Return especially in texas is a factor. Now look at this. Five stocks at or near record levels. Apple, microsoft, google, facebook. What you are looking at is premarket prices. I see apple and amazon up again. Not much of a selloff in the other three. Facebo facebook, google and microsoft, after yesterdays stellar performance. Put together, these five make up 22 of the s p 500. Now, that is dominance. The news from the street this morning. It is not good. In atlanta, armed men took over a small area and refused to let the police in. In wisconsin, a state senator beaten when he took a photo of demonstrators. In our Nations Capital, the flag burned by a cheering mob. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart a political bombshell is unfolding. Longtime democrat congressman of new york, elliot engel, is fighting for his political life. The 16term incumbent is trailing by double digits against a progressive. He received the full support of congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. Engel was su
Been saying unemployment is clearly on the rise for obvious reasons but as kron fours rob fladeboe reports. The Postal Service has a lot of job openings across the bay area. What would otherwise be a fairly routine time here at the Main Post Office in san jose finds workers scrambling to keep up with the volume approaching what is seen during the holiday says the Postal Services Augustine Ruiz via face time with the growing number area all. A the 30s the hiring push is being driven by a surge in shopping from home. As 10s of thousands of people are hunkered down amid the coronavirus outbreak. Delivering all those packages is considered an essential service says ruiz our whole our shopping specials also services consider service. As a all alright, there are sections there are openings for people to deliver the mail and packages to both urban and rural areas across the bay area. Also needed are mechanics tractor trailer, drivers electricians and custodians the salary ranges 17 to 20 an h
Local news station. Now in i just minutes ago the Senate Passed a 2 plus trillion dollar economic stimulus package. Thanks for joining us. Everybody, im grant lotus and i think you will kiss this historic bill was just voted on minutes ago. The highlights include direct payments of up to 1200 for working people. An additional 500 per child married couples earning up to 150,000 will get 2400. This bill provides billion in Small Business loans. 250 billion in Unemployment Insurance benefits and billion in loans for distressed companies. This stimulus package now heads on to the house which is expected to vote on it tomorrow. The latest coronavirus numbers in the bay area Santa Clara County continues to have the most trouble locally 459 cases along with 17 deaths. Tonight we also know that the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office has 5 confirmed cases in that department. The latest case there deputy who had been assigned to the Custody Bureau that deputy is now selfisolating at home meanwhi
The world whether youre tuning in by satellite or on the portable app we thank you for joining our global conversation on this very day when the United States of america we have just learned has officially surpassed china in the number of deaths from this corona virus pandemic ok remember this video this video of people essentially being beaten by Police People who were violating curfew in india it was done to persuade them to go self isolate in their homes as they were told to ok so. It seemed harsh. Until you look at the new projections for india according to a bottle created by Johns Hopkins researches. 302500 1000000 people in india may be infected with cove and 19 before this is all said and of those about 110th or 30 to 50000000 could be in serious or Critical Condition and will need to be hospitalized but and heres the problem you know how many ventilators they have which is essentially a breathing machine for patients who cant properly breathe for themselves thats whats used in
Trade iing at levels we havent seen in nearly two decades amid falling demand and an expected jump in production and the virus itself remains front and center. President trump e iine ining gus until the end of april as the u. S. Cases top 150,000 weve got great guests join ing us, the ceo of medical supply Company Henry Schein and the head of amid this turbulent market with 59 minutes left, we are up 2. 8 led by helhealth care, tech and Consumer Staples lets focus in on the big stories. Meg is going to join us with the latest on testing and treatment. Kayla has the latest from lawmakers and mike is tracking all the Market Action but meg, first to you hi, guys. Lets start with Johnson Johnson. That news theyve selected their lead candidate for Vaccine Development. Really moving their stock higher and causing a lot of optimism that well see a vaccine in timelines that are faster than expected companies saying it plans to tart human Clinical Trials in september. Months faster than they pr