Suspending production in South Carolina green arrows across the board. The dow will open about 600 points also looking at the green on the nasdaq and s p 500 if you take a look at what is happening in the treasury as well s p indicated up 72 points in the treasury, youll also see what is happening on the yield in that front. It is the 10year that is yielding closely at 7. 04 . Lets get everybody updated on the latest on the pandemic numbers. Nearly 11,000 people in the u. S. Have died from covid19. The country has more than 361,000 cases. New york has 131,000 of those cases. New jersey reaching a grim milestone with more than 1,000 deaths in the state. Overseas, we have positive numbers from italy that reports its lowest daily number of new cases since march 17 spain reporting its lowest number since march 22nd. The second time since january, china reported no new coronavirus deaths reporting 30 new asymptomatic cases and two with symptoms. President trump has struck a deal to buy mill
Republican huddled on capital hill taking the first step to electing a new speaker. They are under pressure to act quickly in order to provide aid to israel. The speaker battle on capitol hill and your thoughts on what is happening in the middle east. For democrats 202 7488000, for republicans 202 7488001 and for independents 202 7488002 you can also text at 202 7488003 or on facebook facebook. Com cspan. Good morning everyone and welcome to our new home at the washington journal. We are in a brandnew studio, in the same building on a different floor. It has been a year in the making. We have new monitors, new backgrounds, new desks, new lighting. One thing that will not change as the conversation we have with each of you every morning. If you want a more indepth tour of this new studio you can go online and take a tour along with us to check it all out. For the first hour, we have a double headline with the speaker battle on capitol hill and how the u. S. Is responding to the israel h
Buckeye broadband supports cspan as a Public Service along with tse other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Joining us from new york this morning is james to kobe, the pbs frontline director of a new documentary, elon musk, twitter take over. Why did you decide to do a documentary about elon musk and the twitter take over . Guest i wanted to make a film to report about elon musk for a long time. Kind of his purchase of twitter seems to be the right time to do it. The fact that he has been evolving politically over the past couple of years basically during the pandemic and onward and it seems this interesting new chapter in his career and life, his politics. It also gave us the chance to some serious reporting and tell the story of the people who have been working at twitter which had been changing in the postpandemic time. It was an opportunity to delve into an interesting strain of politics in america and also the latest chapter in his expanding power. He
Along with dozens of others from places like britain and france remain unclear. After algerian troops and helicopters stormed this natural gas facility. It appears it was a bloody rescue attempt that went terribly wrong. This morning, the algerian government said that its raid is now over. But the situation is still not resolved. The area is so remote and communications so difficult no one is really clear what is happening. The british Prime Minister spoke just moments ago. There is no justification for this hostagetaking and well continue to do everything we can to hunt the people down. Reporter what we doe know prior to the raid, some hostages were forced to wear explosives around their necks. And at least five americans who may have been elsewhere on the complex managed to escape along with at least one irish worker from belfast. I cant describe how happy i am. Reporter he called his family immediately after he was in a safe area. Telling them how he left to safety from a jeep after