Trillion relief package that includes direct payments and more money for Unemployment Insurance. The bill now heads to the house where Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to hold a voice vote tomorrow but she says more will need to be done. Theres so many things we didnt get in any of these bills yet in a way that we need to, but were still going to need to have more money for state and local governments, municipalities and the rest. Then one of the important things that i just we have to insist upon, we said free testing, free testing, free testing. As we enter the final hour of trading, take a look at the bottom there you go, right in the front of your screen, 1,000 points higher on the dow. That is shrugging off the Record Number of unemployment names which is a harbinger for an Unemployment Rate that is going to increase dramatically when we finally get that number, but that wont be until the first friday in april. However, what this market is responding to is the fact that congress, this r
A good thursday morning to you. Craig melvin here. Just this morning new weekly unemployment numbers are out and theyre terrible. More than 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits just last week. So to give you perspective here, thats more than the entire population of missouri. It also doubles the previous weeks 3. 3 million jobless claims, and that was considered a record at the time. It shows just how quickly things are moving. This morning were also watching this, the surge in coronavirus cases here in the United States. Right now more than 217,000 known cases. Thats almost 2,800 more cases than the same time yesterday. So far, the virus has killed more than 4,800 of our fellow americans. Health care workers continue to give us a sobering reality check as our hospitals are slammed with new patients. We are scared of becoming exposed to covid19 and transmitting to other patients and to our families. We see other nurses and doctors dying and people not taking it seriou
In the dark, releasing new details of their arrangements with the big companies, created a new and convoluted Emergency Response system, and sewed confusion and distrust in the states and among the people who need medical supplies. We have got a team of reporters on this nbc news exclusive and on the white house response. So we begin with our nbc news senior political analyst, jonathan allen. So jonathan, i got a call out of nowhere this weekend after your reporting came out from a source in the National Security world, in the government, saying that this lined up exactly with what they were saying. Well, im glad to hear that, katindicat katy. What youve got going on, katy, is a task force run by Vice President mike pence, who has seven subtask forces. Weve heard there are going to be new task forces. And essentially whats gone on is an effort to create some efficiencies that appears to have, in a lot of cases, created inefficiencies and confusion. There have been bidding wars, as youv
Remain at a safe in a safe environment. And thats going to be up to businesses to come up with ways to reconfigure their workplace and their processes to make this work. And thats business by business. Government can say these are the standards, but a business is going to figure out how to do that. When you look at this state, there are some regions that right now by the numbers pose a lower risk, some that pose a higher risk. We can tell you by region right now, of those criteria that we went through, which ones are in place for which region, so which ones have the right hospitalization, the right testing regimen, the right Contact Tracing regimen, and which ones still have work to do in those areas. And this is going to be region by region. And each region has to put together the leaders in those respective areas who put together this system and monitor this system literally on a daily basis. So, theyre getting all that input, all those specifics, all that data, and then day by day,
Health against public livelihoods unfortunately, i think joseph fairs shot just dropped out for us. Ashley, i want to go back to you with this. Im wondering when the president and his team are weighing is it the economy . And does it tie directly to his political prospects going into november . And i asked that, because when i went to one of the rallies during the primaries, a New Hampshire rally, i went around and i asked dozens and dozens of people why they liked donald trump, and why they were voting for him again. And every single one of them mentioned the economy. And they mentioned their stocks, and they mention their 401 k . Thats exactly right and this, perhaps, answers this question. But in the previous question, i should have mentioned he is also listening to his Campaign Advisers and his campaign team, who are showing him internal and public polling about where he stands on coronavirus response, and how he matches up against joe biden in some of these critical swing states.