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Are doing. Their back and forth just ahead. Arthur on approach the first Tropical Storm of the season inching closer to North Carolina packing heavy rain and high winds millions along the east coast feeling its impact al has the very latest on where it could be headed. Start your engines detroits Auto Industry begins reopening plants this morning. 60,000 workers returning to the line in a new world. This camera gives you a realtime reading of your temperature. Just ahead our exclusive look at new safety precautions in place and our interview with the ceo of ford. What i know is were ready. Why he says today marks a vital step for the entire country. And back in the swing. Major sports return over the weekend with golf and nascar and the crowds go wild. Won the race, and its dead silent out here. We miss the fans. From home today, monday, may 18th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza good morning, everybody.
Lift its lockdown restrictions despite the high number of cases there. So there are some worrying signs coming out of europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record it shrunk by 3. 8 percent so far this year the euro zones sharpest drop since records began in 1905 yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world i was off to germany of course europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is likely to shrink by more than 6 percent this year dominic kane in berlin looking at this one. Looking for some for some good news or maybe a bit of a turn around but this is going to be in a bad way for a while. Yes used the audio problem slightly coming to my end kemal but yes a tale of economic woe is unfolding at a european level but also at the german level says you were saying that the German Economy is definitely going to shrink by perhaps more than 6 percent but thats for the year for the current co
A live update from beirut. Libyan war logs Khalifa Haftar announces a ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on. The with the sports man is set to be crowned champions in france as the Domestic League season is cancelled. With numbers just released out of the us that show the continuing trend of widespread job losses more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits over the past week well that takes the total number of jobless from 26000000. 00 last week to more than 30000000. 00 now the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and february but in march it jumped to a 2. And a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000. 00 people a state governments now begin to restart their economies their easing lockdown measures more than half of the 50 states including florida or partially reopen by the end of the week as the john hopkins dashboard shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Have contracted the virus nearly 61000 have di