Forced johnson to questions from members of the house of commons on his governments reopening efforts and response to the coronavirus pandemic. Later, the Prime Minister commented on the terrorist that claimed the life of one American National telling members quote, we will not let this kind of senseless murder distract us or in any way allow us to be intimidated or to change our way of life and quote. This is 35 minutes. We are now going ahead to the questions to the Prime Minister. We are going to start with sara. Question one, mister speaker. Mister speaker, this morning i had meetings with colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this house ill have such meetings later today. Mister speaker my constituents by the chief medical of wales, north ireland and england to reduce the uk level from four to three. Indeed through my works ive seen a reduction in the number of covid positive cases leap needing to be treated. Does the Prime Minister agree with me, is uks wise approach
Desire to quickly open the economy quickly as the wuhan virus has infected 2 Million People worldwide and killed 120,000 people of. The coronavirus has killed 24,000 americans and infected 600,000. President trump meeting with a group of the survivors of the virus hearing firsthand about their fight with the illness. They sat in the cabinet room. Among them a democrat michigan lawmaker. They say the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine saved them. President trump you took the hydroxy . I did. President trump that made a big difference . Within 12 hours i saw improvement. I cant say how wonderful to see your face and thank you for everything you have done. If you had not brought this to the forefront of being able to put this out here, i wouldnt be here today to have this conversation. Lou President Trump adding that if it was anyone other than him championing the drug, the Left Wing National Media would be singing his praises. But its just part of the hard work put in buy off the our presid
The rules. We recommended Face Coverings in the past and now as of midnight tonight, it will be a requirement. Two big stories tonight. The city of San Francisco makes it mandatory to wear a mask. The latest community to do so. Plus the economic consequences of this virus are now just coming into sharper focus. We are now in a pandemicinduced recession here in the state of california. Pandemicinduced recession. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And the Economic Advisory group will be joined by dozens. The Advisory Group will also include all four former living governors of the state. Pete wilson, gray davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Newsome is coming up with plans that can be tapped now, not down the line. The jobless rate climbed to 5. 3 . The governor said its a sobering fact but dont be permanent. In terms of what we should expect in the future, we have great confidence in our capacity to in a california way to not just survive, working our way through this pandemic but to thrive
Good morning. Very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost alongside Courtney Reagan in for sara today. Good morning. I love this song. Our team is so on point with the music. As people know, it would be all boy bands and Andrew Lloyd Webber if i chose it. Lets look at futures. Essentially flat. For the week as a whole we are heading lower, down 1 for the dow. On pace for the worst week since november. Sounds bad, i suppose it is in a relative sense, but in an absolute sense, only 1 of declines as a whole highlights this up from pullback in the last five or six weeks has not been too volatile. Down 1 for the week for the dow, down a half percent for the s p and the nasdaq coming into todays trade, but we are called slightly higher for the dow and s p and the nasdaq expected to open slightly lower. The jobs number coming out later this morning. December was 156,000. Expectations for january higher at 175,000. Lets look at the tenyear treasury note. A bit of fluctuat
Good to be with you on this friday morning. We begin with breaking news from paris. An alleged attacker was shot outside the museum. The man, armed with two ma chet tees charged at two soldiers. He said god is great in arabic. There were two backpacks with him. He pulled out a knife and attacked a group of soldiers. One shot five times killing him. They were working to see if it was a lone attack or part of a plot. A surprising turn of event, the white house is now warning israel to stop announcing plans to build new settlements in the occupied west bank. The statement clarified that the administration is concerned specifically with the construction of new settlements, not the existing settlements, which it does not view as an impediment to middle east peace. This could signal fault lines in the otherwise warm relationship between President Donald Trump and israel Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, who is expected to visit the white house in two weeks. Developing overnight, the white h