Pelosi, the House Speaker pushing back questions about that now infamous trip to a San Francisco salon. Thanks for joining us tonight at 5 everybody im Vicki Liviakis said im grant lotus the covid controversy coming up today at an event about the impact of the pandemic on children kron fours Maureen Kelly. It was at the event joins us now live outside the salon. The speaker does it for us. Thats right vicki grant behind me is the salon the east along where the House Speaker went and got her hair done on monday inside. And that hair do is continue to be a hot topic. A press event where she was the headliner. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to the Mission Education Center Elementary school in San Franciscos noe valley to push the heroes act a 3 trillion dollars stimulus package in the wake of the pandemic money that would in part be used to help make schools safer for students and teachers to go back to the classroom but that message got blown away by the backlash to her now infamous blo
Fox Business Team coverage with berm blake burman in washington and Edward Lawrence on the latest visit to north carolina. Reporter he have went to the fuji film biosciences plant in north carolina. The health and Human Services department, 265 million deal, side deal with fuji film for another plant in texas to ramp up production of the vaccine there. Fuji film has done a deal with novavax, specifically for the phase three trial. Theyre going to provide all of the clinical needs for that trial, it is part of the 1. 6 billion that federal government gave novavax for this. The federal government saying, vaccine production are taking place at the same time, and that is saving time. Not only is operation warp speed accelerating the development of a vaccine, were also directing a colossal industrial mobilization to insure its rapid delivery. Nothing has happened like this since the end of world war ii. Reporter novavax never delivered a vaccine to the market but showed enough promise to be
Expecting to hear from President Trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. Senior Administration Officials say across the country, 1. 9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid19. Senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that 11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. They identified state goals and needs for month of may. Earlier today, Vice President , when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have Staff Members within Nursing Homes tested. Testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states arent reopening because of politics this Election Year this is part of the tweet from President Trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes
Nasdaq nearly 4 , will get back to the markets, theres a lot of News Headlines to go through, we will take you to that with our fox Business Team coverage, our reporters are set up, blake at the white house, hillary bonnet capitol hill, Edward Lawrence in washington. But blake has been the case, the news coming out at 1600 pennsylvania avenue what is the latest. One of the big pieces that came out was a phone call that happened earlier this morning between President Trump and the top democrat in the senate, Chuck Schumer tried to advance the tree and dollar rescue package that the white house hopes to get over to the president desk at some point next week. One area that the president and democrat agree on if money ends up going to big corporations making sure those can enter and use the money for stock buyback. The president said that he and schumer at this point really are not that far apart. I had a very good telephone conversation with some, we are working on various elements of the
To go through. Jackie deangelis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Chad pergram has plenty of news on capitol hill well get to. First Hillary Vaughn live at white house. Hillary . Reporter connell, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says he wants to put cash in peoples hands, as part of a economic stimulus package tied to the coronavirus crisis. Meeting with senators on capitol hill asking for 200 billion for these Cash Payments would be a check or direct deposit, saying he wants to get cash into peoples hands in two weeks. I asked secretary mnuchin if theyre looking boosting the Restaurant Industry in addition to airlines as part of an Economic Relief package. Mnuchin says they will be rolling out special program that helps small and midsized businesses restaurants an franchisees will be a part of that. This is not like a normal economic situation. Government has requested that parts of this economy shut down and the president is determined, you can think of this as, Business