The stories behind them, what were some of the men thinking as they participate with this units, and we will end with what they do at gettysburg. With that, we will get started. All right. So, the irish brigade. One might question how do you get interested in this topic . Why would you choose the irish brigade . When i started here as an intern in 1998, the summer of my junior year in college, i was all about history. I wanted to delve more into some of my ancestry and all the stories that i had heard was that we are of irish descent. I was not a great genealogist at that point, but it is still interesting anyway. I had a chance, an opportunity, over the next couple summers as i worked at gettysburg, to really look at this part of the battle. And did a campd fire program on it, somewhat similar to the one you see now, but later on what i was able to do was get married and eventually take a honeymoon to ireland, so what a perfect chance to visit the mother country. We traveled all aroun
Which prevent michiganders crossing the street to visit family members. No relaxation of the social distancing rules from President Trump. Hes considering extending the keep your distance regulations into the early summer. Then theres this. Antibody tests that show far more people have been through covid19, three million in new york state, 20 of new york citys residents have had it. That means the fatality rate, the number of people who died from the virus, comes way, way down. Interesting. Quickly to the markets. Not Much Movement at the open today. Orders for durable goods in march down 14 , yeah, thats bad but it was expected. The dow is going to be up 193. I call that little movement. How the times change. We will be back to 23,500, big gain modest gain for the dow, nice gain for the s p and for the nasdaq as well. Look at oil, staying at low levels. We are looking at 17 a barrel. In the absence of demand, we are still not driving very much, we are running out of places to store al
This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london. Markets, thet the volatility swings we saw is moving to currencies. European stocks have been fluctuating, they are flat right now. They were higher a couple minutes ago. Oil is higher today after china unveiled plans to boost its reserves. If you look at brent, they were 12 higher, now they are 9 higher. Treasuries slipping along with the dollar. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. China says it acted in an open and transparent manner when it comes to the coronavirus, after u. S. Intelligence reports said beijing concealed the extent of the outbreak. Two sources say chinese numbers were fake, that includes underreporting total cases and deaths. The pentagon is looking to provide as many as 100,000 military body bags for potential civilian use, as the u. S. Warns deaths could soar in the coming weeks. To a dealon is close with a contractor. It will send it to fema. Now to eu nations, they are setting out competing v
President s chief economic adviser larry kudlow. Hes going to join us. Thats the question we will ask, when, where and how will some americans be able to get back to work. Now, check out the market. It reopens today after a threeday weekend. Last week was one of the best weeks in decades, with the dow rising 12 . No significant pullback this morning. We are down just maybe 70 odd points for the dow industrials and well above 23,500. How about that. The s p down about. 33 and the nasdaq, same thing, down about. 33 . That is not a significant pullback. Not helping the stock market is a forecast from jpmorgan. They suggest that gdp could fall 40 this quarter and unemployment could reach 20 . Now, that is a dire prediction. Check out the price of oil. The u. S. , russia, saudi arabia and other Oil Producers have announced an agreement that would take 9. 7 Million Barrels of oil a day off the world market. However, that has had very little impact. It may put a floor under the price of oil b
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area , looking live from our exclusive camera on Treasure Island at the beautiful city of san frciis tuesday march 31st. I am michelle griego. And i am kenny choi. Good morning, lets get a look at your forecast this morning starting off with mary lee. Good morning to you, weffcool teatures the 40s and the 50s once again with those clouds. Lets take you outside. And what you can expect as we are looking at 49 degrees right now in concord. 51, san jose. As we head to the afternoon, many of us will be back up into the 60s. Near seasonal for this time of year. 64 oakland. 67 for san jose and for concord with partly sunny skies. We will talk about our chance to see an isolated shower for the far north bay and a warmup as we head to the next couple details on that comingin with g a look at traffic. Good morning on this tuesday. Live look at the bay bridge and traffic is very light moving at the limb with no delays as you head to the toll plaza in