thank you very much for your thoughtful answers valerie grant. we appreciate it kelly?oes it here on "power lunch. thank you for tuning in. "closing bell" starts right now. >> thank you, kelly and tyler. welcome to "closing bell." the i'm here with willford frost. stocks starting the week in the green. building off last week's gains let's look at what is driving the action in the final hour of trade. the reopen trade as names that have sunk the most and benefit from reopening the most like hotels, cruise lines, airlines, they continue to rip higher here technology taking a breather the nasdaq underperforms the broader market and the s&p 500 almost flat here today the national bureau of economic research officially determined that the u.s. economy entered a recession back in

. >> indeed he has valerie grant, thank you very much eric, we thank you as well kelly. >>> u.s. cases of coronavirus have climbed bo eed above two m now as states like texas and arizona try to balance reopening amid sharp cases of hospitalizations >> it's about flat in terms of adding new cases per day it's 7-day moving average around 21,000 very different stories are showing. in the northeast cases continue to come down dramatically. in the midwest they are as well. in the south and west, weirdly the hottest parts of the country, they are starting to tick up kwietsquite a bit. states of concern are texas, arizona and north carolina hospitalizations are rising. texas 2287 people are hospitalized arizona almost 1500 and north carolina approaching 800 people. all of those increasing just in the last week or so. florida is also a state of concern. it doesn't report hospitalizations in exactly the same way but case count has been rising kwiee ining quite a bit. as has the percent of positive tests being reported showing that community spread is happening. in terms of the hot spots,

thank you very much for your thoughtful answers valerie grant. we appreciate it kelly? >> that does it here on "power lunch. thank you for tuning in. "closing bell" starts right now. >> thank you, kelly and tyler. welcome to "closing bell." the i'm here with willford frost. stocks starting the week in the green. building off last week's gains let's look at what is driving the action in the final hour of trade. the reopen trade as names that have sunk the most and benefit from reopening the most like hotels, cruise lines, airlines, they continue to rip higher here technology taking a breather the nasdaq underperforms the broader market and the s&p 500 almost flat here today the national bureau of economic research officially determined that the u.s. economy entered a recession back in february 59 minutes left in trading >> 59 minutes we are session highs on the dow record highs on the nasdaq composite intraday and set for a record close coming up, the rebound for airline stocks has been fast and furious. is there enough demand to justify the rise we'll get a first-hand l

so hazel dukes who has been so, so clear in so many ways and obviously in the presence of valerie bell and granthank you. thank you for being brave and strong. you know, we are at a moment of reckoning. there is no question about it and i am just so thankful that i have a historic role at this moment. i have an opportunity to lead 40 senate democrats who unanimously decided this was the time. many of my colleagues will sit, stand on the floor and certainly colleagues who are younger and they'll talk about the hip hop and give verses. for me i remember in 1999 when bruce springsteen, you know, the working class hero, did 41 shots. american skin. when that happened in 1999, i thought that that was the moment where people outside of black and brown communities were finally going to get the message that bad things are happening. and that refrain, you can get killed just for living in your american skin, i thought would ring a note but it didn't. and that was right around amadou diallo, why he did that. and so here we are after the horrific murder of george floyd, we finally got it but every parent,