Jones industrial average up 16 points but its the nasdaq thats breaking out of 88 points on the nasdaq this morning and s p futures up 4 and 3 quarters staff largest Economic Contraction in u. S. History yesterday, another uptick on unemployment claims push selloff i didnt do, the dow industrials at the close yesterday still the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 on pace for fourth straight month of gains with industrial up on final day of july. Economic recovery, where is the economic recovery headed and what can the fed do to support it . Coming up at 8 10, chief investment offer rick is here and you dont want to miss valuable insight and commentary stimulus stale meat, still no deal with extra unemployment expiring today. President trump does not want to see election day move but also does not want to see fraud. U. S. Appeals court said to reconsider dismissal of his case. Coming up 8 30 a. M. Congressman jim jordan will weigh on latest moves on flynn, the congressmans fiery take away as well.
Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. A Good Samaritan who tried helping two stranded swimmers was swept away by a strong current. All three ended up near a sand bar near plum island between new york and massachusetts. Eventually a coast guard crew managed to rescue them. The swimmers swallowed a lot of saltwater but are expected to be okay. Turning now to the growing concern among Health Care Workers about the rising rates of coronavirus infection. Now a new call for nationwide shutdowns. I spoke earlier with dr. Ravi. More than 1,000 Health Professionals have now signed a letter to the government saying its time to reboot our fight against covid19. They argue we should shut down the country again and start over with testing and tracing. Whats your take . Kenneth, i agree with many of the tenets of the letter. I think we do need to improve our testing, i think we need to ramp up our contact tracing. I do think it is going to be difficult to go back to square one across the nation. I think we do need to
Covid19 in california. That is an increase of 8,536. A slightly lower number compared to the 14 day average. But 133 people did die in california in the past 24 hours. Which is a much higher number than the 14 day average of 95. Nearly 7900 people have died in california since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. The actual number of covid 19 cases in the United States may be a lot higher than the reports weve been hearing. The cdc says that antibody studies suggest the number of virus cases could be ten times higher than whats being reported in parts of the country. Another report says people have mild virus cases could lose their antibodies after ten weeks. But doctors say the immune system could possibly remember how to make new antibodies if needed. Straight to gavin newsom briefing the state on the covid 19 response. Efforts have been under way for a number of months. Were now here at a warehouse in sacramento. A warehouse weve had as a state asset for years and years. Where man
Nation, testing directly happening at a transportation hub in San Francisco. They are hoping to make it as easy as possible to test members of the Latinx Community in the mission district. Again, the new testing place is at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza, they will be doing testings wednesdays and fridays from 7 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Again, that starts today and will last for the next three weeks. So the goal here is to catch the virus before it continues to spread throughout the Latinx Community in the mission. These are people who are often essential workers and dont have the opportunity to take off work to wait all day to get a test. You can go to where the problem is and help test and help mitigate, then you can reduce the transmission within that same community. And thats what were trying to do. Reporter the popup testing site at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza is made possible bay ucsf, b. A. R. T. And the city. The groups organizing the testing also realize
Him to stick with take out for the foreseeable future. It just doesnt make sense for us to open up the dining room yet. Its not going to be a pleasant Dining Experience if you can call it that. That raises another question. What do diners have an appetite for right now . As much as i want everything to come back to normal i am not dying to dine in inside but from everything ive heard about well ventilated spaces is, its pretty safe. I would probably be more inclined to try dining outside. The grocery sees that as an advantage. We expect by friday that we will be able to seat customers safely. We have the full plan that we are implementing. As more establishments starts getting customers they are expecting more traffic on the highway. The more and more that it opens up in a safe way, the more we are going to see more and more guests come to the valley. We were talking about businesses in downtown martinez and how it takes restaurants to help boutiques and all of that to Work Together as