Human beings to refocus our energies, our sense of purpose, and a sense of optimism and they that we will get through these challenging times. Difficult moments that all of us are working through. To reconcile the world we are living in. The need to pay our rent, our mortgage. Educate ourf we can kids at home. And where we are going. We are nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. Whatever we focus on, we find more of. If you are like me, you focus on the nightly news. Anxiety running through those broadcasts. A lot of fear that is induced. Focusing on what this nation and what the world is doing to meet this pandemic headon. That stress is manifest. It israel. All of us work through it differently. No one can moralize how some people deal with it opposed to others. Some people are coping quite well. Others are struggling. Understandably. Because they lost their job and they do not have a paycheck. Because their kids are not at school. Having a hard time sleeping. They are a li
Massachusetts is now one of the largest and most expensive testers in the country. Testing will be a huge part of how we develop strategies to deal with this virus going forward. We are incredibly grateful to the partners who have allowed us to dramatically test our capacity output. In addition to the state lab, there are 25 public and private labs testing in massachusetts. Yesterday, 76,000 patients have been tested. Progressking a lot of but we also know there is much more to do. This weekend, the Lieutenant Governor and i visited a new testing facility for first responders. As we continue to talk to our partners on the local level across the state, we will continue to add more of these in all parts of massachusetts. Earlier today, in Partnership New cvs, we announced a Rapid Testing site. Lowell will use id now tests. People will be able to know if they are positive for coronavirus and take action immediately to seek the proper treatment. Positive cases will be connected to our Cont
Package may not be needed. Dow industrials down 76, s p down 4 points and nasdaq lower by 2 and a half this after roller coaster week on wall street where we saw dow industrials go back to bull market territory posting largest weekly gain since 1938. Dow, nasdaq, s p 500 up better than 9 on the week. We are now off of the lows at 20. 54 a barrel, down 97 cents, 4 lower. Cases of coronavirus are rising across the country, death toll topping 1,000 in new york. Mayor de blasio says people who do not practice social distancing in the city can face fines up to 500dollars. A Million Dollars raised fox last night including fox business. More Companies Help to go fight the war on coronavirus. Manufacturing, medical supplies to free flight to healthcare workers. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets this morning as u. S. Searches for direction. We have weakness across europe, cac quarant down 41 and dax index in germany lower by 32 points. European leaders conti
Trillion coronavirus aid package saying it has a slush fund for big business republicans warning their rivals are playing with fire as the economy tanks. At risk, new warnings from Health Officials on the viruss toll on younger americans. We have to really examine why were seeing it here but we didnt see it in china. What the cdc is saying straight ahead. Plus olympics in jeopardy. The First Nations announce they wont send athletes to tokyo and the debate intensifies this morning over whether the games should really happen today monday, march 23rd, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on monday morning. Its good to have you along with us once again we are separated but together in our hearts, hoda im working from home this week and youre back in the studio. Indeed, savannah. Its great, great to see your face on this monday morning. We do have a lot to
Closely. The treasury yields are probably the more important story were watching this morning. Lets take a look at that. Youll see the tenyear is yielding 1. 067 . Mike santoli point the twoyear at 0. 73 right now. Its been cut in half since valentines day. I think a lot of the push and pull of futures from when they opened last evening, are we going to get a surprise rate cut . Weve had Central Banks around the world comment on that. Its been stunning considering bond yields were already very, very compressed coming into this weekend and now weve just stretched the new lows. At one point 0. 69 , that still stuns me for the tenyear. Weve been continuing to watch these numbers drop rapidly this is the story people will watch closely. We should point out, stocks in shanghai surged overnight on speculation that authorities will stimulate the economy soon. As mike mentioned, theres talk of potential coordinated central bank move. Thats something our guest host talked about on friday, an op