Well talk to one about what shes doing to protect her homes. A little good news and positive trends being seen at airports around the world. Friday may 8 you are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening welcome from wherever you are watching im Brian Sullivan i think i speak for all of us as a say tgif stock futures are up 270 points right now. Perhaps the Market Knowledge of the day, for some reason, if you tuned out yesterday. We have some gains the nasdaq is now higher on the year hard to believe given all that is going on across the country it is true with yesterdays gains that the nasdaq is now positive the more condensed version is up 4 this year it is really the big five Technology Names you know. Apple, google, microsoft, facebook are up on average 10 despite concerns about Consumer Spending on advertisement. Google and microsoft are up. Improving is the work from home and stayathome stocks. Zoom, netflix, paypal have all soared since
Well show you what happens to a College Stats course when nfl head coach john gruden crashes the party. Early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena im cori coffin as americans continue to fight back the coronavirus states are looking for ways to let their residents out of lockdown. There are signs that social distancing has been making a difference still, the number of deaths in the United States due to covid19 has risen to more than 42,000 a wave of Southern States have now announced reopening in georgia gyms and hair salons will be allowed to reopen as early as friday. In tennessees stay at home order will expire at the end of the month. Texas began its first phase of lifting restrictions by opening state parks. New york has launched a statewide anti body study to try to determine exactly how many people have the virus. The Health Department plans to randomly select 3,000 volunteers at 20 Grocery Stores Officials Say the findings should help with the strategy to reopen
Test test gross so now, i grab my swiffer sweeper and heavyduty dusters. Duster extends to three feet to get all that gross stuff gotcha and for that nasty dust on my floors, my sweepers on it. The textured cloths grab and hold dirt and hair no matter where dust bunnies hide. No more heebie jeebies. Phew. Glad i stopped cleaning and started swiffering. One odd result of the pandemic is an exceptional honey harvest. Beekeepers in france say fewer cars on the road means less pollution, and that means more flowers for bees to buzz. Across the border Italian Pizza makers are firing up their ovens. Pie addicts swarmed local pizzerias at safe distances to get their hands on a slice or two. Back at home, the fda has just approved the first Coronavirus Vaccine in human trials to enter phase two. It comes as scientists learn more about how the coronavirus mutates. Here is abcs kaylee hartung. Reporter a new clue in the war against coronavirus. As scientists race to develop a vaccine. Fortunatel
Dow futures are down by 40 s p futures down by 5. 5. If you want to take a look at the treasury market, the tenyear right now at this point, of course wti, i should point out, is down by 2 still trading above 24. The tenyear yielding 0. 7 0. 697 andrew well get an update on the pandemic the number of cases worldwide, crossing 4 million with 1. 3 million, thats in the United States the biggest hot spots in america are new york, new jersey, massachusetts and illinois all with more than 75,000 cases. Now, new yorks Governor Cuomo saying yesterday the number of new cases was back to the level from two months ago. Lots of good news there, when he first issued the shutdown order. Overnight, india, reported 4,200 new cases in the last 24 hours the largest single day increase in the country they are entering the final week of a nationwide lockdown a few cluster formed around nightclubs in south korea. They eased restrictions last week but on saturday, shut down all clubs, bars and discos in se
To get medicaid, but often only in certain states. Health policy researcher dr. Aaron carroll. Weve done almost nothing to try to ease the path or to make it easy. In fact, it appears to be incredibly difficult. Reporter whats worse, he said, many states appear to be overwhelmed. It takes a significant infrastructure to do all of the checking and signing people up and checking to see if they qualify for subsidies during all of that. Its not clear that right now in april, a lot of the exchanges, especially at the state base level or federal, i guess, are actually staffed up and prepared to do that. To me its outrageous in a ou reporter senator mark warner and other democrats are proposing a bill to reopen enrollment for the affordable states where it hasnt yet happened so people dont put off getting care. Somebody god forbid who may be coming down with signs of the virus, should not be afraid of going to the doctor because they cant afford to pay. In this circumstance, that kind of relu