Dr. Howard zuker. Cuomo onediate right, special volunteer assignment for the state. Working for her father. Very pleasant boss. A little said today. Because the boyfriend has left the premises. Returned to his home state. That is ok. The old expression, you love something let it go. And it will return to you. If it does not return, then it was never meant to be. Words to that effect. Numbers are headed in the right direction today. Hospitalizations are down. That change in hospitalizations is down. Are down again. Number of new cases down. Road down. A long decline, fast pike fast spike, slow decline. What has happened across the country. The number of deaths still painfully high. Not down. Up little bit. The overall direction is right but this is a painful, painful, tragic number of lives lost. And they are all in our thoughts and prayers. You look at the entire experience. Stabilizedare basically with where we were before we had this dramatic increase. Things we have learned through
[inaudible conversations] we are going to get started. Thank you. Good morning. The hearing will come to order. I thank everyone for joining us this morning and i want to especially thank my colleagues for joining us today for the House Committee on business hearing the response to covid19. We have had a hard stop act once again. We will move as quickly as we can but should we not be able to accommodate every member in person today, we will be accepting statements for the record until thursday, april 30. This important hearing i want to mention the chairwoman has been in our thoughts and prayers we wish you nothing but the best as you recover. Small businesses and entrepreneurs play a Critical Role within the american economy. Not only do they employ half of the nations workers but created two out of every three new jobs in the nation. You only need to take the poll from main street america. It is demonstrated Small Businesses and employees and the Response Congress created with a Payc
Drevna with rainn talks about the Sexual Assault allegation against joe biden and the broader issue of Sexual Violence. Coronavirus world death toll passes the quarter of a million mark, new unreleased reports say that the u. S. Death toll could double by june. This is washington journal, for tuesday, may 5, 2020. Start theng, we will program by asking you about your experience with covid19. Are you personally affected . Are the lines for calling in, if you have been personally infected, the lines are 202 7488000. For those of you with a Family Member, a loved one, a friend, 202 7488001. The line for 11 medical. Rofessionals, 202 7488002 you can always send us a text. That line, 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are taxing from. On twitter, we are cspanwj. We will look for your facebook posts as well, facebook. Com cspan. Report, u. S. Quietly fears. Ily toll will soon double they write host the fda has changed its stance on Antibody Testing, a room work this morning in poli
Dollaryen pushing a bit higher. You are also looking at the 10 year going no real place, and oil trying to stabilize as earnings continue to rollout. Honeywell the latest, suspending their fullyear guidance. Time for todays market moving news from new york and washington. Lets start with earnings. We are about halfway through the seasons. Oil giant chevron out this morning, cutting capex for the second time at about five weeks, warning profits will suffer. Bloombergs Annmarie Hordern has more. Annmarie thats right, that capex headline is really the one to take away from chevron. Clearly, they are doing what they can to save cash. The original plan before they cut earlier was for 20 billion. 14 billion is roughly where chevron has been spending over the past three years or so. Dividends has been a big topic for the oil company. Sayingre now they are they are doing everything they can to protect it. In just going to be out under 30 minutes. They said they are going to freeze it. One thin
Committee on Small Business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. Today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid19 response for the next package to Small Business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. I would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. I appreciate your cooperation so that we can protect ourselves and our hardworking staff. Three weeks ago when congress created the Paycheck Protection Program we did so with the goal of providing a lifeline, the program experienced Unprecedented Demand and proven successful, helping more than 1. 6 million entities to support employees. As a result we will be replenishing the Program Later today. While we are moving quickly to provide an additio