Plus, lowering the flag for good. The historic vote concerning the confederate battle emblem. Bradys replacement. A big move by the new England Patriots at the quarterback position as the team gets hit with a new fine for actions via film crew. Fireworks fizzle. The shortage that could take the sparkle out of your fourth of july fun. Good monday morning, everyone. Lets get right to the coronavirus. 31 states are now reporting an increase in cases. 23 of them reporting an increase in hospitalizations and as we look ahead to the fourth of july holiday, more cities and towns are closing bars and beaches with some hospitals in the south and west worried about getting overwhelmed. M been overrun with some people getting in line well before dawn only to see all the tests gone by 9 00 a. M. One man in texas says he called more than 50 times trying to schedule an appointment for a test. Abcs andrea fujii begins our coverage this morning. Reporter this morning at least a dozen cities and states
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It is not over. It is just beginning the days are long right now. We are going to take that. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. We are sitting at the flat line. Dow down about 7 or 8 and nasdaq up by about 13 yesterday, the dow was down 710 points a decline of 2. 7 s p off 2. 6. Came with huge steep declines going as smoothly as people had hoped. All of those concerns added up to steep losses. Looking at the treasury yield at 0. 669 now you see additional pressure as we continue to watch that case count talking about that, the United States seeing a Record Number of new coronavirus cases in a single day. Tallyi tallying 45,000300 that tops the numbers from april reporting that visitors that travel from hot spots to new york, new jersey to connecticut will be asked to quarantine two weeks. Those who defy that order. Hot spots include arizona, utah, texas, arkansas, alabama, north and South Carolina President Trump says he will not follow the quarantine order wh
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc but this comes after a backdrop of a pretty big decline on friday on friday the dow was down by 700 points and this morning its up by 200 points you have the s p up by close to 20 points and the nasdaq up by 26 but we are getting to the end of the month and thats when we start to take notice of what has been happening with declines that we saw on friday push the dow and s p 500 into negative territory for the month of june. If they want to make that up they have two trading sessions left before we get to july so over the next two days the dow would have to make up 1. 5 if it wants to be positive for the month of june. S p would be up 1. 2 its up by 2. 8 . Lets take a look at what has been happening with the treasury market the treasury yield the ten year is the one that we always pay the most attention to it seems to be yielding. 645 . And i think he is going to have interesting things to say too in terms of trying to put it i