Vaccines. Virus deaths hit a record in the u. S. And in italy. And finding a compromise, opec agrees to slowly add more oil year after days of tense talks. Saudi arabias Energy Minister called the process of excruciating. Welcome to the program, everybody. Welcome to the European Market open. It has just gone 7 00 here in london. German factory orders rising 2. 9 month on month. The estimate was for an increase of 1. 5 . That was better than anticipated. Factory orders arising year on year, 1. 8 . The estimate was 0. 2. We have seen a continuation of growth coming through. We will see what momentum is like in the further winter months. Another story out of germany, potentially more interesting, perhaps. Germany has agreed to extend a to preventr bankruptcies as the economy is hit by the second wave of the pandemic. Germany is extending its 37 billiondollar backstop for Credit Insurance by another six months in the month of june. The industry will surrender 60 of remittance to the gover
Republicans initially refuse to certify results in the largest black county in the state. Sexual assault in the military. A year and a halflong cbs news investigation uncovers failure to fight misconduct. One mother says mishandling of her daughters assault had deadly consequences. And the boeing 737 max getting back in the sky. The faa expected to give the plane clearance to fly again today after two deadly crashes. Why relatives of those killed say it is still too soon. First, here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Mask up, illinois. Mask up, ohio. Mask up, minnesota. Mask up michigan. The latest Coronavirus Task force report, calls current mitigation efforts inadequate. If you dont have a smooth transition, you would not optimize whatever efforts youre doing right now. Donald trump fired his top cybersecurity chris krebs. He was simply reporting what him. Y Relevant Agency had told the faa lifts the grounding of the boeing 757 max following two deadly crashes. Massive
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
Nasa launch four astronauts aboard the space x dragon capsule to the International Space station on sunday. Afterwards, top officials at nasa and spacex held a News Conference on how the launch went and what is ahead for the mission. Thank you for joining us. Moments ago at 7 27 p. M. Nasa space x space x crew1 mission blasted off from Kennedy Space Center Historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans, mike hopkins, victr glover, Shannon Walker and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi today we are joined to have a great group of people to talk about thehe crew1 missionn this post conference and talk about them in historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa jim bridenstine, kathy, associate administrator for operations, at nasa headquarters. Vice president and director general of jackson Human Spaceflight Technology directorate, steve dixon administrator of the federal aviation administration, faa and president and chief operating officer of spacex. Ar in a in a