Plus, the top trump supporter now hospitalized after attending that tulsa rally. New hires and lost work the president celebrates as the economy adds nearly five milliop disgraffreses e doallice epstein caught by the f. B. I. After months on the run. The new details tonight, how investigators tracked her down. Breaking news in the disappearance of a fort hood soldier. The grisly discovery after a key suspect kills himself. The latest on that investigation. And tipping our caps we honor the 100th anniversary of baseballs negro leagues. They changed a sport and a country. Hi capital. Brennan good evening to our viewers in the west. Thank you for joining us. Norah is off. Im Margaret Brennan. After months of social distancing and staying at home, tonight, the coronavirus pandemic is worse than it has ever been in the u. S. In just 24 hours, the country has added more than 50,000 new cases, leading the head of the administrations Testing Program to Tell Congress today that the u. S. Is not
Distancing and staying at home, tonight, the coronavirus pandemic is worse than it has ever been in the u. S. In just 24 hours, the country has added more than 50,000 new cases, leading the head of the administrations Testing Program to Tell Congress today that the e. S. Is not flattening the curve and that the nationwide surge of the virus is real. Infections are now up in 37 states as more and more people who get screened are testing positive. Avere beginning of june, cases a day. Averaging about 600 new cases a day. Today, there were 10,000 new infections. With i. C. U. Beds reaching capacity and lines for testing wiretching for blocks, mayors and goors nation abringing back july at home. Texas governor, who has spent weeks pushing back on the idea of mandating masks, just issued of mandating masks, just issued an executive order requiring them in Public Places across most of the state. Tonight, the virus has killed more than 128,000 people in the u. S. , and there are more than 2.
Now more than 47 off the march low. The nasdaq closed at the record highs as well. This morning, seeing give back the dow indicated down by 345 points the s p indicated off 35 and the nasdaq off by 70 points. If youve been watching cha is happening with treasury yields, a lot happening. The 10year at 0. 82 we had been at 0. 9 . We had been at 0. 7 . We are seeing a little give back with oil prices seeing wti down just 0. 5 . We have another big show. Three squawk exclusive interviews taking place. Finding solutions for economic racial inequality. The highlight is ceo of e sen sur. And from barrons with a lot to say. Dick parsons will be joining us. A lot on tap thank you getting an update now on the reopening. Movie theaters in california can reopen on friday only if they obtain approval from county officials requiring imposing safe guards including limited attendance to 25 or 100 people, when whichever is lower. New york mayor bill de blasio is planning to make parts of manhattan, bus
Say for the rest of our lives we have to wear masks. Reporter the road map also talks about doing gps for social distancing. Following peoples phones and hotels for isolation for people. Giving them free hotel rooms. Are those ideas that youre looking at . The gps, that is a very severe idea. Ive been hearing about it. What happens a siren goes off if you get too close to somebody . That is pretty severe. He was with me for a long time. He did a great job at fda. So were going, were taking a look. I just received it a little while ago. He sent it over. So very good. Go ahead. Lets give it a shot. Sir what do you say to americans who are upset with you over the way you downplayed this crisis over the last couple of months . We have it very much under control in this country, the coronavirus is very much under control in the usa. It is going to disappear. It is like a miracle. It will disappear. March 4th, we have a very small number of people in this country infected. March 10th, were p
Doctors, they will come back and say for the rest of our lives we have to wear masks. Reporter the road map also talks about doing gps for social distancing. Following peoples phones and hotels for isolation for people. Giving them free hotel rooms. Are those ideas that youre looking at . The gps, that is a very severe idea. Ive been hearing about it. What happens a siren goes off if you get too close to somebody . That is pretty severe. He was with me for a long time. He did a great job at fda. So were going, were taking a look. I just received it a little while ago. He sent it over. So very good. Go ahead. Lets give it a shot. Sir what do you say to americans who are upset with you over the way you downplayed this crisis over the last couple of months . We have it very much under control in this country, the coronavirus is very much under control in the usa. It is going to disappear. It is like a miracle. It will disappear. March 4th, we have a very small number of people in this cou