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Selloff, but stocks will open lower this morning. Disappointing housing numbers really not helping, the dows looking for a loss of 370 points. Thats quite a drop right there. S p down 58, nasdaq down 288. A lot of red ink on the lefthand side of the screen. By the way, 860,000 jobless claims this week, thats the lowest number since march the 14th. All right, there is a mask and vaccine fought. President trump saws well have 100,000 next doses. That will be super fast. The cdc says, hold on, youll have to wait until the middle of next year, and joe biden says he doesnt trust trump, he trusts science. College sports, yeah, making a comeback. Ncaa basketball returns in november, big ten football in october. And sally, ouch. That storm has dumped more than a foot of run in some pluses and, get this, a storm named teddy is forming. Could go up the eastern seaboard. Big show, of course. Aoc wants even more implements for the social u. S. Es. Fomo, fear of mussing out missing out, have Retail Investors got a bad case . Were going to cover it all. Very gnu and company is about Varney Company is about to gun. Stuart all right. Better take another look at those futures because its not a pretty picture. Were down 370 for the dow, 295 on the nasdaq. Looks like big tech is taking it on the chin all over again. Brian wesbury joins us, heist an economist hes an economist, for heaven sake. Housing starts, not great. The markets heading south. Is the recovery slowing down . Well, technically, it is, because we bounced we were at such a low, stuart, that we had to come back and make up for lost ground. So we should expect some of this data to be a little slower in the next couple of months, but that does not mean that the recovery is over. All right . So were going to grow 2530 in the Third Quarter, and then were going to probably grow another 5 in the Fourth Quarter and probably 5 next year, and so, yes, little slower than the Third Quarter, but still a growth trajectory. So i just this is just a correction. Stuart isnt the problem here, one of the big problems for the overall economy, the fact that the big population states and im thinking new york, new york city, new jersey, california, illinois yep. Stuart theyve not fully opened up. Theyre not even close finish. Right. Stuart and that surely affects the economy overall. Oh, stuart, ive done the math on this. We have just california and new york combined, because of those two states not opening up, we have 1. 3 Million People unemployed that wouldnt be if they followed the national average. In other words, the Unemployment Rate would be a full percent lower if california and new york werent still shut down. So this is all a shutdown story. And as we gun to open up, so the good news is you saw it in your opening said it in your opening, the big ten is i playing football. Thats they didnt want, kevin warren, the commissioner of the bug ten, dud not want to play football. But when the acc and notre dame play, they were forced to go that way. So my belief is that Competition Among people, among schools and football, among states, among companies, its going to push this economy to open as the day that on the virus get better. And thats whats happening right in front of our faces. Stuart got it. Bruin, thanks for joining us. See you again real soon. All right, stuart. Stuart lets talk about snowflake. Weve got to talk snowflake. It went public yesterday. Lauren sum netty is here today simonetti is here today. I see the stock down, not doing well today, is it . No. Theyre giving back some of the outsized gains that they saw yesterday. We saw showers more than double to 253. That gave them a valuation of 70 billion, stuart, thats two twitters. Warren buffett, who tip clue shuns ipos . 800 million. Investors of all sizes are seeking growth right now. There is no alternative to the big five technology companies. Snowflake is a cloud company. Theyre debuting in a world where big data is trying to figure out how big it can be, and investors, they believe in it. Makes no money yet, been around for ought years. Stuart we should point out that the early investors, a lot of them are locked in. They cant sell their stock this morning no matter how much theyre worth. Theyre locked for about 180 days. So any selling you see now is the day traders and the institutions who bought yesterday, talk their profit this morning. See how that ends the day. All right, next, new numbers from the census, and they reveal Median Household Income gained almost 7 last year. That was 2019. And the poverty rate, it actually went down 10. 