Can sanitize properly that public utility workers can sanitize, doctors offices can see patients and everybodies level of tension can go down a little bit because we can protect ourselves. Crazy aarons is working with five saints distilling to produce 1,500gallons a day of Hand Sanitizer and get this , this is incredible. This is also helping the economy , because the economy of course had to temporarily lay off most of the companies 85 workers when they came to close nonessential businesses, but were able to bring back about two dozen employees to work on making and packaging something we all really need right now which is Hand Sanitizer. Pete . Pete thank you, laura. Millions of americans are out of work as much as the country is closed for business to stop the spread of coronavirus, so, one charity is doing double duty feeding those in need and putting dozens of laid off americans back to work. My colleague sandra smith, co host of americas news room, has the story. Sandra theres a
Payments to lower income households. Aid to households households with children. One year tax referral. Cuts, money handouts for businesses and households it seems like officials in tokyo are stepping up to try to support the economy as they look to implement an emergency lockdown as early as tomorrow. That is likely when it will be announced. It will be starting on april 8. We will continue to digest the details from that package. They did see a thousand cases in japan and we are waiting for more announcements from shinzo abe, planning to declare a state of emergency. We are still seeing equities heading higher. U. S. Futures falling. The press briefing from President Trump, perhaps there is light at the end of the tunnel. They are seeing some signs of stabilization when it comes to new infections. Europe is also seeing a peak in cases. Asia, we are up about 1 . It is still very much the oil story. Doubts about what a deal could look like, is the u. S. Going to be involved, is it cond
That our Health Care Workers critically need to save lives. Now, obviously, the suggestion of using homemade mask, the recommendation of covering your nose and mouth and use the n95 for First Responders, use a handkerchief or bandana, and if the debate continues to be about masks, then the area will be addressed for enforcement. There are 3,000 confirmed cases in the bay area and santa clara passed the 1,000 mark today with confirmed cases. San mateo county added 47 more cases today. For a total of 435. While it is monday boggling more than a million californians have applied for Unemployment Benefits just in the last two weeks. The Labor Department says last week alone, more than 870,000 people in the state filed for unemployment. Across the u. S. , 6. 6 Million People are out of work, and have filed for Unemployment Benefits. Now, it was tis important to remember that behind those staggering numbers, are real people many who arent sure how theyre going to see or when they will see th
Data, the u. S. Saying that beijing underplayed the number of cases and deaths. And we work may take legal action that softbank wants better terms on theirh rescue plan. Haidi . Inflationary pressures or lack thereof from south korea coming through the cps for the month of march. We are seeing a contraction of 0. 2 , better than the contraction we were expecting of 0. 4 . That is a month on month figure for Consumer Price pressures and south korea for the month of march. In atmber on year coming 1 , so a little better than 0. 8 expected, a little softer from the 1 reading in february. Expectingse have been some demand as well as the impact of lower energy costs, lower oil costs, the plunge in oil prices, down an average of almost 50 year on year so far this month. Debtor february february data carried through, and you would expect that to carry through to april as well. That is the south korean numbers. We have been looking at a lower open going into the trading in seoul and tokyo. Let
Mike gives you an early look at the morning commute. You still have a chance to beat the backup because we havent really seen backups aside from major accidents and we dont have any crashes going on right now. Were looking at a live look at the span, the bay bridge, and its moving nicely, very light traffic flowing here and that keeps you from having those metering lights on. On the peninsula, palo alto as well, no problems for the freeways. I do have a change across the bay for work for essential duty coming up in the next report. Back to you. Thanks, mike. The u. S. Just recorded its highest oneday total of deaths from the coronavirus. As the overall number of confirmed cases continues to rise. Right now in the u. S. More than 163,000 confirmed cases. Keep in mind on march 1st there were only 75. And as we enter a critical stage of containing the pandemic Big Companies are pitching in across the world to address the shortage of those splas. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us fro