Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
Building. Its also much building. Its also much oscillating and attacking a party that was happening around the gaza strip , a nature party the gaza strip, a nature party attacking civilians , kidnapping attacking civilians, kidnapping attacking civilians, kidnapping a grandmother. Father and a grandmother. Father and finally, gb news understands that labour plans to appoint a covid corruption commissioner if the party wins the next general election. The new role is designed to help recoup billions of pounds of taxpayers money lost during the pandemic. Labour believes there were cases of waste, fraud and flawed contracts. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to make the announcement shortly. This is gb announcement shortly. This is gb news across the uk on tv , in news across the uk on tv, in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news. Now lets get back to free speech nation. On to free speech nation. On rishi sunak gets in hot water over a joke
And gunmen stormed the border. And gunmen stormed the border. The scenes that weve seen in israel over the past 36 hours are truly horrifying. I want to are truly horrifying. I want to express my absolute solidarity for the people of israel. Now is for the people of israel. Now is not a time for equivocation , and not a time for equivocation, and im unequivocal. Hamas and the people who support hamas are fully responsible for this appalling act of terror , for the appalling act of terror, for the murder of civilians and for the kidnapping of innocent people, including children. Ive just spoken with Prime Minister netanyahu to assure him of the uk steadfast support rishi sunak giving his full support. Now, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht is the idfs international spokesperson. He described the scene on the ground. Ground. The visuals are isil visuals. In a way, this is our 9 11. This is our 9 11. And, you know, even more than that, i mean, it wasnt it crashing into a building. Its also
You can watch dismiss other programs online at book theredoering booktv. Org. The gagersburg book festival continues on book testify. Science magazine recorder Meredith Wadman talks about the race to create vaccinations. Hi, everybody. Walk to the gaithersburg become festival. I am Sarah Jackson and im a proud resident and an epidemiologist the university of maryland. Gaithersburg is a city that proudly support this arts and humanities. Were pleaed to bring you this fabulous event, thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers when when you see them, say thank you. I have a few announcements. Please silence all of your guise device. Youre on social media, use the hash tag gbf. Your feedback is valuable. Surveys are available here the tone and on the web site. By submit think survey you will be entered two a drawing for a 100 vase gift card. Dr. Meredith wadman will be signing books after the talk. A quick word about buying books. This is a free event but it does
Right now, harlem right now, and find many, many people shooting up or using pills who are not white, who are not lower middle class people. This is an epidemic that affects all income groups, ages, races, demographics and thats largely looked past in the media, the in part because its easier for reporters to most reporters are white. Im white, im a report. And im speaking from experience. Most newsrooms most reporters are white, and i think white reporters feel more comfortable going to white neighborhoods to write about white drug addicts. Thats been my experience. I think if you saw more people of color in newsrooms you would see this aspect of the epidemic represented more fairly in the press. I wanted to cover that. That aspect of it. So im going to talk about an area in baltimore called oxyalley, a place i spent a lot of time writing about the addicts there and a place where many some of the drugs and many other drugs ended up. They dahl it oxial. Looks like any other blighted st