5 , down over 1 compared to 2018. Hey, brian brenberg, hes the finance chief at college manhattan. You know, i think these numbers are being ignored. We dont hear about it now. Stuart, youve got to shout these numbers from the rooftops. Of we saw the highest Median Income in this country weve ever seen, poverty rates at a 60year low, and the gains were fastest for minorities and women both on income and on the poverty rate are. We have to talk about this because in this country the social justice conversation is dominated by people who want to grow the government. People who want to undercut the very things that are driving these gains, stuart. Youre right, the medias not covering it. Its not convenient to the narrative they want to push right now, but if we care about recovery, weve got to talk about what got us to 2019 because its there waiting again if we dont give it up because of the pandemic. Stuart is the recovery showing signs of slowing down . Look, are the numbers slowing down . Yes, because you cant keep up the numbers you had immediately after the bounceback. But that doesnt mean the recoverys dead. There is a ton of strength here, stuart, and you can see it across sectors. Consumers are still spending, employers are still suring, people are still buying houses, but theyre asking are we going to get somebody in office in 2021 who is going to keep this recovery going, or are we going to get somebody whos going to focus on inequality, on taxing the rich, on spending, on new green energy boondoggles. If were going to get the latter, then you know this is going to slow down because we saw it during the obama biden administration. If you want to know whats going to happen under biden, look at 2009, all the way through until the beginning of the trump administration, thats whats on peoples minds right now. Stuart you know, brian brenberg, i am astonished youve still got a job in academia [laughter] coming out with that kind of individual liberty kind of talk come on, stuart. Stuart almost protrumpian, im astonished you can still walk back onto the campus. Stuart, im talking about the day that. You and i started this conversation on the data. Real income, were talking about poverty rates, im leaning on that to make my case, stuart. Wherever that data goes, im going to go. Stuart you know what im up to here, brian i know what youre up to, stuart, i know. [laughter] stuart you come back and see us im all about that, stuart. I will, stuart. Stuart thank you very much, brian. Good luck to you. See you soon. Thank you. We really need to get the latest on sally. It is now a tropical depression. The first death has been reported. And, by the way, theres another storm perhaps headed to the east coast. Janice dean is with us. Janice, please start with the rainfall from sally and then tell us about the new storm teddy. Janice okay, will do. Lets take a look at it. They gave the last advisory on sally this morning, the National Hurricane center. It was category two when it made landfall, and the storms totals are impressoff. They verified over 30 inches of runfall along the coast, historic for a lot of areas across alabama and the Florida Panhandle and, of course, wind gusts in excess of 90 miles per hour, very widespread for a number of hours. So heres the latest track. Again, this is the last one were going to get. Its going to be sweeped out to sea by a cold front, but the potential for more heavy rainfall from georgia toward the carolinas, flash flood warnings in effect for Central Georgia in towards western South Carolina, and thats going to continue for the next 1248 hours. 46 inches on top of what we have received. 30 inches, that is really impressive for a storm. Before i get to teddy, i want to show you this area, unstress 90 invess 90, wilfred would be the last name on the list and then the greek alphabet. 90 chance this is going to become a storm, so the gulf coast needs to watch this over the next couple of days. Theres hurricane teddy, very impressive, its going to become a major hurricane. Moving towards bear knew i da next bermuda next week monday and tuesday, and the east coast is going to have to watch this. Maybe the canadian maritimes, but the euro model, one of our most reliable forecast models, has it coming very close to new england. We will monitor that. Thats the rest of your forecast, by the way. I know youve probably been covering the wildfires off the west . Look at the smoke, stuart, thats moving into the central u. S. All the way up towards the northeast. In new i dont recall new york is because of the fires and the smoke coming our way, if you can believe it. Stuart i understand that the smoke is even evident in europe. Is that accurate . Yes. Yes. Some of the winds are picking up the smoke, and it is actually traveling towards europe. Its very, its unbelievably its hard to wrap your head around it, but these winds in the upper levels are bringing some of these particles to europe. Stuart astonishing. Janice its unbelievable. Stuart good report, janusz, see you later. Check the futures, overnight lows, were down 370. Look at the nasdaq, down nearly 3 on the nasdaq. Congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez is confident that she and other democratic socialists can push joe biden to the far left. Watch this. I think overall we can likely push Vice President in a more productive direction across policy issues. Stuart news. All right, so whos really leading the Biden Campaign . Im going to ask the question. Hollywood taking a day off from facebook and instagram. Theyre protesting hate speech. Did it work . Well have the story for you next. Thats what my dad does. 