Give you a sense of optimism in terms of the curve in california a venti a it is bending, but its also stretch. Bending is good stretching means and will go a little longer the state anticipates a surge of coronavirus patients next month. The direct payments can wanted more. So we think that theres a a path to getting more for the shrek payments. That was House Speaker nancy pelosi saying that more money is coming to help americans through this crisis lots to cover good morning. Thank you for joining us here on this wednesday april 8th, im James Fletcher and im darya folsom first the governor he says that were doing a good job. And try to flatten the curve but the state is anticipating a big surge in virus cases next month. Give you a sense of optimism in terms of the curve in california a bending a it is bending, but its also stretch. Yeah, the governor went on to say that because of coronavirus curve is stretching our state is doing a good job of social distancing and thats allowing
Wilford frost in this final hour of trade markets rallying again today, stocks at their highs of the day around 3 , although we did see yesterday anything can happen in the final minutes or hour of trade. It can evaporate at a moments notice 59 minutes left. Driving the action this hour, encouraging numbers from the u. S. As the government lowers its projection model for the devastation from coronavirus and after fauci says the government is planning ways to, quote, ease back to normal fed minutes out from the last meeting showing the u. S. Central bank intends to keep rates near zero until the economy has weathered the Coronavirus Impact and senator Bernie Sanders suspending his president ial campaign, removing a mesh huasuf uncertainty before novembers election coming up on todays show, well speak with mark cuban. His read on how Small Business is faring and this i take on the market volatility ahead. And the ceo of etsy will join us as many etsy sellers pivot to homemade facemasks w
Lets get your global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to munich to paris washington to sarasota, florida and new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. There are questions about transparency for china. Rishaad salamat joins us from hong kong. Walk us through some of the latest. Now with63,000 cases the death toll up by 121, but the inconsistency in the numbers has led to a lot of questions. Some of them are not being answered, and that has led to people thinking that this disease is not really going away at the moment. We had some optimism a couple of days ago, but that has receded somewhat. Weve also got bickering between washington and beijing. The u. S. Saying they have been denied that. On a microeconomic level, weve got companies such as Fiat Chrysler halting production in one of its plants in serbia. They cant get enough parts out of china. If you want to buy a barbie doll in the future
Snou showers, thunder and small hail. Well give you hour by hour time line for Christmas Day and the next storm on the weekend in about 15 minutes. Of course rob is keeping you in the know about the weather. Follow him on twitter. An armed robber wants to add insult to injury for the third time in two weeks someone has robbed a bay Area Business at gun point and sprayed the victims with pepper spray on the way out. This is the most recent attack in a Convenience Store in santa rosa. It looks identical to attacks in pedestri petaluma and voir dienetia. Are police saying its the same guy . Reporter at this point police just dont know. But these cases are all very similar. This minimarket was the First Business to be targeted. In each of the case, the man gets what hes after, the money, but he lashes out at his victims anyway. Theyre really nice, family operated business. And theyre just really amazing. Really i dont know, it hurts. Thats how customers of santa rosas shop are reacting aft
Mike, youre looking at the buildup out of oakland. Yes, folks, look at this. Thats a lot more cars than we saw last time we took a look. The bay bridge toll plaza is just fine. We expect a light commute so do our partners at waze predicting smooth speeds at the limit for much of the morning. Its eastbound 80 at highway 4 an earlier crash reports of a car that hit the center divide, spun out and someone got out of the car and walked away so were worried about someone on the center divide, in the center divide. Ill track that, again up toward the carquinez bridge, your commute direction just fine you saw how light it was out of oakland and around the rest of the bay. Well talk about the crash. Ill let you know about any updates of skyline. Back to you. Live to capitol hill where lawmakers are on holiday break this Christmas Eve but not taking any breaks from the impending impeachment trial. Democrats are demanding documents from the white house and for witnesses to testify. Republicans a