Broadcast. You know, just so you know. Now, a bit of background. President trumka hails from southwest pennsylvania and comes from a proud family of coal miners, working his way through college and then through law school. He started his union work with the United Mine Workers and became the unions president at the age of 33. And then, since 1989, he has been working on the aflcios executive council and was like a and was elected president in 2009. We are on the record. Please no live blogging or tweeting. No filing of any kind mother breakfast is underway. While the breakfast is underway. The embargo is lifted when the session ends. Here are the important instructions for how to do this on zoom. We are hoping to make this as much like in person event as possible. That is collegial, conversational and informative. We ask all of the reporters keep their video on an audio muted unless you are speaking. To ask a question during the q and a, please use the raised hand function on zoom to h
Watch live wednesday at 2 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3, online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, a hearing on the federal governments role in protecting workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Good morning. The subcommittee on work force protections will come to order. Welcome, everyone. I note that our quorum is present. I note for the subcommittee mr. Courtney of connecticut, mr. Levine of michigan, mr. Castro of texas, dr. Roe of tennessee, mr. Guthrie of kentucky, mr. Smucker of pennsylvania, mr. Banks of indiana, mr. Watkins of kansas, mr. Mercer of pennsylvania, mr. Johnson of south dakota, mr. Cellar of pennsylvania are all permitted to participate in todays hearing with the understanding that their questions will come only after all members of the subcommittee on work force protections on both sides of the aisle who are present either in person or via remote participation pursuant to House Resolution 965 and the accompanying regulations thereto hav
Relatively good news out of new york where hospitalizations continue to decline although there is a spike in deaths in the state. The governor is worried, outlining for folks the idea of a staggered reopening of the state. Only 45 minutes after new yorks mayor bill de blasio was saying look, it is looking like june. That the city will not be able to open up before june. That was not exactly worthy after fox news or fox business alert. No shocker there. A highranking mayor of the city was making it official all you needed to hear, wow, this whole comeback for the economy which cant get any robust way without new york kicking in is not likely to happen. So that is kind of been pulling and pushing at investors today. Jackie deangelis has more on all of the above. Hey, jackie. Reporter good afternoon. Good to see you, neil. Thats right, the market is paring the losses right now. Youre right stocks are kicking off the week in the red after a very strong week last week. Investors are cautiou
Enter the county. This is bulls and bears. I am david asman, a fourth unprecedented halt to trading today, after s p 500 plunged 7 that happen during the Task Force Briefing this afternoon, we go to Kristina Partsinevelos at New York Stock Exchange. We got word that they will close the trading floor, wonder how traders feel about that. Reporter a lot of people surprised, you find out via media, there was app emai an el that circulated after market closed had. , saying two people tested positive for covid19. Since monday we have screening here at New York Stock Exchange, they take your temperature, on your forehead, a floor trader that tested positive was caught on the front e entrance, they he not been on the floor this week. I can not confirm they were not on the floor last week, that is a big question mark. And supposedly someone else in the building tested positive, wire goin go were going all electronic as of monday, note tomorrow could not friday, but as of monday. The big questio
Member for his longtime friend ship and partnership in this issue. Also want to thank the members of the cdc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously, this is a very timely subject. This is our second hearing. A couple weeks ago we had the first hearing in congress on coronavirus, and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background as a physician, but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for Sacramento County who is in charge of the Public Health Delivery System there. And as a faculty member, my last Home Institution was the university of california davis, school of medicine. The reason why i give that background is last night it became personal for me because its hitting close to home. The first Novel Coronavirus case potentially person to person, nontransmission is in Sacramento County as we speak. That patient is housed at uc davis. I have been in communication with my former colleagues tha