Will accept junk, recent fallen angels as collateral. Time now for todays market moving news from brussels in new york. We want to begin in europe, where the pandemic drove the economy to a record slump in april. Pmi Area Services completely decimated, falling to 11. 7. Manufacturing also dropped to 33. 6. Bloombergs maria tadeo joins me from brussels. Maria what you are seeing is that the Coronavirus Crisis is going to do a lot of damage to the european economy. [indiscernible] brussels tell us they do anticipate a contraction for the entire euro area. This is potentially huge. Youre seeing again the European Central bank stepping in to try to shield some of those markets, in particular in countries like. Taly ,he other side of the equation what exactly are european leaders going to do to help the ecb, to put more money on the table and also protect their own economies . There has been a lot of backandforth. Perhaps a 2 trillion euro package. But all of this is still very much in the
100 26,000 people have been tested for covid19 across the state of california, but he says that number is too low. Here in california there are nearly 14,000 cases and 322 people have died. The governor also announcing today the 2300 people are currently hospitalized and 1000 are in icu beds. That is 18. 9 increase from yesterday. 12,000 people tested positive for covid19 today, a 12. 4 increase from yesterday. The governor says the state is distributed more than 41 million n95 masks to healthcare workers. He governor has launche new task force to help speed up coronavirus testing here in our state. He hopes and says the goal is to increase testing fivefold by the end of the month. How the governor plans to make this work. Reporter one of the ways this is going to be done is by making more test kits available as well as testing sites. As of today, california has tested 126,700 people. The governor says that number is far too low and he has promised to do better. I am not going to expla
Kind of a preview of how shell run her court and this case. And in deciding whether to grant Special Counsel jack smiths request for protective order limiting what the disgraced expresident can and cannot say publicly about the case, judge chutkan cuts through Talking Points like a hot knife through butter. On the First Amendment protections, they are so fond of citing, mr. Trump, like every american, has a First Amendment right to free speech. But that right is not absolute. Adding that without a protective order, the disclosure of discovery materials could lead to witnesses being harassed or otherwise interfering with a fair trial. What about the fact that trump is running for president. And chutkan did not mince words on that eithe saying, this is a criminal trial and i will not take into consideration the impact will have for have for a political came on either side. He will have all of the rights hesen tieptled to. The existence is not going to have any bearing on my decision. I i
Reached enough people in time from ktvu fox two news. This is the four and new images this afternoon underscores the scope of the destruction and fire toward maui. The death toll in that Devastating Blaze climbing once again today to 59 while rescue crews continue to search for survivors. Welcome, everyone, to the four on this friday afternoon. Im heather hall. And im alex savage, the 59 deaths in the lahaina wildfire now make it the second deadliest fire for the us in the last 100 years. Right behind the 2018 camp fire in butte county. That killed 85 people in the town of paradise. Local, state and federal officials now looking forward to the recovery there in lahaina and the surrounding areas. Fema Disaster Relief is also on the way to hardhit communities. Fox max gordon has more now from maui, where some people are being let back into their neighborhoods to see the damage themselves. Right now, were standing about 13 miles away from the town of lahaina at a roadblock where officials
A surprise. Not a surprise was to both independence and accountability that was doubted by key republicans. Where will the hunter biden investigation go from here . How will the Biden Campaign respond . Will the mounting legal troubles of hunter biden and donald trump obscure other issues and candidates in the 2024 president ial race . It is saturday, august 12, 2023. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Those questions and more about the announcement of the special counsel. We would like to hear your thoughts. 202 7488001 is the line to call for republicans. It is 202 7488000 for democrats. For independents and others, 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. We will also look for your comments on facebook and twitter, cspanwj. We will give you the chance to hear all of Merrick Garlands brief comments from yesterday. We will look at some analysis and update where the investigation is now. And we will hear from you