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sisters. still, there was always a little tension especially when it came to sunday dinner. the grandmothers were kind of in competition with one another. so we would start here, at grandmom jacobs, we would have a typical italian mealidwait, i m. reporter: so you had to go to the other grandmother? we had to eat at both houses. reporter: it was here at the home of her maternal grandparents that jill jacobs first introduced the family to joe biden. the u.s. senator she had been dating. a widower, nine years her senior with two young sons. my grandmother when she saw joe, she was so excited. i can picture her in her house coat, and her black lace up shoes. she said i m so excited to meet you because she was a staunch democrat. reporter: jill and joe biden were married in 1977. she said she first fell in love with his boys. bo and hunter. and they were front and center in 1980, when she realized that she and joe might be expecting a new baby. they went with ....
hurricane season. unemployment emergency. this weekend millions of americans benefits are set to expire. hear what s holding up a new round of support in congress, plus find out what the president just said he regrets. and chief decision. the first medical doctor to play in the nfl opts out of the 2020 season. hear the super bowl champ s reason why, and find out how much he stands to lose from the move. first, we begin this morning with a look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. tropical storm hanna could very well become a category-one hurricane making landfall somewhere around the corpus christi area. south texas is bracing for a possible hurricane. warnings are up along the 200-mie200 200-mile stretch of the gulf coast. hurricane douglas is starting to weaken. that s good news. reporter: nearly 74,000 americans tested positive for covid-19 in just 24 hours. it will take a few weeks, maybe three weeks or so, to see the downturn. and onc ....
press secretary tested positive for coronavirus. tonight the nation s top infectious disease expert, along with the heads of the c.d.c. and f.d.a., are all in what they call modified quarantine, because they were in contact with one of the aides. the administration says the prt ce president do not have coronavirus and that they re being tested daily. and late today, the president declared the u.s. has prevailed on testing, saying any american who wants to get tested can, though he did not explain how. he did say the white house is making $11 billion of funding from the stimulus bill available to the states to increase testing. as we come to be air tonight, more than 80,000 people have been killed by covid-19 in the u.s., and more than 1.3 million cases have been confirmed nationwide. tonight in some parts of the country, infections are still rising, even as 49 states are loosening restrictions. there s a lot of news to get to tonight. we have team of correspondents cove ....
last few minutes of trading hire is what is new at this hour president trump making his way to california this hour. heading west for a multiday visit to campaign in key swing districts not beforehanding out a few presidential pardons before he hopped on air force one. plane to rein in on wall street. mike bloomberg s newest proposal to crack down on some of his old friend in the financial services industry. we ll talk about that. they may be a waste of your time. now there is a way to get even with them and get paid. how you get revenge on the pesky robocallers. stay tuned for that coming up. lauren: meantime we have fox business team coverage. blake burman live at white house, jackie deangelis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. edward lawrence in washington. jackie, you first to wrap up well, the nail biting day for us. looks like we have the record on the nasdaq. i hold my breath this time of day to see how it shakes out. any gain on the nasdaq, any green ....
debut four months ago. who is this? why are they so? why so many questionmarks on the graphics we find out the answer to all of those. riddler. exactly lets start the program with the big stock story and market story really of the day. and that is apple. a stark warning on revenue gue are due to the impact of what else, the coronavirus. the iphone manufacturer tumbling today but finishing well off lows go to josh liptak. with more on what apple said and the reaction josh. that s right, brian apple finished in the red today but maybe not hit as hard as some expect. many analysts weighing in and concluding it s a short-term challenge. meaning they think the demand for apple products simply shifts from the march quarter to future quarters there is still a lot of uncertainty and questions. how long does in outbreak really continue how long before chinese consumers feel it s safe to go back out and shop? remember apple s only has 7 out of 42 stores reopening even those ....