Transit and sanitation will continue. So your garbage will be picked up. Police officers will be out there on the front line. Our fire safety officials and others. Also Grocery Stores and pharmacies and banks and gas stations will remain open. An astounding clampdown on life as we know it here in the bay area. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. The coronavirus is changing everyday life, where we go, if we work, the things we buy, things education, person to person interactions and financial stability. On wall street today stocks took another blow over fears of a recession. The dow plunged more than 12 , nearly 3,000 points, its largest point drop ever. Nasdaq fell 970 and the s p lost 324. Emergency action by the fed to lower Interest Rates and buy treasuries and mortgagebacked securities was not enough to stop the slide. Tonight Governor Newsom went on facebook to announce a number of new measures to help people in california get through this crisis includin
Inhumane conditions in migrant camps in bosnia. And calls grow louder for the release of texas death row inmate rodney read as new evidence comes to light in the case. And sport n. F. L. Player miles guarantees hit with an indefinite but the Cleveland Brown star attacked some opponents with helmets during a game and searched. Hello welcome to the news hour we begin in the United States where mary the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine has testified in the pietschmann inquiry into President Donald Trump ivanovich says she was shocked and devastated when she was removed as ambassador and said there was a Smear Campaign against her while she was giving her testimony the president launched a twitter attack criticizing her reputation and korea the current phase of the inquiry is set to wrap up by the end of this month after that its likely articles of impeachment the charge sheet against the president will be worse and there would then be a vote on whether to impeach public hearings though
Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
A number of countries start entering recessionary territory that will carry over to other countries as well standpoint of their resident scholar at American Enterprise institute. Troops have joined thousands of volunteers from across south america battling wildfires in bolivia the fires in the amazon Tropical Forests of the burning out of control for weeks doubling in size since thursday a latin american added to the sea a new man has more now from santa made it east of bolivia. Soldiers arrived in sunday to help combat wildfires. Settled by missionaries in the late sixtys hundreds has been converted into an Operations Center for the firefighting effort. Night in the wildfires are spreading out of control fanned by strong winds a prolonged drought and extremely high temperatures. With youll start to see how the animals in the forest are burning but we are proud to be able to help these soldiers are going off again to fight the fires but as you can see theyre not very well equipped they
When he walks up and whispers in the ear of president bush that the nation is under attack. Now he is president of Franklin Pierce university in rindge, new hampshire. Thank you for joining us. Are you andrew card or are you andy cod . Andrew i am andy cod. Ed before we get to the topics of the day, and i know september was yesterday. I want to show that image again. You come up to the president and you whisper in his ear. What did you whisper . Appears a small twin engine prop plane crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center classroom. And captain lower, deborah lower advisor. She came up to me and said, it was a commercial jetliner and a few seconds later she said, oh my gosh, another plane has hit the other tower. I stood there at the door and i performed the test that chiefs of staff report perform all need to know . I would do nothing to invite a question dialogue because i knew he was basically on stage. The media was there to cover everything and he was sitting in