big one to watch, especially thinking about how closely linked ride share is with airports deirdre bosathank you for bringing us the latest now the coronavirus risk to the u.s. health care system. cleveland clinic's ceo joins us. >> thanks for having me. >> no confirmed cases of coronavirus in cleveland right now. but as the ceo of a major global health care system, how are you preparing and how have you been screening? >> well, preparing for coronavirus as an epidemic or pandemic is something that is part and parcel of any large health care integrated system, so cleveland clinic as well. our preparation, our caregivers, meaning we're going through the drills and preparing to receive the first patients who are inevitably going to come, educating our staff, our public, making sure we have everything we need to take good care of our patients >> the w.h.o. and alex azar are holding an event, have been holding an event this morning. one of the headlines out of that is that 75,000 tests are expected to be shipped here in the u.s. by the end of the week. is that going to be enough >> well, it

our deirdre bosa has that story. >> hey, jon. as you well know tech is in a very unique position with all of that location data it's huge user bases to monitor and control the outbreak the u.s. government is said to be turning to some of the biggest names in the space like facebook and google for those efforts. but early indications suggest that this will not be easy yesterday five democratic senators sent letters pressing google and the white house over the security of a website google is developing to screen for coronavirus. they asked google's ceo sundar pa chi and vice president mike pence how the efforts would be monitored and data kept out of hands of hackers pointing to cases in the past with other companies where that data has not been secure. location data especially from google, facebook and others could be very useful for public health agencies in mapping and tracking the outbreak, but even if that was anonymous and aggregated consumers may feel uncomfortable giving that up to big corporations and to the government yes

let's head to deirdre bosa for that news. >> reporter: google just announcing more than $800 million global effort to help small hand medium-sized businesses, health organizations and governments as well as health workers on front line of the covid-19 pandemic. in a blog spot the ceo of alphabet outlined the efforts saying they included $250 million inaled grants that will go to the w.h.o. and other organizations to provide an investment fund to support ngos and financial institutions, help provide capital to small business bez there's also $340 million that they are committing in google ad credits to small and medium businesses with active accounts over the past year on google kelly, there's also other measures like google cloud credits for academic institutions and helping production capacity for medical supplies this is just the latest, another big company jumping into the fray, but you've seen lots of big tech assists in the global effort to confront coronavirus google has also launched the web services for research. >> deirdre bosa. speaking of companies helping out. apple is cr

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and canadian employees, about $100,000 people to work from home deirdre bosa tracking big text reaction to coronavirus. >> tracking, indeed. policies are changing very quickly in this environment. in the last few hours, google expanding that even further to employees in europe, the middle east, and africa also today, amazon extending its work-from-home policy to massachusetts. in north america, keep in mind that amazon has more than half a million full-time and part-time employees. facebook, it's stopping short of recommending all employees work from home. but it is, quote, extending global guidance to allow anyone whose job allows them to do so to voluntarily work remotely through the start of april others, including microsoft, apple, twitter, and others have implemented similar work-from-home recommendations there is a caveat here, though, and that's this. it applies -- it's a recommendation and it applies to those that can do so so consider the content moderators that work from special facilities to protect consumer privacy or those who work on highly sensitive units, where other typ

let's head to deirdre bosa for some answers for us. deirdre, what's going on with these names? >> this is certainly some relief, but keep in mind even with today's gains, both of these stocks are still down about 50% year-to-date there is a long ways to go however, they are popping today as you pointed out, because there was an uber analyst call this morning ceo dara said we are going to weather the storm. even with an 80% plunge in gross bookings, they would still have about $4 billion in available cash, that includes a $2 billion short-term credit facility so you'll also see that lyft shares are popping on this the reason for that is a little bit less clear these names do appear to be in lockstep however, dara koz said they'll continue to see rides go down a lot and plus, they also don't have that food delivery business but as you mentioned, kelly, both are just surging after losing a lot of market cap over the last few months. >> deirdre, indeed, they are we appreciate it, deirdre bosa out west for us today. in the meantime, movie theater stocks are also soaring after the na

thanks deirdre bosa on alibaba and softbank >>> a programming note tune in tonight at 7:00 p.m.wn hall "the pandemic and the path forward. it will feature gary cohn, scott gottlieb, mark cuban and more. send your questions to hashtag cnbc path forward and they'll be sure to ask as many of them as possible in the meantime, short-term treasury yields are dropping in response to interest from investors. ben bernanke weighed in this morning with why he thinks bonds may play a bigger role listen >> at the moment, there's a big demand for treasuryies. of course, they're paying very low interest rates there's been some dislocation in the market for treasuries, probably due to dlenchi indelevd other factors. the fed is buying markets in order to stabilize that treasury market but i think the treasury market will remain the most important financial market in the world. i think there's a big global demand for treasuries, even if there's some temporary glitches. >> today we've got negative yields this as the dow is up 6%, more than 1,200 points right now, but one month and three-month trea

deirdre bosa has the latest. >> reporter: we are getting color from the on the dmon stragss.mazon walkout attracted a small group of warehouse workers and in touch with sarah clark, a person behind the instacart strike and said she is overwhelmed by the response. dissatisfaction of warehouse and delivery workers is building before coronavirus and getting attention as companies like amazon and instacart play a role of groceries and cleaning supplies to more americans these days over the weekend bernie sanders and joe biden tweeting their support for instakartd shoppers. bernie sanders noting the latest private market valuation voicing really the chief concern from shoppers and delivery workers that they are risking their own health to provide groceries and supplies companies like the ones i mentioned have done things to extend sick pay leave and cleaning materials but policymakers and workers say that's just not enough and certain certainly unlikely to end any time soon seeing the actions from workers. >> i expect to see them. i wonder if the economy gets worse and peter out o

deidre bosa in san francisco, this was the premier coronvirus bull play, fell big after hours. but it's come back what did any say about the quarter. >> that's right, brian consider it the hottest coronvirus trade, up some 70% this year. so it was priced for more than perfection and even though delivering better than expected numbers on every metric, i repeat the stock is up 70% this year just a few months. now it's been a tear as company schools and conferences go remote to prevent impact dpr coronvirus according to one estimate zoom added more use than all of 2019. but the big gains made shares more expensive op the price to sales ratio than the premium coupa data dog and workday some analysts like morgan stanley suggest that zoom got over its ski as bit. but while zoom added users keep in mind that costs may be rising we don't see that yet in the results. the company lifted limits for free users in china and says it's monitoring servers to quote ensure maximum reliability that could cost money but still guys, shared paired losses they were done as much as 10% after the resul

. >>> let's get to deirdre bosa with a market flash on uber. >> it is actually the ride sharing shares both of them spiking after the ceo said that the coronavirus outbreak will not have a material impact on the business overall. he's currently speaking at the morgan stanley internet conference here in san francisco saying there's nothing harming, nothing that uber cannot adjust to and was also asked about the profit bltd target later this year and he said i'm more comfortable about the fourth quarter target than when i first made the statement lyft shares are spiking, too, on the back of the comments and lyft's cfo spoke at the conference and reiterated this current quarter's guidance and down playing impact of coronavirus. lyft shares up nearly 8% right now. >> wow but again, a strong tape today but still, pretty important stuff. we appreciate it thank you. >>> now let's turn to the 2020 election and a super tuesday for joe biden as we just heard michael bloomberg has now suspended his campaign after a poor showing and kayla tausha in san francisco for us the guest saying the market