AFN
NEWS
Thursday July 2, 2020
1) From ABC News, I’m Chuck Sivertsen. The COVID-19 surge in the South and West is not being slowed. A record-breaking day for cases: hospitalizations, emergency room visits and deaths in Arizona, as Vice President Mike Pence visits the state. “We did hear in the briefing today for the need for personnel. We’ve already responded. Sixty-two medical personnel arrived this week in Tucson, but the governor conveyed to us an additional request for another 500 personnel.” Coronavirus cases increasing in almost 40 states. Hospitalizations are up in half of the states.
2) California Governor Gavin Newsom orders for at least three weeks a total closure of bars and indoor operations of restaurants, movie theaters, museums and other patron-based businesses. In Los Angeles and other high population counties. “These are 19 counties within the state, but these 19 counties represent over 70% of the population here in the state of California.”
3) Texas set a new record of more than 8,000 COVID-19 cases today. After a popular bar was busted for holding crowded gatherings in one of New Jersey’s largest cities, Governor Phil Murphy is once again urging people not to blow it. “Even one knucklehead bar can ruin it for everyone. It only takes one match to start a wildfire, and it only takes one infected bar-goer to invite, or ignite rather, a COCID-19 flare-up and then shuts everything else all back down.” As a precaution, New York City will not move forward with indoor dining on Monday.
4)
Seattle police have torn down the city’s occupied protest zone and herded out protesters
on Mayor’s orders. Police Chief Carmen
Best, “Our job is to support peaceful demonstration, but what has happened
here on these streets over the last two weeks, few weeks, that is, is lawless
and is brutal and bottom line it is simply unacceptable.” Listening to ABC
News.
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I’m
Liz Claman and this is the Fox
Business Report.
Stocks
finishing mixed on its first trading day of the month and a quarter after the
data showed that the labor market continued to improve last month. Payroll
processor ADP’s private sector job
reports showing that nearly 2.4 million jobs were created in June with 70% of
new jobs in leisure, hospitality, trade and construction industries. The Dow
falling 77 points, the NASDAQ up 96 for another record close, the S&P 500
up 16. // And Tesla hitting a
milestone. It is now the most valuable car company in the world surpassing
Japan’s Toyota. Here today, Toyota stocks are down around 12%, while shares of
Tesla has soared more than 165 %. // And due to spiking coronavirus cases in
several states throughout the country, Apple will temporarily re-close 30 of
its retail stores in the U.S. bringing the nationwide total to 77. That’s your Fox
Business Report. I’m Hilarie Barsky, invested in you. *ADP = Automatic Data
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