Will find that necessary. David the number of confirmed cases, 16000 and death toll rises to 216. The dow had been positive this morning though until new york Governor Cuomo announced a stayathome order for one 100 of new yorks socalled nonessential private workforce. Devastating news for the Financial Capital of the world. The dow closing down 927 points. This is bulls bears, weve got you covered on all of the latest news. David as men. Edward lawrence is looking at the 1 trilliondollar stimulus package being debated now on capitol hill. Like berman has developing news from the white house. As for that trillion dollar stimulus package, nancy pelosi spoke by phone this afternoon, earlier today at the white house, President Trump spoke with Chuck Schumer as well. The president is saying today they are not that far apart. The hope is that this trillion dollar package can get to the white house sometime next week. We had a very good telephone conversation, extremely good with each senator
Virus. A councillor that tested positive discusses his experience. And your text and tweets. Washington journal is next. Us coronavirus cases have jumped. Returns at noon as they return to push a response package totalling over 1 million. Good morning, welcome to washington journal, this friday morning. March 20th. Well open up the phone lines, hearing from you, and your experience, response to the federal effort on the coronavirus. Of you in the central time zone, the line is welcome to your input if you are a medical professional tell us your name and where you twitter, ing from on facebook posts. There is a reporter from the mike baker, mes, stationed in the northwest. Part ofg the northwest the us, mike baker tweeting on the numbers, more than he said on the 132. More than 4,000 new cases in the us. Youll see his number at the there 12,336. When we started the programme 9 4509,450. 9,450. Checking the map. 245,484. 10,000, th toll over with 86,000 confirmed recoveries. 14,250. Us i
And nasdaq. Strong market gains for the Bluechip Companies. Just using two of them as an example, we have apple up three dollars, microsoft up at 146. They have been higher than that earlier. Microsoft up earlier. Did they hit bottom this week . A lot of people have been buying them. Were asking that question. I hope a bottom for a lot of companies. Oil moving up to 25. Barrel. Its down 15 cents now. The government is buying oil but the petroleum written for the petroleum reserve. Whats he going to do about the russian and saudi attack on american drillers. We will ask that question to him. Gas prices tumbling. The National Averages 2. 17 a gallon falling about two cents a day. In oklahoma the averages a dollar 80. In california its 3. 25. According to gas buddy we will be down to a National Average of well under two dollars very soon. Lets get to the spreading virus. We will show you Street Scenes from around the world. Same story all over. Ghost towns, empty streets. Economists at a
Will find that necessary. David the number of confirmed cases, 16000 and death toll rises to 216. The dow had been positive this morning though until new york Governor Cuomo announced a stayathome order for one 100 of new yorks socalled nonessential private workforce. Devastating news for the Financial Capital of the world. The dow closing down 927 points. This is bulls bears, weve got you covered on all of the latest news. David as men. Edward lawrence is looking at the 1 trilliondollar stimulus package being debated now on capitol hill. Like berman has developing news from the white house. As for that trillion dollar stimulus package, nancy pelosi spoke by phone this afternoon, earlier today at the white house, President Trump spoke with Chuck Schumer as well. The president is saying today they are not that far apart. The hope is that this trillion dollar package can get to the white house sometime next week. We had a very good telephone conversation, extremely good with each senator
To shut things even further down, especially that News Conference from andrew cuomo today really took the air out of the rally for today. We have to say is we look at the dow down 152 points in the s p down 22, the president remains hopeful. I believe in a lot of things. I want to get workers money and whichever way the best way to do it and i want to keep businesses open. So we are going to get an update on the plan. Senator kevin kramer will join us during this hour and we have Market Analysis from our very own Charles Payne. He will be calling in and you dont want to miss him. A lot more coming up during this hour, making money starts right now. The white house launching fresh travel restrictions in wake of the coronavirus crisis. At the same time the publi republicans trying to get democrats on board with the white house latest stimulus plan. Lets bring in edward lawrence. He is live with us with a lot more. Edward. This is a phase three stimulus and its an expedited form going for