Thank you very much. Good morning. Thanks to all of you for joining us and to all our colleagues for participating this morning. As you are well aware that every part we are in the midst of a Public Health and economic catastrophe. The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the loss of more than 150,000 american lives, more than 4. 8 million infections in the sharpest economic downturn since the great depression. The latest projection from the cdc anticipates an average of nearly 1000 deaths per day through august 22. That is 18000 americans who will die over just two and half weeks. Since march my colleagues and i have conducted oversight over the Trump Administrations response to this crisis to ensure it is efficient, effective and equitable. Our goal is clear, to save americans lives and livelihoods. Our message to the administration is simple, it is urgent that we put policies and politics aside and Work Together on behalf of the American People. At this time of National Crisis i sin
Crude oil down after spending some green time earlier. One of the sectors most affected, autos and components. That is down 5. 1 . We saw it in the Consumer Price index today. Lets get a deeper dive into the markets. Here is katie and taylor. You mentioned some of the major averages. The dow was off to present. The russell 2000 is off almost 4 . I want to focus on a terminal im showing about the s p 500. It is almost dropped 2 today. You were looking at the first time weve had back to back losses of more than 2 since the markham bottomed out on march 23. Market bottomed out on march 23. You could be looking at the first back 2 loss since it bottomed out in midmarch. Something we are keeping our eye on. If you take a look at how that is translating into the vix, it is coming back higher. The highest going back since may 4. Up almost 10 points in two days. We were below 30 handle on that last friday and monday. Yesterday and today firmly well into the 30 territory. I wanted to look at so
Progressive vote there and they will pick up delegates there. And texas is a nailbiter and this could go late into the morning in terms of the vote there. A twoperson race at the top. Maine, and biden it is too close to call there, and we dont have a result there. And sanders is scoring a trio of victories, first in utah a commanding lead over Mike Bloomberg right now, and in vermont, sanders, and sorry, colorado, sanders is the projected winner as well as vermont, his home state. And looking at the night that joe biden has had and it is a big one, winning in North Carolina, virginia, minnesota, tennessee, oklahoma and arkansas and so he is sweeping the south and posting huge margins there which is going to make him rack up the delegates and it is all about the delegates tonight and not about the states that you win, but how many delegates that you go home with, and biden is leading in that regard. As we reset here at 8 00 p. M. Pacific time and california polls are just closing, but t
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Begin the very day before Super Tuesday. You are watching Fox And Friends First on thursday morning, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. Worry about the election calendar and the Court Calendar issue as well. We begin breaking down the State Of Play in just a few moments. First breaking out of hawaii, 111 confirmed dead in u mo. More than a thousand people still unaccounted for and the president s he will take a day out of his upcoming vacation to visit the island. Carley robert ray is on the ground in ground in maui. Good morning. Take a look at some of the pictures from the town, the Historic Town that has been devastated. Unbelievable. 111 people have lost their lives and that number could go up, according to officials here. We are entering almost a week until the Deadly Wildfires hit. Here is what the white house is telling the public about joe bidens visit on monday. Today we announce the president and first lady will be traveling to hawaii on monday to meet with first responder