Not intend to have a covid19 update today. But a couple of things popped up that i thought it would be good to have the information out to the public in a transparent way. Way. First, let me put on the screen city. Ure of the we have signed some extra testing resources. You have a drivein facility there. This was taken this morning. It is going on. Great response by the community that comes in. We expect a good number to have been tested there. So, thank you for your cooperation, your leadership, and for taking advantage of this enhanced testing opportunity in your community. Im joined today by dr. Nate smith, secretary of the department of health. Mike preston is here, secretary of commerce. Then, director dexter payne from the department of corrections. Issue in regard to an involving our Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program and the progress update on this. This is the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program that we are building a new system for. Secretary preston and his team h
Deaths due to the virus. Gov. Hutchinson katie, are you ready . Ok. Thanks for coming in on short notice. You found your tie ok. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us. As everyone is aware, i didnt intend to have a covid19 update today. But a couple things popped up that i thought it would be good to have the information out to the public in a transparent way. First, let me put on the screen city. Ure of the we have signed some extra testing resources. You have a drivein facility there. This was taken this morning. It is going on. Great response by the community that comes in. We expect a good number to have been tested there. So, thank you for your cooperation, your leadership, and for taking advantage of this enhanced testing opportunity in your community. Im joined today by dr. Nate smith, secretary of the department of health. Mike preston is here, secretary of commerce. Then, director dexter payne from the department of corrections. Issue in regard to an involving our Pa
Futures searching for direction. Take a look, gain in the dow but decline on s p after wild day yesterday. Dow erasing all of its early gains of more than 900 points to end the day negative yesterday at 4 00 oclock on wall street, the dow industrials coming down from a gain of 900 to end down 26, the nasdaq down 25 and s p 4 points. Treasury secretary mnuchin seeking 250 quadrillion. If the money did run out the white house would go back to congress and ask for more. Meanwhile in china the country ending the lockdown of wuhan, people allow today leave the city where outbreak began. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning red across the board in europe. Take a look at european indices, cac quarante 75. Still no unified response in europe to coronavirus pandemic from European Union leaders following 16 hours of discussions, talks set to resume tomorrow. Boris johnson remains in intensive care as he battles coronavirus. Overnight in asia and markets in china, so
President is promoting. I dont want people to have their hopes up. That standard. Well yemen records its 1st case of coronavirus leading to fears for. Their sport russias sports minister wants his countrys doping ban removed while 6 members of barcelonas board remove themselves resign in protest that president bottom oh thats coming up later in the program. Manager from the Worlds Largest 20 economies are holding an emergency meeting right now on how to protect oil markets damaged by the fallout from the Coronavirus Crisis their Video Conference follows a record breaking deal by opec and its allies to cut production to try to boost prices reducing output by 10000000. 00 barrels a day is also aimed at countering the collapse in demand caused by coronavirus lets bring in our economics editor. Tell us more about this so where are we at is it likely to happen. Well nick you know theres a possibility that this deal could go through and he said it is an exploding tail because even at the las
It has been several year, march of 2016, since our last hearing on the budget of the nations leading Public Health agency. Before i do a formal welcome and so forth, i want to i was made aware of this issue which is really very, very troubling and that is that the administration has ordered the Immigration Court to immediately remove coronavirus posters and it just says that the Immigration Court staff nationwide have been ordered by the administration to take down coronavirus posters from courtrooms and waiting areas. The executive office for immigration review which falls under the department of justice told all judges and Staff Members in an email monday that all of the coronavirus posters which explain in english and spanish thousand prevent catching and spreading the virus had to be removed immediately. I just want to say that whatever ones view is on any issue that we face in this nation, whatever your personal views are, whatever your ideology is, that we cannot, we cannot in th