cheryl: i'm cheryl casone in for liz claman today.at history as the senate is inching closer to a possible $2 trillion stimulus bill. the dow back above 20,000 right now. look at this. we are now at this point, as you can see, 1746. just for context, we have gained 500 points in the last 20 minutes. this is how these markets are shaping up. anything can happen in the last hour of trading, as liz claman always says. take a look at the s&p 500.

cheryl. cheryl: a lot of money being thrown around.illary vaughn live on capitol hill, thank you so much. stocks did rally today on hopes of that stimulus, well the fact it looks like we'll have something signed on the president's desk tomorrow. we're off the session highs right now. we're up 968 right now. if you look at, for a moment we were in bear market territory. we were up 1216 points. we'll see if we get there in the next two hours. the news was rough this morning, you can't escape it. a record 3.28 million americans filed for unemployment last week. federal reserve chairman jerome powell appeared on a television show this morning. he said the u.s. may already be in recession but he made it very clear that the central bank is doing everything it can, to insure a quote, solid rebound once the coronavirus is contained. let's bring in point view wealth management david dietze, money map press chief strategist here. comments on fed chair jerome powell was on "the today show" this morning. the fed will be aggressive but look we're p

thank for being here. >> hey, cheryl, how are you? cheryl: good. i know there's things you didn't like in this bill and you wanted to see massie succeed. he did not. your reaction now to what you saw come out of d.c. >> let me be clear. i represent a district that has a significant number of small businesses, entertainment venues, live music capital of the world in austin texas the folks here are hurting. hotels are hurting. restaurants are hurting just like they are across the country. it was necessary we pass a relief package. i believe that. i think it was important to get capital into the hands of the small businesses who are running the nation, backbone of the country. they are hurting because of government action, government asking them to stop doing their livelihood in order to help the public health. i think congressman massie was principled in what he was trying to say we ought to have a quorum in the house when we're debating the measures. i didn't support in the end opposition to the bill. i put out public support for the bill despite re

cheryl casone is in for charles payne. cheryl: thank you, david. i'm cheryl casone in for charles payne today. are we stopping the bleeding at least for now? are we finding a bottom in these markets. our experts are standing by waiting in for you. the white house is close to starting a trillion dollar stimulus package include being checks directly into the hands of americans. president trump is expressing optimism for coronavirus treatments. >> what we're doing with the fda is so exciting and so many other fields. so many things are happening. it is a very exciting time for, for medicine. cheryl: talk more about that later. questions about the virus are growing from our kids to home surfaces. we'll separate fact from fiction for you. all of that and a lot more coming up on "making money." ♪. cheryl: our top story, the white house coronavirus task force wrapping up another briefing today on a roller coaster day for these markets. blake burman at the white house. he has a lot more. blake? reporter: cheryl, we rant into the vice president's chief of s

cheryl: tough sister. >> yes. cheryl: most sisters are tough.thank you. cheryl: really inspiring story. that's why we do sets like this on this show. >> thank you for having us. cheryl: over to you. lauren: that was beautiful. let's talk about other headlines making news this morning. tesla is looking to expand across the country as it marks the one million sca car milesto. elon musk said the company is scouting locations for a truck plant in the middle part of the country. this isn't the first time elon musk made such claims. he asked twitter followers if they should open in techses. uber is developing uber for kids, a version of the ride share app meant to transfer unaccompanied children. currently one person in the ride must be 18 or older. no word on how much such a service would cost. mark wahlberg may have been the inspiration behinden to your be. but a new venture may show what his life is really like. a documentary series will follow mark wahlberg's daily life as he juggles his film career and businesses and real life. no release date ha

cheryl: yum. lauren: i know. cheryl: it looks good. lauren: comfort. cheryl: we all need that.acing for unfortunately another round of severe weather headed their way. lauren: and the news just hits you right and left. senior meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox weather center with the forecast and of course her daily smile which we need this morning. >> thank you, ladies. i want to make sure that people across middle tennessee know what to do if there's a watch or warning, where are you going to get those watches and warnings. we had devastating tornadoes last week, the potential is there again today for severe storms but not only tennessee, kentucky, illinois, indiana, parts of arkansas, missouri. we're on alert here and we could see watches and warnings especially in the afternoon hours into the evening, know where you're going to get those warnings. we are concerned for this area. future radar shows those storms that will move through this afternoon and evening. then we watch the southwest and the northwest where this area is going to remain active over the next cou

