With a coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold with cases now topping 3700000 with 260000 reported deaths now here in the u. S. There is more than 1000000 cases and 7071000 deaths as the number of infections are decreasing in some states others havent even reached their peak yet still more than half of the country is easing restrictions but over in california an interesting phenomenon is taking place as its Homeless Population takes advantage of the strain airflight travel and begin to set up tent at the airport arties attash a suite has those details from l. A. X. One of the busiest airports in the country is nearly empty and flights are limited with travel restrictions in place some are utilizing l. A. X. As a place to call home for at the time being. Airports like l. A. X. See less travelers in los angeles theyre now seen more homeless and some say they believe the emptier airports are safe place to be right now making it easier to social distance then on the streets according to l
We will be plotting these numbers over a timeline. We believe and hope that this will put some of the daily numbers into a broader and better context. First, here we go. Here are the raw numbers. 3026 neware reporting confirmed test result and the statewide total is now 81,420. 10 00 hospitals as of p. M. Last evening, 7718 residents were hospital his eyes hospitalized. Two thousand 24 were in critical 1641 ventilators were in use. 90 patients are at one of our field medical stations and for the 24 hour period ending at 10 00 p. M. Last evening, 814 residents were discharged from our hospitals. Lets do this differently and put these numbers into proper context. The first graph we are showing rate of growth of new cases over the past 21 days. As you can see, we are flatten the curve. This is a credit to each and every one of you who has taken to heart our aggressive social distancing measures and who continue to do your part so thank you. Again, these are dailies. The bars are the amoun
Lauren simonetti watching markets for us. Edward lawrence with new reporting from washington. Same story for Hillary Vaughn on capitol hill today for us. Lauren, lets begin with you on the markets . Lauren i cant hear but i can tell you what happened in the markets today. A lot of whiplash. The market was fixing positive news with negative news. The big news today was the fed stimulus, right . Also the numbers from the coronavirus seem to be improving. So at the end of the did i we cannot say that the dow is up the best since 1938 but it was higher by 281 points. Check out the s p 500. It squeaks out its best Weekly Performance since 1974. What a week for the stock market. Despite the negative news, one in 10 American Workers has lost their job. We got those jobless claims this morning. Take a look at the airlines, guys, it has been a spectacular week for them. Names like american airlines, united up. Some of them double digits. Up all week. I have do have to tell you as you know the n
He also spoke about the need to continue the states mitigation guidelines, the need for more medical professionals, and stressed the difference between the flu and covid19. Gov. Murphy good afternoon. We with me today is the commissioner of the department of health. A guy right, the guidance who is getting into that same category of not needing introduction, Communicable Disease Service Medical director, dr. Ed lifshitz. It is good to have you with us. To my left, a guy who needs no introduction, the superintendent of the state police, col. Callahan. We have the director of the department of homeland security, and the deputy counsel here to help us answer your questions. We are going to do the daily numbers a little bit differently today and see what you think, if this is helpful, we think it might be. If so, we carry it forward. Typically, we give the raw data of the overnight numbers all of which are reported on our data dashboard covid19. Nj. Gov. We will continue to do this. We wil
The corona outbreak has reduced travel and Industrial Production and resulted in a dip in Carbon Emissions so in that sense its actually improving the health of the planet but the Environmental Impact of Animal Agriculture for example from maines massive. 2016 global Greenhouse Gas emissions total 51. 00 tonnes of which more than 7 gigatons were caused by meat and dairy companies. To meet the targets set by the paris climate agreement global Greenhouse Gas emissions have to be reduced to 13 gigatons by 2050 but if the meat and dairy industry continues down its current path its annual emissions are expected to exceed 10. 5 times with devastating impact on the climate in new zealand. Sheep farmers are coming under increasing public and political pressure to. Sheep as far as the eye can see and what looks like boundless freedom for Randall Aspinall hes the 4th generation of sheep farmers a new zealand south island. Farmers have always been valued in new zealand they are the backbone of th