Response to the pandemic but also pointed out Hurricane Season is approaching and the agency needs to deal with that and other disasters. He participated in an auburn virtual discussion. Good morning. On behalf of the auburn president and board of trustees i would like to welcome you to a conversation with the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. The event is brought to you by the Mccrary Institute for the cyber and Critical Infrastructure security here at Auburn University. Weekse over the past few used the term unprecedented more than any other time in history. The copan 19 pandemic has brought about many changes in our country and affected virtually every aspect of daily lives. As an institution, we had Auburn University have tried to respond quickly with our researchers and scientists directing expertise andrd fighting the pandemic its impact on our health, our economy, and our way of life. The department of Homeland Security you are going to hear fro
Good afternoon. Welcome, everyone to this press conference, where i am joined by the chief medical officer and our chief scientific advisor. I am sorry not to be part of this trio for so long. I want to thank everybody who has been doing such a good job in my absence and i want to thank the nhs for getting me back here. In a few minutes, i will hand it over to patrick to update you on the epidemic, but first we will get to todays latest data. Many tests for coronavirus have 901,905 tests for coronavirus have carried out u. K. , including 611 tests yesterday. 171,253 people have tested positive, an increase of 6000 82 cases since yesterday. 15,043 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus, compared to 15,359 people yesterday. Sadly, of those tested positive for coronavirus, 26,711 have now died. That is an increase of 674 fatalities since yesterday. This figure includes deaths, not just in hospitals. Across this country, families every day are continuing to lose loved ones befor
Hours. Turning the page, lawmakers on capitol hill now openly discussing the potential to have some type of regulations lifted and some type of tax relief efforts in order to help consumers as they continue to deal with the negative effects of the markets in the coronavirus. Iy i suppose david suppose the one thing we know is going to be in it is some type of payroll tax relief. Does he have support from what he needs on the hill . Kevin he wont have the support of all the democrats, but he likely will have the support he needs to get it over the finish line. There was a . 3 billion worth of coronavirus funding that advanced out of their there was 8. 3 billion worth of coronavirus funding that advanced out of there in a nonpartisan way. Andd now we turn to london european close anchor guy johnson, where his report on italy is that the entire country is in lockdown. What does that even mean . Guy i think the italians are trying to figure that out as they go along, to be honest. The exte
Manus a warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. The world is trying to reprice risk. The sentiment over the past three days has been clearly about either we are fools to reprice to the downside in the oil market or it is an opportunity, a resplendent opportunity, to reprice risk. Amri is chasing the Saudi Oil Minister as we speak. Spoke to a representative from the iea and their comments were interesting in terms of the downward pressure on the oil market. President trump said the world is watching. We are watching that geopolitics but as we wake up this monday morning, there is a little bit of risk coming back on the table. Thes more from one of Energy Delegates from the u. S. Later on. We are busting a few moves. The yuan strengthening. We can debate that with our guest. We busted through the 6. 9 levels. Goldman says you have gone through the trough in growth. You will see a stronger performance met year. We lean into yuan strength. This is about recalibrating risk. Oil had a cra
Developing space projects. Please welcome Christian Zur of the Space Industry Council, us chamber of commerce. Good morning and thank you to the chamber of commerce, launching the space economy. Our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are team effort and we appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrup, rocket lab, one web, hawkeye 360, we have been busy in the past year from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace to small satellite encryption and the orbit assurance, commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. We convened a roundtable for the coast guard regarding the need for greater use of space surveillance in the arctic waterways. And Space Industry Council has an effort for policy pursuits. Fortunately we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo. And it sums up the chambers approach to the entire sector for which i will quote. Harnessing the potential of space will be no easy feat. It took