cheryl: okay.s also like all about location, right, because we're seeing bidding wars happening here in new jersey and parts of new york. i'm seeing a lot of deals, a lot of homes being listed believe it or not in this part of the country. >> yeah, and again, it's what we have, we have the spring market coming up in a week. normally after spring break which is adding right now-ish, we see this happen. i think it's going to happen, is the seasonality of residential real estate is going to change significantly. we're going to see people -- it may be the fall and winter which historically are slow, we're going to -- cheryl: rogers, thank you very much. we need to have you back. this is an evolving story. >> god bless you guys. stay home. cheryl: take a look at futures right now. here we go again. we're seeing again more volatility in futures. remember, the s&p, we had almost been limit down overnight. now we're down 15 points, the dow is down 102 points right now. what's interesting is that the volati

cheryl, lauren. cheryl: brian llenas, thank you, brian.at other headlines, top stories making headlines today for you. dozens of conservative leaders are calling on the senate to censure minority leader chuck schumer. he's been under fire since making an alleged threat against supreme court justices gorsuch and kavanaugh during an abortion rights rally last week. jeff landry and charlie kirk are signed the open letter. they call schumer's remarks inappropriate and dangerous. robinhood is in hot water with customers. the trading app suffered another outage yesterday, its third in just eight days. happened shortly after the opening bell preventing users from trading or selling during the wild market day that we saw. service to robin hood was not fully restored until 3:30 yesterday afternoon. cvs is taking an extra step amid the coronavirus outbreak, it's waiving home prescription delivery fees. aetna is waiving early refill limits on 30 day prescriptions to those who have pharmacy benefits through cvs care mark. a spoke spokesperson says the

cheryl: which is good.mpanies are interesting purchases right now in the middle of the coronavirus. president trump was tweeting at 1:00 a.m. eastern time at jerome powell. he wants interest rates cut. he says the fed is not doing enough. the fed is meeting this month do you think we'll get 50% cut. >> it seems like it's coming. the fed may be forced to do so. i was critical of the fed when they were raising rates. they've corrected. i think they'll want to see economic indicators come into play before they make a decision. they may surprise the market which would be bad in the short term. cheryl: that would be bad for the markets that day. today is super tuesday. wall street is certainly taking a close look at bernie sanders and his rise in the polls has been blamed for some of the market volatility, the jittery side of markets if you will. how closely are we looking at bernie sanders now and how nervous would it make you if he did get the nomination. >> very closely and very nervous. and even democrats ar

cheryl: i'm cheryl casone in for charles payne this. is "making money." fears of a recession, after yesterday's five plus percent gains. in a broader context, the markets erased all the gains since president trump was elected. actually when he took office. but the president is ready to take action. a little while ago at the white house he said they are looking to approve cash payments to taxpayers. that would start next month. >> we'll shortly be determined. people want to go big as opposed, everybody seems to want to go big. they want to get to the recovery. the big thing we can do is get rid of this horrible, i call it the unseen. it snuck up on us. cheryl: with these roller coaster rides on wall street is there any good news? charles payne, yes, that charles payne, will join us in 15 minutes with his perspective on the market action. he has great points to make. all that and more coming up on making money. cheryl: let's start with the stop story. a short time ago, that happened when the s&p drops buy low 7%. but the administration is trying to calm, no

lauren, cheryl. cheryl: griff jenkins, thank you so much.et's take a look at what futures are doing this morning. we are seeing green arrows. at one point the dow was up in the premarket about 800 points. we've retrenched from that at this point. the dow is now up 174, a gain of almost 1%. again, yesterday the worst day since 1987 for the markets, we are in bear market territory. we shall see if there's a snapback today. nasdaq is up 102 and change. many americans have been forced to stay home. businesses across the country have closed. mitt romney proposing giving every american adult $1,000. would that really stimulate the economy? lauren: if social distancing getting you down, how are some companies trying to make your alone time a bit more manageable? we'll have those details and we all need them, straight ahead on "fbn: a.m.." can we go get some ice cream? alright, we gotta stop here first. ♪ ♪ from smarter atms, to after hours video tellers ♪ ♪ comcast business is connecting thousands of banks to technology that turns everyday transact

cheryl, over to you. cheryl: good advice from you.l that once housed disgraced jeffrey epstein, the criminal, of course. lauren: tracee carrasco has those details. tracee, good morning. tracee: a gun was found along with other contraband during a week-long lockdown at the metropolitan correction alphas it. a-- correctional facility. federal prosecutors are opening a criminal investigation into the matter. the metropolitan correctional fall it, been called the most secure jail in united states and gained notoriety for housing both jeffrey epstein and el chapo guzman. new jersey looking to join the plastic bag ban and going another step further. the state senate voted yesterday to ban all single use bags, paper and plastic, along with ststyrofoam containers. the bill needs to be passed by the state assembly and signed by the governor. three states ban plastic bags. new jersey would be the first to ban paper bags also. as elizabeth warren calls an end to her presidential bid, another member of the family is gaining popularity on the inte

