A robot since the coronavirus pandemic theres been growing demand for these little helpers as they can offer a safer consumer experience. Im Clay Richards and welcome to the show u. S. President donald trump has made good on his threat to end Hong Kong Special status trump has signed an executive order to strip the city of its trade privileges and bring it in line with Mainland China he also announced a sanctions against officials and banks involved in beijings crackdown on Civil Liberties in the territory to their side legislation. And an executive order to hold china accountable for its oppression of actions against the people of hong kong. The hong kong or tanami act which i signed this afternoon passed unanimously through congress this law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals in the entities involved in extinguishing hong kongs freedom weve all watch what happened not a good situation their freedoms been taken away their rights have been ta
In the newsroom, Edward Lawrence is in washington and Ashley Webster is there as well. Well start with blake, who has the latest from the administration on china. Blake. Reporter melissa, connell, youre right. Just a little bit of cleanup from the white house last night after Peter Navarro made some comments suggesting that maybe the trade deal with china was off as navarro said at one point, its over. That forced the president to take to twitter to say, no, the deal with china is fully intact and larry kudlow in speaking with Stuart Varney earlier this morning said that the deal is being implemented just like they want. Ive been to several meet national the oval with bob and Steve Mnuchin and the president and others. You know that has been our view. They have actually picked up their game. It is not just commodity buying although that is picking up too. Some of the structural issues like i. P. Theft. Reporter got some live video now. I believe what youre looking at President Trump in
Treat those with coronavirus. We are going to reroute our medical Health Experts and people, our nurses, and other Health Support to help manage and maintain and support the people who have tested positive. Reporter for weeks, supervisors have been pushing the mayor to move the homeless into the largely vacant hotel rooms. They say the outbreak was tragically predictable. Nobody should be living in those environments, and so, what i am saying is, move these people now, and we should have moved them a month ago, and the people that you could not move, for whatever reason, should have been sleeping 6 feet apart, should have had temperature checks, should have had masks and gloves. They did not do that, and so now we have an outbreak. Reporter that can house up to 340 people at a time, the supervisor says many of the residents inside the shelter are waiting on the results of coronavirus tests for themselves. Live in San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. As we get further out,
You are watching cnbc. Welcome to the show live at cnbc global headquarters. Lets get right to how your money and markets are setting your day up. Stock futures pointing to positivity at the opening bell if these futures hold. S p up by about 15 and nasdaq up by about 81. S p down about 485 points yesterday. Some are selling the safety of bonds. Twoyear just below. 20 and 10year. 65 checking the price of oil. You can see slight positivity. Wti crude back above 20 a barrel crude up a similar amount. This is as a new report that suggests Trump Administration is weighing a plan to pay u. S. Drillers to keep oil in the ground amid that big back stock there is going to matt in singapore a mostly weaker session for the asia markets investors waiting to see the jobless claims weve got a fairly large piece of Economic Data here in the form of chinas q1 gdp china market did manage to hold up with a very small gain. The shanghai composite holding with a third of one percent. Holding on to hear t
Reporter hi there, melissa, with all of this talk about the potential reopening of the economy maybe here in the upcoming weeks President Trump took to twitter today to suggest he is the one who will have the ultimate say when and where that will happen. This was the tweet from the president earlier today. He wrote, quote, it is the decision of the president and for many good reasons, with that being said, the administration and i are working closely with the governors and this will continue. A decision by me in conjunction with the governors and input from others will be made shortly. However the constitution says that neither the president nor the congress has the authority to regulate for any authority rather, to regulate for health, safety, welfare or morality within a state. This afternoon new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo said governors from the northeast would be working together to form a reopening plan in their area. Each state is going to name a Public Health official for that