i am francine lacqua here in london. a lot going on in the markets. of course we will continue to follow credit suisse after the resignation of tidjane thiam. downside,it to the but starting less than they were at half an hour ago. u.s. jobscus on report today for any indication earlye could have seen signs of the virus impacting u.s. economy. we are not expecting anything on that. it is actually quite backward looking, but we do follow any corporate news to see whether they lower their forecast because of what is happening in china. we had burberry do that earlier. renminbi.e let s get straight to first word news with viviana hurtado in new york city. viviana: we begin with the coronavirus. the chinese doctor who warned about it back in early january has died. . weeks ago, he was visited by police and sanction for rumormongering. his death is now one of the 630 plus now reported. the number of coronavirus infections climbing to more than 31,000. beijing is lashing out at cou
There is no clue as to what happened in the middle east with planes that went missing last week. Hassearch and rescue team recovered a window that may have come from the flight that vanished from kuala lumpur to beijing. China sent rescue teams to the area and there is some evidence that the plane turned away from their normal route and may have been going back to kuala lumpur. The plane had a minor accident. The airline says it was in perfect working order. This aircraft was in the it was11 days ago and checked and nothing untoward was found. 1415 been operating hours a day since that time without any issue. This incident will be discussed through the course of the day. We will be joined in a short while. Lets have a look at the other stories making headlines and 100 trillion that is according to the bank of international settlements. There is a wave of borrowing with corporate and government. Exports fell 18. 1 . That is the biggest cents the financial crisis. Analysts were expecting
Intimidation. And the Senate Republicans handle this will be a test of this time, of 2018, in the me too movement. Can we do better . Lets not conflate the marger me too movement with whatever did or did not happen in the summer of 1982, 36 years ago. So we want to break down several parts of this story. Dr. Fords story. Without additional witnesses how can she make the case for skeptical senators that what she says happened really did, in fact, happen. The risks for republicans, they dont want a repeat of the anita hill hearings and that as you can imagine has led to one of the key sticking points, who will actually question dr. Ford for the republicancontrolled committee . And the audience beyond that committee room, new polling on how americans see this process and how that might impact judge kavanaughs own nomination and confirmation. To discuss all of this lets bring in leanne caldwell, New York Times reporter elizabeth williamson, lisa graves and criminal defense attorney and ass
Congresswoman, i have been briefed on the special counsel investigation. Do you believe the involvement of the hostile foreign entities interfering with the elections is more severe than the false representation of voter fraud in elections . Do you believe that a foreign interference with the elections is more severe . Congresswoman, i believe foreign interference in our election system in the United States is a very serious and ongoing concern. I also believe that voter fraud is a serious concern. After you left office, you pursued another series of public offices. One of which was the United States senate. Yes or no during the pursuit of that office, you are contacted to be offered dirt under opponent, which at the same time included other candidates such as steve king and nowsenator joni ernst . Would you have contacted the fb fbi . Conzelmann, i am not here to questions. And here for an oversight hearing. I dont believe i was very unsuccessful in my you have the responsible dude an
Ed last saturday he made sure i paid and he cot free coffee sunday morning i come in pete is not here. Griff gets stuck with the tab. Is he the man. He stepped up. You had a free weekend last week. Pete im a free loader, very smart. Thank you, ed. Jedediah we missed. You welcome back. Griff i love the dress. Jedediah thank you it has extra baby bump accessory. Ed interesting we mentioned free loading. The president has been talking about how mexico has been ripping off america for a long time. When he cut that deal under pressure because of the threat of tariffs, you had many in the Mainstream Media questioning the president and doubting that he had really got angood deal for mexico or gotten any deal at all. The New York Times actually had reported this deal had been cooked months ago that the president was sort of announcing a fake deal. We have the details now. Turns out of to not be fake. Ed mexico we leased the terms. Not just coming from our president but mexicos president. Here