The time now is not to panic. Its for us to come together. Its for us to follow the directives. Its for us to do everything we can in our respective capacities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus so that we can get over this very challenging time. Earlier today San Francisco mayor london breed announcing that the city will require all people to stay at home except for essential needs in response to the coronaVirus Outbreak may have read said that the order will go into effect at midnight tonight and remain in place until april the 7th necessary government functions and essential essential stores and businesses will remain open city officials also say theres no need to rush out and gather supplies since places such as grocery and Hardware Stores and pharmacies gas stations, Convenience Stores and banks will all remain open. I urge us not to anywhere. With this order in place you will still be able to get care for relatives. Run necessary aronson can talk that the essential parts. O
Thanks for joining 9 oclock, everybody im grant lotus can over and Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight. Local city leaders they are not taking any chances with the virus. Yeah we are not taking chances either and crown for trying to practice what we preach Health Officials obviously stressing the importance of social distancing to try to slow the spread of this virus. So were doing the same catherine over there about 12 feet away. Lawrence karnow to my right gangs all here so this is will be doing for the foreseeable future yeah and the cdc actually recommends at least 6 were doing better than that to protect ourselves and to stay on the air to bring you the latest information you need to know today residents in 6 counties have been advised to remain at home, leaving only for essential needs and the supplies in the following counties, San Francisco more in santa clara san Mateo Alameda and contra costa. This order takes effect at midnight we know it will last at least 3 week
Pleas to millennials nationwide on why they could hold the key to stopping the virus. Breaking overnight, postponed, officials in ohio call off todays primary just hours before the polls were set to open, but voting is still on in florida, arizona, and illinois. Ebel its safe and we think the election will be just fine. Officials in those states under fire for moving forward in spite of the outbreak. Released, tom hanks and rita wilson released from the hospital, but still in quarantine. I got results back for coronavirus, and it came back positive. All that plus spreading the love. From impromptu concerts to a unique way of celebrating a special anniversary. Just a sweetness to the two of them and what they share. Well share how people are coming together to get through these strange times, today, tuesday, march 17, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, the coronavirus pandemic. With Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. From studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi,
Ahead of the Conference Call to the g7, leaders, a lot of focus will be on whether they will step in with coordinated action or words to assuage the markets. Ahead of that, markets are rising. The stock europe 600, 4 and the that saw a lot of losses because of the epicenter in europe still in italy, up today. The dax up. S p futures, gains across the board. A caveat. Yesterday, we saw similar gains and they peter off as the day went on. Today, there is expectation from g7 and that the fed will possibly step in. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with Viviana Hurtado. With an update on the coronavirus. Governments around the world preparing for emergency measures to fight the outbreak. Drugmakers hope to have antiviral treatments ready within the month and vaccines by next year. Of cases number worldwide, topping 90,000 but reports suggest over half those people have now recovered or have been released from the hospital. Central bank, it has cut rates and signals
Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts