High profile dismissal President Donald Trump announces hes fired defense secretary marc esper on twitter. Thousands leave the regional capital in nagornokarabakh as fighting between azerbaijan and armenia intensifies. Terms in doha with only sports news 27 team asas champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament after testing positive for corona virus. American drug maker pfizer has released interim results show its vaccine is effective against the corona virus the news has been welcomed by scientists and World Leaders and triggered a surge on Global Markets the vaccine developed by pfizer and german start up by on tech was found to be more than 90 percent effective in preventing covert 19 among study participants no serious safety concerns were observed among the more than 43000 Party Percent across the globe a study showed just 94 confirmed cases of kevin 19 of the news has been called a great day for science and humanity and while the World Health Organization says t
A simulcast on an important friday. So many days to the election, 25. Thrilled you are with us on radio, on television across this nation and around the world. I want to look at the markets as we frame up Michael Shaoul to join us in moments. Up 15 in a bid to the market. 3 below record highs. With that, some nice confirmations of good global news. Look at renminbi. Jonathan up on the week by about 3 on the s p 500. On ther chinese currency return from the holiday. The narrative has shifted aggressively, and in a short amount of time, from fears about a contested election to the potential of a blue wave. What we discussed in the previous hour is something we need to discuss in the next hour. How vulnerable is that newmarket market narrative shifting things around . Jonathan the Political Landscape here is most interesting. The president so far quiet on twitter. Hugely active yesterday across media. I guess an 8 00 p. M. Appearance tonight. You wonder what the president would be doing b
14. 7 Unemployment Rate for the month of april is the highest since the great depression. A confederate, the unappointed rate was at record lows. Three and have presented the coronavirus pandemic, stayat home orders, and the shuttering of businesses in just about every industry changed all that. Is fully expected, no surprise. Everybody knows that. Somebody said look at this. Well, even the democrats arent blaming me for that. We can have a fantastic next year, we will have a record or almost record next year. We are going to have a transition in the third quarter. Reporter one of the president s top economic advisers was lust optimistic. It looks like about three quarters of the job loss was from temporary labs. That doesnt lessen the hardship, by the way. It does suggest things like the payroll protection program, and the Unemployment Insurance has had some cushioning effect. Reporter National Economic Council Director larry kudlow says there are no formal negotiations going on right
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
My name is Leslie Leslie kavasch im here to introduce our guest, cyde ford, a former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from the university of western states in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and the era pissed. Hes also the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clyde is the recipient of the richard ray award, in africanamerican literature. He has been a guest on the oprah show, in pr, radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here to speak about his latest book, think black a memoir of sacrifice, which was just released, shortlisted for the book prize in social justice. Please join me in welcoming to the kendall planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry, cyde ford. [applause] thank you all for being here, i cant tell you how special it is to be here. I was just reliving my First Experience over 40 years ago up at Washington Park and i was a volunteer. I was working with a group, i had come from ibm to go to chiropractic college.