On the nations food supply and Meat Processing industry. On why, dr. James hamlin some people who contract coronavirus get sicker than others. Oft this, the last day april, jay powell says he expects an unprecedented drop in Economic Activity over the next few months after it was reported yesterday that the u. S. Economy shrank at a 4. 8 pace in the First Quarter and economists are decked in additional 3. 5 Million People filed for Unemployment Insurance last week. The Labor Department will release those numbers officially later on this morning, which brings us to the question in the first hour, how has your financial situation been since the pandemic . Perhaps you have saved money or asked for financial help. We want to get a take on how you have been doing financially over the last few weeks. 202 7488000 if you are better off. 202 7488001 if you are worse off. If it stayed the same, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. You can also post to our twitter feed and Facebook Page.
20. 5 in a data set thats never been more than 2 million in a single month, numbers we never expected to talk about no. The numbers are just completely and totally shocking not unexpected however given the carnage thats taken place in the economy over the last month as we locked everything down those lockdowns ending around the country. Things starting to at least normalize in some states the question will be of the 18 million workers who describe themselves as a temporary layoff of that 20 million, how many really will get their jobs back is a key given the markets reaction today, there seems to be an expectation that most of them will that will remain a question over the next many months as we hope that the economy does start to return to some semblance of normalcy mike, lots of internals to dig through here average Hourly Earnings show a chasm between lowerpaid employees in the country and those with higher wages who, judging from the data, lost their jobs at a slower pace. Yeah, no
Also, dont forget to spay and neuter your virus. For more on the latest breakthroughs, ill turn it over now to my colleague dr. Scruffles. Dr. Scruffles, get out of the garbage bad doctor bad doctor announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight stephen welcomes bill gates and claire danes and mandy patinkin, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe dis stephen hi, everybody. Welcome to a late show. Were in the middle of a fight in the room. Do we need to clean up the area . I dont think so because you cant see it. I can and im fine with it. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Last night, i talked about the governors who have decided to reopen their states in opposition to the federal guidelines, but one day later, im happy to report that cooler heads have prevailed in our nations leadership, because the Insane Clown Posse is calling off its annual gathering of the juggalos festival. Theyve also officially changed their name
Up, plus, the reopening begins. Businesses like these rolling out the welcome matt as more states begin to reopen this week , Florida Governor rick did joining me as he prepares to fire up much of florida with phase i tomorrow. And also ahead the director of National Economic Council Larry Kudlow on what it will take for the rest of the country to get back to work and in the middle of all of this a dump of documents revealing exculpatory evidence in the Michael Flynn case, congressman jim jordan and trey gowdy are turning their attention now to fbi director Christopher Wray, and what hes done about it in the last two years all that and a lot more right here right now, on sunday morning futures. And tomorrow morning, much of florida will enter phase i of a threephase opening with the exception of three counties with the most covid19 cases. Thats miamidade, broward and palm beach. The executive order allowing some businesses, Retail Stores and state parks to reopen tomorrow morning, but
Flares again in lebanon 19 is pushing the economy closer to the brink of collapse. And the 2 kilometer wide asteroid from the depths of our solar system is due to zip past within a few hours. More lives have not be lost to the corona virus pandemic on u. S. Soil than ole of the americans killed during the war in vietnam a tally by Johns Hopkins University Shows the death toll is beyond 58300 and more than 1000000 people have been infected lets go live now to washington and our correspondent mike hanna so another grim milestone of a statistic mike. Indeed yes. Membrane to that that death toll in vietnam was over a 10 year period whereas the death toll in the pandemic has been within a 2 to 3 month period so certainly a very grim statistic over 1000000. 00 americans infected what that means is that roughly one in every 330. 00 americans contracted the virus but observers point out too that the figure could be far far higher because this is just those who actually tested for the virus and