At 10. 01 per barrel. It did manage to scratch back about 126 of yesterdays 300 plus loss but energy has swamped the stock market over the past 48 hours, completely wiping out fridays 700 plus point gain for the Dow Jones Industrials. Right now we are looking at the dow swooning at the moment, down 562 points. Thats good for a 2. 33 loss. All three major indices are facing a second straight day in the red. Could a lifeboat arrive within just an hour or two . Word is congress is coming together as we speak to replenish the Small Business rescue plan with a fresh 310 billion round of loans. As some big banks, though, play favorites with the First Tranche of money, nontraditional lenders are fast gaining more respect. Weve got the chairman and ceo of one of them. He has already delivered 2 billion to Small Companies and is ready, willing and able to do it once again. Got to hear how hes doing it. And hollywood is on hold as the sopranos prequell sleeps with the fishes. Steph patt ernot is
All for taking time. Lets go through where we are today. On this beautiful day. Lets start with the good news. We deserve some good news, lord knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number we have been watching, because the fear for us was always overwhelming the hospital system. Added capacity, we have moved equipment around. The fear was always overwhelming the raw capacity of the hospital system. The number of beds. The number of additional net beds was always important to track. That is what we see here. The net down 53, which is the lowest number since we started doing these charts. That is a good number. Three day average, it is a little more accurate than the youtoday is also down as see. 18,000ospitalizations, 18,700. He see the 18, 18, 18. That socalled flattening of the curve. The apex is not just an apex, it is a plateau. That is what the experts were talking about, that it might have been a straight up, then wrap it down, or might be up
Result of the pandemic. Jared joins us to discuss changes to alcohol laws in several states amid the coronavirus outbreak. Host good morning, it is tuesday, april 7, 2020. The number of coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Is now past 10,000. In new york officials expressed hope that the pandemic is in wisconsin voters will head to the polls despite efforts to cancel in person voting over fears of spreading the virus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been diagnosed with the disease and moved to intensive care. We are giving you the chance to talk about all of this this morning on washington journal. Our phone lines are spit up regional ash split up regionally. In the eastern or central time zone, 202 7488000. Mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. If you do include your name and where you are from. Follow us on social media csp anwj. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. You can go ahead and start calling and now as we show you the front pa
Gov. Cuomo good morning. Everybody knows the people with us today. Two doctors, the secretary to the governor. To her left, robert. To our friends celebrating good friday today, i wish them good, good friday. Celebratingds passover, i wish than the best. To give you an update on where we are, to use an overused term, were cautiously optimistic that were slowing the infection rate. Thats what the numbers say and what the data suggest to us. Change in total hospitalizations is down, not relative to yesterday. Yesterday. But when it is averaged, the threeday average on hospitalizations, you see and dramatic decline in those numbers and that is very good news. The change in icu admissions the negative number for the First Time Since we this intense journey. That means there are fewer people in the intensive care unit statewide than there were. Again, that is the first time we have seen a negative number. So that is good. The free the threeday average of that is down. The change in intubati
Calling out people . Like me . So i think this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course. This is about how you become a historian and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class we talked about the reaction you sometimes make it from family members when they hear they when they hear you are a history major. Why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this stuff . I can tell you personally i get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today. Why should we bother looking at the history of diseases and how he responded to them . My goal today is to give you an example of why bother and why i am proud to be a historian. Come on in, justin. Why i am really psyched about what i do. That is objective number one. I want to make you proud of being a history major, so here proud. Ay of saying i am my second goal is to talk specifically about pande