Are watching this morning, snow already falling in parts of carolinas and georgia, up to 6inches could blanket southern part of virginia region and eastern North Carolina, drivers are being warned about extremely dangerous Road Conditions this morning. Onto coronavirus this morning, the number of cases appear to be falling as death toll is now topping 2,020, 2200. The passengers quarantine have tested positive for coronavirus. New infections in china have fallen this week but new cases are being counted and they have a new way of counting the cases, the virus claiming 2,248 lives with at least 76,000 individual cases confirmed across the world. 27 countries affected by the deadly path of coronavirus. 11 americans meanwhile cruise ship tested positive, i will be speaking with two passengers, one of whom is infected. Maria roger stone learns fate, roger stone sentenced to 40 months, far less than 9 months originally sought, career prosecutors, the attorney general and the president. And
29,297 the close on the dow. Economists are blaming big slowdown on trade pressure and tariffs, what do you say, john . There you go, this is as expected, china was much more vulnerable to imposition of trade war and u. S. Economy, china has a very strong incentive as ambitious as it might be. Dagen one thing i will point out that we have a record in the stock market here in the United States, in the meantime the democrats are trying to remove President Trump from office, we will get to that in a second but there are good numbers coming out of china, the index jump today highest level since 2015, this is probably a better leading indicater than Economic Growth, the wall street journal writes also about this, the price of copper is up more than 7 in the past 2 months, again, industrial metal used around the globe, another bellwether for Global Health and surveys of purchasing managers in the euro zone have shown continued weakness, new export orders have been going up, the market is tel
Impeachment with Speaker Pelosis commemorative goldembossed signing pens, the solemn march as the articles are walked over to the senate, that whole charade breathlessly covered by the trumphating media, wall to wall coverage for all of that but very little for this. The china trade deal, historic event, redefining the way trade deals are negotiated and structured. That was a big plus for america. And thursday, virtually no coverage for usmca, another trade deal that helps our economy. In fact, none of the three broadcast Networks Even mentioned it. And politicos first headline, major win for trump, that really changed fast to Senate Passes usmca, much work remains. Can you believe this . We are very glad that you are watching us. So look at this. More stock market records are acoming. Big Companies Reporting solid profits and we appear to be in a meltup mode again. The dow is up, what, 270 yesterday, closing just shy of 29,300. Any gain at the opening bell today means another record.
Happy friday. Maria big story and the top story right now this hour 2020 shakeup, new york city mayor billionaire Michael Bloomberg to enter the 2020 democratic race, hes expected to file paperwork to do in alabama. You heard it here first, white house chief strategist steve bannon and former adviser to the Clintons Mark Penn told me last month. I think that bloomberg and clinton are still there as biden is in fourth in iowa, second in New Hampshire, dropping to third. Hes losing steam everywhere. Maria do you think Michael Bloomberg or Hillary Clinton will enter the race . The two representatives of the centrist party. Maria who are you expecting to enter the race . Im not sure exactly who is going to enter, if youre a Michael Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, john kerry or Michelle Obama, youre probably sitting there saying, i could take this field, maybe i should get in, maybe not, i think all four of them are possibilities. Maria thats why we love our guest so much because you heard it h
We will tell you what his personal attorney might be doing very soon. There will be no sleep for the warriors. They are on their way back home for game five on monday night. I was sad that i really think it is an opportunity. A golden opportunity to close this thing out at home. It was a very frustrating game to watch. A lot of people said about the officiating. It is one of those games where it got heated. When you give up to 24 we will give them that one game. I think i might have just the whole thing. I took today off and suspending the parade. We will bring it home. Outside the doors at this hour we have more clearing than yesterday. Because of it no delays at this time. You can see blue skies and to San Francisco this morning. Temperatures running a little bit cool. For your afternoon today a little cool for this time of year. Still very mild. A chance of a few showers. You can see a few clouds over the hills. 48 in santa rosa. 53 to start the morning in San Francisco. Oakland 58.