that doctor was professor david oliver.physician at royal berkshire hospital and joins me now. fear, it is not to overstate it, is it? for both doctors and nurses around the country. well, i'm sorry, we don't have the line to david oliver, but we will come back to him, we really want to explore his thoughts in that interview and that pc has written for the telegraph. in the meantime, let's get a full sport round—up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. there's been plenty of criticism around premier league footballers recently as bosses try to reach an agreement over their pay, proposing a 30% pay cut, but its been described as a "no—win siutation" by wayne rooney. the derby striker says he is happy to offer support but in his column in the sunday times he also said, "why are footballers suddenly the scapegoats? " he added if players come out and say they can't agree, even if the real reasons are that it will financially ruin some, it will be presented as, "rich players refuse pay cut." gary lineker has been sympatheti

that was professor david oliver. many thanks for your time. this is bbc news with ben brown. headlines... the queen will praise people's self—discipline, and quiet good—humoured resolve in response to the crisis, when she makes a rare television address later today. she will personally thank front line health care staff and other key workers for their efforts during the crisis. president trump has warned americans to prepare for a big increase in the number of coronavirus deaths. new york state recorded its biggest one—dayjump in deaths so far — with 630 dying from the virus. england's health secretary — matt hancock — has warned the government might have to further restrict rules allowing outdoor exercise if people flout lockdown rules designed to combat the spread of the coronavirus. spain has reported a fall in its daily death toll for a third consecutive day, raising hopes the country is passing the peak of its outbreak. 674 people died in the last 2a hours. those are our latest headlines. now on bbc news, annita mcveigh has more information and health advice on the coron

but yes, there is a worry, and doctor david oliver who is a consultant wrote a newspaper piece todayle question of where the peak comes and how high the peak will be is so important. the gap, or hopefully no gap, between that and the capacity of the nhs at that point in time. the predictions are pointing toward something in terms ofa pointing toward something in terms of a peak at least beginning next week but how long it goes on for is not clear. the whole point of the government policy so far has been to flatten that peak, to bring it down so flatten that peak, to bring it down so it isn‘t a spike but it could continue for a little bit longer. so no one is prepared to put any time on that, and of course the decisions about lifting restrictions will have to be made in the light of what happens through that period. but thatis happens through that period. but that is the expected time of maximum pressure on the national health service, whether it has the capacity to meet the demand which is expected. it was said in the briefing that there was a possibility that the caseload wouldn‘t b

how about that >> oh, david my olive oil business is jenko, and we're having real good numbers. >> finallyim -- >> you pick the olives >> i'm here. >> jim, yesterday data truck said if you want some signs there's long-term confidence, let's get the number of 1% moves under 30 for the quarter which is what we have in q1. i wonder if today is the beginning of that. >> i woke up to this must be something wrong. the market doesn't look like it's moving. that's what we want more than anything else in the world we want to get away from a 2008 snier owe where every day we come in and it's down four or five this is a very important day for me it feels like a kind of day we used to have wouldn't that be something wouldn't it be something if anything was the way it used to be anything anything >> we'll take it as it comes, jim. signs are small for now. we'll hope we'll see you tonight. mad money 6:00 p.m. eastern time with dominos in the meantime, good thursday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with sara eisen and david faber from multiple locations let's get to rick s

[applause] david: ok, so, now, justice stevens and previously, justice oliver wendell holmes, they retired when they were 90. would you like to break their record? have you given any thought about that? justice ginsburg: i spent the first week of july with justice stevens in what turned out to be the last week of his life. he was remarkable. he was 99 years old. since he left the court at age 90, he has written four books. so yes, he's my role model. [laughter] david: so, today, many people think that the court is very political, that people appointed to the court by democratic presidents and those appointed by republican presidents tend to follow the political desires of the republican or democratic party. do you think that's a fair assessment? and why do you think, if it's not fair, people have that view? justice ginsburg: people have that view because agreement is not interesting. disagreement is. so the press tends to play up 5-4 or 5-3 decisions. but if we could take just last term as a typical example, we had 68 decisions after full briefing and argument. of those, 20 were 5-4 or 5-3

. >> that is clearly an olive branch and reaching out to that side because of the bernie enthusiasm, and the dollars that were there. >> political science professor david mcewan says the timing of the endorsement is important, it unites the democratic party early as well as raising the profile of biden's campaign amid the pandemic. >> elevating the office, so that draws direct contrast to president trump and that is an element of every day joe and given his experience, that you will see democrats empathize over the next remaining months. >> in a statement biden said this about the endorsement, we need to restore the qualities of the presidential leadership that president obama provided and that's what i intend to do. we talked a lot about how the coronavirus impacted campaigning, today was a good example, we normally see endorsement like this at a big rally, instead it was a video posted online.>> a new poll suggests black voters will be more excited about voting for joe biden as he chose a black woman as his presidential running mate. the poll by a advocacy group found 55% of african-americans would be more enthused to vote for biden in that case, 27%

that is clearly an olive branch reaching out to that side because of the burning enthusiasm and the dollars that were there. >> reporter: cinema state political science professor davidccune says the timing endorsement is important. he said he unites the democratic party early, as well as raising the profile of biden's campaign amid the pandemic. >> elevating the office. so elevating the office draws direct contrast to president trump. that's an element of every day joe and given his experience that you will see democrats amplify over the next remaining months. >> reporter: in a statement biden said this about the endorsement: once again we need to restore the qualities of presidential leadership is an obama provided and that is what i intend to do. we talked a lot about how the coronavirus has impacted campaigning. today was a good example. normally we would see an endorsement like this at a big rally. instead, it was a video posted online. >>> it was a heartbreaking loss for the 49ers, but what if it may have saved lives? at 10:45, where the outcome of super bowl liv could've been a win for the bay area in the early days of the pandemic. >>> sports fans may finally