1st face to face talks in months but the warm greetings masked deep divisions over a virus Recovery Funds and a ban on Confederate Flag at military bases puts the us defense secretary on a collision course with his president s. Fellow thanks for joining us a Record Number of new corona virus infections have been reported across the globe over the past 24 hours so the World Health Organization says more than 237000 cases have now been confirmed flare ups have prompted restrictions to be reimposed in places like israel on the philippines as well as more states and india which has now become the 3rd country to record more than a 1000000 confirmed kovan 1000. 00 cases the other 2 are brazil which now has more than 2000000. 00 confirmed cases including its president joe youre both so narrow and over 77000. 00 deaths and theres the u. S. Where more than 3600000 people have been infected 77000 of them in just the last day nearly 139000 people have died there including 948 reported on thursday
I thank amanda for that. I thank amanda for the work shesing to and trying to do sthees doing and trying to do, but in too many instances, members of congress are not aware of the reality out there. The stories go on and on and on. Now that the 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits has expired. Now that the moratorium on evictions has also expired, this crisis is only to get worse and worse and worse. In my view, we need to extend the extra 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits for the 30 million measures who have lost their jobs. I think that is a nobrainer. People are hurting. People are desperate. People cannot feed their kids. People are going to be evicted from their homes and their apartments. We have got to respond to that pain and extend that 600 supplement to normal unemployment. I would go further. I believe that we need to make sure that every workingclass person in this country receives 2,000 a month until this crisis is over so they can have the security that they need, that t
They came to an agreement yesterday on those reopenings. Several businesses are set to open their doors in less than five days. And the question is they say that theyre ready, but will they be ready . Reporter they plan to be ready, the ones we talked it i for this particular block of the alameda here in san jose, theres a number of salons and fitness studios, restaurants, just in this one block that i can see at least six or seven nail and hair salons and then a number of different studios. They just learned yesterday that they will be able to open this coming monday. This comes after several days of disputes with the state after the county allowed Outdoor Dining without first getting a variance from the state. But working through the holiday weekend, the two sides were able to come to an agreement on the july 13th opening for the owner of one of the fitness and wellness studios here, its a c. She couldnt wait to get the news out to her clients. They will open for inperson Services Fi
Countries, targeting the development of treatments and vaccines. You heard it here first, back in april, when senator tom cotton joined me on sunday morning futures. You believe that they are stealing intellectual property right now as we speak. I have little doubt that the Chinese Intelligence Services are actively trying to steal americas intellectual property as it relates to the virus that they unleashed on the world. Maria and now we have the of usual word. Breaking the official word. The u. S. Ordered china to close the consolate in houston as reports come in of documents being burned on the site. We have the late echt. Markets looking at a lower opening for the broader averages, futures indicating a decline at the start of trading, 88 points lower on the dow, nasdaq lower 17, s p 500 lower by 10 and a three quarters. The dow and s p 500 continued a winning streak yesterday. The nasdaq took a breather. The nasdaq was down. Its one of the busiest days for earnings this morning, bi
Biontech delivering millions of doses of a potential vaccine for covid19. Well kick it off with Edward Lawrence in washington. Reporter melissa, very big news for pfizer and the vaccine. We could have three vaccines in circulation by end of the year. First one by astrazeneca, they hope by october. Moderna and pfizer follow by the end of the year. The governor of connecticut toured a pfizer plant in his state. Senior Vice President for drug safety and development for that facility says pfizer focused on doing the next studies and getting that data to the fda for a safe and effective vaccine. Governor ned lamont says it will be widely distributed. Listen. We continue to hit the metrics we need. We continue to get the fda approvals. We continue to do this safely. We have a real opportunity by end of this year to be able to go to cvs or the local pharmacy to get a Covid Vaccine just like you get a flu vaccine. Reporter a clue how governors think the vaccine could be widely distributed, wit