Health workers across india doctors say grieving relatives of patients targeting them. Islam on the brink of even more despair the coronavirus fears for a desperately poor part of argentinas capital. With your sport origin time strike and carlos tevez thats called a nice fellow footballers to open up their wallets and help during the current coronavirus crisis. So that the economic devastation caused by a corona virus is becoming clearer with the United States announcing a major rise in the Unemployment Rate a record 6600000. 00 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits thats 3000000. 00 more than last week it is a similar story in spain a lot down there cause more than 800000 redundant. These in march many of them Seasonal Workers such as in the Tourism Industry the 3 and a host of 1000000 spaniards do not have a job and the number of british people applying for government benefits is 10 times higher than normal almost a 1000000 britons claimed universal credit in the last 2 weeks t
And oil is up to the tune of 25 . The jobless claims rocked the street. We were expecting them to be bad. We were not expecting them to be 6. 6 million bad. Jackie deangelis, jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Lets go ahead to start with the tweet from the president that had the dow jones up more than 300 points now. The president said, i spoke to my friend, mbs, crown prince of saudi arabia who spoke with president putin of russia and i expect and hope they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels and maybe substantially more, which if it happens will be great for the oil and gas industry. The markets are rallying on this, because low oil prices are good for consumers and businesses that use oil. Statement, you dont want the price to be so low that the shale producers go out of business. That the Oil Producers have a hard time, staying, conducting, keeping things going. So prices spiking today, more than 20 is a positive sign that it is all moving in the right
At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to
Reopening some of its airplane manufacturing plants bringing thousands of employees back to work in multiple states where stay at home mandates remain in place all right its time to turn you loose i q. One Team Continues to live up to its name at this Global Pandemic as confirmed cases worldwide top over 2000000 the latest count shows about 2400000 cases with about 168000 deaths and then taking a closer look at this nation the u. S. Now reporting over 776000 confirmed cases and more than 40000. 00 deaths now a total of 3800000. 00 people were tested here in america 600000 of those are all in new york thats still the epicenter of this outbreak where high. Hundreds continue to die everything all day but now there is growing pressure to reopen some parts of the state are trying to be chavez has the report. 51 days after the 1st case of corona virus was reported in new york to date the state has nearly 250000 infections and more than 18000 people have died but today some good news the ques
Full picture with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we leave the program here in the United States as President Donald Trump addressed the social distancing measures taken within the country to limit the spread of the crowed a virus during his Daily Briefing wednesday the u. S. President pushed back against the idea of a nationwide locked out leaving it up to states to make the decision. There are some states that are different so there are some states that dont have. Much of a problem there is so low they dont have the problem they dont have thousands of people that are positive with thousands of people that even think they might have it for hundreds of people in some cases so you have to know that you have to look at it you have to give a little bit of flexibility but of the state. In the midwest alaska as an example. Doesnt have a problem so if you have to say closed. And the u. S. President was also asked about travel restrictions in the u. S. As a way of mitigating th