The university of washington kron fours noelle bellow joins us from our newsroom tonight with a closer look noel, pam and ken researchers at the universitys institute for Health Metrics and evaluation have been projecting the numbers nationally. And state by state based on a number of factors today at named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths. Are going up more than researchers expected now if you take a look at this graph you can see that by june first the institutes per project 4,276 deaths in california one month after that 5,555 deaths and by august 4th. Theyre looking at 6,806 1086 deaths in california now thats a jump of 1420 deaths since the institutes previous projection now just yesterday. The state added 2,244 coronavirus cases and 64 related deaths about 900 of the new cases and 45 of the new deaths were reported in los angeles county, the. The institute is also tracking the nationwide deaths. The latest model now projecting 137,184 d
Tea leaves boosting stocks china says trade reps are in close contact with the u. S futures do point to a second higher open. Plus, putting mergers on notice Elizabeth Warren drafteding legislation to reverse mega mergers. And a shakeup at united airline, oscar munoz stepping down president scott kirby will take over next spring we do have breaking news on gm for that we will go to phil lebeau in chicago. A busy day, phil. Reporter it is a busy day, phil General Motors announcing it is forming a joint venture with lg chem the two companies will be creating an electric vehicle battery plant in northeast ohio. It may be if lorn lordstown or outside lorsdtown where gm used to have a plant. They sold the plant earlier this year gm will invest up to 2. 3 billion into that joint venture with lg chem located near lorsdtown, ohio and create up to 1,100 new jobs this is a move many expected they talked that it had plans to add jobs in northeast ohio we will talk first with gm ceo mary bar repor
The indonesian president speaks exclusively to bloomberg saying no one wins in a trade war, and he is refusing to take sides. Later, tesla says delivery records still fall short of elon musks target. For now, lets get you a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures higher by. 1 , but this after major indices lost more than one point 5 . The s p 500 fell the most since august 23. Remember, august 23rd was when President Trump announced those two sets of tariffs on chinese goods. Every sector on the s p 500 was in the red, and energy and financials led the decline. We had the 10year yield also falling for a fifth consecutive session and pulling out a route holding at around 1. 6 . Right now, the Dollar Holding Steady as of course, we are awaiting that Service Sector numbers out of the u. S. In tomorrows session, this coming on the back of another disappointing set of numbers when it came to private payrolls. That number for august being revised down, so business is really m
And the indonesian president speaks exclusively to bloomberg. Widodo says no one wins in eight trade war. Of thea quick check market, futures gaining, but this coming after the s p 500 saw the biggest drop since august 23. Remember, that is when President Trump announced another set of tariffs on chinese goods, so we ,ve the s p 500 lower by 1. 58 with every sector lower, being led lower by energy and financials, with disappointing payroll numbers, less than expected, the august number also be a revised lower. Take a look at how futures in asia are trading, a little bit on the upside, up 3 10 of 1 . This, of course, after the nikkei fell the most in about a month and despite the fact that the japanese yen is at the strongest level in about a week against the u. S. Dollar, but sydney futures are down 1. 8 . This, continuing the fall after they saw the biggest drop since august on risk off sentiment in the previous session, kiwi futures at the moment down 1. 2 percent, losing ground for
On Media Freedom professional journalism and the basic tenets of the right for people to know and understand the reality of what is happening in sudan the network deplores the decision and assures its audiences in sudan and globally that will continue to its coverage of sudan despite this political interference by the sudanese authorities. As a member of griffin a Nonviolent Resistance Movement in sudan he joins us via skype from khartoum pretty shape or time very much so let me just pick up on this the fact that the government is shutting down aljazeera is that trying to send a message through to the press there what do you what do you make of that. Yeah this is the least turning point like you moving the freedoms of press and trying to have the world not see whats happening is a big deal. And that i think is a turning point because what happened after april 11th and the collapse of the government suddenly the government allowed journalists from all over the world to be a citizen to c