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,
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
On slowing the spread of the virus. New cases of it on the decline in major hot spots including new york. Dr. Tony fauci saying the death toll in the u. S. Could be 60,000 versus earlier estimates of 240 people dying. Donald trumps Approval Rating hit alltime high for him amid coronavirus pandemic and also showing an overwhelming majority of americans are concerned about a recession. The virtual opec plus meeting which included saudi arabia and russia ending in a tentative agreement to temporarily cut production by about 10 millionbarrels per day. But mexico could derail the plan. Oil declining near the trading session over concerns about the Production Cuts that they wouldnt be deep enough. U. S. Markets are closed today in observance of good friday but yesterday u. S. Stocks rallied, dow, nasdaq, s p all up more than 10 for the week. S p having the best week since 1974. In asia overnight markets were mixed, you can take hang seng and hong kong closed for good friday. European markets
Development, even though the number of cases in the number of deaths rise, they are rising at a slower rate, hospitalizations are growing at a slower rate and now of course admissions into intensive care, that to is dropping. So those are constructive developments that you obviously want to see. But we told you about Boris Johnson doing better. People forget another thing were dealing with is the ceo of morgan stanley, he is okay right now, he is recovering from the coronavirus. These are bits of news that we tried to get out to let you know not all the news is grim as they continue to look at what a good time to gauge when making kind of slowly get ourselves into weaning out of the lockdowns parade were a long way from that and a lot of folks to say this is a generous timeline, we will get both sides of the story. Right now we know the healthcare tax force led by the president is going to be reporting a little earlier than normal, about an hour from now. Like fermented tea it all up.