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Pandemic, the effects on the 2020 campaign, and controversial statements by the candidates. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Consumer cellular offers nocontracwireless plans that are designed to help you do more of the things you enjoy. Whether youre a talker, texter, browser, photographer, or a bit of everything, our u. S. Based Customer Service team is here to find a plan that fits you. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv the john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made pssible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff President Trump declared houses of worship essential today, and called on governors to
Great depression. Shares of u. S. Bank stocks looking very weak compared to tech stocks which have been guiyang the which have been buoying the rally. What an incredible rally, the huge losses on the back of jobs numbers which we are getting too used to. Taylor it was incredible, looking at some big losses and in the final hours or so, managing to reverse that and post some of the gains. The only sense of caution is tech is not leading the gains. Tech for one of the first few times has been the underperformer. On the downside in the last two days. The good news is it was not leading the losses. You have microsoft, facebook, being held in a meaningful way. When they are not leading the game on days like this when you would expect to see outperformance, that has people cautious about really the strength of the rally. Quickly, saidere if someone was not watching the stocks already, you should be. If you want to believe in the strength of the rally, you have to see the Big Companies start
Enforce shutdown orders. Their governor, gretchen whitmer, joins us live. Dr. Oz apologizes, sparking outrage after suggesting schools should reopen despite the death rate. It might be a tradeoff some folks would consider. Now the tv doctor saying he misspoke. Potential breakthrough. Covid19 patients in chicago given that ebola drug, remdesivir, then discharged just days after being admitted to the er. The new report this morning. Harry and meghan step out. The couple giving back to their community in los angeles and the prince opening up about his life during the pandemic. Can you feel the love tonight and sharing the love, some of the biggest stars on the planet thanking our Health Care Heroes from demi lovato to ariana grande. Upon a star plus, that surprise performance from beyonce and the powerful High School Musical mashup with a big message. Were all in this together good morning, america. Great to have you all with us on this friday morning. See all the stars there sharing the
Baton rouge where louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards holds a briefing on the states response to the coronavirus operate. Outbreak. 95 of thes positive results that we announced today are from t ests conducted in commercial labs. The increase of cases appears to be less a sign of exponential growth over the last couple of days and more a sign of a logjam for commercial labs that have developed over a long period of time. Many of these tests were taken several days, if not longer ago. That theery good thing louisiana has been able to rapidly wrap up testing. Day,ct, depending on the we are somewhere between the third in the nation or fifth in the nation in terms of per capita testing. That said, the reason we have been able to wrap up is weve got more and more commercial labs that have come online. But, our different data systems have to be able to talk to one another and that is a part of the problem. A bigger part of the problem is with private testing, those labs have greatly exceede