Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
Battered and bruised the entire u. S. Economy affectedsttion considering a 1 trillion rescue plan, including possible Cash Payments to all americans. This is not an ordinary situation, so it requires extraordinary measures. Just ahead how soon could help be on the way. And clean sweep. Joe biden takes a nearly insurmountable lead as voters head to the polls in three states as the nation faces a health crisis, the growing pressure to end the democratic primary. Today wednesday, march 18th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Hi, everybody welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on wednesday morning. Things look a little different i feel a little lonely here. Im missing my partner in crime. Im usually 6 feet away here miss guthrie, where are you . Now were really socially distancing, arent we . Its unusual. Im at home. Im in my basement right now here is whats happening i wasnt feeling my best a
Two miles west of highway 29. There you can see his water tender. It lost control and went over the edge of the road there. This happened around 6 50 this marking. This is one of the steepest roads in napa county. The driver came around this bend, his rig and empty tender rolled sideways, and landed upside down on the side of a very, very steep hill. There are skid marks on the road, but chp isnt sure that indicates he applied his breaks before the accident. They will perform a mechanical inspection to see if his equipment failed. They will investigate whether he was driving too fast and the also see if fatigue played a factor. Cal fire points out this is the eighth day of this fire fight here in wine country. Everyone is getting tired. There have been no breaks for the firefighters since the fires erupted last sunday evening. And so, yes, people are getting tired and that is a factor that we are aware of. We consider it in our daily activities and we work to sbat against that. Whether
Driver who hit and killed a woman in a wheelchair. We are told that the woman was in the bike lane near 48th street and mcdowell when she was hit. Another driver saw that crash, blocked off the street, just to make sure she would not get hit again. They performed cpr on her until the ambulance got there but she didnt make it. Police are looking for a dark colored truck that most likely has front end damage. One man dead after a fight breaks out near Seventh Avenue and camelback. Police are still looking for one Allison Rodriguez has more from the scene. Reporter we have the phoenix mobile command unit on scene over here. Lots of crime scene tape up here still and also several police units on scene as well where this happened just in between two local businesses. Police tell us a fight broke out between several transient men over personal property around 3 45 this morning. We are told that one person tried to steal some personal property from two other men, did manage to get away with i
Now they dare you to be as virtuous as they are. But is that real . Are they actually virtuous, or is all of this a cynical pose . We will let you decide. Consider this, last friday daryl morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets Basketball Team sent what seemed like a noncontroversial tweet. He wrote this. , fight for freedom, stand with hong kong. Thats it. China, as you may have seen on television, is now trying to crush hong kong and its not hard to pick a side. E. China, its really noted, but its true, is a racist f no state that bans dissent and murderous political opponents. You think every american would stand with hong kong without even thinking aboutta it. But not the nba. The nba is on trans side. So he was forced to delete thisd tweet. You may in fact lose his job over this. If the nba issued a statement that under no circumstance for theer support hong kong or human freedom. Today, basketball commissioner adam silver emerged to clarify. He repeated the refrain of e