Can the coronavirus pandemic be stopped the World Health Organization declares the outbreak of pandemic and donald trump finally joins other countries in taking draconian measures to stop the spread but our travel bans enough this is inside story. Hello again im james bays what started in a single chinese city is now a pandemic so far infecting at least 120000 people in more than 100 countries World Leaders are warning the Coronavirus Crisis is going to get worse but is not on stoppable the measures to limit the spread vary from simply washing your hands to complete isolation and its not always your choice to decide how to protect yourself governments are taken drastic action to help contain the disease china and its elite of lockdown entire cities hundreds of millions of people staying at home or off work football matches and other sporting events or councils or played behind closed doors the u. S. President has banned all transplanted flights from europe except the u. K. For 30 days
Weekly gain. Virus figures, coronavirus cases surging again, wall street still headed for strong gains for the week, s p and dow up more than 1 the past five sessions. The company beat on earnings, suspended its 2020 forecast on coronavirus uncertainty, and as well were going to be talking with the ceo of roku later this morning which also reported numbers. And jedi blocked, a federal judge haunting microsofts pentagon cloud contract after an amazon suit. For the second straight day the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus shot higher. Chinese authorities reported 5,000 new cases and 120 more deaths the death toll stands at nearly 1,400 and total cases into the range of 64,000. As increasingly guys, the conversations turning to diagnostics as opposed to the spread itself. Right there have been a number of articles that are very subjective about whats happened some of them say that, look, it could be a 24day incubation, so what they thought they were letting people go and some of it
Public. Deciding that the scrutiny directed toward him had become too much of a distraction. The resiliency of facebook, despite the backlash over big tech. I get that. Im not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have work to do to build trust. What does the future hold as we head into 2020 . A special edition of Halftime Report in San Francisco, begins right now. And we welcome you to 1 market we have a great lineup today were going to be joined exclusively in a little while by snowflake chairman and ceo Frank Slootman as he prepares to take the Company Public in the year ahead. Frederick kerrest, the cofounder of okta, that stock up more than 90 this year were joined by Brad Gerstner who helped us take stock of whats happening in the valley throughout the year. Deirdre bosa is with us, covered the ipo and Venture Capital markets closely as anybody its great to have both of you here so brad, interesting year to say the least. Uber, lyft, they go public wework blows up. What do y
Tiffanys now kind of hanging in there though. And delta is looking to make those tsa lines shorter this summer. Phil lebeau is live in atlanta with details. And hes going wait on a tsa line for us. Team player. And the one stock in berk shers beneficial she doesnt agree with. Shires beneficial she doesnt agree with. What could it be . Well find it. Steve leisman looks at the improving Economic Data weve seen. And jackie deing angeles is following stuff. And more. Two development that is the market has taken notice. First decline in the worst fears of the Global Economic melt down and u. S. Recession and Global Financial Systemic Risk and that is because of the improvement in the Economic Outlook of the data here. Lets look at whats happened for to the outlook for gdp in the Second Quarter. First quarter a meager 1 . We started with an outlook for 2 . And ill show you whats happened. Retail and inventory data. That bumped it up by. 4 to 2. 4. The home sales data existing in new homes ha