With the covid crisis. This way the patients mouth. Reporter protective gear is scarce here, dr. Samlin says, especially masks. When we use them for a shift we put them in a brown paper bag. Reporter this suspected covid patient coming in is coming by ambulance, i assume. How critical is he . Theyre doing cpr on him. Yeah. Hes dying alone, that is really sad. Reporter that is because suspected Covid Patients need to be isolated. Hes using a respirator from his previous job and a filter that his father who works in construction gave him. How are you doing . Frustrated. The cdc says we can use bandanas as a form of protection for ourselves instead of masks so i got one. Its frustrating because the government let us down. Reporter how are you doing . Um, thank you for asking. Im not well. Its not a joke. I want people to stay home. This is the real deal. Reporter are they still performing cpr . No, theyre dead. Reporter there was no time to even test that patient for covid. But the precau
Up more than 21 points to exit the bear cave is now up 15. But whats going on here . Could it be oil . In the last couple of minutes, oil suddenly, this is the aftermarket, started to tank. Its now down 7. 5 on apparent news that the United States government will start to add Strategic Petroleum reserves with all of the glut there is of oil. So while im looking, i just quickly checked exxonmobil and chevron, they are still up but they are at session lows as well. We are figuring it might have something to do with the oil news. In the meantime, the Small Business stimulus loans continue to flow as the treasury secretary asks for 250 billion in additional funds. We are expecting President Trump any moment now to give us an update on how that Small Business Program Lending situation is going. Its known as the Paycheck Protection Program. But the latest tally shows that the Small Business administration has processed 225,000 loans worth more than 60 billion. Thats just since friday. No wor
The economy, pretty much at a dead stop until may, maybe longer. The market is looking to the other side of the virus problem and surely welcomes more financial help. However, stocks are ending the worst month since 2008 and the dow will open lower this morning, off maybe 140 points. Similar story for the s p and for the nasdaq. A down opening bell today. The price of oil, well, that remains at depression levels. This morning we are in the low 20 per barrel and the average price of gasoline, you got to look at this, the National Average gas price has dropped below 2 a gallon. 1. 99, thats your number this morning. The price is dropping about two cents a day but so what . Demand has cratered, the roads are empty, and few people are taking advantage of dirtcheap gas. Now, this caused a stir yesterday. The u. S. Navy hospital ship arrived in new york and was greeted by crowds of onlookers. They were breaking social distancing rules. Those people who were holed up in their apartments and h
What the governor said a moment ago, he is tired of being behind this virus. We have been behind it, playing catchup from day one, trying to put a plan in place that puts him ahead of it, plans what he believes will be the apex in terms of the virus and the impact on the state of new york in the next two to three weeks. Before we go back to the numbers, another thing the governor mentioned in albany a moment ago, his brother chris, who host as nightly program on cnn, is positive for covid19. His symptoms, according to cnn, are mild. Chris cuomo will continue to host his nightly program, they say from his home on a daily basis, again with mild symptoms. The governor has been talking about his brother who he says is his best friend here for the last few minutes. Before that he did go through these numbers. Lets put them back up there. 75,759 cases in the state of new york and 1500 deaths. 1550 is the latest number, up from over 1200 yesterday. These numbers, to neils point continue to ri
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