lauren, cheryl. said it, that dallas rally on monday night, beto o'rourke coming out for him and buttigieg and klobuchar, it was -- that was it. casey siegal live out in texas, thank you, sir. we go from texas, we head out west to california where vermont senator bernie sanders is the winner. lauren: griff jenkins is live in la with the very latest. all right, griff, this is a major win and a lot of delegates for mr. sanders. >> reporter: it sure is, lauren and cheryl, good morning to you. we're on the campus of ucla and sanders did win the biggest delegate prize out here, 415 delegates as we know. the students were voting almost until midnight and we had the last student voting coming out a little bit of a conga line celebration that they had. it was quite a strong bernie sanders crowd. you know, if you look at the numbers coming in, we've only got a little over 50% reporting now. we know there's going to be 72 delegates for sanders, 21 for biden, seven for bloomberg, seven for warren. sanders wasn'

see you cheryl: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour, a volatile week is ending for the market as coronavirus fears send the country to a halt. investors are worried about a recession on the way. is growth about to halt in this country. lauren: this weekend's democratic debate changing venues. what can we expect from bernie sanders and joe biden going one on one on sunday and how will the coronavirus affect their campaigns. cheryl: and one arcade owner swapping out toy prizes for toilet paper. how he is catering to what customers are really looking for. it is friday, it is march 13t march 13th. "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪ ♪ i'm a soul man. ♪ i'm a soul man. ♪ i'm a soul man. ♪ i'm a soul man. ♪ got what i got -- lauren: welcome to "fbn: a.m.." good morning. happy friday the 13th. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone. we are looking at luckily a little bit of a snapback. lauren: everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. look at the markets, dow is up 558 points, s&p is up 6

lauren, cheryl.auren: griff jenkins, thank you very much. we want to point out as lawmakers are working to provide relief from the outbreak, two are facing criticism. according to reports, senator richard burr and senator kelly loffler sold massive amounts of stock leading up to the coronavirus outbreak. cheryl: burr is accused of selling on what information, we don't know. he was ordering a small group of constituents to do the same. loffler sold off millions in stocks after getting a private briefing. lauren: the state department issued the highest travel warning, telling americans overseas come home or stay put. it comes as italy reports more coronavirus deaths than china. cheryl: we've got tra trey yint is live for us in jerusalem. >> reporter: there's a lot a happening all around the world. the u.s. state department is asking all americans who are currently traveling abroad to return home immediately or potentially get stuck wherever they're at. this as the coronavirus does continue to spread ar

cheryl? cheryl: that's right, hillary.bviously you will let us know, break if we get any news off the senate floor. we'll see if they can get the voting process along. the american people are waiting for that. hillary, thank you very much. aside from the senate right now and congress and fed is picking up the pieces left over by congress. they have thrown the kitchen sink at the economic hole that has been left by the coronavirus. a federal reserve announced unlimited treasury and mortgage-backed security purchases to support the market. really hasn't seemed to help unfortunately. in fact we're getting again towards the session lows of the day. we're down 655 on the dow. bring in to discuss, gibbs wealth management president and cio erin gibbs and jared levy, god to have you both here. >> thank you. >> erin, i want to start the question with you. larry kudlow was on the news channel earlier today and he was talking about the need for the senate to act. he was talking about what we need to see from the fed, why this was so

lauren and cheryl, back to you. cheryl: times are changing.odd, thank you so much. 2020 hopeful bernie sanders is calling for $2,000 monthly payments to every u.s. household having medicare pay for all medical bills, even non-coronavirus related, and waiving student loan payments, to name a few things he's proposing. he is estimating the federal government will have to spend $2 trillion to avoid an economic catastrophe. lauren: kansas becomes the first state to close all schools for the rest of the school year. this amid the coronavirus outbreak. cheryl: governors in 22 states deploying more taken 1700 national guarded troops to assist with local and state emergency operations. marianne raferty is in los angeles with more. >> reporter: coronavirus now affecting the entire u.s. with nearly 6500 cases and 114 deaths. the numbers of cases have soared just in the past 24 hours. especially in states that have been hit the hardest. washington state has more than 1,000 cases and 55 people have died. 19 of those from one seattle area nursing home and

cheryl, over to you.avirus popping up in the united states, many who have come in contact with the infected are in quarantine. this is raising legal questions. what kind of power does the government on a federal or state level have? attorney and founder of jenco legal, brian ratella is here. there's been talk of the 2010 public health service act, it gives a lot of power to the government to authorize different levels of quarantine but can the government overstep and how much power do they have? >> great question, cheryl. it's a real question right now. the bottom line is the government has a lot of power, especially the federal government, under what you just said, the public health service act. specifically, the government can do what are called mandatory quarantines. that's when we saw the president just recently in the last couple weeks do with the epicenter of the coronavirus in china. folks coming from there, mandatory quarantine. also, we can have a self-monitored warn teefnlt that's what we're see

