He was a big guy, definitely it gentle giant. Reporter Terry Blanchard was known for his big heart. His daughter said me tells me his love extended to the many at risk children he mentored, serving on the board of the east Oakland Youth Development center for 10 years. The last two, as president. He had an amazing sense of humor. He made everybody laugh. Reporter in early march blanchard and his wife deborah, both 56, contracted covid19. Possibly, their daughter says, friend falling on hard times and was staying with them. It was really hard on our family because we couldnt check on them. We can only call. Reporter sydney says her mother recovered, her father didnt have a fever at first, but eventually developed one, was hospitalized and placed on a ventilatorsunday. My dad wasnt supposed to die. He never expected to die. This is not anything we wouldve imagined. Reporter now family and friends are taking solace in remembering his impact on the east Oakland Youth Development center. Th
Deaths from the virus slow the Prime Minister warns its still too soon to ease lock down measures and after months of protests a plan to tackle lebanons financial woes but will it be enough to pull the country out of its economic spiral. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter economies around the world another 3800000 people are filed for unemployment in the u. S. This past week this means an unprecedented 30000000 americans have now sought on Employment Benefits in just 6 weeks and the numbers are still rising the jobless rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between the summer and february but in march it jumped to a 2 and a half year high to 4. 4 percent equating to more than 7000000. 00 people as state governments now try to kick start the economy their relaxing containment restrictions more than half of u. S. States including florida will partially reopen by the end of the week. As the Johns Hopkins that board shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Have contracted the viru
Cool stacey yes because as we have said over and over and over here on kaiser reports bad news is the best news of all of course you would think that a pandemic would hit stock markets and of course there was that those a few headlines saying oh coronavirus are coded 19 this is called technically or medically you know they said well this ought to hit stock markets because its going to hit globalization is going to hit commerce its going to hit trade so every time somebody says this could be bad or do they say oh of course jay pal at the u. S. Federal reserve hes going to cut Interest Rates hes going to flood the market with money kind of problems that this week but here is the headline coronavirus rally continues s. And p. 500 index at yet another all time high there used to be something called a Business Cycle where you know the labor for example if their cost would get too high then the central bank would step in and they would take an action to cool things down except her but this e
The ability for Central Banks to print in excess of what the estimated cost was that was almost the equation from day one so the fact that its a pandemic youve got all this infection youve got factories shut down it does it hasnt shut down the Central Banks of one of the structural bankers like jay powell came down coronavirus that would be different but he is insulated so therefore there will be no end to this rally i might add by the way we are in mexico city so welcome to mexico city this is where we are we were in cannes koon just the last episode were now in mexico city by the way max also performed last night at the big queen embassy here in mexico city you can go to their Facebook Page you can go to twitter look them up big queen embassy in mexico city and youll find his stand up rate there it was amazing they also gave me this big coin necklace made of real mexican. Silver so you know speaking about this bed and the fed printing money so were here having another pandemic around
The. Another day of violence in hong kong the schools and universities are closed across the territory costs. In linton north dakota remember the people who protested at Standing Rock in north dakota over plans to build an oil pipeline unit of American Land well theyre back this type protesting plans to expand that pipeline. Hello a cease fire has been agreed in gaza after 2 days of cross border fighting and israeli airstrikes egypt has been mediating between israel and the Palestinian Group Islamic Jihads 34 palestinians have been killed in the air strikes over the past 48 hours the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated a Senior Leader of a slum of jihad on tuesday. Israels foreign minister says it will observe the truce as long as the group does the same an Islamic Jihad spokesman confirmed the ceasefire and other than the also led winton to effect on the ground at 5 am with Islamic Jihad conditions on behalf of the Palestinian Resistance factions dealing clue to the o