5 00 eastern on cspan and also online at cspan. Org. Or you can listen with the free cspan radio app. Yesterday Virginia Governor Ralph Northam held a briefing with reporters on his response to the pandemic. He discussed Safety Measures being taken at state prisons, the need for alternative medical scare Sites Medical care sites. He spoke from the capitol in richmond. [no audio] gov. Northam good afternoon and thanks for being here and for watching and listening from home. About to talk to you alternative care sites as we prepare for our Surge Capacity. Personal protective equipment or ppe, and our census. I want to start with our fundamental message, stay home. On monday i ordered a virginians to do just that, to stay home, except for necessary trips out for supplies, medical reasons, work, or to care for another person or animal. I know this is difficult. Many sacrifices are being made. The sooner we can put this Health Crisis behind us, the sooner our lives will return to normal, an
About congressional operations during the coronavirus outbreak. Also, cq roll calls jennifer the coronavirus. Host President Trump signed the second of likely to be three coronavirus aid packages passed by congress, the third topping 1 trillion will get initial consideration in the u. S. Senate. Good morning and welcome to washington journal for this thursday. We continue our conversation hearing from you about the governments response to the. Oronavirus pandemic your lines are the same they have been the last couple days. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. And medical professionals, 2027488002. You can send us a text. That is 2027488003. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are cspanwj and it is facebook. Com cspan for your posts. Legislation passing in the senate 908 yesterday afternoon and quickly down to the white house. This is the reporting of usa today with the headline in the papers. A measure to ensure paid sick leave to ensure testing f
Neil. Well, you said it when you set this up at the top. The conversation here on the floor has surpassed this notion of correction which the markets have gone straight through, but now traders are talking about bear market territory. That would be a 20 decline from alltime highs. Theyre saying they hope it doesnt happen, they hope maybe a bottom is set here today. The problem is theres just so much uncertainty, and we dont know where this whole situation is going to go. You know, the comparison has been made to the financial crisis, but there was an orderly process, right, between the government and the banks that stepped in to try to work on things. There was some uncertainty, but people were working on it. With this, were not sure how bad it can get, and thats whats spooking investors. Now, the s p 500 entering correction territory, it only took six days to get there. That is pretty staggering. The last high that we saw was on february 19th. Its been the worst trading week since tha
Said where we were, down 24 points is less than 1 . The nasdaq turning positive at the end of the trading session, barely so well see if we settle above the line, fox Business Team coverage to give you perspective on this day and week with Jackie Deangelis on the fourth the new york stock exchange. Phil has been a busy man watching all the action. In chicago at the cme. Jackie for steve. Reporter liz said, she was leading into trader fear taken a sigh of relief that the day is over and the week is over. It was a steep and volatile session for the dow today, 1085 we were down on the session low closing lower by 352 points. That was actually positive when it came to the action that we have seen but the dow, s p 500, nasdaq were down more than 11 this week well into correction territory, more than 10 lower from their highs and down for two weeks in a row for a matter of fact. It was pretty steep selling for the last seven days and traders just said this was unprecedented. You mentioned th
Right now the green is the controlling color. The dow approaching 2,000. The s p and nasdaq on track for record closes to end out what has been a very eventful week. Lets get to eamon now for more on what we expect as we await President Trump. Its been to put it mildly a busy day in washington the drama is swirling here in washington today the president will be talking in the roosevelt room in a couple of minutes about this initiative that you just mentioned which is keeping Held Health Care costs lower by allowing customers to see what the prices are. The administration is talk about forcing hospitals and Insurance Companies now to disclose what the prices are they negotiate among themselves those negotiations behind closed doors now and the administration has been making the case today this is a shadowy Pricing System and customers are entirely unaware of what things cost and they cant make real choices about what their health care ought to be and how much it ought to cost. Thats the