. >> this morning, taking your in withlls, checking reporters from around the country to talk about what is happening in their states and cities. . u.s.-mexico the border to el paso with a border the el paso times part of the "u.s.a. today" network. you. morning to what does reopening look like in el paso compared to the rest of lone star state? >> el paso is falling a little behind. abbott has started the governor but said our hospitalizations were too close for comfort and we are about a week behind the west of state so rest of the restaurants and bars are lowerlly reopening but at capacity than the rest of the state. we are falling behind. too close for say comfort, what are the levels and what are the levels of testing and year el paso o test in >> testing is increasing here. antibody testing and tests for covid-19. 2,300 cases and all deaths. e are part of a tri-state bi-national region so we have to parts of mexico cases but 210 deaths which would suggest is weak on the mexico,side. count continues to go up and we have reported clusters care facilities,ing about becomes stores and

with the security council, we daily withlls different numbers, keep in touch with and we try to keep it light at times. about, what are you going to do with your kids this weekend? instead, being more of that physical touch. how am i going to keep in touch with everyone? i am speaking more to the ones that i do not see, which has been a gift. you are a sincere and gracious woman. i cannot think of a better person for this job, at this time. ambassador kraft, thank you very much. i hope that we can have these conversations more often. before i let you go, let me ask you one more thing. the next country that you would once travelt restrictions are lifted. what would you like to focus on? leave a country, whether south sudan, haiti or turkey, the border of syria, i do not get on the plane and leave everybody behind. i carry them here. some of the countries, i promised the refugee camp that i would come back and i will to the border in syria. i hope that we are able to visit the border in the northeast. that syria would not be one of my first areas. also to go back to south sudan. say, t

we are comfortable with our liquidity position that will even withll into q4 a scenario of zero productiona levels of liquidity will recover from here. these actions are precautionary and proactive actions to make sure we have additional liquidity buffers in place. we are focused on safely restarting the plans and get the production up and running. david: this pandemic comes along at a time when the auto industry and general motors were going through transformation to autonomous and electric vehicles. you have been investing quite a bit and both of those. are you changing your investment plan on that? do you have to put that to the side while you deal with the after effects the pandemic? we areutely not, marching ahead in her plans areeb and ab and we committed to an all electric future and all the plans we have outlined recently in our capital s with respect to the exciting products that we will be rolling out, we have seen little to no impact on these. the capital actions we are taking and the austerity actions will not impact the programs you just outlined. we are fully committed to tha

withll get the details camilla yanushevsky. a quick check on the markets.e a little bit of treading water ahead of those minutes. the markets are doing well today. we are seeing some momentum as well. the s&p 500 showing all subgroups moving higher. 3% in is at almost communications, financials, and fairly close to the highs of the session. tech really showing leadership. crude oil moving higher again. still not where many people need to see that in terms of the profitability of the group, but we are seeing in terms of energy subgroups moving higher here and in toronto. we are seeing a bit of relief in the stoxx. watching hisare congress passing this bill that could require the delisting of chinese companies. that could have implications across chinese markets. we will continue to monitor to see if investors are chilled by that. -- ite a markowski is with need a markowski is with jeffries. aneta markowska is with jeffries. is this going to have a chilling effect? aneta: there was going to be a pause on the trade war for the election. the economy took a hit

. >> this morning, taking your in withlls, checking reporters from around the country to talk about what is happening in their states and cities. . u.s.-mexico the border to el paso with a border the el paso times part of the "u.s.a. today" network. you. morning to what does reopening look like in el paso comparedth

withll host a roundtable ann northrop gregg gonsalves and and speak with tony winning playwright tony kushner who wrote "angels in america." all that and morore, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracacynow.org, the quarante report. i'm amy goodn.n. the death tollll from covid-19 n the united s states hahas passed 100,000, just t three months afr the u.s. recorded its first deaths from the novel coronavirus that emerged in china late last year. with just over 4% of the world's population, the united states has recorded roughly one-third of all coronavirus cases, averaging over 1100 deaths per day since march. and as bad as that figure is, a "new york times" review off excess deaths suggests the true u.s. death toll from covid-19 is likely over 125,000. throughout the month of february, as the coronavirus spread largely undetected in the united states, president trump repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus and claimed it was going to go away. pres. trump: we have done an inincredible job. we're going to continue -- it is going to disappear. one day it is likeke a miracle

withll have a conversation you about these two major crises, and if we have time at the end, we can raisessues about how that relates to the present. the place to begin is pretty straightforward, the world as it appeared to allied leaders in 1918 and 1919. at the end of world war i, some 10 million people had perished in that conflict. as the american, french, british, italian leaders met, they are faced with their own pandemic, the great 1918 influenza. that world, and looking back on it, how did these leaders respond to these crises? how did they think about moving beyond the world work? mike: first of all, thank you, jason, thank you to the museum, and thank you to the viewers for signing in. i hope you're using this opportunity to use this time productively. for me it has been a time to reflect about the ways in which the days that you live in, the present time, changes the way about the past, and changes the way you think about these big questions, how you deal with a pandemic and how you deal with great power competition in a crisis. that was happening at 1919. i don't think anybody

this withll you legislators who feel the same way. we are not just going to fix the windows and swerve up the grass. we will fix the shattered society that leaves so many .eople behind , with disparities from everything from consolation, housing, wages, everything else. i will hand it over to the , who will further elaborate. >> good morning. i am the acting general in the u.s. army national guard. i have been acting general since november, 27. what i will describe this morning very quickly is the actions of the minnesota national guard since we were mobilized. like many minnesotans i woke up yesterday morning to the news that the minneapolis mayor requested national guard support. i opened up my phone and there was a text from commissioner harrington. it wasn't the newspaper or the morning news that note. immediately yesterday morning made contact with the commissioner. we began planning on the potential deployment of the minnesota national guard in support of minneapolis. for those of you who may not understand how emergency managem