100 26,000 people have been tested for covid19 across the state of california, but he says that number is too low. Here in california there are nearly 14,000 cases and 322 people have died. The governor also announcing today the 2300 people are currently hospitalized and 1000 are in icu beds. That is 18. 9 increase from yesterday. 12,000 people tested positive for covid19 today, a 12. 4 increase from yesterday. The governor says the state is distributed more than 41 million n95 masks to healthcare workers. He governor has launche new task force to help speed up coronavirus testing here in our state. He hopes and says the goal is to increase testing fivefold by the end of the month. How the governor plans to make this work. Reporter one of the ways this is going to be done is by making more test kits available as well as testing sites. As of today, california has tested 126,700 people. The governor says that number is far too low and he has promised to do better. I am not going to expla
Nationally . Nightline starts right now with byron pitts. The deadly wave that is covid19 is steadily growing bigger every day. Consider this. One month ago today only two people in the u. S. Had died from the virus. Tonight the death toll is more than 5100. Men, women and children. More and more, states across the country are now hiding the danger signs, issuing stay at home restrictions. But tonight we take you inside the battle brewing between faith, the federal government and covid19. People are the church, not the building. Reporter its a warm spring evening in louisiana, and parishioners are gathering to worship at Life Tabernacle church outside baton rouge. The pastor welcomes his congregants. We are the good samaritans. The good, faithful members of this church. Reporter but in recent days he has come under fire by Holding Services. We continue to worship and practice our First Amendment rights. Reporter this past sunday, pastor spell says more than 1200 people gathered at his
The week. Opec and its allies will meet thursday to discuss a new plan. The virus has farreaching implications for businesses. A new study says global trade may be cut by one third, more than what was seen during the financial crisis. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets ended in the u. S. We are seeing u. S. Stocks again pushing into bullish territory after failing to do so in the last session. U. S. Stocks now gaining more than 20 over the march 23 low. Every sector in the s p 500 was in the gleam green, led higher by Energy Stocks. Dow gained more than 3 . U. S. Futures unchanged. Nasdaq gained 2. 6 in the regular session. Take a look at what oil is doing, because we saw it rebound from the weakest level since the start of the month. It spiked a few minutes before the close, after the opec plus meeting will discuss and output cut of 10 Million Barrels per day. At the moment continuing to add to the gains, up 4. 6 . Just breaking on the bloomberg, a saudi arab
We had three fatalities so far. Reporter there were calls on the World Health Organization for limb change there i wonder what your thoughts are on that . Senator martha mcsally, for example, called for dr. Tedros to resign. Look, this not the time to be doing that kind of change. There will be a lot of time to look back to see how the World Health Organization performed. Meantime what our task is to preserve and protect the american taxpayers, make sure our resources dont go to places that wont deliver on behalf of the American People and the world and President Trump and i are determined to do that. Okay. Follow up . Reporter quick follow up he is a busy man. Reporter china has responsibility to get correct figures. How would you broadly characterize cooperation with china right now. Lots of places weve been cooperating, right . Theyre providing us assistance where we need it. There are places on the ground where we do have access to the data we need. Were deeply appreciative of that
The likes of which they have not seen since 1933, in the midst of a downturn for the month, the likes of which we have not seen since 2008 here we find ourselves this morning looking at a market that will open lower. Your thoughts . You go up 19. 9 in the s p, you can have two thoughts. One is that was the greatest bull market ever the other is, boy, is this market dysfunctional were not moving the way we should theres very little volume yesterday the machines took the dow up 500 points in the last 20 minutes. Im keying on oil. I think oil is something that the algorithms are keying in i wish there wasnt algorithmic trading, but its here to stay the quants are in charge you know, lets bring back the smith corona typewriter. The quants are in charge, they took it up and now theyll cashier the market and cash it in lets come back to oil for a second it does get lost sometimes in all of the volatility were seeing and our focus on the economic crisis, on the Health Crisis, on the equity ma