Nascar becomes the first sport to return without fans in the stands. How it could drive the conversation on bringing sports back to america. Gentlemen, start your engines, but first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Theres a very real Health Consequence to these shutdowns that must be balanced against, as we try to reopen this economy and move forward. Many americans out and about for the first time in months as more states ease restrictions. I think were doing pretty well, being precautious. People will have to be fully confident and that may have to await the arrival of a vaccine. This pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. The war of words is escalating between President Trump and former president barack obama. He was an incompetent president. Grossly incompetent. North carolina bracing for the first named storm of 2020. Tropical storm arthur. This is an early start to the hurricane s
For 72 hours before anybody else can try it on. Were there any items you guys decided probably need to put this on hold or were not selling this . We started a fewonths ahead of us in this. There hasnt been any specific merchandise thats been problematic. I think mostly through services, we think in our Beauty Department we do a lot of make overs. Youre telling the customer we cant do that right now. We do say lot of tayloring. Reporter the retail brought in nearly 4 trillion last year employing roughly 52 million americans. Matt shea is president and c. E. O. Of the National Retail federation. The Group Estimates 7 million retail jobs could be lost due to the pandemic. As the Retail Industry goes, so goes the economy. And we need those businesses, large and small, to support those communities and to deliver products and services. But also to create Employment Opportunities for those millions of americans who will be impacted if we dont. Reporter the Retail Industry supports more than
Jobless claims, though, 4. 4 million, bringing the total to 26 million over the past five weeks. Oil bounces, and the european pmis remain historically low 16 in france no, 10 in france 16 in germany. Jim, though, your tone this morning is relatively hopeful. Look, i am a creature of who reports and what they say. And i can literally i find it hard to remember as Many Companies as saying good things, even as obviously were in nidest of a pandemic, and i dont think theyre all clockeyed optimists. These are large cap companies. These are not the companies that the government is trying to protect. These are arguably the winners the companies that are going to get stronger i listened to lee, and Lee Cooperman was talking about what its going to look like on the other side i look at my desk. I have reports everywhere here these are all companies that are going to come through with fewer competitors. And that may be bad for the u. S. Consumer, but its good for the stock market david, would y
Reporter michigans governor Business Fund that ran out last is concerned protesters may be week and it looks like that deal putting others at risk. Without those important may land on the president s desk protections, it means they might have gone back to these parts of by wednesday. Our state and perhaps brought the senate could act as early as covid19 along with them. Today one would be set aside reporter Vice President pence has a Conference Call with the nations governors today. Now we have some new numbers for you from our nbc news wall street journal poll showing just over half the country, 58 these restrictions. Just under a third, 32 , do think its time to move on and loosen things up. But those numbers are differing by political party, less among republican voters, about 40 of them are concerned. Independent voters a little more. 50 . Democrats the highest with 80 of them concerned that easing the stayathome orders could lead to a second wave of virus. Marcus . I just want to
Boston are already under fire for downplaying the Coronavirus Crisis and protests inside a prison in argentinas capital as inmates demand better protection from the virus. Thank you very much for joining as us President Donald Trump has a broccoli ended his daily Coronavirus Briefing as the white house attempts to contain the fallout from his earlier comments on how to treat the disease on various say trump raised the possibility of injecting disinfectant into patients and doctors and Government Agencies rushed out warnings against consumers consuming disinfectants like bleach or trout now claims he was being sarcastic also in jordan reports from washington. Fridays White House Briefing on the covert 19 pandemic started like any other opening remarks from president obama will trump today i signed the Paycheck Protection Program and health care and has been act providing 320000000000 dollars to keep American Workers on the pharaoh trial then stood aside to allow updates from members of