Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
Held him until or is responding to the outbreak. The subcommittee hearing is one hour and a half. Tom todd inaudible Surgeon General of the United States air force mr. Cavity assistance secretary of defense world ealth Affairs Lieutenant ronald shea pace, director of the fence Health Agency and mr. Systems. Bill inaudible program executiveve health care and management systems. Ted today we have serious quests on how medical reforms have accounted for on the president s budget for fiscal 2021. Ng as b you will notice we will hae numbers coming inn and out. We are getting briefings on o covetedn bu 19 as we speak and other meetings going meon. And your full testimonies we will get started across thebudgt spectrum of military Health Care System for military readiness to benefit care, and manydeci cases budget justifican slacks that detail. For the subcommittee to make informed decisions. We hope the Witnesses Today can address the subcommittees questions and concerns at a particular inter
Today and we welcome them. Lieutenant dingell, rear admiral bruce gillingham, surgeon of the u. S. Navy. Lieutenant general dorothy hogg, Surgeon General of the United States air force. Mr. Mccaffrey, assistant secretary of defense for Health Affairs and lieutenant ronald j. Pace director of Health Agency and mr. Bill tinston Program Executive officer of Defense Health care and management systems. Today we have serious questions on how medical reforms have been accounted for in the president s budget for fiscal year 2021. We will have members coming in and out. We are getting briefings on covid19 as we speak and theres a few other meetings going on. Your full testimony is available and i know members had it like i did last night to read through it. Well get start. Across is the spectrum of the military health care to benefit care in many cases the budget justifications lacks adequate detail for the subcommittee to make informed decisions. We hope the Witnesses Today can address the sub
And as daria said the winds are blowing up to the south towards the bottom of your screen where homes are seeing these spot fires pop up. And those winds have been pretty press yesterday mile an hour well video for one 2nd if we can they started to widen out the shot you could really see the smoke and how is blowing. And that is something that youre john in Southern California wednesday have today are. Peak which was yesterday in the bay area. Yeah, what ive been looking at this morning is just widespread strong winds all across Southern California this morning and yesterday. Obviously we had some good wind gusts but they were really tempered off pretty quickly and the sides are mountain peaks. We didnt see anything very excessive now thats not the case in l a theres been some very strong winds even at some lower elevations and that has really spread this fire fast those embers having a chance to be carried into some of these neighborhoods. Well were going to continue to follow that be
The number of individuals who have reached out to us through the crisis in take form has approached thousand and we are continuing to monitor the situation closely and are going to say that work is ongoing. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of american citizens. Sandra that was moments ago as the State Department continues to give an Update Screen right on the number of Americans Still stuck in haiti at this hour and efforts to get them out. All of this is happening as we are now awaiting an update from the white house. This hour. Screen left on the worsening crisis in haiti. Hello and welcome everyone. Im sandra smith in new york, john, great to be back with you today. John a quick weekend and now back to another busy week of news. Im john roberts in washington and this is america reports. Despite the State Department telling fox news last week americans who were trapped in haiti were on their own, officials appeared to reverse course and chartered a flight to mi