Are here in the bay area. As soon as the governor starts speaking, well bring you. And more numbers for you right now. The Labor Department reported 6. 6 million americans applied for unemployment just last week. Now, that is in addition to the nearly 10 million unemployment claims filed over the previous two weeks. 10 of American Workers are now unemployed as businesses have been forced to shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Many people have been unable to file a claim because state unemployment offices are overwhelmed by the volume of people trying to file. You yelp planning to lay off or furlough more than 2000 employees. The Online Review plattform made that announcement saying they had plans to let go of 1000 workers and furlough 1100. The state of california. Those are the real heroes of this moment. And we need to talk more about care for our care gives. We have talked rhetorically meeting the need of psychological first aid by extending our appreciation, a good wor
Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
A Health Care Decision its a political and economic one to the restrictions are costing british businesses billions and the prospect of a deep recession looms arriving at number 10 the foreign secretary dominic you standing in for Boris Johnson whilst he was in hospital struck down by the virus rob chaired a meeting of the governments Emergency Cobra Committee to decide whether to extend the 3 week long down a decision wont be made until next week but now the message remains clear the most important thing right now is that people continue to follow the governments going to us until weve got the evidence that the virus is firmly under control so that means please do stay at home to protect our n. H. S. And to saved lives. After all the efforts that everyones made after all the sacrifices so many people have made its not ruling it now this is the 1st Coronavirus Crisis meeting to take place without the countrys chief Decision Maker the Prime Minister the committee normally meets here at
This situation. Since ween 18 days closed down new york. I know it feels like a lifetime. I tell my daughters every day. Only 18 days since everything closed down. 39 days since the first covid case in new york. It feels like a lifetime. Firsts since we have the covid case in the united states. 80 days. Lifechanginge, 80 days, but thats what it has been. When we started this situation that we are still in the midst of, before people get march,ent, the end of the White House Task force was still talking about 1. 5 million to 2. 2 million deaths, ok . Their best Case Scenario with mitigation efforts was 140,000 to 240,000 deaths in the united states, which is breathtaking. For new york, there were a number of models that were put up that we are following. Wasmost frightening Columbia University that said we could have 136,000 people in new york city only who would be hospitalized, not infected. Which the mckinsey model suggested 110,000 people could be hospitalized statewide. We had a se
Lauren simonetti watching markets for us. Edward lawrence with new reporting from washington. Same story for Hillary Vaughn on capitol hill today for us. Lauren, lets begin with you on the markets . Lauren i cant hear but i can tell you what happened in the markets today. A lot of whiplash. The market was fixing positive news with negative news. The big news today was the fed stimulus, right . Also the numbers from the coronavirus seem to be improving. So at the end of the did i we cannot say that the dow is up the best since 1938 but it was higher by 281 points. Check out the s p 500. It squeaks out its best Weekly Performance since 1974. What a week for the stock market. Despite the negative news, one in 10 American Workers has lost their job. We got those jobless claims this morning. Take a look at the airlines, guys, it has been a spectacular week for them. Names like american airlines, united up. Some of them double digits. Up all week. I have do have to tell you as you know the n