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So ill let you know. Theyre going to be reporting to me tomorrow morning, and well let you know. Stuart okay, now, that will be today. Susan, what are the security good morning, stu. American users data in the hands of beijing, those are the security concerns, and that was really the point of this pressured sale of tiktok. But its not really a sale, more of a partnership proposed by orr can cl where theyd oracle where theyd with a watchdog. This may not be good enough though for the administration and the administration officials. The treasury secretary few knew chin and others, they want u. S. Ownership well above 50 , and the idea is that they want all of tiktok to be held under a new company with oracle, possibly even walmart getting in and other Venture Capital groups owning most of this entity. As for the covid deal, remember that commission that the president wanted . He said that at the press conference yesterday that he was told the it wasnt really legal. But, you know, maybe the 20,000 jobs that tiktok promises to bring to the u. S. Might be the cut or the commission that the treasury gets. Stuart its all kinds of ways of getting your cut in a deal, and 20,000 jobs in america, thats a news piece of action. Yeah. Stuart but the big question is who we retains the data taken from all our talkers and youngsters. Thats the point. Stuart thats it, isnt it . Thats the whole ball of wax here. According to few knew chin. Everybody. My knew country. Stuart celebrities froozing their facebook and instagram accounts for 24 hours. Theyre protesting hate speech. Kim kardashian west, mark ruffalo, katie perry and others, 24 hour freeze. And weve got this for you as well on a similar line of argument. Twitter labeled a tweet from the president as manipulated mode media for changing the music on the desposito video of biden. But when the campaign asked twitter to label similarly in the same withdraw a biden video, they refused. John hands is with us, ceo of parlor, a social media site. Theres no censorship, and hes back on the show. Is this, a, double standard and, b, the flat out censorship of conservative speech . Hi. Yes, thanks for having me again. And, yes, it is. It is a double standard. Theyve made it very clear, you know . They dont want trump reelected, them and their employees, and theyre taking these weird, you know, double actions, you know, basically twopseudod actions to kind of make hum look bad. And it extends further than just the example you said about manipulated media. There are times when biden has mistakenly seen, last week he said michigans death rate were actually the military death rates from covid, and hes mixing these up, and hes not getting factchecked. Its very onesided. Stuart doesnt this encourage the view that theyre got to be reinedded in or in some way made to play fair through legislation of some kind . I mean, this adds the legislative pressure on the facebooks and twitters of this world, doesnt it . It certainly doesnt look good in that field because, i mean, theyre basically participating in this weird middle ground where they claim to be a social platform which means that they are not liable for anything, yet at the same time theyre censoring people like an editor, theyre editorial using everything, right . And things like what Kim Kardashian are doing, she has 200 million instagram followers, and although its really nice that shes standing up for her principles, shes doing it in a manner which is pressuring facebook to ban conservatives even more because what they consider hateful content is essential through the content of anybody that supports trump. And so really if people want to solve these problems, they need to get together and have a parlay and a conversation and debate whats going on. Thatll solve the partisan problems. Stuart john, or youre a competitor to facebook, twitter. Twitter especially. Have you seen a bug increase in the number of people using your platform recently . We do every time this kind of stuff happens, right . So on one hand, you know, im very if Kim Kardashian wants to promote more censorship over conservatives and they start banning, you know, President Trump supporters or censoring his content, yeah, we do see a large influx in users which is excellent for us but not excellent for this country. People need to have conversations, and they cant be interfering in an election labeling only one candidates content as fake news while not looking at the other. Stuart well said, john matze. Thanks for joining us again. Thank you very much. Stuart a couple of weeks ago, as i recall, facebook hit 300 a share. Im looking at them now, and theyre at 257. Hey, lauren, what happened . Yeah. The ios 304, theyre caving to pressure thats coming from all sides. You know that president ial anti trust potential antitrust lawsuit, you have that the starstudded boycott you were just talking about and, wait, theres more. Climate change activists. Facebook has now answered to them. Theyve added the sciencebased information hub to answer to create you cans who say they put out a lot of miss information on Global Warming on this suit. Theyve done something similar with election disinformation as well. All of these moves they appease the critics, the regulators, even the lawmakers. Im calling it a position shift so they can protect their bottom line because they know whether its a biden or a trump administration, its not going to be a handsoff approach anymore. Stuart 257 on facebook as of right now. Thank you, lauren. Overall it is a downside market, down 300 on the dow. Look at the nasdaq. Thats down 310 points. More on that after this. Limu emu doug you know limu, after all these years its the ones that got away that haunt me the most. 