The numbers are going to get bigger by the hour. I dont think we should be counting by the hour frankly because the numbers are only going to go one way and you should mark them at significant intervals as weve seen in china and other large scale populations who have to deal with this. President trump is going to meet with top banking wall street executives later today. He wants to discuss how the virus is hurting the economy as the New York Times is reporting his administration missed key chances to slow the spread of the virus months ago. How so . Lets get perspective. Cnns nick watt takes a closer look at the scramble to contain the virus inside our country. Reporter a hot spot exploding in new york. New rochell at this point is probably the largest cluster in the United States. Reporter theres now a containment zone, schools, facilities closed inside that ring, the National Guard to help deliver food and clean. This is literally a matter of life and death. Reporter in new jersey, f
But this morning u. S. Stock futures are pointing to a big bounce at the opening bell. Look at that number right now, up to more than a thousand points. The markets reacting to President Trump floating the idea of a payroll tax cut and other Economic Relief to offset the coronavirus. The death toll in the United States is now 26 people. With a number of cases rising overnight to 731, thats across 36 different states and washington, d. C. Worldwide, more than 4,000 people have died and more than 113,000 confirmed cases. This morning, all of italy is locked down. The countrys borders effectively closed. 60 Million People barred from traveling for weeks. In the United States, Santa Clara County in california has banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people. And the nations capital, the s. E. C. Has told employees to work from home. In oakland, a second round of passengers will begin disembarking from the grand princess cruise ship. Any passenger needing immediate medical attention was take
Parades. A cruise ship docked yesterday. Athena, were trying to track from community to community. Tell us the latest were learning here. Reporter good morning, jim. The key words here are virtual instruction and social distancing. Thats what schools and universities all across the country are trying to do to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Here at Columbia University and its sister campus across the street, varner college, theyve suspended classes day to day and then theyre moving online wednesday, thursday and friday. The students will be on spring break so it will be off campus mostly. And hofstra is moving to virtual instruction and urging their students not to return to campus after spring break. Their spring break also starts this weekend and extends about a week. There is a long list. The list seems to be growing practically by the hour just here in new york. Hofstra university, fordham, princeton, and on the west coast, of course, university of washington which wa
Whats your message to gm this morning . Thank you. We have outstanding issues that we still need to resolve, and we are committed to do that. We are hopeful that this morning General Motors is also committed to sit down and bridge that gap and address all the issues that are still currently on the bar beginning table. General motors put out a statement, and its unusual for them by the way to reveal what they have offered, but their statement said, we presented a strong offer that improves wages, benefits and grows u. S. Jobs in substantive ways and its disappointing the uaw leadership has chosen to strike. We have negotiated in good faith and our goal remains to build a strong future for our employees and our businesses. They say theyve offered new money, they said they have made some offers having to do with some of the plants that theyve closed. What more do you want from them . So let me just state for the record that only 2 of our proposals have been tentatively agreed to. Let me m
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