Welcome to the program where the current about to spend economies around europe the question of how the bloc will respond in the socalled form of debt among you nations has been mooted as a solution but thats exposed a rift between countries like italy and spain calling for the bonds and others like germany and the netherlands war against them it is one of the elements testing your. In a time of crisis. Hospitals in italy have faced a massive challenge to treat all their patients critically ill with cove in 1000 disease spains Prime Minister has called the pandemic europes biggest crisis since the 2nd world war with but help has come for some in the form of the German Air Force specially equipped planes have flown kovi patients from italy and france to hospitals in germany in all more than 200 sick people have been transferred from European Countries even in the time of corona germany sees itself as a good european. If. We want to and he will show solidarity weve proved that in the pas
It seems investors are jittery. Apple is lower but the faang index over last month is leading the rally, up more than 20 off the lows. Investors seem to be pulling back a little bit. They want the proof that is justified. David as you say, it is a big week for tech. At the same time, every week is a big week for oil. You are looking at that specifically because the contrast between commodities on the one hand and equities on the other. Abigail is interesting because oil is all over the map. We have been talking about the tale of two economies. Oil, the crude crash pointing to something less constructive. We keep hearing about the difference in contracts. When we take a look at the contracts, the june contract is down 6. 5 at 12 per barrel. The latest news on this is s p global exiting and rolling out from june into july. July is higher, down on the day but significantly higher. 18 a barrel. August and september are higher. Slightly lower on the day. When we look at august, it is 21 a b
Threatening to halt much needed checks to millions of americans. Desperate times. Some hospitals now forcing two patients to share a single ventilator this morning a look inside one of new yorks busiest hospitals where doctors are doing anything they can to fight the virus. Those cases plus danger zone, deaths in louisiana. The dramatic spike blamed on new orleanss most iconic celebration. People werent only catching beads here, they were catching the coronavirus. Just ahead, desperate plea for help from louisianas governor and the nfl star stepping up in a big way. Drew brees joins us live january 27th, 2020 from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. It is friday morning thank you for being with us. Im home again hoda, its been a lot week a lot of developments and that continues. A busy morning. Major developments on the coronavirus. The 85,000 cases in the u. S. , now t
American people. I urge my colleagues to join me in passing this critical legislation. Thank you, madam preside mr. Van hollen madam president. The presiding officer the senator from maryland is recognized. Mr. Van hollen thank you, madam president. As other senators have mentioned, we see our fellow americans uniting around the country to fight the coronavirus, to help those in need. Most of all, were grateful to the men and women in health care , the Health Care System on the front lines of this fight, the nurses, the doctors, all the other staff and hospitals and Community Health centers in clinics who are putting themselves and their own health at risk to help their fellow americans. And we in the senate, like our fellow americans, must come together to do the right thing for the country at this moment in time. To provide a surge of help to those on the front lines of the Coronavirus Fight and to help those who are suffering from the economic fallout. Workers and Small Businesses a
170 points to the upside. Look at the nasdaq, up almost 7 right now. Again, we are keeping a close eye the dow. It could be the best day for the Dow Jones Industrials since 2008. We are on the markets for you. Liz is coming up, plus we are talking about wall street. They are rallying. Now the crisis. This coronavirus still has a big part of the economy shut down and we are shut in right now. Medley pharmacy is promising same day delivery of prescription drugs to anybody who needs them. Its cofounder will be here in a fox business exclusive. As china slowly gets back to business, the Footwear Industry is hoping to get back to churning out new products. We will talk to one industry exec about how the pandemic is actually punishing business. A lot of business is punished but this one in particular. You will want to hear about this. Plus, with gyms closed, your favorite classes are canceled. We will talk to the ceo of class pass about how he is helping shuttered studios and you can actuall