Gov. Walz good morning, everyone. This has been the most difficult week in minnesota in recent history and maybe in our entire history. In our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, much like we failed unheard, much like we failed to hear george floyd as he pleaded for his life as the world watched by people sworn to protect him, his community, our state. Philando castile, silenced, unheard, so many other friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers senselessly died in our street. And now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world, and the world is watching. One of the first people i called after seeing the video was valerie castile, philandos mother. We have become friends since the killing of philando. For those watching today who are not familiar, philando died in front of his loved one and his child and left them behind and the grieving mother who has become an advocate for justice, for reform, but more importantly an ad
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What some of the states are doing, they can open, but its very difficult some of the rules of some of the states are hard core when you look at them, you think ppp versus, geez, those are the rules . Took some ppp before were seeing it . I think its not going to be nearly as easy as people think i do wonder if our show were located in austin if we wouldnt be saying those crazy new yorkers, but we live here. We live in new jersey. I think that its going to be a little bit more difficult for a company to stay in business unless they have great Balance Sheets, and are able to ride the waves. Look at norwegian cruise its a city on a a foreignflagged city on the ocean. I see situations like that, im like be careful. Its not all roses when youre opening. Right additional headlines this morning about pending layoffs, reportedly pending layoffs for the airlines in october. Bankruptcy news, whether its hertz or a few other companies now. The markets looking past a lot of that. I think the marke
A listen. Points for the americas although the americas hes one of the reuse of being in the area for emergencies for a long time as you remember after 2009 h one n one and to me both of the countries in their many cars beyond their preparedness all of them d there and that make it through in plans and also the transit in their surveillance so we have more than 800. 00 sites to assess this it lieschen well. Dirty illness still get priority these are related to effects. So we can reduce the risk of the Health Care Personnel but also only take cases so support Early Detection particularly for those that are in the country already and for doing that we need laboratory laboratories. The stool do a test the tests are not enough d. M. V. We distributed more than 2 100000 we are now procuring around 1000000. 00 of those tests because most of the country is run out of those and also we are looking to strengthen it up i see theo searching house at rhesus adapting that surge in their capacity th
613, s p down about 75 and nasdaq off by almost 200 on concerns about what we heard out of the white house last night. Joe mentioned those numbers. 100,000, to 240,000 americans potentially dying from this. The treasury market where yields have come down right at about 0. 619 . Some pressure as people move into treasuries as a safe haven. Andrew part of that, we talked about, so much of the money being rebalanced to some degree was propping that up that money wont be there today or the rest of the week or rest of the month because so many of the Pension Funds were there irrespective of the numbers we were hearing well put some pressure on the market in the meantime, the number of confirmed cases has reached 189,000. More than 4,000 people have died in new york city alone the latest death toll has exceeded 18,000. Maine is the latest state to issue stay at home order joining 28 other states. This morning, three out of four americans are facing some sort of lockdown due to the coronaviru