Crudeng with oil, wti ps more than 100 to 1. 5 a barrel. Negative for the first time, june delivery contract, 21 a barrel. President trump says he will suspend immigration to the u. S. Over virus concerns as some states look to end the lockdown, plus u. S. Officials learned kim jongun was in Critical Condition following Cardiovascular Surgery last week. Washington is seeking clarity on the north Korean Leaders health. Just under an hour where from the start of cash equities trade. Lets look at futures after markets went negative with the plunging oil prices. You can see european futures now, down about 1. 5 to 2 . U. S. Futures, the cash trade close lower in new york yesterday so u. S. Futures are down a little less than european futures, but we are still seeing dow futures down two thirds of 1 . European equity markets on the oil price, some geopolitical news out of the korean peninsula, as well and perhaps a little focus on the data coming through. U. K. Data on joblessness coming th
A hit. Wanted for Drug Trafficking in the u. S. Charges venezuelas president with what it calls narco terrorism and offers a reward for his arrest. A surprise twist in Israels Parliament Opposition Leader benny gantz is elected speaker signaling a unity deal Benjamin Netanyahu. So then another spike in the number of new coronavirus cases in italy has taken the global total to more than half a 1000000 more than 6000 infections and 662 deaths have been reported in italy in the past 24 hours and this means 80000 people have the virus just 1000 behind chinas total another e. U. Country struggling to cope is spain 650 people have died bringing the toll that to morrow. Than 4000. 00 across the United States nearly 70000. 00 people have been infected and the death toll now exceeds 1000. 00 the senate has approved a 2 trillion dollars package to support the economy as a number of unemployment claims sause to a record 3200000. 00 and india has unveiled a 23000000000. 00 stimulus package to prov
Sources say the ftc is widening its investigation of amazon to include its massive cloud business. And u. S. Senator Marsha Blackburn on the social media app tictoc. Tiktok. We will hear from her after they say they have made changes. But we begin with major changes happening in alphabet. Larry page and sergey brin announced they are stepping down from the tech giant. The google ceo will now be the ceo of both google and alphabet. They will remain active as cofounders and remain on the board. Tuesday. O guests on it was a pretty big surprise. Questions about how much longer sundar might want to be ceo of google. Those questions have been a little bit. Google is under a massive amount of scrutiny. He has a lot of things to juggle. There have been internal protests. This really was a surprise where basically he has had to deal with all these things and he will be back dealing with all of the other things happening under the alphabet umbrella which includes self driving cars and other thi
Government as anger of a new citizenship law deepens and pilgrims descend on bethlehem to celebrate christmas but many christian palestinians from gaza have been refused permission to visit. An ounce on a harmless not have all the sporting colluding back to their senses they want to play the test series in pockets on next month over security concerns but are open to play in the country. Come to the news hour we begin in syria where the battle for the last rebel stronghold has led to the deaths of more civilians at least 8 people were killed in a Syrian Government as strike targeting a school in the town of job loss in ed lip people displaced from other parts the country had been sheltering in the school when it was hit tens of thousands of people fled their homes in the province over the past week as Government Forces helped by russian allies push deeper into the area a number of towns and villages have also fallen to government control mama i dont know is on the techie syria border an
Well come to order. I may look like congressman huffman but im not. Know its a shock. Im congressman lowenthal and is back in sonoma dealing with the wildfires and get back here to to washington. That, you ll hoping know, that the fires subside, that, you know, many people are safe, and that mr. Huffman soon. S so with that, the subcommittee oceans and wildlife will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting hear a testimony on a sea of problems. The impacts of plastic pollution wildlife. And format, anytee rule oral Opening Statements at the hearings are limited to the minority the Ranking Member, the vice chair and the vice Ranking Member. Hear from llow us to our witnesses sooner and help eople help members keep to their schedules. So therefore i ask for unanimous members hat all Opening Statements be made a part of the hearing record. F they are submitted to the subcommittee clerk by 5 00 p. M. Oday, or the close of the hearing, whichever comes first. Objections, so ordered. Ill op