Director of national intelligence. Watch online on seesmic the oracle or listen on the free cspan radio app. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced monday the state legislature will debate a bipartisan proposal to help Small Businesses during the pandemic. The governor was joined by state officials who announced a new app to help with state covid19 Contract Tracing efforts and to provide an update on covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations. This runs 40 minutes. Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are
Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
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It is the 32nd time this year the nasdaq has set a record close again. This morning, we are looking at a negative picture this morning, you are looking at red ar owes. S p indicated down by about 16 points everybody is waiting to see. At least right now, 10year looks like it is narrowing to 2. 5 jobs friday today. Forecasters will expect payroll to climb 1. 48 million after june gains shattered expectations a huge number this time around unemployment is expected to drop 10. 6 from 11. 1 from june well take you through 8 30 a. M. When those numbers actually hit. News breaking this morning for those of us in new york city who woke up and thought what just happened. Con edison investigating widespread outages. As an upper westsider, no power there. You lost power . A true black out. We are in 2020, what could go wrong . I looked around and thought, it is so dark what is going on is the nasdaq going to have power. What am i going to do . Here we are middown. You left connecticut to come to