Win would lead to a total meltdown especially when it comes to markets. Stuart talked about hong kong. Were watching it closely. Well have a run on the banks well talk about. A big weekend ahead in hong kong. Well look live where tensions stand right now. Lets get to trade, how governments are reacting to what is happening. The dow is up 275. Were ending week on up note. We have a few hours to go, still down overall for the week whether governments are aware well get to that in a moment. New stimulus could be helping stocks. Hillary vaughn starts us off at the white house. Hi, hillary. Reporter connell, President Trump says the september meeting with chinas trade delegation is still a go. He talked on wednesday with chinese trade officials. He is expecting a call soon with president xi. He said if china dares to retaliate against september first tariffs he thinks the u. S. Holds the ultimate retaliation or ultimate form of retaliation. I never said china was going to be easy but it is
Of the most well known names on the uk high street has collapsed into adminsistration putting 13,000 jobs at risk. And under covid rules the scotch egg will be classed a substantial meal. Hugely significant to thousands of uk pub goers who must eat, if they are to be allowed to drink. The bad news youll probably still be hungry. Hello im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. Lets start with the good news. Things are moving fast on the Covid Vaccine front. Moderna filed for us Regulatory Approval of its vaccine today the second pharaceutical company to do so. And an Advisory Panel to the cdc will meet tomorrow to decide who should get the very first doses. But widespread Vaccine Distribution is still months away and in the meantime the number of infections in the us is soaring. Hospitals are overrun and Health Care Workers are exhausted. This weekend dr fauci warned america could see a thanksgiving surge in cases, on top of the existing winter surge. But the Top Trump
Protection program is open again, giving Small Businesses a renewed lifeline. But today we are watching the house voting on sending 2,000 checks to americans and override the veto of the defense spending bill, all of this comes as the United States is entering a pandemic. Consider this data point as well. Nearly 1. 3 million americans pass through airports on sunday. Thats the highest level for air travel since the whole pandemic began. Well have more on science and data in a couple of minutes. First, lets go to kaitlan collins, live from west palm beach, florida. Kaitlan, is there a strategy to the president s decision to sign the stimulus . Reporter i think if there is, brooke, even the president s own staff doesnt know what it is because when we were talking to white house officials yesterday as the president tweeted, good news is coming, that was the tweet a few hours before he did finally sign this deal, white house officials werent sure what he was going to do. A lot of it had to
Distancing. And called protests to lift stayathome orders, quote, not helpful. Yesterday, the president was asked what happens if the virus makes a comeback after social distancing guidelines are relaxed. I would say, you keep away until this thing is gone. Its going to be gone at some point. Its going to be gone, gone, i would say you keep away, and do the social distancing until such time you know when its gone. Well know when that time is. And researchers have found that the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus has no benefits and could cause more benefits than routine care. The Associated Press is reporting the study thats the largest look at the drug analyzed 368 male Covid Patients at Va Medical Centers across the country who died or were discharged by april 11th. Researchers found that 28 of those given hydroxychloroquine died, versus the 11 who received routine care alone. They also found that hydroxychloroquine made no difference in the need for a ventil