Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
In the east bay we had an earlier crash, eastbound 24, the slowing earlier cleared. Theyre still there. No problem traveling away from the bay bridge. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Tracking coronavirus cases across the country there are now more than 337,000. The bay area has more than 3,600 confirmed cases. Santa clara county has about onethird of the overall total and at least 89 people have died here in the bay area. In the meantime on capitol hill americas Biggest Health leaders are warning this could be our roughest week yet as america continues to battle the pandemic. Tracie potts joins us live from washington, d. C. , this morning with the very latest. Tracie . Reporter laura, good morning. They say we are going to see the numbers soar this week and it will be a tough week. While things are getting worse in some areas theyre starting to get better in others. I see light at the end of the tunnel. Reporter with coronavirus cases expected to peak this week, the white house is hopeful.
In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t
Brouilette will deliver remarks. Good morning, we have seen time and again how technology has transformed our lives and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was a period of change, 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a particular inflection point. We needed significant change to enhance our innovation capacity and that led to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative. Another 17 years later, here we are again, finding ourselves at transformational change. Throughout the day as was mentioned, were going to hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our commission on innovation and competitiveness front tiers. The commission is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation channel and to charter a new path in the 21st century. As this slideshows just a little less than a year ago with our core leadership team, we began to build this effor
About a new future for the United States 2003 was a period of change 17 years after our founding we recognize the nation Inflection Point with significant change which led to the work of our National Innovation initiative and now another 17 years later here we are again. Once again finding yourselves in a transformational change. To hear stories about these changes as they are foundational with innovation and competitiveness the commission cochaired is a multiyear effort for americans innovation potential to have a new path and the 21st century. And as this slide shows a little less than a year ago of poor leadership we begin to build this effort and by august pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners from across the country from industry and academia and the labor union and today is the 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future and trajectory of American Innovation and to make this happen with hundreds of advisors and innovation practitioners wit