clara becoming the first county to issue a health order due to covid kron four s dan kerman has more on the progress is being made. on march 9th 2020. our county had recorded 43 cases of covid-19 and one death. and on that day i issued an order to prohibit gatherings of more than a 1000 people that was a year ago. now nearly a 111,000 people in santa clara county of had covid and almost 1800 people have died. but now cases and hospitalizations have dropped to the point that beginning wednesday. santa clara county will move to the less restrictive red reopening tier. we want to continue heading. in the trajectory. we have been the last few weeks which is fewer cases, fewer hospitalizations fewer deaths and if we can maintain that then we ll be in a place where we go from red to orange to yellow where we ll be able to have more more activities for with our focus on vaccinations. we will be in a much much safer place as a community and hopefully not. after return to what we h
and his effect on the civil right movements. and confusion and chaos. one year since the first confirmed case in the u.s., we ll get an exclusive look at a documentary on the first days of the pandemic in china. see the harrowing scenes from the front line and hear what the chinese government did to one of the filmmakers. first, we begin this morning with a look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. the first step of our american plan is to tackle the pandemic and get direct grand jury relief to americans who need it the most. reporter: in his first 55 hours as president, joe biden has signed 29 executive actions. me economic adviser said he absolutely is in favor of this rescue plan. reporter: january is now the second deadliest month for coronavirus. i think if we had had the public health messages from the top be consistent that things must have been different. in fact, i m pretty sure they would have been different. reporter: the senate moving
than 1% as many of the cloud and so-called stay-at-home stocks get hit. it was the announcement that pfizer s covid vaccine is more than 90% efficient that s what really set the market on fire we got more on that in a minute. meantime, let s send it over to kelly. thank you, sir. it is a huge day for the markets and a potentially historic one in a fight against the chris christie we have full team coverage for you. bob pisani looking for the market reaction. meg tirelli and bob pisani, let s start with you historic move for the s&p 500 and big volume we re going to do twice normal volume on the markets. we haven t seen that recently, big volume on big up days. that s a change on market sentiment. you mentioned small caps obviously vaccine, better reopening story. that would help small caps, look at this up almost 7% more than twice the performance of the s&p 500 mega cap out of big cap, mega cap tech stocks and into small cap but also a little bit on the weak side as we v
market rs doing because they did see a significant bounce around about midday when the president said he would be addressing the nation at 3:00 p.m. and with it came the eck peckation that he would declare a state of emergency. that took us off the lows of the session. we re splitting the difference it was up 1339s at the high, 85 and currently 865 points lots to discuss. straight to eamon javers who is outside the white house. eamon, what are the key things we might be expecting from this from the president well one of the things we re going to be looking for is whether he makes any mention of the bill na that nancy pelosi said he s going to pass as early as this afternoon in terms of dealing with the virus a senior administration official told me that the white house still objects to several provisions in that measure will the president embrace it or discard it that s a key question. lori ann is reporting that steven mnuchin was on the phone with speaker of the house nanc
livestream. i encourage you to join the conversation through social media and you can invite your friends, your family to follow along on facebook and twitter using hash tag ask why or hash tag women s history. this is part of a series of programs that focus on challenging questions that arise out of our exhibition, americans and the holocaust. questions such as, what did americans know about the rising threat of nazism? what factors influenced how americans responded or did not respond to this threat? and if so much information was available, why is it that the rescue of the jews was not a priority, but only for a few people who went against the grain and decided to help? it has been five years that it took the museum to create this exhibition through research and gathering artifacts. in many ways it fulfills the mandate of the museum s original, 1979 founding president s commission. that commission stated the museum, with its place on the mall as a national memorial, needed