Employees. Bank of america and Morgan Stanley among big banks reporting. Dow component Johnson Johnson right here. Futures in the red. We are standing by for retail sales and jobless claims this morning at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Stocks edging higher, Investor Sentiment over covid19 vaccine pushing markets into the green. The dow industrials up 227 points, nasdaq up 62 and s p up 29. The state of travel today airlines in the midst of a sharp downturn as pandemic fears keep travelers grounded at 7 30 a. M. Eastern ill be joined by ceo of delta edward bastian. Plus this, drink up, how moderate Alcohol Consumption can protect against cognitive decline. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria european markets on the decline. Standing by for the ecb decision for the next hour, rates are expected to stay unchanged. Ftse 100 is down 36 points, new data this morning from the uk shows half a million workers were furloughed in the month of may. Thats in response to the pandemic shutdown. This m
And in key battlegrounds with what about those air purifiers how open were you in this show a lot of people have those things too open. People are probably wonderin too open . All right, kerry. What about those air purifiers too open. People are probably wondering if i dont know how to i verbal they can kill a lot of things. Can they kill the spread of the vomit way too much and i tell people way too many less than four months to go. In a twitter virus . Reporter it depends if it things i shouldnt be telling them has a hepa filter. It has one in there, it will so i wont be watching fallout growing from one of the biggest cyberscams ever. Highprofile accounts of but you guys can watch billionaires, politicians, and celebrities hijacked what was tough about what this morning how the company was in there that you think was says hackers pulled off this help difficult to reveal . Well, im 60. A lot of years have gone by. Highly sophisticated, coordinated attack a lot of stuff has happened.
Now theyre saying goodbye to one of their own. The nurses here say that ponders death could have been avoided. They were given the proper ppe for dozens of these nurses at Summit Medical center in oakland janine paste a punter was more than just a coworker i mention i stay ponder was devoted to her patients here at Summit Medical center for more than 25 years. But unfortunately she wont be returning to work. Family and coworkers say she died on friday after contracting the coronavirus from the hospital which they blame for its lack of proper ppe is very sad. This in need to happen. We if the hospital the Medical Center here had provided the proper ppe that the mass the council we were at went through a period of reusing masking gallons even now some of the floors nurses have trouble getting there n 95, which is the maximum protection fellow nurses at some of the Medical Center held a vigil on tuesday to honor pastry ponder. In demand proper protection of its employees angry because the
Moving west, the strawberry fire in southwest utah is holding at 15 contained. Lightning sparked the flames, which have burned more than 40 acres. The heat continues across the east coast with heat advisories and excessive heat warnings from South Carolina all the way to maryland. Now to the coronavirus and so Many Americans asking if theyre safe even eating outdoors. It comes amid new speculation that the Coronavirus Infection rate could actually be as much as 2,000 higher than reported. I spoke earlier with dr. Gharahbaghian. As we reported, the cdc is now saying there could be 10 times more Coronavirus Infections across this country than reported. In some areas, that number could be 20 times more. What does this say about the spread of the virus, and does this mean the death rate is lower than we thought . Its not surprising, actually, that the number of cases are actually more than what is reported, for a variety of reasons. We had changing testing algorithms. It used to be more st
Biontech delivering millions of doses of a potential vaccine for covid19. Well kick it off with Edward Lawrence in washington. Reporter melissa, very big news for pfizer and the vaccine. We could have three vaccines in circulation by end of the year. First one by astrazeneca, they hope by october. Moderna and pfizer follow by the end of the year. The governor of connecticut toured a pfizer plant in his state. Senior Vice President for drug safety and development for that facility says pfizer focused on doing the next studies and getting that data to the fda for a safe and effective vaccine. Governor ned lamont says it will be widely distributed. Listen. We continue to hit the metrics we need. We continue to get the fda approvals. We continue to do this safely. We have a real opportunity by end of this year to be able to go to cvs or the local pharmacy to get a Covid Vaccine just like you get a flu vaccine. Reporter a clue how governors think the vaccine could be widely distributed, wit