Many students today take the s. A. T. During the spring, during the school day. Thats about 700,000 students who missed that chance. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by life isnt a straig line, and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected, with Financial Planning and advice for today, and tomorrow. The william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. At www. Hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Major new developments in the covid19 pandemic. The United States reaches 90,000 deaths out of 1. 5 million cases, as more of the country loosens restrictions. There is potentially promising
Politicians and activists are arrested in Hong Kong Well have a live report and wildfires rage near the site of the worlds Worst Nuclear Accident causing pollution levels to soar in ukraine. I am. The air. Thank you very much for joining us in many ways theyve been the forgotten victims of the corona virus pandemic but now the impact of the outbreak on elderly People Living in care homes is becoming painfully apparent and its fear many deaths are still going unreported a survey in new york state has found 90 Nursing Homes reported 20 or more deaths in recent weeks but the report only included a fraction of facilities in the states where the figure is believed to be in the thousands and much higher nationally in canada a nursing home in montreal is under investigation after 31. 00 desk. Uncovered the thought is found other residents dirty and unfed in their beds after some staff fled the facility in the u. K. Many deaths in care homes arent included in official figures its estimated the
Oil stocks and hopes opec plus would reach a deal to cut output President Trump has threatened to withdraw u. S. Funding from the who blaming the agency forgetting its virus all wrong and being too china centric. They could have called it months earlier and they should have known they probably did know well be looking into that carefully and put a hold on money spent to the w. H. O weve had Movement Across the italian bond yield curve after finance ministers failed to reach an agreement on the plan for the talk after 16 hours. Theyll reconvene for another video call tomorrow. The picture across other 10year, as you can see. The price a little higher here and reflects the market to reprice risk where we see it given that we didnt get an agreement. Silvi aur silvia was tracking the meeting and was back to us very early on caller after 16 hours of talks, there was no agreement among the 19 finance ministers the Member States have been divided over a developing credit line mechanism that d
He is going to the cdc. Well talk about the tornado response in a moment. The big Economic News out of the white house though is the shift in approach when it comes to the virus. Tell us about that. Indeed. It came from the top economic advisor. Every month he does these roundrobin interviews with all the financial networks. Kudlow wanted it to be absolutely Crystal Clear with anyone who would listen to him that right now the Trump Administration is considering some economic measures in response to the coronavirus. This is a bit of a 180 especially here. Kudlow also made it clear this wouldnt be some sort of big money dump to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. We are not looking at big expensive macro cash rebates, helicopter money from the sky that never works. We want to have this targeted in a timely fashion for those areas that have been hit the worst. You hear him talking about targeted and timely. Ive heard him use that phrase at least a dozen times. He said this is sti
Confrontation marked in u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria. Turkeys defense minister warns the turkish troops will retaliate against it if the. Also announced Operation Spring shilled a new campaign aimed at pushing Syrian Government troops out of the socalled buffer zone near the border. Because we do not aim to face off with russia our only aim is to stop syrian regimes most of course radical groups the displacement of civilians. Turkey has stepped up its military campaign in it lip province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday a. Funeral processions in turkey for the dead soldiers have turned into rallies calling for revenge in rebel held it live people took to the streets showing support for turkeys been stricken pay the northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern he did province turkey backed rebel groups with captured villages they lost a few weeks ago including. Further south Syrian Government forces have launched an offensi