Feeling lonely around a lot of people isnt a contradiction in terms. Of his been living in hamburg for 6 months hes a biologist who moved here for work now all he needs is a new circle of friends. To come and i come from a small town with 20000 residents a big city has lots of people but you can feel lost. Or you see other people since you dont know them you still feel lonely. Maybe even lonelier because there are so many people. Fascinated ive never been the kind of guy to go into a bar and chat to people. Maybe as a student in a student pub but otherwise ive never done that its just not my thing. This family lives far away in southern germany christiane lived 200 before taking the job and homework leaving his University Friends behind. Openly admitting youre lonely is still a social taboo yet one in every 10 people are thought to be affected by it with grave consequences. Studies show that chronic loneliness can make people ill physically as well as mentally. Yet doctors and scientis
Very important moment. Its right to pause and reflect and thank each and every one of are suffered. The need to do everything in our power to make sure that their immediate needs are attended to and that we move aggressively but thoughtfully and tray teenically with a health first mindset to reopening the economy in the peril of Economic Conditions. I want to begin not only to acknowledge those workers but to just remind you a bit about what weve been doing as both essential workers and those that have been displaced, we talked yesterday about a new portal for child care but again, you cant talk about the work force, those needs of essential workers, and those that are searching for Job Opportunities displaced talking about the need and caring for their children. Some 20,000 vouchers have been set aside in our efforts to address the child care needs, thousands and thousands of critical front line employees. Over 28,000 slots that are available today and if you go to that site covid19.
Breaking news. U. S. Stock market futures are limit down even as the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stave off recession in the face of a global coronavirus threat. Life in america changing rapidly as governments at every level take drastic and unprecedented steps to try to slow the spread of the pandemic. Major retailers including nike and apple, shutting their doors for weeks. Well talk about the fallout for the u. S. Economy it is monday, march 16, 2020 squawk box begins right now. Good morning im becky quick at cnbc headquarters joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin u. S. Equity futures hitting limit down after dropping 5 that means they cant trade any lower this morning those are the curbs set up by the exchanges. You will continue to watch whats happening with the etfs, however, because they are not held to the same restrictions. Can you see the dow etf is down by 9 . The s p etf down by almost 9 . That gives you a better idea of where the major averages would open if we were open h
Quarter. The Second Quarter is probably going to be weak. In fact, in the view of many, output declining output lower in the Second Quarter than in the First Quarter. After that, its very hard to say how big the effects will be or how long they will last thats going to depend, of course, on how widely the virus spreads, which is something that is highly uncertain and i would say in fact unknowable jim, so its just you and me today. Lets start broad. Get your thoughts on the last 72 hours. What are you thinking right now . I think that the one thing i was very worried about in the 2007 and the 2009 issue, could i take out 50,000 from Jpmorgan Bank because i was concerned. And i took it out. I took money out of a lot of Different Bank accounts. This time im not. What was the purpose of last night . Theres a lot of things. The purpose of last night was to make sure you didnt take money out of the bank because you didnt trust the system. You dont have to bury it. That was important now the
Fog which makes it hard to see so be extra careful in how want to lingering so the fog is going to be especially dance all through your morning commute. Were going to see some gray skies even into the afternoon, but you shouldnt see the visibility impact like we are. After the mirroring morning commute is over this is the Golden Gate Bridge, nothing you can see much of it except for the very top 2 lights and the rest is just shrouded in that fog this morni which is so dance visibility is now below a mile in San Francisco napa Oakland Hayward Mountain View and san jose. Many other areas also oking a problematic visibility, especially along the coastline and right along the bay, so you do want to take it slower so make your way into the afternoon. This is just after noon right here you do see that visibility has improved the exception being coastal areas but we are going to still be seeing some low lying cloud cover hanging out across most of the bay area as of that point skies, nice and