Good morning. The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First i would like to go through a few administrative matters that weve adopted because of covid. Weve consulted with the attending physician and the department of health and human services, centers for disease control. Individuals in the hearing room are six feet apart. Theres no room for the public in person. The press is covering as a pool. You can watch this on streaming or there will be an unedited recording that everyone can watch. All of our Witnesses Today and some senators are participating by video conference. I would like to Say Something about masks. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk into the microphones since our chairs are six feet apart. So, thats why my mask is off. When im not back here, im wearing my mask in the hall. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the arkt te
Least for today. Nasdaq pacing for its fifth day in the green markets moving higher. Lets get to bob fast break more on this rally. Hi, bob. It is tech powering the market is choosing to believe the reopening stories will go well the airlines are all up. It goes either way on that well see if we can break out. If we can do that, were back to the levels we havent seen since march here when you have the five largest stocks, the market will be up. Thats a big meg cap rally most of the semiconductors have done well. Nvidia is up 10 microns had a pretty good week they are contributing as well. Not only is it positive, were up almost 5 better than the overall nasdaq but something very important has happened to the etf. Thats the triple q. Its amassed 100 billion in assets thats a very rare number. The etf business about 3 trillion theres only four other etfs that have 100 billion in assets and they are mostly s p 500 related. The spider s p the ishares. Vanguard has one total stock market, a
Voluntary and confidential. And colluding daily texts including daily texts and phone calls checking in throughout the 14 day monitoring period. They can selfreport symptoms on text, alerting Public Health officials that testing may be ride. Over 50 people have been trained to do this outreach including librarians, city staffers and ucfs medical staffers. Well hear about this program coming up in a News Conference that starts at 1 00 p. M. Back to you. Looking live to wall street where stocks are taking a dive. The dow is down a little bit more than 300 points. It dropped 530 points or 2 . Shthe pacts of ng a new coronavirus sales. The government reports retail dropped 8. 7 march. Auto sales fell 25 . And sales of clothing and accessory stores plunged 50 . One area did see a surge. Grocery store sales were up 27 . Now back to top story. Governor good afternoon, newsom giving an update. I want to just extend, again, our deep condolences to those family members, loved ones of those lives
Chance to do it right. I am sorry about that. Comments come the day after President Trump said he worked he is usually on time. As soon as we get him in front with governors on a plan to return things to normal nationwide by the end of the of the microphones. Month and perhaps even sooner. Let me throw some numbers out and out to new york here. Stock just went back after more here. More than 25,000 cases of signs piled up of the economic corona virus. At least 779 people have died. Damage caused by the corona virus outbreak. And fear and budding optimism in recent weeks. Specifically right here in the trying to guess how long and bay area, this are more than 5300 cases. Deep the recession will be. Flipping overnight and within 147 people have died. The same day. Take a peak at where the dow yesterday, the governor did jones stands. We are down by one and more announce that more still needs to be done before sheller in than three. Requesters of a percent. Place orders can be lifted. Alm
The navy is ferrying hundreds to safety and thousands more are hitting the road ahead of a weekend of windy hot conditions expected to fuel the fire. Plus the paralympic pair who found love out on the downs for neither couple in taiwan who survived polio began to become one of the worlds best wheelchair dance tufts. Im brian thomas great to have you with us around Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that harsh retaliation is waiting for the u. S. Now that after a u. S. Airstrike on Baghdad Airport killed iranian general to some salami the head of irans elite quds force commenee as also declared 3 days of National Mourning for the general staff he was the architect of tehrans military operations in the middle east. The u. S. Asked came in the middle of the night later the pentagon tweeted this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans don trump usually very active on twitter tweeted only this image. And was that hungry Iranian State t. V. Confirmed the death