Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
Expecting to hear from President Trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. Senior Administration Officials say across the country, 1. 9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid19. Senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that 11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. They identified state goals and needs for month of may. Earlier today, Vice President , when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have Staff Members within Nursing Homes tested. Testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states arent reopening because of politics this Election Year this is part of the tweet from President Trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes
Formally thats where they stop, unlike the oil futures hallelujah. And thats why we got hammered dow plunging 632 points. S p plummeting 8. 37 nasdaq nose diving 3. 48 the house of pain yesterdays futures in negative territory terrified people if you have to pay to get rid of a barrel of oil or a bank that lent to a bunch of oil companies, even though futures rebounded, oil is above zero the more representative june futures plunged to zero digits before rebounding to the teens in the afternoon its not a good sign in other words, today the real physical world of commodities interfered with the paper world of stocks. My cyclical side says we rally hard from the bottom for not much reason. Since the paends the dow crashed to 18,000, and back to 24,000. Dramatically oversold to dramatically overbought quickly. Maybe we got ahead of ourselves. Sure, it looks like we slowed the coronavirus. More on that tonight youre going to like it i think. Were still seeing thousands of deaths per day and
Against midway, against the japanese in world war ii the s p jumping 6. 24 . The nasdaq gaining 5. 60 in spite of the hideous jobless claims number in history this is the best day since 1931. So far covid19 has run the table against us we were not prepared and this virus has had us on our heels the whole way. Attacking the very basis of our civilization, life, liberty and especially the pursuit of happiness which in this case means the right to watch march madness, grab a beer, see Cirque Du Soleil in vegas at least until today were up against an insanely bullish last few minutes of trading. Astonishing return for large caps bully. Weve seen big run in all things tech it wasnt coordinated. Like our initial attempts to homeland the line in world war ii we were overcome by a prettier prepared enemy, virus its killing people directly and killing the economy. Like the greedy win at midway, google, watch the movie, even the terrible remake. I am beginning to think we can hold off one of the
Warning system to identify signs of officer misconduct. So for the first time in the histories of policing, we here in minneapolis will have an opportunity to use Realtime Data and automation to intervene with officers engaged in problematic behavior. Our Lucy Cavanaugh was there at the news conference. Head to her in minneapolis. Lucy, the chief was passionate at times talking about growing up in the city and how this is intertwined. Give us more why the changes are happening now. Reporter brianna, hes the 53rd chief of police here in minneapolis, but the first black person to serve in that position. Theres obviously been a lot of pressure within the city and also nationwide. Hes found himself in this harsh spotlight mostly over a White Police Department that killed a black person. He spoke passionately and refused to eveningen mention the name of derek chauvin, the former Police Officer charged in the killing of george floyd and talked about the deepseeded issue of racism within the