International calls for mediation. As our medias Prime Minister resists growing public pressure to question his foreign minister has announced his resignation and a discovery from the ice age construction crews in mexico city on a mammoth collection of prehistoric creatures and sport. Dustin johnson has won, in effect, a major title in his career, american climbing the masters with a new record breaking 4. Theres been another step forward in the search for a vaccine for corona virus, which is killed more than 1300000. 00 people all over the world. Since the start of the year, u. S. Pharmaceutical firm madonna says early results from chiles show its vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective. Present all from from a deal with the data back in august to purchase 100000000 doses of the drug once it was ready. But then it is the 2nd candidate with a chance of getting approval. Pfizer announced last week that its vaccine was 90 percent effective. In late stage trial, its promising news as infection
The pandemic began and from some flash flooding in the midwest to tornadoes in the south and a Tropical Storm off the u. S. East coast, a very busy weather day ahead to kick off your week. Early today starts right now good monday morning. Im phillip mena. And im cori coffin as lockdowns are lifted in nearly the entire country, more americans emerge from their homes, we enter a new phase in the pandemic here are the latest numbers. Nearly 1. 5 million americans are now infected with covid19 now according to Johns Hopkins university, over 272,000 have recovered, but more than 90,000 people have died in a push for more covid19 testing, Governor Andrew Cuomo was tested during a Live Press Briefing new york has doubled testing capacity, reaching 40,000 new yorkers per day. Well, thousands of people packed the jersey shore this weekend. Some new yorkers may not be so lucky. Mayor bill de blasio announced beaches in city will be closed for the weekend. State beaches and lakes will open may 22
There wasnt anything about testing. I thought it was an incomplete address. The address i would have liked to have seen would be the president and nancy pelosi saying we have come together, we are in control, we will pass an important measure to help people affected by it tomorrow to really instill confidence. I dont think it was awful. I think he did what he had to do, but i dont think it does not appear to have been terribly reassuring. Host congressman gallagher, your take and will the house move forward today with some sort of joint bipartisan measure . I would like to live in that alternative reality where people are working together and not politicizing the crisis. I support the idea of an extension of the travel brand van in europe. It is unclear why the u. K. Was not was exempted per dino they are part of schengen exempted. I know they are not part of schengen. We need to scale up our ability to test all over the United States. We bought ourselves time with the travel ban again
The showdown for super tuesday draws near. And then sport home riders that dominate cycling that tour of colombia. The Overall Standings the heading into sundays final stage. Doctors in china reporting a slowdown in the number of new cases of corona virus for the 3rd successive day but the World Health Organization says its impossible to predict which direction the epidemic will take 142 deaths were reported on sunday along with 2000 more infections most are in who bay province where the outbreak was 1st reported in december worldwide 1669 people have died of the disease they include an elderly chinese tourist in france the 1st fatality in europe the World Health Organization is urging countries to step up preventative measures its impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take we are concerned about the levels of rumor and misinformation that hampering their response we are concerned by the continued increase in the number of cases in china we are concerned by reports f
The economists were expecting to hear. Concern onen the big the consumer side of things. Year to date, 5. 4 . Do we have anything more at the moment . That. A big beat on back to the growth number. Updates fromore the National Bureau statistics, the life press briefing the Live Press Briefing should be ongoing. Thoughts . Not important . Not very important. Not the gdpcus on number but the breakdowns. Industrialrong production number is boosted by infrastructure activities. There have been a lot of investments in infrastructure, especially on transportation projects. And bad newsnews because it means that the economy relies on fiscal stimulus of Infrastructure Projects. Otherwise, regular activities should not pick up that growth. The bigger part of the chinese economy is domestically focus. Look at retail sales, holding up well. You cannot argue with that. It is an improvement. Reallyil sales, not equals two consumption. It is a combination of ofsumption and a combination businesses o