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The upo markets been on tour, and every day were seeing more and more unicorns go to market that are getting ready the either ipo or tomorrows acquisition targets like draft king. I dont think anybody saw this coming. This is incredible performance from an upo, almost two good to be true, and i have to wonder if a lot of the private venturebacked companies are sitting there wondering are they doing a good job at pricing these deals. The underwriters for snowflake left almost 4 billion on the table in terms of pricing. Stuart yeah, thats a good point. All right, got that. Youve invested in this Company Called unity. They make a product, i believe, that lets you design video e games and a whole lot more, going public soon. Youre in it. Whats so special . Is this another new technology, new Industry Company . So, of course, its a great company. Its expected to ipo this week. I cant comment, i have no idea how itll perform. All the recent ipos have been performing as an asset class incredibly well. We have seen aftermarket performance enough from 50 up to as much as 400 . So again, its been a very, very strong product as an asset class. But again today all these venturebacked companies have more and more options available to them, and this year with a hundred stacks in producing the markets, theyve almost like a belly button, everybody has one. So i think thats to going to benefit whetherst its unifew or, you know, the next class, robin hood or into the grade, all these companies or sweet grade, all these companies are going to have more options coming to them. Stuart we can hear the bell ring, that means were about to start running. Youre going to see a lot of red all across your screens. Here we go, i 9 30, and already were off 1 , thats 270, 290 points on the downside. And virtual lu all of the dow 30 are in the red. I see one, top left, i think thats verizon. Thats the only winner thus far, is that right . Good eyes. Stuart ive got new eyes, by the way, they really work. [laughter] verizon the only winner, down 300 on the dow, just over 1 . The s p 500, whats the percentage loss there . 1. 5 . In other words, the loss there is bigger than the nasdaq im sorry, bigger than the dow. And the nasdaq, i cant wait, its down 2. 19 . That means tech is taking it on the chin this morning. Down 240 points. Quick look at snowflake now that the market has opened. Its down 9. 5 , an even bigger loss than premarket. Now its down 10 . Real pullback there. Big tech names gotta follow em, im sure theyre just red across the board, and they are. Apples down 3, facebook down 4, alphabet down 29. I think microsoft not on that lust there but getting real close to 200 a shower. Below 200. Stuart thats news. All right. Tesla getting two price targets, price target hikes, i should say. Now, thats ahead of battery week. Whats these new price targets . Theyre looking for 400. You would still call this contained for a momentum play like tesla that has run up 400 , and dont forget their frankfurt shares also slid 4 last night. Deutsche bank and Credit Suisse both upgrading their produce targets to 400 a shower. In fact, Credit Suisse is slapping a of 6. 30 apiece, and theyre saying batterieses are the future e key. Teslas Battery Technology could be worth 100 billion on its own, and they predict that tesla will sell its batteries to other electric Car Companies in the future. That will be a business one day. Battery day next tuesday where elon musk has teased some exciting things to come. Hes a great salesman, great showman, and the market does tend to listen. But just to get back to the Broader Market selloff that were seeing, and as i said, with this type of explosive performance in these ipos where people are rushing to buy in the stocks, these institutional investors, you have to sell off something in order to raise cash and money to buy into these ipos, so that might be a reason whew were seeing some of these declines today. Stuart that might be why some of the big tech companies, or the stocks,ish say, are down. Because the institutions have to sell that to get into snowflake. And institutions drive most of the markets. Stuart oh, they sure do. California theme parks, they want Governor Newsom to let em open, reopen fast. How is he responding, lauren . Whats he saying . Well, hes under pressure. Hes saying theme parks, amusement parks, listen up, because guidelines are coming very, very short lu. So the theme parks are saying give us the rules, and were realize to roll. Thats what the ready to roll. If you ask the anaheim mayor, he says theyve been decimated in the area. The Unemployment Rate is 15 . So why cant disneyland reopen safely at limited capacity when the gyms, the movie theaters, the shopping malls are all open . Why cant the theme parks . So the pressures on gavin newsom. We should get an announcement. Stuart i think its part of the demand to open up faster e, and i think its spreading all across the country. Lets see what happens with newsom and diss gnu. Well