jumping more than a thousand during the press conference, is settled after that. but they are all up big time, a vast difference from yesterday s blood bath. hillary vaughn is live at white house, jackie deangeles the new york stock exchange, but alex hogan is life in st. patrick s cacathedral that would have beea very busy st. patrick s day. reporter: a year ago, i would be standing here with about 2 million people, watching a parade go by, this is a different side of new york from what people are used to seeing, as cases spread, more people are told to stay inside, the major landmarks in new york are empty. millions of people worldwide are under lockdown, they vary country by country, here die he state. most banning gatherings, and and 5 million. pennsylvania will close state owned wine and liquor stores at 9 p.m., new jersey closing malls, and ohio calling identiff prime elec election. these close ours cutting deep into the nation s economy. in terms of the economic disl
worldwide exchange begins now. good morning, welcome to worldwide exchange. i m courtney ragan futures are slightly higher this morning as we get ready to kick off the busiest morning in earnings season. you can see the dow jones are higher industrial futures are higher by 25 points. the s&p 500 is slightly higher as well. first, let s talk about the first big top story of this morning. disney s avengers smashing records at the weekend box office let s get straight over to rahel solomon with all the details. good morning. it was the biggest box office opening ever disney s avengers end game it took in $1.2 billion globally that is the first time a movie topped the billion dollar mark 90% of ticket sales went to avengers. endgame was a smash overseas it took in a record of $859 million internationally. a lot of that came from china. the record-breaking numbers are huge for disfully. disney shares are in early trading a little bit heighter. courtney, again, a huge hit
that s why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by and by from new york in new york. good evening. thanks for joining us. defying international protests, calling the process illegitimate, crimea went ahead with a referendum and voted overwhelmingly to join russia. the vote came almost two weeks after russian troops occupied the region, which is also home to the russian black sea fleet. margaret warner joins us from crimea. so what was it like at the polls today? the thing that surprised me today was the high turnout we did observe at the four polling stations he went to. the one exception was at a district that is heavily muslim, they said they would boycott the vote and it was only 10%. the voters seem in a celebratory move. the head of one polls station said all slavic people, this is a very big day for them. what they said, they don t understand that this is calling causing a huge east/west confrontation. the concerns were practical. t
u.n. chemical weapon inspectors are set to start work in syria on tuesday. the u.n. security council voted unanimously on friday on a resolution to secure and destroy syria s chemical weapons. while reaction to approval of the long-debated resolution was greeted with relief in new york. in syria the action has been muted. we go to the turkish-syrian border with more. speaking to syrian activists, many express sceptisism about the chemical weapons deal, worried about the regime s compliance and told us it s like the international community procrastinating when dealing with bashar al-assad s regime. there is significant infrastructure damage and something as basic as watching television is a luxury for many. others express concerns about the fact that this is specifically a weapons deal that is only concentrated or focused on chemical weapons, and many told us what about conventional weapons, the main tool by which many syrians, 100,000 were killed over the past 2.5 years.
good to have you with us. we begin with the south china sea. there are vast deposits of the oil and gas beneath the waters. resources of several nations, the source of tension - recently between china and vietnam. anti-china protests led bm to evacuate beijing to evacuate its citizens from vietnam. reporter: after daying of often violent anti-chinese protests the vietnamese appear to contain the disurpss. police disturbances, police broke up the protest in ho chi minh city. it s all over relevance by china to halt deep see oil exploration. translation: the intention was to show support for the government s efforts to chase the rig from our waters. reporter: the squirmishes in the waters have gone on for two weeks. the worry is it could get out of control. vietnam s government is communist, like china, and tends to keep a lid on dissent. it was unable to stop days of violence. some attacked chinese factory - many were taiwanese owned - a distinction lost on the riote