Exception of the new zealand dollar. We see the japanese yen weakening a bit and the renminbi was in focus. To 1714. Nching closer 711 93 for your onshore. Bonds are mixed across the board. Australian 10 we are watching it was the rba announced not a smaller amount than expected. Seeing a little bit of a selloff when it comes to your aussie bones. Up eight basis points. Areomes to brent, we getting a little bit of a breather. Higher. A half percent we are hovering around 21 for wti. There is optimism President Trump is going to be meeting. Ith oil execs that is leading to some of the oil bulls to come back out again. Lets get the first word news. U. S. Intelligence is accusing china of concealing the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak. Underreporting total cases and deaths. We are told the public statements about the infection have been intentionally incomplete and the numbers are fake. Beijing has changed its reporting of people and added hundred 30 extra cases in the first day.
The yield down below. 6 last time i checked, it was at 0. 597 dr. Fauci saying the first human trial testing for a covid19 vaccine is now on track calling it the ultimate game changer but that public distribution is still 12 to 18 months away. President trump was asked if the stom pile of personal protective equipment was nearly depleted. We are sending it directly to hospitals. We dont want to take it before it gets there. We asked many states to do this. Many states have people or where they make clothing, we said see if you can get it directly from those manufacturers. The president considering halting flights to hot spots in the country, which would be a shift in this batter and also potentially have an impact on when and if the economy will return to some normal si in the meantime, total death numbers have topped 5,100. Confirmed cases have topped 200,000. In new york, topping 81,000 cases. In italy, the lowest daily death toll the new number of active cases declining. The hate he
dana: in the meantime we re expecting a series of rapid fire decision in the final days of the term. among those still to come the case of a high school football coach fired for praying on the field and attempt to stop president biden from whether or not regulations should be decided by the white house or the job of congress. looming over all of this a potentially transformative decision on abortion. the court weighing the fate of a 15-week ban on to procedure from the state of mississippi. that decision has the potential to overturn roe v. wade which would end nearly 50 years of precedence. dana: reaction is pouring in after the court decided a new york law restricting guns in public was in violation of the second amendment. for more on that we go to chief legal correspondent shannon bream in washington a lot of takes, yesterday, a lot of hot takes. give us your reasons and informed takes this morning. listen, it was definitely an expansive second amendment-friendl
everyone including vladimir putin to see. you re in the cnn newsroom. extreme heat roasting most of the united states this weekend, and get ready because next week you re going to see the heat really crank up. right now more than 15 million americans are under heat alerts stretching from the dakotas to the gulf coast. a heat dome as weather experts call it, is blanketing much of the country talking triple digit high temperatures in some places and all of this, of course, coming on the heels of a record-breaking heat wave just last week and it is not just hot, it is dangerous. heat is the number one cause of weather-related deaths in the united states. and with that i want to go to our meteorologist in the cnn weather center. what do folks need to know so they can prepare and can stay safe? pamela, what they really need to do is take these heat alerts seriously. don t just think, oh, it s just hot. remember, the combination of temperature and humidity is what can really
All right serial perjurer Michael Cohen testifying today in new york at the alvin bragg trial. Most folks trying to still figure out exactly what donald trump did wrong including me. Senator Tommy Tuberville was down there, he will be our reporter, our coreporter in just a moment. Senator bill hagerty will be here to tell us why the bidens continue to embargo israeli weapons. Telling israel to leave gaza all together, even withholding sense tiff intel from our middle east ally. Tammy bruce, alec lace, why voters werent wild in Shahzada Dawood for donald trump. Grady trimble with all the latest. What you got . Reporter former lower for the former president , Michael Cohen is the prosecutions top witness, they think maybe their best bet to tie the hush money payment to stormy daniels. Cohen described the process to wire 130,000 to storm my daniels. The Trump Organization cfo alan weisselberg, spoke with trump directly that cohen would front the money. Cohen said weisselberg promise him t