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Jane king is in new york with those stories and more.

Good morning.

It's another day for weekly jobless claims, which lately have been totalling in the millions.

The median economist estimate is 4.5 million.

That would bring to 26 million the number of americans who have filed for unemployment in 5 weeks.

The house is expected to vote on more financial help for small businesses today.

********* telecom giant at&t warned that job cuts are likely on the horizon as its first-quarter results took a $430 million hit from the coronavirus.

The company, which owns warner media, has put all movies and tv show production on hold and the company has been losing pay-tv subscribers.

********** stocks snapped a two-day losing streak and finished higher.

Investor sentiment received a boost from additional stimulus measures passed by the senate and a rebound in oil prices.

********* the impact of the coronavirus on the travel industry is over nine times worse than the impact of 9/11, according to a new report by oxford economics.

A total of 8 million us jobs will be eliminated as a result of travel declines by the end of april, according to the report.

********** and community banks are emerging as the heroes in the economic part of this crisis.

The washington post reports while large banks loaned millions to large companies, many publicly trade?smaller banks helped out their communities.

The report says local banks that hustled to disburse loans to their communities as fast as they could.

They did this by planning round-the-clock, shifting hundreds of employees to the effort, and cranking out