And appreciate the great assistance from the governors and the people within the states. The relationships have been really good. I spoke with Governor Cuomo and were are working very hard to get additional things to new york as quickly as possible. As you know, we took care of the hospital including personnel. 2500 beds that we built just recently at javits including personnel and we opened it up to covid and it is something that we also did in louisiana and we are doing it in dallas. We have a lot of not only hospitals being built but now we are manning the hospitals because states in many cases are unable to get additional people to work. It is just an incredible situation. There has never been anything like this. One of the most important issues that linked this pandemic is coordinating the delivery of crucial supplies throughout the nation based on the most Accurate Information available. We have the best health care and disaster experts anywhere in the world. And everyone will te
the virus latest strain powers a covid comeback. reporter: i m danya bacchus in los angeles where new restrictions could trigger a requirement to mask up. all-star spotlight. the wnba s biggest names gather while brittney griner s detention in russia takes centre court. and later, the stones still rolling after 60 years. the band this week marking the anniversary of their first performance. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with new developments from that january 6th committee investigating the capitol attack and what many have called an attack on american democracy. so far, the committee has held six hearings. and this week, we could see the final two. the back-to-back hearings will focus on white nationalist groups and what former president donald trump was doing as he capitol was under siege. today we re learning new information following friday s c
Governments relenting to the shut down with a shortterm funding deal. Mitch mcconnell praised the decision yesterday. After three days of an unnecessary lapse in funding, a bipartisan majority has brought the Democratic Leaders extraordinary filibuster to an end and pass the bipartisan deal to reopen the federal government. As i said repeatedly over the past week, shutting down the government isnt irresponsible way to do business. Markets rally on deal. The dow, nasdaq, s p 500 all closing record territories. Half a percent of the dow up 143 points or 26,214. The nasdaq up 1 higher. Now 74 weight. Features a sporting show momentum continue. All the major indices in positive territory. Though investors up 73 points. Nasdaq up another 10 points. In europe across the board take a look at the european indices right now. Dax or three quarters of 1 in germany up 132 points. The others in positive territory. Same story in asia as the best performer they are hong kong hang seng up one and two
Assistant to the president. We just had a great morning of conversation, town hall style, capped off by the president with some of the great c. E. O. Leaders based out of new york and the partnership for new york. Over r they represented 1 trillion to the u. S. Economy. We focused on some of the major forwardthinking initiatives of the president and this administration, including infrastructure and the infrastructure package were working hard on, including modernizing government i. T. , specifically modernizing the i. T. Infrastructure of the government, which is in desperate need of overhaul and modernization, both for the efficiency of government and for the security of government. And lastly, on work force development. Theres no question that this administration is bringing back hundreds of thousands of skilled and technologyrelated jobs and we need to invest in training our work force of tomorrow so that theyre ready for this demand. Its truly my pleasure to turn over to some of th