need to enhance unemployment insurance and extended support programs like women and children in school inl lunch and other initiatives to support food security. and banks should suspend payments on mortgages for those struggling with the economic impact of the crisis and we should provide rental assistance for those who need it. sixth, we need to protect consumers and that includes shielding them t from spam and price gouging, which i called on amazon to do and they took action removing bad actors from oe site were charging upwards of $400 per hand sanitizer. no one should be able to reap a windfall from fear and human suffering. we need to provide clear protection for the front-line health workers have access to the needed protective equipment in a pandemic or health care workers are heroes but these heroes need help. we have to make sure they get the protective gear which they need. but the coronavirus is not the first. and it will not be t the last threat to the united states faces. that's why i've introduced legislation that will provide a billion dollars of research into the universal

on then have a greater response to a variety of viruses -- inl as infections texas agents. in addition to other illnesses, lifestyle choices, is our biology. there can be biological differences in the immune system between men and women, which impacts our ability to fight an infection, and there are going to be data coming out of china suggesting that our blood chemistry and immune cell counts do, in fact, differ between men and women and may be contributing to the differences we are witnessing in the severity of the disease. anchor: you can catch that 40 gmt,ew in full at15: and also posted on france24.com. isother news, the u.s. launched a series of her tele-jory rocket strike -- retaliatory rocket strikes following an attack attributed to the hezbollah. american troops have been the target frequently of attacks. this since washington assassinated a top iranian general in january. we have this report. reporter: a show of force from washington, aimed squarely at this militia. it is an iranian backed group, seen here marching in the streets of baghdad. according to iraqi ci

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inl we have similar reaction the u.s. and will that be against president trump? is a great question and that is what we will be tracking. americans are pretty satisfied with the actors involved in this challenge. for thet ratings are media, 44. elected leaders are around the 60% mark and president trump get 60% for his handling of the crisis. that predates his attempt to fast-track coming back to work. the highest approval ratings are really for health care workers and institutions that citizens rely on locally. theof americans approve of role hospitals and health care providers have played in this crisis so far. the other thing that should be stated is americans expect the disruption to be prolonged. disruptions to last a few months, not a few weeks. getting back to the point on jobs, one third of the 170 5 million workers in the u.s. are basically out of the game as of one paycheck, so they do not have a cash buffer to last two to four weeks. 60 million americans are waking up figuring up -- how to pay rent. we have been tracking fears from every crisis to the

we lost $5 trillion inle value in the markets the last week. comrade bernie's rise ain't helping. it isn't helping investor confidence. bernie is expected to be the winner tuesday and our markets can and will reare cover from the coronavirus considering we have capitalists in the white house. but they won't recover from a socialist communist wannabe president. a socialist system in which manufacturers and creators of a vaccine will not be rewarded for their efforts. do you think there would be the say race to find a vaccine? no. we have seen it before when government controls a limited supply. government gets to decide who gets vaccine and who does not. in some cases, who lives and who does not. in 2009 i was pregnant with twins. my twin girls. it was the height of the swine flu crisis. during the whole thick of it and pregnant one and children were considered the most vulnerable. there was barely any vaccines available in this country. pregnant women were tbhaight long lines, 8 hours all across the country for a chance at a vaccine. only be turned away because the community had r

inls were set to open today the ohio primary but the governor has invoked a health emergency.in italy, the government a 25mproved -- approved billion euro package to help its health system. the plans include suspending tax payments and mortgage really. italy says it will leverage about 340 billion euros in financing. global news 24 hours a day, on-air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is what working together is called. sometimes you get a glitch on the prompter. i love doug's. -- dogs. yousef: in times of crisis," nation is called for. whatever it takes. g7 leaders have pledged to do what is necessary to help economies. we will get into that. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ yousef: this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." >> i am nejra cehic in london. let's get a quick look at your risk radar. it is looking more risk on today after the worst rout since 1987 for stocks yesterday. futures in the greek. is this -- green. is this really the time to be getting in? jp morgan says sell on any strength in equities.

if you look at the united states, most of the people inl effected don't need to be hospitalized.around 12 or 13%. most can recover at home. for those 12 or 13% which ends up to be 30 or 40 million people, you need to be sure they are not all accessing the health care system at the same time. as you are hearing, hospitals are already starting to run low on some of these supplies. >> also testing. there may be more cases in places, but they just have not been tested. they may be there and they don't know about them. let's talk about the possible drug that the president has been it outing a touting and talking about. does it sound like they have enough drug to let people in less hard hit areas go back to work? are they right about those things? >> i don't think it will happen that quickly. everyone is hopeful there will be some sort of therapeutic like this. it takes time. it's an existing drug. it has been around for 86 years as an anti-malarial drug. it does have some side effects, but it is well-known. the only studies on human beings were on 26 people and 6 were excluded from th

