Smoke coming from behind the motorcycle riders love the open road. Trees in the home right there. Were going to keep an eye on and geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, this, bring important updates on air as well as online and free so to help even more, nbc bay area app. Geico is giving new and current customers i want to say a good morning to a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies you. Thanks for joining us for midday newscast. With the geico giveback. Im marcus washington. As that virus may be increasing in power, so are Many Americans and because were committed for the long haul, and the economy. The credit lasts your full policy term. The bureau of labor statistics im going to tell you about the geico giveback. Jsx. Said this morning 4. 8 million helping riders focus on the road ahead. This is a jet company thats the more americans went to work last perfect alternative to crowded airports we go to. Then how to ramp up the month. Lets bring in scott m
Have the numbers as soon as they hit the tape and show you the impact. Coronavirus keeping the c task force going indefinitely focusing on Vaccine Development and reopening the economy. Meanwhile some lawmakers looking to expand the Paycheck Protection Program and add more stimulus but others raising concerns about growing debt and deficit. Markets this morning pointing to higher opening. Take a look at futures, indicating market wills open higher in triple digits, dow up 3020 points, s p is up 41 and nasdaq higher by 138, one and a third percent, this after concerns of new china relations to china. Scope memo is out. Outlining authority to former special counsel Robert Mueller, it reveals probe went beyond and completely openended. The fallout coming out. People are working out and playing video games, pelaton surging 66 , the company boosting Sales Outlook and the stock flexing muscle as well. Stock up 17 in premarket. Fortnite becoming one of the most Popular Video games ever surpas
Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Kristin englund from the Cleveland Clinic and later, author Rick Atkinson joins us to iscuss the 75th anniversary of ve day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] host u. S. Workers continue to lose their jobs and file for Unemployment Benefits at a record rate. And in todays report on the overall jobs number for the month of april could be the worst since the great depression. It is friday, may 8, 2020. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend this first hour asking you how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Heres how to joins us. For those of you in the east and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain pacific time zones, thats 2027488001. You can also send us a text. That line, 2027488003. Include your name, where youre texting from. On twitter, were at twitter.
Richmond toward the bay bridge and allow i would say 15 minutes extra right now and that is just if things stay the same. Kari, that is a look at the east shore freeway and the south bay and the peninsula looking good now. Yesterday this was all covered with fog and now visibility is clear. So were seeing a better drive this morning with temperatures starting out in the mid to upper 40s. Well lead into a nice day and a lot of sunshine once again as you head out of the door. Make sure you have the sunglasses. Well talk about what is ahe ahead what is ahead for the rest of the day. We have good news for coronavirus evacuees at Travis Air Force base. Many of the 170 people will soon be going home. After two weeks in quarantine at travis and more isolation overseas. Now as por the latest numbers, more than 1800 people have died, more mainly in china due to the coronavirus. 73,000 people have been infected worldwide. And there is now at least 29 confirmed cases in the United States after 14
Squad, 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren vocalizing her support for the pop singers battle with former record label, swift has been cleared to perform older music at the American Music awards, thats this sunday but warren has used the bad blood to slam all private equity firms, lets go straight to grady who has been all over the story for us, grady. Hey, david, you took all my taylor swift song intros there. It was sold earlier this year the Carlisle Group, senator Elizabeth Warren apparently is with swift chiming in on this, taylor swifts work is being threatened by privateequity firm, they are costing jobs and crushing entire industries and says its time to rein them in. Alexandria ocasiocortez chiming in as well, predatory practices actively hurt millions of americans, leverage buyouts have destroyed the lives of retail workers across the country scrapping 1 plus million jobs, in this case the private equity firm involved the Carlisle Group isnt commenting but worth noting the data from