cheryl: a lot to get to good morning i'm cheryl casone. lauren: take a look at how your money is moving moving this mors of now dow jones industrial average dropping at the open that is a decline almost 5%. the s&p set to drop 14 a 5 points nasdaq down 410. all three major averages down 4.9% this morning. reminder, last week the markets finished in the green. cheryl: let's take a look at what caused selloff this morning that is the oil story we told you about that at the top of the show this fight between saudi and russians oil is down 21% right now. and one point wti what you're looking at a was down 31 and co coalition and saudi slashed oil prices here they are. lauren: been a rally in bond market pushing yielding on tenure treasury down record lows. it did hit 0.3 in change but right now tenure yield at 0.51 this morning. cheryl: virus slowed down in china a. new cases oil study front and center this oil story four asian markets as you can see it was a gloablg market selloff that began japan down 5%. in the hang seng down about 4.5%. la

lauren, cheryl.heryl: we're going to be talking about testing kits later benjamin thank you so much. staying with coronavirus new reports suggest chinese scientist knew about virus as early as december. but were ordered to buy beijing to stay silent. several companies saw alarming similarities in tests from sick patients in wuhan and 2002 sars a virus. back here at home there are reports that those testing kits may have been contaminated benjamin mentioned it at the cdc lab in atlanta exclusive interview with maria bartiromo vice president mike pence told her still things are under control. >> what i can tell you with my conversation with governors i've been talking to governors people handling back in our country as americans have returned, from china in particular is that we believe we are in the process of resolving the issues about testing kits. cheryl: you can see more of the interview with "mornings with maria" in eastern time. lauren: pete buttigieg supporting whoever the democratic nominee is

cheryl: thank you. so good to see you back in the chair and riding these markets and giving our viewers all these ideas for investments. charles: c.p. effect. cheryl: we will trademark that at some point. thank you very much. all right. well, we are going into the last hour, markets are bouncing higher right now following last week's massive rally. the best since 1938 for the dow last week. this isn't so bad to kick off your monday right now. take a look at the dow. we are up 508, the s&p is up 69 and change, the nasdaq up 224. investors are hoping we have already hit that bottom from the coronavirus outbreak. we're not saying we're hitting the bottom at fox business but we're hopeful. all of this as the medical world is searching for solutions to limit the virus's deadly effects. northwell health turning to 3d printing to churn out test swabs. they are going to be here to explain exactly what this means. pretty exciting stuff. >>> and the elf beauty ceo is here exclusively to tell us how his company is

cheryl: i'm cheryl casone in for liz claman. liz is still at home under self-quarantine but she is working the phones, she is such a journalist, and she is going to be joining us live in just a moment with more on that stunning new use for reynolds hefty trash bags which is being used in the fight against coronavirus. liz will have that for us. take a look at the dow this hour. i always say this, it always matters how we close. forget how you open. it's how you close. we could slay the bear today as the dow is rallying for the third straight day despite a shocking, shocking record high weekly jobless claims number. take a look at the markets right now. we just went above 1,000 a couple minutes ago. the dow is about 1,006 higher. the high was 1219 points for the dow. we are watching that number. s&p is up 116. nasdaq is up 296. a gain of 4%. again, the dow and s&p could notch three straight days of gains today. we've got an hour to find out. so the dow is trying to break out of that hibernation. the number to watch, 1,109.77. wri

cheryl: all right.rrect my english any time or sorry, my italian. gasparino. thank you, sir. good to see you. charlie gasparino. great reporting. see you soon. >>> well, here's the dow right now. we will take a look at this on your screen. we are going to show you right now, we are showing you the dow and that's the dow since it hit that record high. well, it's been a rough -- i understand this, i will keep reminding you guys of this, we have come off of session lows today. we were down 1,080, 1,082, now we are down 720, 713. we've got 12 minutes to go. as we have learned in the last three weeks on this program, anything can happen before we get to 4:00 eastern time. there's the dow right now, down 733. also, i want to talk about what's happening out in los angeles. this has been amazing. the "uss mercy" docked in los angeles this morning. it's a nearly 900 foot naval vessel. the "mercy" will be taking non-coronavirus patients from l.a. hospitals to free up beds for the pandemic. telemedicine is another

