And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ewchor this is bbc world america. The u. S. Economy slumps and the worst is yet to come. Spending nosedived in the last quarter as thelo coronavirus down began. Hopes for a treatment. Americas top Infectious Disease official says drugs being test ed shows signs of progress. And we look at why one county in the u. S. State of georgia has cty thcoronavirus. Onately anchor for all of you watbsing fromnd around the globe, welcome to world news america. Est rate in more than ang at decadefast thes as unemployment fig show the impact on theit comm the 4. 8 contraction is about what economists were expecting, but they warn the worst is yet the first few weekhe only cover outbreak. This afternoon, the u. S. Federal resee chief said the economy house to ensure a robust recovery. With Interest Rates near zero, there is a limit to what the fed can do. New york city is on tht light of the catastrophe and the economicni emer
We start with the gender pay gap because campaigners here in the uk are calling today equal pay day. They calculate that from today, because of the pay gap with men, women are effectively working for free for the rest of the year. The Fawcett Society which does the calculations each year says there has been a slight improvement on 2018. But female full time workers earn on average 13 less than their male counterparts. There is high level support for change. A group of 100 top uk businesswomen including former royal mail boss dame moya greene, Dame Minouche shafik the favourite to take over at the bank of england and glaxosmithkline boss Emma Walmsley want a change in the law to give women the right to see how much male colleagues are earning. The gender pay gap is a lot worse in many other parts of the world women are paid 32 less than men on average according to pay data gathered by the World Economic forum across 149 countries. But campaigners here in the uk have long argued there ne
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The drowning danger. Tonight, americans on vacation, nine drownings in less than two weeks in the same area. And the deadly crash. The former nba player and a former American Idol contestant who did not survive. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. And we begin with that deadly train collision, onboard, more than 100 republican members of congress. That amtrak train was taking those lawmakers to a retreat, colliding with a garbage truck in virginia. It happened this morning, not long after the state of the union last night. The driver of the truck was killed. Several lawmakers jumping in to help many of the injures on the scene. And several people tonight, including congressman jason lewis, were taken to the hospital. House Speaker Paul Ryan among those onboard. And abcs linzie janis leads us off from the scene tonight. Reporter a train packed with dozens of lawmakers, their staffers and families on their way to a retreat today, slamming
The granddaughter of Actor Morgan Freeman stabbed to death on a street in manhattan. Tonight the actor is speaking out about his loss as the family awaits charges against the suspect. First, a nightmare for tomorrows commute. The lirr service is back up and running tonight after a plane crashed on the tracks. Good evening im sandra bookman. Im rob powers. Service was fully restored to the Ronkonkoma Branch tonight. Plenty of headaches for people tonight. The mta releasing new images. The plane was decimated and the pilot killed and his name has not been released. One person survived the crash. Mta crews worked into the night to fix the tracks. Josh einiger is live for us at penn station for more. Reporter from looking at the pictures you can get a look at how colossal it was for them to get things moving for tomorrow morning. Its pretty much back on schedule and just in the nick of time for the monday morning ride to work. The train started moving again after dark along the lirr busy m