And amazon facing new pressures over protecting warehouse workers still on the job servicing all of us amid the outbreak apple making a muchneeded donations to epicenter of this countrys outbreak this is thursday, april 2, 2020. You are watching cnbc. Good morning. Lets get right to the markets stock futures you can see are green indicating a rise of about 341 for the dow, s p up by 35 and the nasdaq is implied up around 100 points. It would be good but for the fact that we saw some steep losses yesterday to begin the Second Quarter all three major indices down nearly 4. 5 with losses accelerating before the closing bell take a look at the bond market we are seeing some move in today as well. A hair below 6. 1 . Twoyear below 0. 234 . Turning now to oil, a huge move higher a surge. Wti up 9 . Ice brent up 9 as well. This is after President Trump said he expected saudi and russia to enter agreement soon they called for a challenging issue for the oil markets. Getting to the markets worl
And a lot of areas so be prepared for that. As youre getting out there. Its a little mini free car youre walking into work close to coast. Your view outside at coit tower down looking grey under all that cloud cover that isnt just at the coast but has pushed well inland this morning. It is having a cooling effect this morning. A lot of areas. So not only are we going to see a grey start, but its going to be cool over the next several hours. Snow forget those jackets, 50s 60s for current temperatures. Fairly mild. So the light jacket will just fine as youre getting outside. Later today. Were going to continue this cool trend we had yesterday and are very warmest only making really the low 80s for some of our inland spots of more details on when to expect the heat to return. Still ahead, rain. All right, john, thanks that. Lets get you rolling on this wednesday morning. 11 minutes traveling into the city right now may so that fremont street exit. The meteor lights are on at the toll plaz
preplanned this attack for several weeks. people need to place to go when they re going to do harm. neil: people making sense of that awful attack on innocence. we re learning a little more about the alleged shooter. let s get the latest from mike tobin ahead of authorities giving us an update as well in highland park. mike? neil, the very sad detail today is that another of the shooting victims as you mentioned succumbed to the victories. the death total here from the highland park parade shooting is now at 7. we re getting more details about the suspected gunman. bobby eugene crimo iii, 21 years old. he lived in his father s basement. police say he dressed like a woman on the day of attack to avoid detection. the weapon used is a rifle similar to an ar-15 purchased legally in illinois. crimo possessed another rifle and additional guns. he accessed the roof from which he fired 70 rounds down on spectators. he dropped his rife and blended in with the crowd. following
john: begin america reports with form president trump under investigation by the justice department as the agency appears slow to act on the current president s son, with one republican senator now alleging a cover-up. john roberts in washington. good to be with you again. sandra: we made it to wednesday. i m sandra smith in new york. washington post reporting the justice department is looking into the former president as part of a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. the post says phone records of some trump officials have been seized and witnesses have been questioned before a grand jury. john: as iowa senator chuck grassley accuses the fbi and d.o.j. for trying to bury the dirt they have on hunter biden. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house with the latest on the hunter biden investigation. rich edson, how deep does the investigation go? john, the justice department is investigating the attack on the capitol and phony electorat
to increase oil production. most experts say biden s plan will make inflation worse. even some democrats don t support it, but apparently no one told joe that. calling on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for the next 90 days through the busy summer season, busy travel season, to the company s running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump this is a time of war, global peril, ukraine. these are not normal times. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you are paying for the product. do it now. do it today. i m doing my part. i want the congress and states and industries to do their part as well. biden always using this speech to bash his usual suspects for soaring inflation, republicans and vladimir putin. i know my republican friends claim we re not producing enough oil and i m limiting oil production. quite frankly that s nonsense. for all those republicans in congress criticizing me today for high gas prices in america,