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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 17, 2020
April 17, 2020
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Good news: TV Guide reports the "Saved by the Bell" sequel is actually underway, with Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley back as A.C. Slater and Jessie Spano. One small problem --you won't be able to see it unless you subscribe to Peacock, NBCUniversal's upcoming new streaming service that debuted this past week on Comcast Xfinity and will debut later this year for the rest of the country.
The back story has Zack Morris as the governor of California, and his son, Mac, is now the high-schooler.
You knew this had to be coming --a new song entitled "Six Feet Apart."
Rolling Stone reports Luke Combs' new song includes lyrics like “I miss my mom, I miss my dad, miss the road, I miss my band, giving hugs and shaking hands,” and then moves on to fantasize about the first things he’ll do once we’re free to get together once again.
If you were looking for somebody to help out with getting the economy back on track, who would you get? A Silicon Valley bigwig or two? Somebody whose startup made big waves in the last several years?
President Trump picked WWE chairman Vince McMahon as one of the people he figures will jumpstart the economy again.
Fortunately, however, there are almost 200 other bigwigs on the list including key figures from industries including sports, agriculture, banking, retail and high-tech firms. No word on what the group will be responsible for other than attempting to put some ideas into The Donald's plans for the new U.S. of A... and as he put it "chart the path forward toward a future of unparalleled American prosperity."
Notice that you're paying less for gas when you fill up your car? That's because less traveling means more gas and jet fuel reserves, and lotsa data is showing that we are using less oil than at any time since 1995. The folks at the International Energy Agency say crude oil has already fallen back to an 18-year low and producers are running out of space to store the unwanted crude.
MSN Money says the folks in Saudi Arabia, Russia and others in the so-called OPEC+ alliance agreed over the weekend to slash production by almost 10 million barrels a day, or about 10-percent of the global output to help the storage problems.
The first cruise line suit has been filed. NBC Dallas/Ft Worth reports a Texas widow has filed a lawsuit claiming Princess Cruise Lines knowingly exposed her and her husband to the coronavirus when they got on board in mid-February along with around 60 others who'd been exposed earlier on the cruise. The lawsuit further claims the cruise ship didn’t quarantine passengers to their rooms for about two weeks and after her husband came down with the virus, it took three days to get him off the ship and into a hospital where he later died.
The CDC says two of the cruise line’s ships had more than 800 total COVID-19 cases since the outbreak began, including 10 deaths.
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