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Consumerfacing businesses and both are on the move in the afterhours session and we have Team Coverage to break down both of these reports and lets kick things off with csx with the call now under way and lets get to Frank Holland with the details. Melissa, shares of csx up, and something weve seen in a number of other companies and one of its competitors, union pacific. On that call the ceo says production demand was too hard to forecast in this covid19 environment. Also during the call the cfo kevin boone said the Company Raised 500 million in debt and the Company Believes it is in position for a potential recovery and maintaining a strong cash reserve. Our Liquidity Position is extremely strong with nearly 2. 5 billion of cash and shortterm investments at the end of march this represents multiples of what we would consider normal, targeted cash levels cash may be strong, but volumes are weaker year over year to start q2 its been seen in the three weeks since the First Quarter ended
Gold at the 2004 gamemes were supposed to take part, but their visit was cancelled. The plane will leave for northeastern japan aboard a charter flight later on thursday. Governments across the globe are taking tougher measures to combat the pandemic as the number of confirmed infections tops 200,000 worldwide. One of the worst affected countries is italy where residents will remain under lockdown for at least two more weeks. The countrys death toll has surged to nearly 3,000 people with a record high 475 fatalities reported on wednesday. In total, more than 35,000 people there are infected, and the Northern Region of lombardy is rushing to build makeshift hospitals to add intensive care units. In germany, c chancellor angnge merkel called on citizens to help stem rising infections there. She made her plea during a rare televised speech addressed to the nation. Translalator not since germ reunificatation, no, not since world war ii has there been such a challenge to our country that so
With a c 130 hercules aircraft. This happened over the Snowy Mountains region. And it just has really rattled this region. The now south wales royal fire commissioner able to locate the wreckage and crash site but have not recovered any of the crew members. The Fire Fighting fraternity as we keep saying is a tightknit family. Its a fairly small family. And the crew on board were wellknown. Their hearts are with all of us that are suffering. What is the loss of three remarkable, wellrespected crew. The air tanker that crashed is an american colson, a four propeller hercules that had the capability of dropping 4,000 gallons of fire retardant in a single past. The company in oregon released in statement says colson aviation will be sending a team to the state assist in emergency operations. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the three crew members on board. Meanwhile, the Main International airport australia capital city was closed because of severe conditions. Residents ne