Thats where were at. The Senate Overwhelmingly passed a 2 trillion stimulus package hoping to ease the burden on families during this pandemic. Im proud to announce not a single senator voted against this 2 trillion rescue bill. A worst jobless numbers of all time. The u. S. Unemployment claims soared to 3. 3 million. A Health Pandemic has become a financial pandemic. There are now more than 60,000 cases in the united states. New york accounts for more than half of those cases. You wouldnt even think about putting the damper on whats going on in new york. That would be outlandish as its going up. No doubt. The family of former fbi agent Robert Levenson believes he died while in iranian custody. Even the easter bunny needs protection. Bakers are adding protective face masks to the easter treats. All that oh, my god. Oh, my god. A reporter bails after a Close Encounter with some bison. I aint messing with you. Oh, no. Oh, no. And all that matters. The nba with mike breen doing a psa abou
This is 3 declines for each of these markets. Joe, it looked worse overnight well see what happens as we get a little closer to the opening bell youve been watching the treasury. It was lockdown. It was lockdown for quite some time. And it really was about i couldnt help but saying, this is the politicians fault. It was if they had done what they looked like they were going to do as of friday, i dont think it would have been like that but then again, we may have had the, all right, they passed it, were up and then that sells off. In this world, i dont know what to hope for anymore. This is how it works, though. Im going to read something in a second that im so excited about. I even got more excited about this than i did about the futures not being locked down is,000 points. Weet gel well get to that. It was 954 points or something. Yields have come down. The tenyear was down at 0. 829 . Again, that volatility is spreading not only through the stock market but treasuries. Its been amazi
Yeah. No doubt hopefully they can get this stuff done between the congress and the senate and it will be a lot more to do its a good start but given the dislocation to the marketplace, hopefully we can get this thing done in washington and well be good backstops for the market. Does it take a significant amount of stress off of the credit markets, which i know youve been concerned about and you watch so closely well, i mean, it takes a certain amount off it doesnt theres still a lot of stress in a lot of different places it takes a little bit of the stress off you really need the washington package. A package in washington just a lot bigger what they were talking about doing, seven times bigger. If i got my numbers right off the top of my head just to help support corporate small business, et cetera, what were going to need support and buy secondary stuff in the marketplace. Some of the other things they started to do today, so that we can have the economy function the right way. How c
People, low income people and the, than the support of the brennan we will talk about the road ahead for both candidates. But first, a look at the struggle to contain the coronavirus in the u. S. And around the world. Can the Trump Administration calm fears and anxiety following a series of missteps and conflicting messages . And are we prepared for widespread cases of the highly contagious virus. Anybody that needs a test gets a test kit, they are there, they are there and the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. Brennan Washington State is dealing with more than 100 cases of coronavirus, the most in the country. We will ask governor jay inslee if he is getting enough help from the federal government. Connecticut senator chris murphy will also be here as well as Surgeon General jerome adams and former fda commissioner scott gotly plus at some European Countries see a dramatic case spike in the case of the coronavirus cases this weekend we will have a report from
Defuse tensions in syria president putin expressed his condolences for the deaths of turkish troops last week and said the Syrian Government was not aware of the tension more on this meeting. Something will have to come out of this meeting because this meeting has been prepared by a delegation to go and back and forth between. Moscow for a couple of weeks already and put in has been quite reluctant to meet the one before today because. The negotiations between the delegations werent going very well until the turkish offensive much further into it and then put in finally agreed but on his own grounds here in moscow and as we heard earlier on has arrived in moscow and the talks are supposed to start any moment soon but these talks will be very difficult these negotiations will be very tough because putin has this very difficult and complicated chess game that he tries to play with still pleasing. From syria on the one hand and also still be in this business and military partner that hes