We have with this, the who director and also doctor mike ryan executive director and doctor maria. The doctor will begin with an update and then when finished, i will open the meeting to questions. If you can please ask your questions. If you can find a phone, please. I will apologize for now to all of those who missed out. We have more than 260 people in the line already. They are connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to an hour. So are speakers, who are all running responses they can get to many other demands of the time. I will now in the summer to doctor printed. Thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. And good evening where are you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll not just on health but on so many parts of life. For making this sacrifice to protect the health of others we look forward to next years olympics which we hope will be an even bigger and better celebration of our shared humanity. And look forward to join. We have overcom
Top of strong rally yesterday. The dow industrials having biggest oneday point gain ever, 11 and a third percent. S p up 9 , 209 points higher yesterday. President trump says he wants the country opened up and raring to go by easter. The white house quarantine for those People Living new york which has more than half of all cases in the United States right now. The private sector stepping up against its fight. 3m chairman and ceo with teaming up with ford and General Electric to make respirators and ventilators. India on lockdown. 1. 3 billion people ordered to stay home. Mornings with maria live right now. We want to check Global Markets this morning. In Europe Senate agreement of stimulus plan leading to green across the board. Check up the markets, s p up and overnight similar story, finishing strong, take a look at the asian markets. Best performer in japan, kospi in korea up almost 6 . Oil prices this morning on upswing extending gains a third section in a row. Twentyeight cents a
With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific residence, 2027488001. In the line we have set aside for medical professionals. Your line, 2027488002. We would love to hear your experience. You can text us a message. That is 2027488003. We would love to hear where you are texting from, your name as well. Andwitter we are cspanwj post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. There was a briefing yesterday with the Cor
Abdullah abdullah has held a separate severability to inaugurate himself. Welcome to the program the spread and fear of coronaviruses starting to have a major Global Economic impact on top of the growing human cost u. S. Stocks plummeted in the opening minutes in new york even forcing a temporary halt in trading President Trump is due to meet with his advisors in the coming hours now the stock market plunge was also influenced by Oil Prices Dropping around 30 percent on monday the biggest fall in almost 3 decades and thats a bit of a price war between saudi arabia and russia moscow refused to join the plan by major Oil Producing nations aimed at cutting up ports and maintaining prices stock markets across asia have continued to fall continuing the sell off that we have nearly 2 weeks. Ago billions of dollars have been wiped off the european markets just hours after opening with the u. K. s footsie 100. 00 index losing almost 9 percent of its value while questions lubys been following e
Couple of 40s. Santa rosa has ended their dry stretch at the airport. It looks like it will hold together. Lets hope it does give us some light rain. We can get through this probably after about 37, 38 days. So look for clouds, temperatures coming down. Upper 50s and low 60s on the temperatures after a couple of days of upper 70s and the 80s. Sal is here now. Still friday light or something new . The benicia bridge is bucking the trend, southbound 680 slow across to concord almost because of a crash thats been there for a while. And at first, it didnt cause a big backup because of light volume. But its there and traffic is slow. Now things are waking upon the commute. Highway 4 is slow in bay point to concord. Bay bridge has developed a backup. There is a backup of about 10 to 15 minutes. 880, though, still looks good in oakland. 7 01. Back to the desk. New this morning, one man is arrested after leading the chp on a highspeed freeway chase in the east bay. The cameras were rolling ove