Reporter this White House Press conference will now be at 5 30 p. M. Where we expect the discussion to revolve around Testing Capacity so more americans can get tested and go back to work the white house is expects to release two documents this evening. One is a chronicle of actions taken to date so far to ramp up the capacity of testing in this country. The second is essentially a blueprint for states for how they can get access to more tests, and what resources the federal government has that are available to them. The president hosted many leaders from retail and Farming Companies to talk about how to leverage the Retail Industry heres what some of these Companies Said they were willing to do. Cbs and lab corp. Are expected to provide 1,000 locations with the capacity to run 1. 5 million tests a month according to some of the promises that were released today walmart is expected to open a total of 100 sites, they say they will be able to test 20,000 a week target has provided some p
Notably russia, and surely it puts a crimp on the future of electric cars. Look at it this way. Why buy electric when a gallon of gas on average now costs 1. 81 and likely to fall much lower. In wisconsin, the average is all the way down to 1. 22. There are some places where its below 1. We will bring them to you. Its a big negative for the stock market. The dow industrials are going to open down 500 points. Thats roughly 2 . The s p down 1 . The nasdaq down 1. 93 . The oil crash really hurts stocks as well. Every energy stock is down. The airlines and the Car Companies, they cant cash in on cheap jet fuel and gas because people arent flying and theyre not driving. Where is the additional help for Small Business now that the first rescue package has run out of money . As of right now, it has not come through. Treasury secretary mnuchin negotiating with democrats over the weekend. Its supposed to be a better than 300 billion plan but its not here yet. Perhaps thats another reason for th
Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
I have to go to the gossip of london. We will get to oil with jim caron in a moment. Why does the sunday times go after the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when he is just out of the hospital bed . That is a very good question. First of all, lets remember the sunday times and of good the times were huge supporters of mr. Johnson. There is a feeling that the fact the Prime Minister got sick maybe gave him a free pass in how he handled the situation. There are two schools of thought. One thing, we just need to get through the crisis and need to try to work together. And then those who say we need to hold our leaders accountable for what they have done because theres the change of course. Yesterday we found out the critical number of personal Protection Equipment that was data for the nhs will not arrive in time. This after the scathing article that is basically saying Boris Johnson was pretty much thinking of other things instead of dealing with the crisis in february and march. I d
We are looking good, the Fulfillment Centers in the corporate offices. Employees can use their own only thing that changes it is masks if those coverings meet guidelines or the stores when there are crashes. Lets take a look at 280 in san provide masks for them. Walmart is encouraging customers to wear facemasks while shopping in their store. Jose northbound on the right it i went to the Grocery Store looks good and we have not had a lot of crashes and it looks like people are easing into the week. And 99 of the people had the masks on and good to see down at 7 01 a. M. Lets go back to claudine. The road we are talking 80s and thanks, over the weekend california had 719 new cases of pockets of the bay area. Mike you have been paying the coronavirus. Attention in temperatures warm up as we go into the end of the california has more than 31,000 week. We do have a few showers popping up here cases and nearly 1200 people warmer. A few showers along the have died. The bay area has more than