The Olympic Games till next year saying the events in 2021 will represent victory over the coronavirus. And new yorks governor makes a plea for more medical supplies saying that the state is in danger of being overwhelmed. Below the death toll from the corona virus continues to rise in europe france has just reported more than a 1000 deaths from the illness and the number of fatalities in italy are now more than double that of china for 2 days it seemed as if italys outbreak was slowing but on tuesday that number of deaths spiked again rising by more than 740 and dashing hopes that the outbreak had reached a plateau meanwhile spain has recorded its highest daily number of deaths and confirmed cases and there are concerns that Frontline Health workers do not have the protective equipment to shield them from the virus and after weeks of speculation the tokyo 2020 a limb picks has now been postponed for a year japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay says hes determined to hold the games in ful
Ready for the listing later this week. First horizon ceo, brian jordan, with the pulse check on regional banks post prices and the state of lending as rates continue to rise. Off the opening highs, pretty good breath and among the dow, 30 components. We brace ourselves for a busy week with earnings from giants like adobe, microdata cpi incorporate events and southside conferences. The European Central bank meeting and we have an armed ipo and whats interesting, and we heard from our friend about he says the relationship is so important but we are seeing higher yields today and stocks are rising despite that. Usually they are scared off y that and maybe it has to do with the bank of japan. Overnight, some comments there about scrapping their yield curve control but is a relationship we are going to watch heading into an important inflation week. Breaking that link would be key. We are getting breaking news. We will go to steve. Hey, steve. Hey, carl, thanks. Dodging a bullet here for th
Flipped twice, and then it burst into flames. Amazingly the driver walked away without a scratch. He made it out before the flames spread to the cab. Kpix says some are accusing the mayor of pulling a bait and switch with the new soda tax. Reporter the mayors budget is out, and plenty of disfaction. Reporter it was a bait and switch from the mayors. Reporter the mayor has diverted 6 million of tax, on her facebook, its outray use to pull the bait and witch on oakland voters. The voters have been promised it would be used for health programs. We have such gross incompetence in the city. We dont want the voters to think we lie, and its important to remember its the mayors proposal, ultimately the Council Adopts the budget. Reporter the mayor wants to use the soda tax money for libraries and parks, and he supports it. It will be used to support children and family activities. Reporter the mayors budget is also addressing the goship fire by hiring 12 fire inspectors. Its gross mismanagemen
Done with but there lingering drops. Check it out on storm team 4 radar. A couple of patches of light rain. Another patch and all the roads are still wet. Already windy. Winds are gusting much across the area with temperatures in the mid 50s. What to expect today, wetness and afternoon sunshine and a gusty wind. Temperatures will hover in the upper 50 said to near 60 as you plan out your saturday. Easter sunday is looking better than this. Details on this. The intersection of gleeb road and old dominion road is closed following a threecar crash that killed 1 man in front of Mary Mountain university. A pick up driver rear ended a car on gleeb that was pushed into the intersection hitting a third car. No students were involved. Breaking news just in. The kenyan red cross said they found a survivor two days after a mill cant attack killed 148 people. Kenyans say their government is not taking or doing enough to prevent militant attacks. It happened on thursday at a college in North Easter
Ethics, all it takes is an idiot with a gun. Details about the kansas shooting suspect, a former grand dragon of the ku klux klan. And five days in detroit. Al jazeeras special series. Tonight, the changes coming to the motor city. We begin with the crisis in ukraine, and developments tonight on several fronts. President obama has spoken by phone again with russian president Vladimir Putin. The two leaders talked just days after a russian fighter jet flew very close to the uss donald cook in the black sea. The pentagon called the move provacative. Mike viqueira is here with more. What do we know about the phone call . Well, after the call ended, two diametrically opposed accounts. Its clear relations between president s putin and obama are at an alltime low. Frank and direct is how a senior official describes the call, john. And that means it was not a good call. Here . Part was the white house statement after the call. President obama spoke with president putin today, president obama