cheryl: i'm cheryl casone in for liz claman today. markets are taking aim at history as the senate is inching closer to a possible $2 trillion stimulus bill. the dow back above 20,000 right now. look at this. we are now at this point, as you can see, 1746. just for context, we have gained 500 points in the last 20 minutes. this is how these markets are shaping up. anything can happen in the last hour of trading, as liz claman always says. take a look at the s&p 500. 170 points to the upside. look at the nasdaq, up almost 7% right now. again, we are keeping a close eye the dow. it could be the best day for the dow jones industrials since 2008. we are on the markets for you. liz is coming up, plus we are talking about wall street. they are rallying. now the crisis. this coronavirus still has a big part of the economy shut down and we are shut in right now. medley pharmacy is promising same day delivery of prescription drugs to anybody who needs them. its cofounder will be here in a fox business exclusive. as china slowly gets back to bu

lauren, cheryl. lauren: all right aishah thank you it airline industry is reeling from coronavirus united airlines cutting flights in half starting next month. awflg this as international passengers wait in jam-packed custom lineses that didn't observe social distancing. and they did so for hours. cheryl: pirro in new jersey with how trump administration is responding to this. todd good morning. reporter: lauren and cheryl good morning a quiet with scene here at the new york airport but it was a much different scene yesterday. check this out. just a few hours ago, travelers packed to the here waiting in custom lines the exact opposite of the social distancing authorities are pushing that scene repeated at airports throughout the country. including it in chicago, where the mayor lashed out at the feds. >> the federal government must immediately and significantly increase personnel devoted airport screening. and rather than sending i.c.e. into the streets, send screeners to our airports that's what we

cheryl: here we go. i'm cheryl casone in for liz claman in this final hour of trading on this monday. markets are lower this hour as the senate is struggling to pass that $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill. the dow is down 641. we are off of session lows. the s&p 500 right now, as you can see, is also in the red and the nasdaq as well is in the red right now. we can see a loss of 72 points on the tech-heavy nasdaq although tech has been kind of a bright spot depending on the session and the day. s&p is down 76. we are watching all of these markets. a few things are going on right now. investors weren't impressed by the fed's vow to buy an unlimited amount of government debt and give loans to businesses, big and small. there's one industry that coronavirus crisis is impacting directly, restaurants. they are closing their doors to patrons, trying to shift to takeout only. we s ghave got the owner of a gp of restaurants who will tell us, he will say this, the restaurant recession has already started, alr

cheryl: right. our zip code was 60627, which they said had the highest cancer rate than any other area in the city of chicago. joie: armed with the facts, hazel johnson set to work building alliances for her community. one early ally was a young outsider who got his start in altgeld gardens as a community organizer. cheryl: he said, "people like you make me want to go to law school and come back and help," because he understood the struggles we had to endure. joie: she pressed political leaders for help, and sometimes got it. by the time her former helper had become president obama, hazel johnson was already recognized as the "mother of environmental justice." did she know that history would remember her as the mother of a movement? did she know she was such a big deal? cheryl: no, she didn't believe it. she was just doing something because of what she cared about. joie: but today, still visible from the 130th street bridge, are the same industries that brought toxins to altgeld gardens -- and the s

hi kurt. >> cheryl, how are you.se skype stat situations if the person's going to be there or not. you're the person perfect person to talk about this. we been hearing more about these scams and i think it's robo calls. >> it's not robo calls, i mean there's not going on and since were homer noticing if you have a hardwired line you notice even more those, but what's really going on is an uptick in hackers going after, they realize a lot of people are at home. they're working from home, they're starting to focus their energies there, praying on us during this pandemic. this is not what were looking to do right now. they are now targeting our home devices. hackers are baiting victims by e-mail with an identical copy of this legit corona virus map from john hopkins. a ransom ware attack tricks people into downloading a bogus tractor that blocks your phone. it threatens to erase everything and link social media account if it's not handed over to the crux in 48 hours. >> the first thing you should definitely do is change

cheryl? >> reporter: well, they have their hands full and police are telling me tonight that it will be impossible to check every business for violations. but if they're caught, they will be cited. the alameda county sheriff's department has a plan to enforce the governor's order county wide and internally. deputies take your temperature before you're allowed inside the building and before you enter each room. for this department, compliance starts within before they reach the public. >> we're doing -- meeting with businesses. where they don't understand the verbal conversation, we're then going to serve them with a notice. >> reporter: that happened today at solar tactical. the castro valley gun store refusing to close its shop to customers before today. things changed when the business was threatened with a citation. >> what closed that business was not our office. it was social pressure from the community that closed that business down. >> reporter: police departments all over california a

reporting live in hercules, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> cheryl, thank you. >>> also todaysigned emergency legislation for $1 billion in funding. it would increase hospital bed capacity and to purchase medical equipment to combat the coming surge in covid-19 patients. that includes protecting hospitals and nursing homes. it would also support local governments to reduce the spread in homeless populations. now, there are jobs available. among them, grocery store workers and nurses. san francisco mayor london breed unveiling her plans to help health care workers. hiring a nurse can take more than six months usually, so mayor breed plans to waive the regulations that slow down that hiring process. employers will be able to hire licensed nurses on the spot. >> we know that this will have a tremendous impact on our economy here in san francisco, but throughout the country, and so what we want to at least do is everything we can now to help get people through this challenge. >> the department of public health is helping by hosting invite-only job fairs until all vacancies are fil