step inl is the next that and we can build back this economy under your leadership.ing the right things for the american people. it is not easy. we don't want to shelter in place as americans especially in the northwest. we know we have to do this for the safety of our relatives, community, and country. >> on behalf of small businesses, the backbone of the american economy. half of the people in america are working for small business. i am from ohio. back there, nonessential small businesses are shut down. without this legislation, it is questionable if they would reopen. they now have a great chance of that. those people that work for small businesses that are shuttered down will be paid. that is really important. this would not have passed without your leadership, mr. president. thank you. trump: this would not have happened without eric. eric, larry, would you like to say a couple of words? >> thank you, mr. president and vice president. you encouraged your team to be bold, brave, and go big and we certainly delivered today. $6.2 trillion is tremendous. we have ma

it is the fact that it's inl mid-march an advantage in that warm weather is coming?e best. we have to work for the best but plan for the worst. there are some strands of the similar virus that has a summer peak as well as a winter peak. this is news and no one can s predict the certainty of what's will going to happen. >> tucker: interesting. so different viruses behave differently to the whether? >> absolutely. in some warmer climates, the flu virus doesn't have a flu season. it continues all year long. >> tucker: interesting. >> there are things all we can do that make a big difference and the reason for bringing this give range is to really emphasize is we aren't sure what's going to happen but we are sure that the more we do now, the more we can protect people.. >> tucker: dr. freeman, m thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: before we go this evening, we have a flash of brightness and enjoy admit a sad, dull landscape. our tech manager on this show who is loved universally, this is clara jane carrey, who arrived 29 minutes ago. she is 20 inch

taking a look at crude prices bouncing higher by 5% or so inl oil is since 1991 over falling demand duetbreak, escalating tensions between saudi arabia and russia and fears that all of this could lead to the excess supply of oil. joining us on the cnbc line for the state of play for the energy sector, brian sullivan what a day yesterday and brian, what a day already today here we have wti up more than 7.5%. >> everything is fine, right, courtney good morning, by the way these moves are -- they're sudden, violent. they're a little bit crazy i think. look at ox den shall down 52%. up 334 because the number got smaller. listen, we're not picking on oxy, it's a good company, but anything with debt was attacked yesterday. as the price of oil fell you e bonds fall from oxy and other producers as well. so today up 27%, oil up 6 or 7%, still in the mid to low $33 range. probably not going to cut it for a lot of companies i'll give you this, courtney i'll come at you with a bigger number if you don't mind which is in the bakken region of north dakota, there's a number of companies that primarily

for example, liking at their .l.i., our their inl flew their ke -- influenza-like illness surveillance systems. several countries are looking at individuals who have respiratory diseases show up through those surveillance systems to test for covid-19 to see if the virus is circulating. we are gaining good insight from those countries to find out how many are positive. it seems to be low in several countries who are doing this. it is a comprehensive approach that we need all countries to take, outlining through testing, case identification, contact tracing, making sure these measures, -- making sure these public health measures, strong government leadership, an all of government approach, have been successful in reducing transmission in several countries. >> now we have pamela, managed to send us a question by text. this is pamela from uganda. question.an excellent she wants us to know, with the increasing cases on the african continent, would you say africa is prepared to fight this disease, especially in terms of equipment? what do you think needs to be done to get africa to the posit

inling on you to heed but is the guidance and to ensure that each and everyone of you are protecting each other. we cannot have these large gatherings that continue to occur throughout the country for people who are off work to then be socializing in large groups and spreading the virus. you have the potential to spread it to someone does have a condition none of us knew about and cause them to have a disastrous outcome. on the testing piece and what we are learning, i know you know last week and bringing the private sector, one has been exciting to me is to see the administration harness the full capacity of the private sector. spread out in a prioritized way because we asked them to prioritize the regions that were the most affected. still may have difficulty getting tests and areas that do not have significant taste -- never can't cases. they -- remember i told you south korea was under 4%? so 96% of people were negative? the last report we have seen from the laboratories have a seven plus percent positivity rate. or 92% arecent negative, i think that is encouraging to me personal

in san francisco, we have aned inle department of public health.y have been working with a number of our county health officers throughout the region, and they have provitd informatioat led to this decision. it was important to do it to protect public health. we see that there are more cas but we also understand that with the limited numr of test kits, the challenges with protective gear and other ings tt we are lacking, we need to make sure that we are protecting public health, that we are that when people ick andn, so when they need to be hospitalized, we ae at a capacity that can handle the influx of people in our system, and part of what we did and n providing this directive was to really inerrupt and limit the number of people who are interaing with one another. this is why the social distancing order is so important. protecting people reventingng... the transfer of this disease and having it continue to really move forward at such an alarming te. >> woodruff:>> nawaz: let me asu how this is going to work. people have questions. residents can

multiple administrations we've had a very, very difficult timele marrying those two pronegativeses inleur country. and that -- professions in our country.g and that's probably a more salient conversation for this outbreak today than our health care system being privatized and decentralized. in fact, i'd be very comfortable with the professional standard of care and delivery level in mostst hospitals around this country even though we don't have a centralized health care system. but the public health set of experts in this country are actually pretty well unified. there are state public health officials, but they are very much taking the lead of our cdc and naid with dr. fauci. this little alchemy makes dr. fauci, he was a practicing medical there that delivered service to patients and now is at a population level of macro trends. he's a unique gem that we should treasure. i love richard because a solutions guy. so think about this school debate right now. it's been infuriating me. we have people that are data-driven, scientists, mathematicians that have come up with all sorts of great s

