York have been discharged. Meantime, italy seeing its lowest number of deaths in more than two weeks and that is helping the market this morning. A strong rally in store as investors begin this holiday shortened week with some optimism. As you can see, the futures up, the dow up 788 points, the nasdaq and s p all well above 3 . It is a different story, though, for oil. Even with hopes of a deal between the russians and saudis, we still have a glut of oil because, well, no one is using it. Oil down, as you can see, down nearly 5 at 26. 94. Meanwhile, questions begin over whether to reopen the economy, when exactly. That will be a political decision as well as a medical one. And President Trump warming to the idea of a second task force whose job would be reopening the economy. All of this while the need and scope of a fourth stimulus package is also being discussed. Hello, everyone. Im Ashley Webster in today for stuart. We begin with your money. Joining us now, economist john lonski. J
250 people to be rescheduled or canceled out right at this point its not in order. It is a recommendation and he urges you to follow it because. Quote not holding that concert or Community Event can have cascading effect saving dozens of lives and preserving Critical Health care resources that your family may need a month from now state Health Officials also advise smaller events should only happen if the organizers can implement socialdistancing of 6 park per person. Herein the bay schools and events have been canceled over theconcerns about coronavirus and that includes Lake Shore Elementary School in San Francisco. The school will be closed for 2 weeks after 4 students in some Family Members reported having a respiratory illness. Now there arent confirmed coronavirus cases that have been linked to lakeshore any to schools in taking any chances. Lakeshore dont forget is right next to low high school which was a students parent became ill with coronavirus the high school reopenejust y
Number of infected exploding out of control we really have a choice to make right now as the nation do we want to go the way of italy and see our numbers increase rapidly or do we want to go the way of south korea in china that choice to self isolate and shelter in place will determine how well the outbreak is handled here. The people are taking it seriously you not just affecting your health anymore. Youre affecting everybodys health in washington nadia romero kron 4 news. The situation continues to be very dire in italy tonight that country now has more than 31,000 cases of coronavirus more than 2500 people have died. The average age of those who died is 80 most of them if not all had pre existing conditions and the vast majority had only 8 days between when they started showing symptoms and when they died at least 60 Million People are living in a state of almost complete lockdown as authorities try to contain the virus for california. Now find themselves on employed in the wake of
Officials say that person had Underlying Health conditions and had recently returned from a San Francisco to mexico cruise. In washington, another death was announced bringing the total there to ten. Placer county officials also held a News Conference today. Placer county Public Health has been conducting intensive Contact Tracing to identify and Contact Health care workers and Community Members who were expos individual. Officials say they think the person had Minimal Community exposure between returning h spo ntcted coronavirus. Princess cruises has identified the patient as a 71yearold man. And that patient is not the only Northern California resident on that creuise who later tested positive. Now crews passengers on that ship are being warned once again. You can see the cruise ship right there. And kate larsen is live with the latest. Reporter well, originally that cruise ship was supposed to come back to port here in San Francisco on saturday morning and then this morning princess
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