That is pretty stupid. Host thank you for the call. Stephen hammond has this on our Facebook Page we need to practice social gov. Cuomo good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. I want to thank our hosts very much, northwell. Ishael dowling to my left head of northwell. They have done an extraordinary job all through this situation. They have an extraordinary leader in Michael Dowling. Michael dowling ran health care for the state of new york, social services for the state of new york. He worked with my father, came for one year, wound up staying with my father for 12 years in state service. He is one of the really beautiful and brilliant leaders in this state and it is a pleasure to be with him. I want to say to all the people of northwell who have done extraordinary jobs, thank you so much and thank you for having us today for for my to my right is Melissa Derosa, secretary to the governor. To her right is what is your name . Cuomo, who is part of my team and it is a
Gov. Cuomo good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. I want to thank our hosts very much, northwell. Michael dowling to my left is head of northwell. They have done an extraordinary job all through this situation. They have an extraordinary leader in michael dowling. Michael dowling ran health care for the state of new york, social services for the state of new york. He worked with my father, came for one year, wound up staying with my father for 12 years in state service. So, he is one of the really beautiful and brilliant leaders in this state and it is a pleasure to be with him. And i want to say to all the people of northwell who have done extraordinary jobs, thank you so, so much and thank you for having us today. To my right is melissa derosa, she is the secretary to the governor. To her right is what is your name again . Mariah kennedy cuomo, who is part of my team, and it is a pleasure to have her with me today. I will be mentioning more about that in a second.
Wilford frost in this final hour of trade markets rallying again today, stocks at their highs of the day around 3 , although we did see yesterday anything can happen in the final minutes or hour of trade. It can evaporate at a moments notice 59 minutes left. Driving the action this hour, encouraging numbers from the u. S. As the government lowers its projection model for the devastation from coronavirus and after fauci says the government is planning ways to, quote, ease back to normal fed minutes out from the last meeting showing the u. S. Central bank intends to keep rates near zero until the economy has weathered the Coronavirus Impact and senator Bernie Sanders suspending his president ial campaign, removing a mesh huasuf uncertainty before novembers election coming up on todays show, well speak with mark cuban. His read on how Small Business is faring and this i take on the market volatility ahead. And the ceo of etsy will join us as many etsy sellers pivot to homemade facemasks w
Rafael espinal from Freelancers Union talks about the impact of the pandemic on the selfemployed. Washington journal is next. Good morning, this is washington journal, for april 2. We want to hear from you about your level of confidence in the u. S. Health versus to treat those affected by coronavirus. What you are seeing and experiencing in your community and we especially want to hear from you if you are a Health Care Worker in the field and you want to give your perspective on the u. S. Health care system possibility to treat coronavirus. In the easternu and central time zones, give us a call at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain pacific time zones, its 202 7488001. If you are a medical professional, you can call in at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Tweet at cspan wj or post on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. On latest numbers coronavirus are available at the Johns Hopkins website. When it comes to the u. S. , as far as the numbers they have coming in wit
Really tough. California has by far sustained the largest job lead out. We had over 925,000 initial new claims filed the week of april 4, added to the over 1 million claims. Filed the previous week, we now have over 2 million new claims just filed within two weeks. The National State and claimant rates are now shirley well over what they were during the worst of the Great Recession and many more job losses are coming. Any federal aid or paycheck protection plans including the more than 2 trillion announced by the Federal Reserve today is just to keep the economy from collapsing. But he says we should not, and cannot wait for the virus to be totally conquered. We need now, to start looking at a plan in california, start opening up the economy and seeing what it will look like. In all likelihood reopening would involve a gradually phasedin combination of regular testing, workplace social distancing, and some residual working at home for some workers. A. Of months, perhaps even a longer,