And concerning the spread of the coronavirus, the cdc has announce ad 15th case has been confirmed in the United States and the patient was diagnose in the Northern California. We talked to the cdc but thats the could not provide details this Northern California case, other than to say they will release more information either tonight or tomorrow morning. The cdc would not confirm Washington Post report that this is first case in the u. S. Of unknown origin. If it is, this Northern California case would raise new concerns about how exactly this new disease is spreading. About an hour ago, President Trump addressed the nation on this virus. What weve done is weve stopped nonu. S. Citizens from coming into america from china. Were screening people, and we have been at a very high level. Screening people coming into the country from infected areas. We have quarantined those infected and those at risk. The president went on to discuss his administrations response the coronavirus and mr. Tr
Welcomes the program strict new measures to stop the spread of corona virus are ramping up around the world as the number of new cases outside china so posses those inside where the highest death toll outside china has been in iran where 19 people have died iraq has 5 cases its closed schools and banned public gatherings as well as flights from several countries in europe france has recalled its 2nd death well its only has confirmed its 12 and a man who returned to brazil after visiting italy has become latin americas 1st case well globally more than 81000 cases of corona virus have been recorded in 44 countries and territories u. S. President donald trump is due to hold a press conference within the next 30 minutes or so and will be crossing of a live once that gets underway well shortly well cross to latin america at its embassy and human in santiago on the new infections there but 1st lets head to the white house where our correspondent Kimberly Halkett is standing by with the lates
The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this
International space station. Why it took 35 years to happen. Finally. Its friday, october 18th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The kurds are very happy. Turkey is very happy. The United States is very happy. Reporter the president defends his ceasefire. Despite an agreement by turkey to temporarily halt the fighting in northeast syria, gunfire reportedly broke out overnight. Reporter White House Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney backtracking on his statement about quid pro quo with ukraine. Get over it. Theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. Next years g7 summit will be held at a florida resort owned by President Trump. It will be completely and totally unfuneral. Its a domestic of the domestic emoluments clause. The son of el chapo free after he was detained by mix Security Forces following hours of intense gunfire. In support of chinese prodemocracy supporters in hong kong has cost the nba millions. Our games are not back on the air in c
To get to a point where its ratcheted down significantly. I think it will be better every year. I think everybody gets better every year and every event. We learn a lot from each other but the risk is significant. Reporter a tenyear plan so more blackouts to come. The ceo and other officials apologized but defended them saying there were no catastrophic wildfires started. They work swiftly to cover wires in high fire threat areas, to underground wires, to trim back trees and strengthen the website to handle the immense traffic these blackouts brought. The website went down several times. They also addressed that lavish party last week, pg e holding a party for its gas customers. Two days of wine tasting. It was on the anniversary of the north bay fires in 2017 that killed so many people and destroyed so many homes. Pg e said that wont happen again and ratepayers will not pay the bill for that party. Coming up at 11 00, i took a closer look at how we got to the blackouts and whats being