seeing a lot of treatment claims. getting the street s attention. this company appeared virtually out of nowhere. progress to likes of regeneron, becton dickinson, benefiting from the $1.6 billion u.s. government commitment. you have makings of something down the pike that could treat the virus, maybe as soon as the end of this year, in the case of some of these phase 3 advanced trials, maybe as soon as the fall of this year. but being coast to coast we re all over the place on all these other developments including out in california where they are extending shutdown provisions now expanding to include virtually all businesses, indoor dining, barbershops, salons, tattoo parlors, you name it. also focusing on what s going on in florida right now a big spike in cases but as stuart was just telling you some confusion about how many of those cases are indeed positive. we ve got the the latest going on in texas, where the spike in cases is so severe they re looking at crowded hos
that trend remains the empire state s trend. never mind deaths and overall cases are stubbornly high. the trend is the improvement. we were up a lot on major market averages. as you heard from stuart, the nasdaq now in positive territory for the year. dow jones industrials, s&p 500, sprinting ahead, with the dow down 50% on the year. really recouped losses. nasdaq over 9,000. that is startling development as technology continues to be own a tear. it got a little bit of extra spring in the test with news out of new york that hospitalizations are continuing a favorable trend. for more on that, david lee miller in new york, with the latest what is happening there. david lee? reporter: hi, neil, in the words ever the governor we re now on the other side of the mountain but he said it is a slow decline. as you so rightly point out the number of covid-related hospitalizations are down. the latest daily death toll in new york state, now 231. that is one less than the day before. tha
neil: would take a little more than 2% to get to 30,000. it would take 9% to get to 32,000, peter navarro, among others saying that is in the equation. a lot depends on key developments. the president is en route to davos, switzerland, but the backdrop of the impeachment trial tomorrow. blake burman is looking at administration legal response to all of this, how it will position itself in the senate. he joins us in the white house. sir? reporter: neil, if they haven t done so already the trump legal team represents the president in the impeachment hearing will file a legal brief today, giving a more fulsome approach, fulsome take as it was described earlier today of the president s legal defense heading into the impeachment trial. as you know, the legal team laid out the six-page answer to the senate over the weekend. we re expecting a much bigger briefing from the president s team here shortly. according to sources that are working with the president s legal team, appears if
these folks being added to the blacklist so to speak. spokesman for the chinese foreign ministry says these accusations are nothing more than an excuse for the united states to deliberately interfere with china s internal affairs. china will continue to take firm and resolution measures to protect its sovereign security. on the list, hike vision, the world s largest supplier of surveillance equipment. they released a statement, that they have been engaging with administration officials the last 12 month to clarify misunderstandings about the company and addresses their concern. the company opposes this decision. they are not happy by deleted tweet about it general manager of the houston rockets, that tweet showing support for protests in hong kong. the chinese canceled games being shown, preseason games being shown from the nba in china. you can t find on line in retailers any houston rockets gear anywhere in china. the bottom line it s a tough environment to go forward with
certainly last month. 304,000 of them, despite the shutdown. you heard wages sprinting ahead, third month in a row, seen better than 3% growth. 3.2 from a year ago. get the read the market seemed to like. it is pardon of that goldilocks mix of news. john bussey wall street journal. former new york congresswoman, she is doctor, very smart lady in her own right. nan hayworth. not saying not being a congresswoman is not being smart. i can dial that one back. last but not least, after the bell host connell mcshane. get your take on the perfect mix report that got a lot of buying going. we re in the 2020 political cycle, tax cuts, deregulation work. that is the overwhelming message of today. market the of course as we know, go up and down. they re substantially, emotionally driven of the that is why presidents should never point to the markets. neil: don t marry yourself to the markets. we know this economy is driving forward. we hear it from entrepreneurs. we hear it from