Economy from the coronavirus. Investors were also shocked about the ban from travel from europe to the u. S. , the concern there is that its going to slow down the u. S. Economy even more because visitors on any given month bring in billions of dollars. Now stocks did briefly, very briefly, move off their lows today when the Federal Reserve announced it would pump 1 million of liquidity to calm the mark. By the look of things, the dow was down over 2,000 points today. It looks like that didnt work. Allison, thank you so much. As of right now, 39 people in the United States have died from the coronavirus. More than 1,400 are confirmed infected. Now, we do not know the actual number of people in the u. S. Who are infected, because so few americans have actually been tested. And thats because there are so few test kits actually available on the front lines and even fewer labs that are now able to process samples. President trump continues to lie to the American People and say that testing
We are live at cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Im george howell. Im natalie allen. Cnn newsroom starts now. [ music playing ] and we begin with a shocking report from the New York Times with explosive implications. The paper reports the fbi looked into whether donald trump, a sitting u. S. President , was working on behalf of russia and against american interests. This, the new statement alone, it is just unprecedented. According to times, the fbi started the investigation, because it was concerned, worried about mr. Trumps behavior, his actions after he fired fbi director james comey. The probe also triggered by mr. Trumps own words. His public statements when he said in a tv interview, he dismissed comey because of the russia inquiry. To be clear, we dont know if special Counsel Robert Mueller is pursuing that probe as a part of his overall investigation into the russia collusion. The white house is quick to respovenltd Sarah Sanders calling this story absurd. Comey was fired for
Headquarters in atlanta. We want to welcome our viewers here and around the world, im george howell. Im natalie allen. Cnn newsroom starts right now. And we begin with potentially troubling news out of north korea. Thats right. Just over a week after the trumpkim summit collapsed, new satellite imagery seems to show pyongyang is in a final stage for a launch. Some mission to launch a satellite. Its still unclear, though. Either way, it is problematic. The u. S. Would see any launch as a betrayal from the summit between mr. Trump and mr. Kim. We are joined this hour in beijing, good to have with you us, will. Lets start with the latest on the satellite imagery. What does it show us . Reporter so, we are seeing activity in two different sites inside north korea. One a missile and rocket factory outside of pyongyang in sumdong, we know intergalactic missiles have been assembled. Two analysts i have spoken with say activity at that factory else to indicate, something was assembled. Put on
we are following breaking news out of france, where authorities are responding to an explosion in central paris. police say the blast was called by a gas leak at a bakery saturday morning. and an official in paris tells cnn there were victims, so far it is unclear how many, police are saying the explosion is not terror related. cnn paris correspondent mellissa bell joins us now from the area where this happened. it must have been a terrifying saturday morning for people in that neighborhood, melissa. reporter: that s right. i think for anyone who would have been on what is normal lay busy street,ly show you behind me the scene now. it would have been pretty terrifying stuff. can you see there at the end of the street and natalie the fire services who have been battling the flames of the fire that followed the explosion for the last couple of hours, it now appears to be under the control. the plumes of smoke billowing out the last couple of hours