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is in napa for us in this final hour, cheryl, before the order kicks in. >> reporter: raj, when we got here earlier today, we saw a lot of signs like these. some of them saying "closed until further notice." a lot of businesses i noticed closed early. it seems as though people here in napa are ready to hunker down. >> i don't think fear and panic is going to be a positive thing for our society, you know? >> reporter: tonight we didn't see any panic buying as we watched shoppers leave stores. >> i think it all happened in the beginning of the week. i'm off on tuesdays, and the grocery stores were just crazy. >> reporter: we could tell because the shelves that are usually filled with canned goods, disinfectant wipes, and toilet paper are empty. on wednesday, napa and solano counties were the last of the nine bay area counties to tell residents to shelter in place because of the coronavirus spread. now that the entire state is joining in, people are taking it all in. >> if you would have told me last thursday i'd go to bed and this would be like this this week,

cheryl casone has the details, cheryl.ryl: that's right, dagen, washington state has confirmed the second coronavirus death as new york's governor andrew cuomo announce first positive case in the empire state, the virus to eastern part to have country. deadly illness prompting airline changes. delta is suspending flights to milan until early may while america cutting service through late frill. president trump will meet with pharmaceutical executives today about the highly executive receive. 64 countries now affected by coronavirus. it has killed more than 3,000 people. there are more than 88,000 cases confirmed worldwide. well, days after leader kim jong un supervised artillery drone, north korea reportedly launched unidentified projectile today. this marks the first launch of 2020 coming after kim announced late last year he was not obligated to comply with the ban on testing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. impending corruption trial has prime minister benjamin netanyahu fights for his life today

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is live in hayward. and cheryl, 9:00 a.m. is the magic hour for a lucky 100 people or so tomorrow. >> reporter: that's right. 100. maybe even 150 people will be tested here tomorrow. that's because the fire department is having some staffing problems. but if tomorrow is anything like previous days the line for testing will be wrapped around the corner. people are working long hours here at avelino lab in menlo park. that's because lab technicians are overwhelmed with test kits from hundreds of people receiving tests for the coronavirus at tennyson park in hayward. on day three of free testing here, the drive-thru lab had to be shut down early. >> so we had to shut the operation down a little after 1:00 today. the lab was inundated with the tests we were giving them. >> reporter: the testing started here on monday. 1,000 people showed up. just under 200 tests were taken. on tuesday the number of people tested more than doubled. and today 250 swabs were collected. >> fever will get you a test. being over the age of 65, if you'v

cheryl. >> reporter: well, raj, this pandemic is affecting everyone.n this small san carlos community. city officials telling me tonight that they didn't raise their hand saying they wanted to help out in this crisis but right now they are stepping up to the plate. >> san carlos did not seek this role. >> reporter: but tonight the city's mayor says they are willing to help. >> if this was happening to me or a member of my family, i would hope the community we travelled to would be as equally welcoming. >> reporter: "grand princess" passengers, who need to be in quarantine but not sick enough for a hospital stay, will be brought here to this 120-bed hotel in san carlos. >> these people are like i don't want them walking around. they're going to come downtown. that means i have to stay inside. if they can walk around, they'd send them home. >> reporter: reaction from one san carlos resident as the hotel is being secured and set up to receive an undetermined number of passengers. >> we have been searching hotel sites throughout california, and this was a

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd joinings us now in oakland with that cruise ship right behind you, cheryl, with the very latest. >> reporter: that's right, raj. as you said, there are still a lot of people onboard this ship waiting for their number to be called. they're feeling a lot of frustration tonight, and they're getting a lot of miscommunication. for the second night in a row, busloads full of grand princess passengers are being taken to travis air force base while others are still stuck on the ship. >> then because there's movement, you know, you're anticipating getting your name called kind of thing. >> reporter: passengers have been getting messages like this from the captain. >> we have not been receiving timely nor accurate information from the government agencies. >> reporter: a common criticism from people worried about getting the coronavirus. meanwhile, governor gavin newsom giving out more information about where passengers are going once they leave the ship besides travis air force base. he says some people are being sent to monterey county, and some are being quarantined

