Global one day record over the weekend. Expects a deeper contraction in the u. S. As the infection rate stateside rises to 2 , but equities prove immune to the bad news with chinese stocks leading gains. Wall street is playing catchup after fridays Independence Day holiday. Vacuum. The power Commerce Bank looks to fill its top jobs as soon as possible in a bid to end shareholder revolt led by activists investor cerberus. Germangetting right now factory orders up 10. 4 percent. Sounds like a big number, but of course, its from a low base and it misses the survey by a lot. The surveyed factory order, the expectations for factory orders soth over month were 15. 4 we only got 10 point 4 . Much better than the prior month s 26 drop and it looks like german factory orders and a lot of things may be in this coming quarter may have a similar feel as Goldman Sachs cuts its expectations for u. S. Gdp growth in the Third Quarter. Here, you see european futures, big gains. Your stock futures up 2.
Jim and Tammy Fay Baker and muhammed ali. Thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. Ill have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography in political history. Between the four of us, we have written at least 17 biographies and it might be more than that. I was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many. More than half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre that weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we begin let me introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre . And first we have larry masslon from the tish school of arts and as particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy and written biographies. Richard rogers
Number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre that weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we begin let me introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to buyography. And first we have larry masslon from the tish school of arts and as particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy and written biographies. Richard rogers and playwright george f. Coughlin in adisto other books. And the documentary film sammy davis jr. , i gotta be me. So what has drawn you to buyography. Hi. I may be different from the left of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So, obviously, in entertainment, youre dealing with the public persona of performers, when they sang, danced and acted and, of course, what happens offstage or behind the curtain is equally fascinating as you try to make some sense out of what a performer did publicly as to wh
Threatening to halt much needed checks to millions of americans. Desperate times. Some hospitals now forcing two patients to share a single ventilator this morning a look inside one of new yorks busiest hospitals where doctors are doing anything they can to fight the virus. Those cases plus danger zone, deaths in louisiana. The dramatic spike blamed on new orleanss most iconic celebration. People werent only catching beads here, they were catching the coronavirus. Just ahead, desperate plea for help from louisianas governor and the nfl star stepping up in a big way. Drew brees joins us live january 27th, 2020 from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. It is friday morning thank you for being with us. Im home again hoda, its been a lot week a lot of developments and that continues. A busy morning. Major developments on the coronavirus. The 85,000 cases in the u. S. , now t
Cases, were starting our life again. The administrations guidelines are broken up into three phases lasting at least 14 days. So well give you the quick breakdown here. The fist phase calls on employers to have their employees returning to work in phases and minimize nonessential travel. Phase two allows schools to reopen as well as churches, bars, gyms, and large venue, as long as proper social distancing measures remain in place. Under the third phase, those venues just reopened with limited social dancing and proper sanitation. The governors, not the president will say when stateress open. The president acknowledged that in his call with the governors. That being with it is, were getting a better idea of area. Chris nguyen joins us live from san jose with that part of the story. Chris . Hi, kristen. Well, lets be clear. Its going to be a while before life gets back to normal, but we can tell you that Health Officers are taking a regional approach, and theyre trying to come to some c