Protests in atlanta. The shooting now ruled a homicide. Parts of seattle remain under siege. The mayor supporting protestors calling their actions an act of patriotism, President Trump saying that the mayor and governor should be ashamed of themselves tweeting that the matter can easily be fixed. Mortgage rates dropping to a record low, quick and loans ceo joins me at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Find out who can take advantage of low rates and what it could mean for housing recovery. Mornings with maria is live right now. Fears of second wave of coronavirus hitting Global Markets. Europe markets are selling off, down to tune of 1 in england, france and germany. Restrictions easing up in the uk as retailers reopen, many European Countries opening their borders to travelers today. In asia overnight, you can take a look at major markets there. Lower across the board from korea, japan and shanghai. More signness of slow recovery in china. Industrial output coming below expectations rising 4 i
Order to support Economic Growth following the coronavirus pandemic. This News Conference runs an hour. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us. Our country continues to face a difficult and challenging time as a pandemic is causing tremendous hardship in the United States and around the world. People have lost loved ones and many millions have lost their jobs and there is great uncertainty about the future. At the Federal Reserve we are strongly committed to using our tools to do whatever we can and for as long as it takes to provide some relief instability to ensure the recovery will be a strong as possible and to limit lasting damage to the economy. The most important response to the crisis has come from a healthcare workers and on behalf of the Federal Reserve look me express our dedicated individuals who put themselves at risk day after day and service to others and to our nation. Let me also think the essential workers across the country who have helped meet our basic n
Officials are warning that even if we see the numbers start to go down and the disease start dying in the summer it could surge by the fall. Dissipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of transmissibility. However if you come back in the fall. There will be a totally different ballgame our ability to go out and be able to test to identify isolate. And contact race will be orders of magnitude better then what it was just a couple of months ago. Will spain now has suffered its worst day in the coronavirus outbreak officials there say 849 people died yesterday because of the virus and that there were more than 9,000 new cases reported in just 24 hours. Spain has become the 3rd country now in the world to overtake chinas total infection count. They fall behind italy and the united states. We just talked about the president extending the stay in at home order will mayor london breed says that there will be a formal announcement later today. What they want to do with the H
Yeas and nays are ordered. He orvotes objected to under the house irule 20. Proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Madam speaker, i move hat house suspend the rules and pass that the house suspend the rules and pass h. R. 2227, as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 2227, a bill to amend the Service Members civil relief act to authorize spouses of Service Members to incur a catastrophic injury or illness or die while in military service to terminate leases of premises and Motor Vehicles and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. Takano, and the gentleman from tennessee, mr. Roe, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Takano. Mr. Takano madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days
In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t