cheryl?t an afternoon update, numbers are not good italy, passing 100,000 mark. 23 states in this country have over a thousand cases, 10 states over 4,000. up center is new york -- epicenter is new york. remember that is because more testing has been happening here. 66497 cases. one thing that governor cuom desay today -- cuomo did say today, the hospitals up and running. we're seeing a pattern of slowing. before we saw cases doubling every day. then cases were doubling every two days, then three, now case loads double every 6 days, but the testing has increased. first off, i want to hear from dr. fauci, he created a lot of shockwaves yesterday at the afternoon briefing talking about we could have 100,000 to 200,000 deaths, i am curious to see if he will back away from that. the task force. to see if this lockdown it working. there will be questions in the rose garden. connell: that is better for social distancing, melissa that is where they held the news briefing yesterday, they will be outs

cheryl? cheryl: melissa, i they wanted 50 billion, remember cargo companies wanted more than what they got. we have 25 billion directed to airlines. only four billion to air cargo. they cut their requests basically in half. if all of their airlines park 60% of their planes, talking 120,000 jobs. even though stocks were higher they were doing better earlier in the session like the broader markets. the airlines around the world, guys, 72 of the airlines have 100% cut capacity. that means they're not flying. compass, pacific coastal, sun wing in north america. focus on big guys. first united. 90% of their international -- excuse me, 5% are flying. 90% are cut. 42% of domestic. american, down 50%, jetblue, capacity on 55%. southwest, a little bit of a better story, guys. capacity down about 25%. alaska down 15%. here is the thing. you know i used to work in the airline industry, was much, much younger could get around easier. talk about the airlines, job situation. not just those in the industry.

with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, cheryl l. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 4, rule 1, the following enrolled bills were signed by the speaker on thursday, march 5, 2020. 5671,erk: h.r. 5214, h.r. and h.r. 6074. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam. pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, i have the honor to transmit a sealed envelope received from the white house on march 6, 2020, at 10:58 a.m. and said to contain a message from the president in accordance with section 507 of division a of the coronavirus preparedness and response supplemental appropriations act 2020. with best wishes, i am, signed sincerely, robert f. reeves, deputy clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states, in accordance with section 507 of division a of the coronavirus preparedness and r

cheryl hurd is live in lafayette with that part of the story. cheryl? >> reporter: restaurant owners i talked to tonight here in contra costa county tell me they knew that this was coming but now that the day is here, they're doing everything they can to keep themselves afloat. this is the last time customers will be able to sit down for a meal at lafayette's postino's restaurant for a while. >> it is what it is. we have to deal with it and live our life. we have to follow what the government says we need to do. >> reporter: at the stroke of midnight, this fine dining venue will become a takeout restaurant. >> we were actually preparing for this over the weekend. >> reporter: now restaurant owner perry tong is forced to change with the times. >> we're going to do phone calls from 12:00 to 7:00, just call in. we'll do curbside service or if you want to come in and pick it up, you're more than welcome to come and pick it up. but we'll do whatever the guests want. >> reporter: what he doesn't want to do is lay off 55 of his employees, but he has to. contra

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nbc bay area's cheryl hurd joins us in emeryville with the details. cheryl?> reporter: the president saying today that he is pressing two navy ships into service. one in virginia headed to new york. the other docked in san diego, possibly heading here to northern california. the ship heading to this area is called the u.s. navy mercy. mark nouveau is a federal coordinating officer for fema. >> in this case they're talking about bringing it from san diego up here to be able to relieve some of the pressure on the emergency medical system, the e.r.s. >> reporter: the ship is fully equipped with 12 operating rooms, 1,000 beds, medical laboratory, pharmacy, and helipad. everything you see in a traditional hospital is on the ship. >> theirtrauma. >> reporter: which means the mercy will deal with industrial, gunshot, and accident patients, not covid-19 patients because there's no room for isolation. 71 civilian doctors and nurses from existing systems and 1,200 medically trained sailors will be on that ship. nationwide, hospitals are reporting they don't have enough

reporting live in walnut creek, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >>> governor newsom also praising bay area tech companies helping with the medical supply shortage. >> as i mentioned yesterday, the hero work of elon musk, who came through on his promise to deliver over 1,000 ventilators. we have brought in ourselves, we just got another 1,010 ventilators from the private sector. we're working with bloom energy and others to convert that cache of 514 ventilators that we have, to refurbish them. >> richard branson is flying in a 747 airplane stocked with

cheryl: thank you.od to see you back in the chair and riding these markets and giving our viewers all these ideas for investments. charles: c.p. effect. cheryl: we will trademark that at some point. thank you very much. all right. well, we are going into the last hour, markets are bouncing higher right now following last week's massive rally. the best since 1938 for the dow last week. this isn't so bad to kick off your monday r

