You can send us a text at 2027488003 and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. A very good sunday morning to you. We take you to the coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins university. The numbers 10 million cases worldwide, the United States counting for a quarter of those and 125,000 deaths. Amid renewed focus on the spread of this virus we are talking about masks this morning asking if you wear them. The topic came up friday at a hearing of the House Oversight committee. This is congressman jamie raskin talking to his fellow republican green. Sman mark [video clip] the mask is not to protect me. It is to protect other people in the event i am infected and the majority of infections are of presymptomatic. We had members of congress who did not know they had it in any of us would do that if that were the rule. Why is this complicated . There is one thing we can do to protect other people. It does not cost us anything.
Messages and tweets. University of massachusetts amherst assistant professor traci parker joins us for discussion on the lunch counter sit ins of 1960. Who were the greensboro four and why did they decide to sit down at that lunch counter in 1960 . They work for freshman a t were four freshman at and they had been thinking about racial injustices and how to integrate and how to push the movement along for some time. It was not until Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after when hes break in 1959 is refused a meal at a greyhound train terminal and he is just trying to buy a hot dog. And gets back to campus and he is emboldened. He says enough is enough. So him and this for friends decide they are going to target the woolworths. Aggregate eating facilities in greensboro, North Carolina. I find interesting is why it woolworths, woolworths was a five and dime that many people of a certain age probably still remember. It was a chain Discount Department store. Recognizable because it is a
Dow, it will be an eight straight month of gains for the dow and s p 500. Strugglest for the Technology Sector once again. Lets look at what happened overnight in asia. You will see that the nikkei ended up by close to 0. 6 points. Stocks in china under pressure the hang seng down by 1. 5 points the shanghai down by 0. 6 . In europe, in the early trading, it looks like there are green arrows across the board. Biggest gains from the major averages come out of germany where the dax is up almost by 0 0. 8, the ftse up by a quarter percentage points. Right now looking at crude oil prices opec and nonopec producers, ie russia, are expected to announce an extension of output cuts until 2018 a lot of concerns about that, whether there will be Sticking Points along the way thats why crude oil was under pressure yesterday things have picked up this morning with a gain of 1 for wti. Up 53 cents to 57. 82 well get a live report from the meeting of opec in vienna. Thats coming up at 6 30 a. M. Eas
Is more than fifty years old and has deteriorated significantly because of all the storms. Transportation officials have even close the bridge completely in the past and cdot release a simulation of how the bridge will look it will actually run parallel to the old one the project is expected to take three years to complete viewing noon we now know it was a mother and child were struck by a car in norfolk this morning thirty news not only about the incident during the eight fifty six update on Good Morning America mother and child recovering this afternoon in the hospital. Police say two cars crashed at the intersection of hampton boulevard and twenty six street this morning he was heading northbound on hampton boulevard when a nissan making a left turn didnt yield the cars crashed and the nissan spun out hitting the mother and her young child who are trying to cross a street officer say this accident could have been much worse than nissan collided with the mother the impact of the niss
Plans to revive old and vacant spaces the news starts now. Amy and thanks for joining us a person is facing several charges months after deputies found the bodies of several cats in a dumpster on the outer banks county sheriffs deputies found the dead cats in december the recently arrested twenty six year old oregon boy can charging him with animal cruelty. Heres ariel a bow in your county Sheriffs Office as a take down these animals in a bus we went by the boykin family home here in merry yelling i spoke to someone who identified himself as jordans brother he says his brother doesnt live in a bun. We had no idea who face these charges four counts of animal cruelty or when twenty six year old jordan boykin is charged with this after deputies say they found several dead cats in a dumpster and they believe their dance. Deputies would not specify exactly how many cats were found where or how they died but they were made aware of these animal cruelty cases. Last december and last week in j