Good morning. Good morning. The hearing on the senate labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank thean senators and our witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices where we are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe us whoing and those of are here Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting 6 feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses for of about fivets minutes each, if they could please summarize them, there it ais. Senators will each have five minutes rounds of questions and we have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to finish this hearing by about noon and all the senators will have had that time and chance to ask theires questions. The question for administrators of the 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in august but how to do it safely. M
Dr. Michael saag. It is the at the university of alabama Birmingham School of medicine. Thank you for being here doctor period. Dr. Michael saag thank you for having me. Host is look at the reopening that is happening in many states across the country. What are you looking for as possible potential early indications of the spikes and states reopen, as that summer in singles and fall begins. Dr. Michael saag will he think that we are all concerned about, is this expansion of cases that happens over time. If we opened up too soon, then it will be an increase in cases that we will see and they will engage with us in a way that is going to choke spikes in cases. What im expecting to see over the next couple of weeks and months, is that wepl are going o have a slow climb. I dont think we will see a spike. But like in alabama, what we have seen since weve reopen at the beginning, we had say may 1st, we had about hundred and 80 cases a day. On average. As of june 1st, we had 520 new cases a d
League wants its footballers to take a coronavirus pay cut but its players are pushing back. Im like its good to have you with us the reality of the corona virus pandemic has reached american sure numbers of infections and deaths are spiraling while Public Health officials struggle to equip hospitals with what they need President Donald Trump seems to have largely stopped downplaying the scale and the danger while u. S. Citizens adapt to the precautions needed to limit the spread of the virus. Reality bites refrigerated trucks outside the manhattan hospital to store bodies because the morgue is full under this in public. Soldiers deployed to help extraordinary times and even aid from unusual places. A look better expression you go to war with what you have not what you need right now were not at the apex so were still in the stage where we have the luxury if you will of gathering as much as we can so the 1002 leaders and watched from china and the 140 from oregon and were still shoppin
Landlords say thats unfair. To get any money back they would have to apply for small loans. Yourself, which i know a lot of folks have been doing a lot of now to a live look at sfo cooking staying inside as well. Where the number of travelers another rainy day yesterday, kari. Continues to plummet. Whats in store for today . Its the same in other airports well, the rain starting to across the country. Only 136,000 people were screened at the nations taper off, laurlaura. Airports last week. Rain chances are going down thats according to the tsa. Today and we are still looking now a year ago there were 2 at the storm system that is very close to the coast. Million passengers for that very and as it moves away from the same period. That is a 94 decline in bay area its still bringing in some of that moisture and will bring in a chance of some spotty passenger traffic nationwide. Showers as we go into the rest working to help help care of today. Workers on the frontline. Ill be watching th
Welcome. Im Morgan Brennan on cnbc and st. Patricks day. Breaking news. That is wall street. Stock futures surging. Well off their highs hitting limit up levels overnight as President Trump said in a tweet last night, quote, the United States will be power fully supporting those Industries Like airlines and others particularly affected by the chinese virus. We will be stronger than ever before limit up means we turn attention to the etfs that are tracking to get a better sense of where they are opening this morning the die, the dow etf is up 2 . Off the gains we saw earlier the s p 500 etf, the spider, is up about 2 . The qqq trust is up about 3. 3 coming off that worse day for both the dow and the s p since 1987 and the nasdaq and the russell 2000, worst daily drop ever breaking overnight, the eight largest u. S. Banks announced they will be jointly taking funds from the Federal Reserve all of this after all the major average posted the worst day since black monday drop of 1987. The d