2027488001. And if youre a medical professional, call 2027488002. Good friday evening. Well begin, as we always do, was with the numbers. Curment of johns hob kinls university. 2. 2 million cases across the globe and more than 153,000 depths as a result of covid19. In the United States, 692,000 confirmed cases and nearly 7,000 deaths in the u. S. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen, the former president of planned parenthood the city commissioner from baltimore. Shes the author of a book and the visiting professor of Health Policy and management at George Washington university. Dr. Wen, thank you for being with us on cspan. Guest of course. Happen happy to join you and thank you for the invitation. Host there are reporters that in the city youre in, in philadelphia, in chicago and washington, d. C. , we have not reached the peak yet. What does that tell snull guest two things. One, when we hear we have yet to reach the peak, it definitely brings a level of fear because we dont k
As yet another central bank initiates an emergency rate cut in the face of a Global Economic slow down. Its wednesday, march 11, 2020 and Worldwide Exchange beginning right now. Good morning and welcome im Courtney Reagan in this morning for Brian Sullivan with me this hour aaron gibbs. Were going to kick off this morning with a wednesday whips off for wall street. Stock futures look to erase the majority of yesterdays gains. Right now we are indicated for a lower in the Dow Jones Industrial average, futures pointing to lower open of 482 points, s p500 down by 58 and nasdaq off by 161. Lets check out the action in the bond market. This of course has been something that weve really been watching before we go there, were going to watch the dow futures for you again, down 1. 4 in the early going. In the bond market, the yield on the ten year is above 0. 7 , 0. 741 look at the 30 year, above 1, but still 1. 2 those are levels we havent seen in so, so long all of this comes after the dow sa
Drastic steps and yet as infections wrong. With. The Drug Administration is promising up to a trillion dollars to help the u. S. Economy whether the coronavirus pandemic the proposal includes giving money to individual citizens the number of u. S. Cases of the virus has risen to nearly 6000 the death toll has reached 100 White House Correspondent kelly hall has the latest. As ordinary americans cope with the Economic Impacts of coronavirus the white house announced it was pushing congress to make a media Cash Payments to struggling americans what weve heard from hardworking americans Many Companies have now shut down whether its bars or restaurants american state cash now and the president wants to get cash now and i mean now in the next few Weeks Congress has already put forward a bill to provide sickly as well as Food Assistance to children and the elderly it still needs to pass the Republican Controlled Senate before us President Donald Trump can sign it into law. But the new propos
Forces state media reports the government has now seen control of most of the rebel held province of aleppo and. Increasingly tight restrictions in chinas hu bay province seem to be having a positive effect on the spread of the coronavirus all 60000000 people have been ordered to stay home private cars have been banned and businesses closed and for the 3rd straight day doctors there say there has been a drop in the number of new cases 142 deaths reported on sunday along with 2000 more infections most are in who bay province where the outbreak was 1st reported in december 1669 people have died from the virus or but 5 in Mainland China the latest Death Outside the mainland. I was in taiwan a taxi driver who had not traveled abroad recently and in japan hundreds of american passengers that were on board a quarantined cruise ship have now left the diamond princess be flown back to the u. S. And face another 2 weeks in isolation. And i this is about to step into the big wide world so i have
Prompting people to imagine a very different reality in the future. Hello there a flight evacuating u. S. Citizens who were stuck on that cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board has now left japan but those who are infected have been left behind its the diamond princess ship thats been quarantined in the port of yokohama on sunday 70 more cases were confirmed on board bringing the total number up to 355. 00 among them 40 u. S. Citizens they will be treated in japanese hospitals. People who have symptoms will not be able to get on the evacuation plane others are going to be evacuated starting imminently to air force bases in the United States if people on the plane start to develop symptoms theyll be segregated within the plane so theres a very firm plan with this 747. 00 that is going to take these passengers now who have been there lets look at Mainland China of course where the government is times and its quarantine rules for beijing 100 more deaths just reported in p