That gets a ding the federal trade Commission Just approved pepsis purchase of Rockstar Energy drinks. Its going to be so annoying at restaurants when they order a coke and a red bull and the waitress says, sorry, is pepsi and rockstar okay . Thats right, pepsi now owns mountain dew and Rockstar Energy drinks. Pepsi, who are you fooling just start making meth and call it a day come on. This is exciting last night, espn aired the first two parts of their Michael Jordan docuseries, the last dance. Yeah, its something sports fans cant pass up, sort of like Michael Jordan, any time he had the ball. Oh [ ding ] wow. President obama was interviewed for the series and a lot of people laughed at the description the filmmakers gave him check it out they just call him former chicago resident. Thats like calling jesus former carpenter. And they were like, our mistake, it should have just said michelles husband. [ ding ] i see that disney brought back its bedtime hotline to help kids through the p
Quarantine it, will be a pretty strong enforcement of quarantine. The key is you have to have separation. We have to have separation or this thing takes longer to go away. But the real, really important, and i think you can say this for your country, i think we can say it for a lot of countries, for all countries hope fullly it is going a way. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths. You know, we call it cases, how many cases do you have . Relative to other countries we have very few cases. Relative to certain of major countries that really have a bigger problem than us. Interestingly i think we have the greatest doctors in the world. We offered iran assistance. Iran is having a tremendous problem and we have offered iran assistance if they would like it. We will help them. We would be glad to help them. Reporter mr. President , pentagon determined that iranian backed militia fired rockets that killed two american solders in iraq. Should they expect a response . I would rather
Watching for wild swings right here 10 year yields 0. 7 and thats pretty stable compared to where we were two days ago i checked that, whats the problem with the markets but theres a lot going on breaking overnight, this should have been somewhat helpful you would think. Bank of england announced emergency cut. Lowering the bank rate by 50 basis points to. 25 englands central bank also announced a new funding plan to support small and Medium Sized Companies as well as new steps to help commercial banks lend more well get a live report from london in just a couple of moments. Now an update onthe coronavirus. In the u. S. , confirmed cases have now topped 1,000. Want to get to meg now who joins us with the latest meg. Good morning, andrew, case counts drived to 119,000 overnight with almost 4,300 deaths among the hardest hit countries, italy, iran, and south korea and they tell dramatically different stories. Italy reported highest daily jump in deaths yesterday to more than 600 of more
Prone to gaffes. In congress, no agreement on how to respond to the virus. The latest proposals, a payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year. In other words, your Social Security contribution, suspended. Another one, extend the april 15th tax deadline. However, congress had better get on with it. A oneweek recess starts friday. The market, not happy with any of this. Stocks will be down at the opening bell. You kind of get seasick watching it all. Down 2,000 monday, up 1100 tuesday, this morning we will open about 800 points to the downside. Similar losses for the s p and nasdaq. The virus, there are now just over 1,000 cases in the United States. Draconian action in new rochelle, new york, where the National Guard has been called out to help with a cluster of cases in that town. Seattle has restrictions on large gatherings. The first lawsuits have appeared, a cruise line sued. And just look at this. Students at the university of dayton rioted last night after the authorities announ
All coming in from that low off Southern California. Most of it is down in Central California and los angeles. We get an on shore breeze today. That will make a big difference. 60s on the forecast highs today. All right. Sal is here. Something new you want to get to right away. We dont have a lot going on which is nice. Highway 24, were going to start there right now through lafayette. It looks pretty good if youre driving over from walnut creek to oakland. And then, on the other side, Richmond Bridge looks light. A 17minute drive from the carquinez bridge to the maze. The very latest on whats happening with those passengers still on that cruise ship in the port of oakland, some of them will be leaving that cruise ship today. Ktvus Sara Zendehnam is out there right now in the port of oakland with the latest on what we know right now. Good morning, sara. Reporter good morning, dave. The hope is to get everyone off by later today or early tomorrow. But, of course, their journey does not