandemic is biomed, this is the nations biggest independent reducer of ventilators. We are going to talk exclusively the ceo of companies lifesaving equipment being used in the cova 19th battle. Last night nfl draft, not without its usual fans, we both tell you how they are raising money to end the coronavirus pandemic. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the countdown. We begin with breaking news right now, once again, we are looking at the white house, live pictures there. The president mean at any moment with nasa officials. About their contribution to the fight against the coronavirus crisis, including a new ventilator designed from nasa. We will take you there when we get that in
Pushing the economy closer to the brink of collapse. An explosion kills almost 50 people in a Northern Syrian town controlled by turkish bank rebels. More lives have now been lost to the coronavirus pandemic on u. S. Soil than all of the americans killed during the war in vietnam a tally by Johns Hopkins University Shows the death toll now is beyond 58300 and more than 1000000 people have been infected you can see there how the numbers are unpacking the total confirmed well over a 1000000 total deaths 58351 if you go to this website left hand side you can see there a running tally the United States spain italy france the u. K. Number 4 germany Turkey Russia all the way down to and including belgium as well lets go live now to washington and our correspondent there mike hanna mike more than a 1000000 infections its an astonishing figure to get to grips with. Indeed peter and to put that reference to the vietnam war and to come to. So there were d 58000. 00 People Killed in the vietnam w