. ♪ inl: it is a big day australia.n 20 minutes away from the decision on the cash rate. i want to clarify some information you may have seen across the bottom of your screen. the cash rate is at half of 1%. the expectation for a cut to a quarter. that's incorrect. the cash rate is at 3/4 of 1%. the expectation is half of 1%. we know about in 18 minutes time. haslinda: the euro surged while the dollar fell to the lowest amid prospects of coordinated action and the world's major central banks. ministers will discuss their response to the economic threat of the coronavirus later today. let's bring in jason daw, head of emerging-market strategy at socgen. we are seeing reaction from the equity markets but when it comes to forex market, the has been less of a reaction. is it fair to say that perhaps there is portions that all the expectations of rate cuts will not come through? jason: it is more the expectations of what rate cuts can do. it is not the two necessarily to the problem with the virus but i think between equity

those inl ban affects that zone in europe. the u.k. has about 450 cases already and growing. not clear why they would be exempt when some countries who have fewer countries would be banned. >> we are hearing that president trump and prime minister abe will hold a phone call on friday morning. japan and other countries are suffering from the virus outbreak. they are seeking global cooperation given that this pandemic has no borders. what sort of message did we get from the president last night? >> etiquette was a confused message or a message that was one of the united states closing down, building walls. one of my big concerns is the economic consequences in europe. the economic consequences were already going to be very severe. with the travel ban, you have something like 700 travelers from europe to the 700,000 travelers from europe to the united states every month. this is the largest economic relationship in the world. it is a globally important economic relationship. we will already see a recession in europe and now this will only make it worse. impact on the travel indu

i think he will fine that general raymond general heighten and general biting inl or supporting of whatwe are. recommending.ustry in addition, national space council is unanimously and oper. support, so is there industry wh uses group. especially the big operators. in terms of people directly involved with the situationon there is no controversy they sa. all support what we are trying to do. >> i don't disagree with what you just said but your staff toct iohelp my stafft information from d.o.d. as to what it costs today to perform the functions? >>purp i don't know whether the d.o.d. has kept separate figures, but the main purpose is frankly, not saving money asn important as that is, the main purpose is improving the conditions under which information is communicated to the satellite industry. commerce distributes 40% of all the factual information that is emitted by the u.s. government. we are very good at communicating with the commercial sector, and so this is f a safety issue more than if is a transferable budget issue. >> that i fully understand as well. i am just trying to make s

i want to pull the thread a little bit more and make sure inl not missing something. that report is helpful. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary and general milly, there's been a lot of reporting about the reduction in funding for the virginia class submarine in connection with the nnsa's budget increase. critics of nuclear modernization are equating concern for the navy ship building plan with opposition to funding the nnsa and using recent comments made by general millie to suggest did the od does not support the current budget request for nnsa. now i share the concern for the navy's ship building budgets. congress will have an opportunity to look at that. but i know that you are both very strong supporters of nuclear modernization. and also admiral richard was before this committee when he was here several weeks ago. te test fig there was no excess in the budget. so i just want to be clear on this. do you both support the request at a level of funding for nuclear modernization at the nnsa? >> i do. if you doan mind, i'll give a little bit of an

she made inkred inl cookies i ate for break fast and now these incredible lemon cupcakes >> you know they are calling it the covid-19 it's like the freshman 15. >> you've heard that we are all baking and eating >> yes we shouldn't make fun. >> that's what you do. you are nesting. that's what is happening >> look, this is the new reality we are all in. we are figuring this out together and we have to figure out a way to get some more exercise too >> we are eating our way through it >> i picked a bad period to start putting on pounds. a bad starting point that's the problem anyway -- >> laps around the living room >> did you see the sparkly things on what i tweeted those are oatmeal. my daughter got the picture to sparkle. >> have you seen the video of the work outguy dancing before and then after that's me. coming up, we are talking about some of the alternative data sources to try to quantify the impact steve will join us next. crude prices are bouncing off those multi-year lows. we'll are talk about the efforts from u.s. and russia to stabilize amid the price war that is coming up n

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inl the work at the nih has and will change the course of the disease direction and treatment for many generations to come. and i hope congress continues to be a supportive partner in these efforts. thank you, madam chairman for holding this important hearing. >> thank you very much. it's now my pleasure to yield to the chairwoman of the full appropriations committee and bun someone who has had just a major role in making sure that we respond in kind and with' lackrighty request. >> thank you for holding this hearing. welcome once again our very distinguished guesting. i don't know how you are awake dr. fauci. it's all those exercise routines. thank you. but thank everyone, because i know it's a team effort. let me say at the outset, president trump's disastrous budget is filled with deep cuts that tear at the fabric of our nation. instead of building on the historic investments in last year's appropriations bills, the president doubled down on partisan talking points. to propose investing $2 billion for the wall and cutting $3.3 billion from the national institute of health really doe