Points. As the pathogen makes its first appearance in new multiple countries and at this hour, on the canary islands, where 1,000 people are on lockdown at a luxury hotel, the centers for Disease Control saying an outbreak of the deadly virus in america is now quote, inevitable. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar warning we do not have enough masks and ventilators to handle an outbreak. Coming up, medical experts and reporters are at the ready to handle every breaking angle. The surprise chinese stock thats spiking right now, the two u. S. Banks telling their employees to stay away from italy, and talk that the olympics could be canceled. Less than an hour to the closing bell in this final hour. Lets start the claman countdown. Liz we have this breaking news thats not getting enough attention. We are going to give it attention. Even as u. S. Airlines shut down service to china, look at the dow jones transportation average which includes airlines, railroads from norfolk and K
Youve had more than a month to prepare for this, and is our country ready . So our country is preparing every day, and the effective aggressive containment measures that weve taken at our borders as well as working with our public ault have brought us time. One is always advancing preparedness. Mr. Secretary, i only have a few minutes. Let me be real clear, because you sent over a supplemental that wasnt clear. You just mentioned a number of things from tracing, state and local governments needing their healthcares and hospitals ready for this. Youve talked about protective masks. You talked about surveillance system. I did not see anything in that request that specifically says how much each of those are going to cost, and we know, weve seen this outbreak in china now. We know it is going other countries. It quickly overwhelms a healthcare system. It puts patients who dont have the virus at risk, who suffer from other conditions. We know that medications become very difficult. Did you
Boise, potato ships . No, computer chips welcome to squawk alley. I am jon fortt with me at post nine, Morgan Brennan and david faber. Carl quintanilla hat morning off. Another busy morning in washington the house of representatives has another big vote on the trade front, expecting to pass usmca, the replacement for nafta, on the heels of approving two articles of impeachment against President Trump last night Kayla Tausche joins us with more reporter the vote will be a stark contrast to the Party Line Vote on impeachment. On the house floor on capitol hill, two hours of debate is beginning that will tee up a vote that white house officials expect to be a landslide bipartisan vote, thanks largely because of provisions folded in to win over House Democrats by Bob Lighthizer last hour on cnbc, the treasury secretary said it should be seen as a win for the economy, not a win for House Speaker nancy pelosi were going to get in excess of 50 basis points of additional growth in gdp as a res
Boris johnson casts his vote in britains election jobsons conservative party saw its lead over the labor opposition narrowed in the final week of campaigning. Time sumi so whats got to thank you for joining us it is an issue that has been causing friction between germany and the us for years and now it has escalated the north stream to pipeline is being built to transport gas from russia to germany but the u. S. Says it is a National Security risk because it increases your dependence on russia as a result the u. S. House of representatives has now approved sanctions on the pipeline a move that has angered many here in germany the sanctions target the specialist ships that lay the pipes. Only a few companies in the world possess the technology to lay deep sea pipelines. None of them is russian if they continue to work on north stream too they could find themselves cut off from doing business in the us their assets there might be frozen and people working on the ships would no longer be
New goods the un says the world has lost an opportunity to act weve talked to the head of Greenpeace International. Plus a dream come true with enough cracka. We go behind the scenes in russia where we needed rising star of the renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Among the touching my good to have you with us. A baronets government death squad was responsible for the disappearance of 3 opposition leaders 20 years ago that was when Alexander Lukashenko started consolidating his hold in power in the former soviet republic but those allegations come from a man who claims to have been a member of the death squad today look at shanker belarus with an iron fist the country is described as europes last dictatorship in a moment ill talk to our correspondent who got this exclusive but 1st heres his report. Living in a Central European country seeking asylum there. In a deitsch avella exclusive he tells us about his time in a regime death squad in belarus and reveals new details about a series of c