Confirmed cases. The country has extended its state of emergency through may 9. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. In new york, 1 00 6 00 in london, 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. Here are the top stories we are following from around the world. U. S. Stocks are raising gains from what has been a recovery rally. The s p 500 was up almost 2 but losing ground now on a ft report that gilead, maker of remdesivir, may not be as effective. Jobless claims rising by 4. 4 million last week but a number coming in slightly less than expected. Total job losses now top 26 million in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. In a few minutes, an exclusive conversation with the former National Economic Council Director gary cohn. You dont want to miss that. Lets get a quick check on the markets. 8 , p 500 is up just giving ba
Good morning, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lots to cover first off Officials Say the californias early action. Against the coronavirus may have saved thousands of lives and that includes everything from when we shut down schools to when we order people to work from home and if you are not a Central Business to stay at home, so they say dont stop now. Dan simon has the details. As states across the country scramble to increase their supply of n 95 masks, california, the worlds 5th largest economy made a striking move. Governor newsome announcing the state put together a deal to acquire 200 Million Masks a month for health care and frontline workers were dealing at a time where we need to go bold late and we need to meet this moment without playing small ball any longer in Los Angeles County authorities are lifting the restrictions on coronavirus testing. And beginning friday. The city will require residents to wear a mask or covering in supermarkets and other essential business
Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of us. You know, i think most of the people in this room have probably heard of flint michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curio
Ceo of the Wilson Center. I am a recovering politician, which is not a 12 step program, but i am absolutely delighted at the Wilson Center is hosting this event. I am looking for john milton hooper. Where is he . What are you doing in the back . For anyone who has not heard of john milton hooper, shame on you. He wrote an awardwinning biography of Woodrow Wilson, and he has been enormously hopeful to us over the years, appearing many times, but also helping us unpack some of the difficult issues around Woodrow Wilson. The subject of todays conversation. 1978, when the Wilson Center was 10 years old, we were charged by congress with creating a Hubert Humphrey fellowship in social and political thought. Good idea. The idea was that a quote, distinguished scholar, statesman, or cultural figure would deliver a lecture honoring humphreys legacy, which makes sense since he was a founding father of this place, as well as Vice President , senator, and dedicated public servant. And at times lik
Good afternoon and welcome to theNational Press club, leading organization for journalists. I am the 113th president at the press club. We have an Excellent Program ahead. Listen, watch,o or follow along on twitter. Our cspan and public radio viewers and listeners, please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily from the working press. By introducing our headed table. Hold yourt you applause until the head table announced. Been john oshea, colonel, retired. Kevin when seen. Captain, u. S. Navy, retired. And a member of the Headliners Team. Securityational johnter for the donnelly, Senior Writer at cq roll call and president of the military reporters and editors association. Right, theiate president of d. C. Media strategies. Former National Press Club President and cochair of the Headliners Team. Speaker, ryanur mccarthy, secretary of the u. S. Army in a minute. At defense reporter news and chair of the b