Have heard recounted repeatedly this morning and even more. Republicans have been obsessed with repealing obamacare for years, but they dont have the votes to do it. They couldnt get it done in the house. They couldnt get it done in the Senate Thanks to three great republicans including john mccain, and now theyve got to rely on the court to do their work. Judge barrett, youre on the record. You wrote an article in which you criticized the case where chief Justice Roberts was the deciding vote of holding the aca. Now your nomination moving forward at an unprecedented speed. So whats at stake . Let me show you whats at stake here. I want you to meet kenny murray from tinnily park and his family. I had the privilege of meeting the family in my washington office. Heres a picture of sue, ken, their daughter maddie and their son kenny. I was told their son kenny was diagnos diagnosed in utero with heart defects. Kenny had two open heart surgeries at advocate hospital outside of chicago, and
He would be the first one to say there was so much more to do celebration of his life will take place over the course of six days it kicked off saturday after these events he will lie in state at the Georgia State capitol on wednesday thursday he has a celebration of life theres several more days where he will be remembered and it does feel as though people are coming together at this time to kind of highlight the choices, the brave choices he made with his career and the impact that had on civil rights legislation, among many other areas thats right. I was just look at this shot of Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and nancy pelosi both standing by in a socially distanced set up the aerial shot that was stunning and will be an image that stays with us as a marker of this time with bipartisan in such short supply in washington, the memory of john lewis is something that has brought lawmakers, policy makers from both sides of the aisle together both mcconnell and pelosi are schedul
In mass. The speed record is four years for mumps. Moderna uses Artificial Intelligence by the way, fueled by Amazon Web Services to speed up the Drug Delivery and discovery process their covid vaccines are already going to phase two trials, shooting for phase three this summer thats incredible. Thats much fafster than anyone believed a long time ago that would change everything how many ifs . Mighty big ifs, too the rally gives us a glimpse of what the future may look like if moderna works with the dow up 211 points [ moo s p climbing 1. 1 and the nasdaq 1. 4 hallelujah. At least thats the Glass Half Full version of what happened today the world view says you have to ignore tomorrows hideous nonfarm payroll number at 8 30 because thats in the rearview if theres a vaccine around the corner, you have to believe the economys bottom and fuchl is much brighter than the past. Were buoyed by companies that said april and the beginning of may have been surprisingly strong lyft, uber, pay pal
Selling. F positive the u. K. Likely to impose 14 days quarantine. We also have the irish tank barely under pressure the irish bank very under pressure. The bank of ireland numbers today. Boris johnson will appear in parliament and a half hours time. Btps on offer as well. We are up by three basis points. What is interesting is the spread between brent and wti widening on that saudi news. Vonnie lets get to the economy now. President trump telling americans to return to work after confirming the outbreak in his own office. Unprecedentedan 20,500,000 jobs, tripling the end limit rate the unemployment rate. We are joined by bloombergs peggy collins. How does it change the rhetoric now that coronavirus is coursing through the west wing . It has touched the Vice President s office and the president himself at this point. Peggy i think for everyone, the virus has pushed people different ways, and closer it gets to everyones families, the more people realize how widespread it has really gott
City stuck at 52. Morning low clouds and partly sunny, mostly cloudy and weak systems are staying to the north and theyre not going to make much of a move till maybe this upcoming weekend. On shore breeze or south wind in place and low clouds and not much of a storm track and the rain line and itll stay there till we get to the weekend and 60s on the temps for most and near average to slightly above and well get there till about wednesday and thursday as temperatures bump up a bit. Back to you guys. All right, steve, thank you very much. We have traffic very light and please dont speed. Chp has been issuing a lot of citations and Public Transit systems going outside and take muni metro, it wont be a train but a bus. We have more of that coming up and cal train reduced service by more than half on its lines but really there are no real backups or delays on the services. Now back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Time is 7 02 and the bay area shelter in place order is due to expire a week fro