Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
American history textbook, but if you dig a little bit deeper, theres an incredible history just beneath the surface. Lindsay, also a White House Historical association historian and new in the role there. Were going to spend some time with both of you learning about your work and also about the association. So im going to ask you to give the elevator speech about the association itself, how it got started and what its mission is. Sure, so the association was founded by Jacqueline Kennedy to preserve and protect the history of the white house and then share that history with the American People more broadly. And since then, weve worked on that mission to try and cultivate the white house, the first floor especially, as sort of a museum for the people to tell the story of the white house and the story of the nation and to try and make it a little bit more accessible for visitors that come through. Why the first floor specifically . Sure. So the first floor is often referred to as the st
On the radar that were looking at because that is something we certainly do need as well you can see the showers that are pushing in ride along the peninsula and up into Solano County eventually right along the 80 corridor, lets zoom in on where were seeing some of this rainfall right now if you are in areas like san mateo on up through South San Francisco as well as down to half moon bay, some darker green indicating moderate rainfall for you lighter showers in San Francisco right now if youre driving a 80. On to the east bay youre running into showers once you head north of hayward on your way up to oakland there on and off right now, but right around oakland up to emeryville and eventually up to berkeley rainfall intensity will increase here in the next few minutes a few light sprinkles in marine county and then you head up into Solano County on up to napa county to and theres definitely some wet spots as conditions in these areas pretty i offering a pretty widespread rainfall as of
Costa, pmarin, San Francisco, sn mateo and santa clara counties along with the city of berkeley jointly issuing a legal order to shelter in homes the next three weeks. Sheltering in place is a core strategy. By staying home you reduce your risk of becoming exposed, which means that we reduce the risk of transmission. Reporter essential businesses will still be allowed to operate with public and personal travel to and from these services permitted under the order. Businesses that provide food, shelter and social services can remain open, including Grocery Stores, convenience stores, pharmacies, gas stations, banks, plumbing and laundry. Restaurants can offer takeout. Fire, police, medical and essential government functions will continue. Our goal right now is to make sure we have as few people as possible straining our medical resources so were only using those for people who are most in need. Reporter san jose mayor sam liccardo said city staff are already working with nonprofit and pr
Between gilroy and morgan hill, near san martin, they are, we are looking at temperatures in the mid to upper 40s, to low 50s, a cool start, and as we had through the afternoon, a mild day, 64 San Francisco, 66 oakland, 67 san jose, and concord, we will talk about rain chances and take you through the day on future caste, and the locations that have the best chance to see that rain, coming up. You might have be careful rning,havea couple of accidents to look out for, westbound 80 at ashby, cars tangled up here, those lanes are blocked, to write lanes, we are starting to see delays, now, because of this crash. Keep that in mind if you are taking easter free were there this morning, if youre headed toward the bay bridge we have a slight backup in those lanes overall, the traffic pretty light, from a toll plaza heading into San Francisco. Another crash year, 238 at hesperia boulevard, close to that 880 connector, we have a couple of cars tangled up your also, the good news is its not blog