Millions of people in latin america could go hungry this year because of cooping 90. And i mean weddings are the sports news as it is a 1500000000. 00 relief fund for World Football and each of its 211. 00 member nations will save a 1000000. 00 grant to kick start the game which is being here in the virus with half a 1000000000 h. Set aside for womens football. Too big to dominant an all too powerful thats whats being levelled at the Biggest Companies in the us right now in a hearing in washington d. C. U. S. President donald trump is also joined in the criticism threatening to quote bring fairness if congress doesnt take any action the chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple are all being quest. Into the hearing of accusations of anti competitive behavior together their companies are worth almost 5 trillion dollars theyre making the case that they are operating fairly and within the rooms but speak to him for issues following the hearings on capitol hill so out of this co
Worried. A lot of mixed messages here. Our economy is reopening. Summer vacation is here. And testing is becoming more widespread. But the numbers dont lie. The biggest singleday spike since the pandemic started. Take a look. Santa clara county reporting 122 new cases in a 24hour period. Hospitalizations are also spiking, and Health Officers are concerned. Nbc bay areas ian cull has the new details. Reporter tonight the number of new cases reported in the south bay was 122, the largest singleday jump since the pandemic began, an increase the county Health Officer feared but anticipated as she told supervisors in a phone cull today. Recently were seeing worrisome signs that this increase may be accelerating. Reporter dr. Sara cody says the rise is likely due to three things. More is reopening. More people are going outside. And theres an increase in testing. The county is trying to perform around 4,000 tests daily, helped by the sap testing site opening today from 1 00 to 7 00 threw fri
Because the threat posed by covid19 remain serious and widespread, we are proceeding in the best manner we can, remotely in todays case in order to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and the public. Todays conversation is essential to the oversight of how we should adapt and meet the challenge of increasingly assertive china especially in the backdrop of a Global Pandemic. I had hoped this would be a bipartisan discussion. Unfortunately, without reason or justification, republican colleagues have decided to absent themselves from the committee. I repeat my hope they will reconsider and join us for future unclassified public hearings and unclassified closed roundtables. We will continue to have them as they are being used to frame the oversight issues and requests and inform our members of the various threats facing the country. The American People expect congress will continue doing its job even in a pandemic and that means showing up at a minimum whether we want to or
That converted the selloff into a rally. Then came news that European Manufacturing is recovering rapidly from the virus lockdown. That helped the market. Look at it go. The dow is going to be up close to 300 points at the open. The s p, 31. The nasdaq, very solid gain, 70 points. Now, heres another reason for the rally. Big tech, it continues its run. You are looking at premarket prices for apple, microsoft, facebook and netflix, amongst others, all four hit record highs monday. The big tech surge dominates the market. Big tech is pushing higher. Investors this morning ignoring scenes like this. Chaos in d. C. Last night. Right outside the white house, demonstrators vandalized a church, they tried to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson and they also tried to establish their own seattlelike autonomous zone. This is happening in our Nations Capital right in the center of government. The president s had something to say about this. He obviously doesnt like it. But no word yet from joe
Of the outbreak of covert 19 which has included an absence of federal planning severe shortages of basic medical items such as test kits masks gallons and ventilators and a white house that peddles quack remedies and patent false odes has exposed the deep rot within American Society the United States now has the most confirmed cases of covert 19 in the world 15 times the number of cases reported in china but 2 ruling parties rushed to pass 3 relief bills but some 85 percent of the Financial Relief is for corporations this while some 40000000 americans have lost their jobs bringing the Unemployment Rate to about 20 percent of the workforce this while health care and that is inadequate and states face breadlines of up to 10000. 00 people. Over more than 2 centuries the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world love and hatred fear and hope envy and contempt all and anger the columnist Fintan Otoole wrote in the irish times. But there is one a motion