It is the new epicenter. It is spreading like wild fire. The Oil Price Wars raging on this morning. Saudi arabia says it will boost production to the max, 13barrels a day as russia is increasing production as well. Mornings with maria is live right now. All right, we want to start with Global Markets this morning. Ftse 100 up 50 points. Cac quarante up 83 82. The bank of england announcing an emergency rate cut this morning, 50 basis points, bringing that rate down to a quarter of a percent, thats from the bank of england. In ash overnight red across the board. Take a look at the story. Worst performer here was korea as well as japan down better than 2 a piece. Back here at home 10year yield falling, down another 10 basis points this morning at. 711. The countrys lockdown moving toward shutdown in italy. Signs more severe restrictions could be impose today stop the spread of coronavirus throughout italy and europe. New york is taking drastic measures as well. Creating a socalled contai
This. Robert and i are wishing, we usually do a lot of the advertising. We didnt even have to advertise this one and everything sold out right away, so we have a lot of returning people, a lot of firsttime people and its great to have three great friends here who ill introduce in a moment and im also very thankful for cspan. We have cspan here, and i think this is the first time that cspan has been here to our beautiful campus. I love cspan. Everything that they do, they just bring the camera and no filter, right . No comment tear, they just see whats going on and they let it speak for itself. Ive to give one credits, because hes one of the people on the he said, ive never seen a lineup like this. Theyll come. Youve got to invite him, and he was right. He called that exactly right. So i have five minutes right now to set these up and introduce these guys and get out of the way because we go until 11 00, and i was thinking how do you introduce the topic and this is the 100th anniversary
Margaret brennan is in havana. Reporter it was a striking image, president obama in havanas revolution square with a giant outline of communist icon che guevera looking down, a gesture to a troubled past on a day president obama focused on the future. This is a new day. Reporter since arriving yesterday, the president has delighted the cuban people by touring old havana and receiving cuban troops, but after their meeting today, mr. Obama said he had a frank discussion with rauul castro about hubas human rights record. To the extent that we can have a good conversation about that and to actually make progress, that i think will allow us to see the full flowering of a relationship that is possible. In the absence of that, i think it will continue to be a very powerful irritant. Reporter castro got taste of americas freedom of the cuban political prisoners. Clearly frustrated, he denied there were any. What political prisoners, he said. But just yesterday the regime arrested more than two
Icon che guevera looking down, a gesture to a troubled past on a day president obama focused on the future. This is a new day. Reporter since arriving yesterday, the president has delighted the cuban people by touring old havana and receiving cuban troops, but after their meeting today, mr. Obama said he had a frank discussion with rauul record. To the extent that we can have a good conversation about that and to actua progress, that i think will allow us to see the full flowering of a relationship that is possible. In the absence of that, i think it will continue to be a very powerful irritant. Reporter castro got taste of americas freedom of the press when he was asked about cuban political prisoners. Clearly frustrated, he denied there were any. What political prisoners, he said. Arrested more than two dozen protestors. Activist Antonio Rodiles was among them. You allow them to do these violations, an at the same time you are giving more economic possibilities, then for sure they ar
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley few americans thought they would live to see this day. An american president meeting with a communist president named castro in havana. 55 years after eight u. S. Aircraft bombed the bay of pigs in an attempt to overthrow the castro dictatorship, air force one flew the last mission of the coal war with russia. Once the world held its breath over cuba. President obama arrived in a country still waiting to exhale. Margaret brennan is in havana. Reporter it was a striking image, president obama in havanas revolution square with a giant outline of communist icon che guevera looking down, a gesture to a troubled past on a day president obama focused on the future. This is a new day. Reporter since arriving yesterday, the president has touring old havana and receiving cuban troops, but after their meeting today, mr. Obama said he had a frank discussion with rauu l castro about hubas human rights record. To the extent that we can have a g