: i'm cheryl casone in the fox business newsroom. we have had a little bit of moment of issue with liz claman's shot there, as you can see. of course, we are following the market story right now. of course, this is the last day of the quarter for the first quarter and obviously markets are selling off. we had initially started the day, we were actually up higher, then we saw the dow jones industrial actually fall by 134 points, s&p is now down 17, nasdaq is down by 18. a couple things going on. first and foremost, last day of the quarter. just to give you a sense of what's going on with the markets, obviously the s&p for the quarter down about 19%. that's as we were going into today. the dow down about 22% as we were going into today. now, if the dow closes at about 22% lower for the quarter, this is the whole first quarter of the year, we haven't seen that kind of low for the dow since 1987. the s&p 500, again, down 19% and that would have been a level we had seen back in 2008. there's a lot of things going on right now. obviously w

cheryl casone on that. cheryl, as much as it is anticipated, it is going to be a shocker?ock. we've had a few days, a few trading sessions if you will to get ready for the initial jobless claims number comes out at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. these are claims from last week we'll get the number tomorrow. we were hearing some state computer systems california, other states, getting overwhelmed, some systems are crashing by the amount of americans actually applying, excuse me for unemployment benefits. that is one thing. now remember, right after the shutdowns began in new york, when they began in california, bars, restaurants, nail salons, gyms, especially all the gyms closed, a lot of those companies, neil, this was a heart-breaking thing to see, they furloughed workers within 24 hours. a lot of these workers at home got text messages, saying you no longer have a job. you have unemployment, when you open back up, come back to reapply for the job. that is tough on the american worker. it is possible. we talked about two million. i think we adjusted to that number, neil, i think

that's where nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is right now. cheryl, what do we know at this hour? >> reporter: well, right now scientists are working to process those samples right here at this lab in richmond. now, the results are expected tomorrow as the cruise ship hovers about 70 miles right outside the golden gate bridge. the test kits were flown in by helicopter and then given a police escort to the richmond lab. tonight it's a waiting game for people like barney, who has been told to stay inside his cabin as health officials determine if anyone has the coronavirus. >> our hope is that, you know, nobody has it, that everybody tests negative, and that we're all able to get off the cruise ship and get back to life. >> reporter: the governor issuing a health emergency, ordering test kits to be delivered to the ship this morning. >> testing protocols are being put into place on the ship for those passengers and crew that have shown flu-like symptoms or may have been exposed to the virus. >> reporter: at least three people who cruised to mexico on that same ship have gotten the v

with best wishes, i am signed sincerely, cheryl l. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a commune occasion. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the message from the secretary of the senate at 6:24 p.m., that the senate passed senate 3501, with best wishes, i signed sincerely, cheryl l. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to 7-b. the house >> that wraps up tonight quick how session as members passed, by unanimous consent, a coronavirus economic aid package. the legislation provides two weeks of paid leave for sick or quarantined workers while also extending state unemployment insurance programs. the measure now makes its way to the senate for consideration and we should see debate on that tomorrow. follow the senate live tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two. the house is out of session the rest of this week as members continue working from home districts. follow

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is live at the registrar of voters in martinez. cheryl. >> reporter: when you look at the results of the primary, there's something that stands out. it seems as though the majority of the voters don't want to pay more taxes. >> isn't there already a sales tax on transportation? >> reporter: voter reaction to the proposed half-cent sales tax in contra costa county. >> we voted yes on in the past and it doesn't seem like anything's really getting done about it. >> reporter: no one seems to want to pay more taxes. political analyst larry gersten says he knows why. >> for the last ten years or so the bay area's been very generous, approving almost all of these things on a regular basis. i think people pulled back. >> reporter: yesterday voters said no to proposition 13, the statewide school bond measure. contra costa county voters gave a thumbs down to measure j's transportation tax. and santa clara county voters said no to measure i's $900 million bond initiative for schools. contra costa county republican chair matt shoop is not >> e

reporting live in walnut creek, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> cheryl, thank you. >>> some scrambling today at laguna honda hospital in san francisco. two workers tested positive for covid-19. the hospital provides long-term care for seniors and the disabled. the public health director says no patients are showing any symptoms at this point. >>> just in to the newsroom, a lockdown will be lifted in wuhan on april 8th. the easing of those restrictions comes because there have been no new infections reported as of last thursday in wuhan, china. you may remember back on january 23rd, china locked down wuhan, which is the epicenter of the coronavirus, and all of the surrounding areas. >>> now, here in the bay area, the number of cases continues to climb. there are now nearly 900 cases. some of the notable ones we learned about today, another tsa wo worker tested positive. that makes five tsa officers out of san jose international. we're also seeing more first responders contracting the virus. three santa clara county sheriff deputies, two milpitas firefighters, and a vallejo police office