The virus years continue to flare up. Here are some of them. A google employee has tested positive for the virus, amazon is telling its workers to defer all nonessential travel. It get this, that includes the continental United States. Chicago monitoring hundreds of recent travelers for the virus, meanwhile the big geneva auto show canceled as switzerland vows. The World Health Organization raises its Risk Assessment to very high. We are all over these fastmoving developments. The nasdaq, john roberts at the white house on how they are absorbing all of that shock. We begin with christina. Christina. Neal, it has been an exciting day but ending a little bit more positive. The dow closing, it actually had more than 1,000 points so we did come back at the end of the day and what we call. The s p 500 i wish i could say there is one sector that did well, but all 11 sectors did close in the red. We take a look over the past week or so, it has just been a really, really tough week for 401 k s
Street. Kristin fisher at the white house where the president is preparing. Jeff flock is in chicago where shoppers so far not panicking. Florida Republican Senate eric scott in washington what he wants airports to be doing. We begin with jackie. Hi, jackie. Good afternoon. Session was not for the feint of heart. The dow was up 400 points. 461 to be exact and then the fda issued a warning on the coronavirus and thats when the selling started. So there was a pause and breath of fresh air this morning and investors got nervous again. We closed down 119 under the 27,000 mark. That is significant. This is a market that really is headline driven. Investors have been looking back and forth at these headlines. This volatility is expected to continue. Remember, two crazy days of selling before this and a negative session today. Still waiting to see if before the weekends we head the correction territory. Were not that far off. The cdc has been sounding the alarm on the coronavirus, also issuin
The frontrunner right now. Michael bloomberg just folded his wall let and deidra is with the candidate off to the races. Alex . After 100 days on the campaign trail, Michael Bloomberg is out of the race. The former mayor of new york city saying that he is pulling out the data there. He will throw his weight behind joe biden. He said his message has remained the same. If you remember, i entered the race for president to defeat donald trump. Today i am leaving the race for the same reason. To defeat donald trump because staying in would make it more difficult to achieve that goal. The former mayor centered his threemonth Campaign Around Climate Change and gun safety. A cause that he donated a lot of his own money to over the years. On the campaign trail, he spent out other Democratic Candidates with his fortune. President trump called it wasted money. Look what a billion dollars did. He won nothing. He got so few delegates. Its incredible. He made a fool out of himself. Hes not too happy
And its 1,000 hospital beds will be solely devoted to noncovid19 patients. That is so they can relieve they overwhelm the new york City Hospital so they can focus solely those hospitals on taking care of the patients who are sick with the coronavirus. Not just about the beds, doctors, and the equipment, its also about hope. Its also about boosting the morale of new yorkers. In addition to the 1,000 hospital beds, 1200 medical personnel made up of active duty Service Technicians that have come from all over the east coast to help new york. The comfort is equipped with xray machines, physical therapy center, a pharmacy. The comfort will accept about 50 noncovid19 patients a day beginning tomorrow, we will told. They will screen at their respective hospitals then checked in and screened again at the Convention Center which is now a temporary hospital before being taken by ambulance to the ship. The crew has undergone two covid19 screening processes themselves. We are really, really going
The u. S. Acrosstheboard, 32000 more cases over just the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to a little bit more than 278,000. Further more the number of death s accelerated by more than 1,100 in just the last 24 hours to a little bit north of 7,150 individuals. Now, we were hoping that there was going to be at least a decline in the rate of increase, but in one problematic country after another, including our own , that is not the case, and it is especially not the case both in new york city and new york state. If new york state were to carve out an individual country, it be the third worst hit on the planet in terms of cases, and accelerating when it comes to the number of deaths. Lets get the latest on all of that from jackie behind rib following it all from the upper rest side in majority in hat an. Jackie . Reporter well, neil nearly 40 of all the cases in the United States come from right here in new york, 103,000 cases in this state as of yesterday, and the crush