President backtracked and said a quarantine will not be necessary. That comes as the states raise to continue to keep up with a surge of covid19 patients. Our alex hogan has more from york. Reporter President Trump watched as the uss comfort pulled out of the port in virginia. That ship is loaded with medical supplies and is headed for the epicenter of the coronavirus in the United States. The United States is leading the world with the highest cases of coronavirus cases, surpassing italy and Mainland China where the outbreak was first reported. Since the beginning of the epidemic, new york, california, and washington have captured the countries tension with spikes and the virus. There are a growing new number of hotspots emerging from coastto coast, including detroit, chicago, and new orleans. Every day we have a dramatic uptake in a number of cases. Despite the surging number of cases, the u. S. Is with a severe shortage of ventilators and equipment. This is the alternative if you do
Has converted operations to refurbish old ventilators. Thank you for joining us today. Im andre senior. Good evening. Im cristina rendon. President trump is also working to curb the spread of the coronavirus on the east coast. Earlier today, the president said he was considering a quarantine of new york, new jersey and connecticut, the 3 states hit hardest by the coronavirus. By later this evening, the president backtracked and said acorns he was not necessary instead implemented a strong travel advisory. This is the number of cases in the United States hits 124,000. In california, now 5000 cases and 120 deaths and 5 people have died bringing the total number of deaths to 25. Governor gavin newsom toward blue manager this morning and said the company is already scaling up operations to manufacture ventilators for severe covid19 patients. Tran wants Leigh Martinez has more on the growing need in california for more of the life saving devices. Reporter governor gavin newsom says the stat
And rosemary in just a moment, but first overnight the bay area saw a slight jump in coronavirus cases adding 136 more cases totaling now more than 1600. Santa clara county has seen the biggest rise in cases to 591 just yesterday the county announced five more deaths along with 17 new cases. And map here shows the breakdown county by county. Other areas seeing a double digit increase. Our San Francisco, alameda, and Contra Costa County could face a shortage of ventilators if the virus epidemic continues to grow. The state already had 4200 devices that helped seriously ill paces patients. More than 1000 of the ones on hand to not work. Bloom energy if one of about 350 Companies Offering the state help with medical equipment and supplies. The ceo says until this week the staff did not know how they work, but everyone is gearing up to refurbish those old ventilators. Manufacturing is in our dna, electrical, chemical, floor devices, we understand the mall. How difficult can it be . Company
Income we will be joined by mohammad al aryan and minor the Dow Jones Industrial average right now is off by 1 . A loss of 280. The s p down by three quarts of one ten year note yield it is up a slight amount right now. But it was as low as 1. 02. We are keeping an eye on all of that steve as we try to make sense of what happened today and the 50 basis point cut, the largest since 08. You say it was meant to be a surprised but you werent . I dont think if you were paying you should be surprised lets look at the ill at that of the tape friday, unscheduled announcement by the chairman where he said he would use all the available tools and the fed would act as appropriate. That was one yesterday, comments from perota, from la guardia are the ecb, comments from the imf and the world bank along the same lines. We learned about the g7 meeting. This is exactly what you would expect if you went back and look at how these things work, scott there was a complaint earlier this morning in one of t
Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does