see. American airlines and a half dozen unions pleading with washington for more government help, please. Ash lu, what do they want . Well, they want an, tension of that payroll protection program, another 25 billion. But we should note, stu, that right now weve found out that Airline Executives are at the white house meeting with the president. Were some headlines from that. Chief of staff meadows says that the Airlines Just dont understand why there isnt a willingness to create a standalone bill to help them. Meadows saying, look, if nancy pelosi was willing to move a bill that supports the Airline Workers and prevents all these massive layoffs that could come october the 1st, he says President Trump would support it. Meanwhile, the airlines have isnt a letter to the white house trying to make their cause. American airlines alone saying, look, were going to have to furlough or lay off 20,000 workers at the end of this month when the program runs out. Were also going to have to cut service to some of our smaller cities in the network. Some 700 flights would have to be canceled. So the clock is tucking. The air laurens are taking airlines a are making a last dutch effort and if we get new more headlines, well bring them to you. Stuart we now feature the nasdaq because its down so sharp lu. We usually put the dow right there. Today weve got the nasdaq up 200 points. Lets talk hotels now. Across the country theyre facing a wave of permanent closures. Thats pretty bad, susan. Oh, it is. So, you know, the entire industry has lost 124 billion so far this year and counting owing to covid, worst year on record, worse even than the great depression. 1. 6 Million Hotel the workers are out of work and these jobs may not be coming back or even the hotels, and thats because nearly a quarter are 30 days or more behind on their debt payments, thats the highest level ever, and the greatest delinquencies as a result in the cities of houston, chicago, new york, seattle and austin. And we know u. S. Hotel occupy occupancy hit the lowest in march. It went up to 50 in august, but its stalling a little bit in september. We did see stock wise some comebacks and recovery in the hyatts and the mauer yachts and the hospitality and please offgroups today. Well, for the month. Stuart restaurants, bars, aroundlines, hotels, cruise lines, any form of travel airlines. And just to get back to the round numbers, amazon below 3,000, microsoft below 200 and apple below 110. Stuart and thats why weve got the nasdaq down 197 points. Next case. The virus continues to here were talking about the cruise industry. Its still getting hit but the virus, obviously. Carnival, lauren, theyre coming out with some mored bad news, is that right . Yeah. Theyre canceling another four voyages. Some canceled until june of 2021. Theyre also selling two older ships more than 20 years old, the fascination and the imagination, divesting 18 ships in total. It makes sense, they need the money. Theyre warning of a Third Quarter loss of about 3 billion. Were six months into a pandemic. Carnivals the Worlds Largest cruise line. They are currently sailing one shut up. Its in utley. I think that italy. I think that paints the picture. Theyve been decimated. My opinion here for the entire travel industry is we need more testing. If you can test everybody instant lu that goes on a cruise ship, then you can actually sail it. And then you can live your life freely while youre on the ship or wherever you are. Stuart i think youre right, i think the testing, a rapid, solid test, immediate results, that has more to gain, thats better than its more important than a vaccine which, you know, who knows how effective thats going to be and whos going to have to take the it. Anyway, ill move on. We dud want to remind you were one day away from friday feedback, so send us your questions, comments and, yes, please, send us some videos. Why not . For our radio listeners, that is varney viewers foxbusiness. Com. For all of you, thats how you get to us, okay . Varneyviewers foxbusiness. Com. Love to put you on the air. According to yelp, 60 of business closures due to the virus are now permanent closures. Were going to kill into those dig into those numbers, theyre dramatic. Ncaa basketball coming back the day before thanksgiving. Brian kilmeade, whats he think about this return of College Sports . 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With paycom, employees enter and manage their own data in a single, easy to use software. Visit paycom. Com, and schedule your demo today. Stuart there is a report from yelp, ans bad news for those businesses which were shut down during the pandemic. Maybe not all of them are coming back. Whats the report say, ashley . Yeah, these are some pretty sobering numbers, stu. At the end of august, 163,735 businesses reported being closed. Thats actually down from 180,000 that we saw at the start of the pandemic. But it also shows that the number of closures has actually increased 23 since mid july. Now, heres the really sad number, and you mentioned this, the number of buzzes that have closed businesses that have closed permanently now stands at just under 98,000. That is 60 of all the current closed businesses. Throughout the past six months, restaurants, bars and night life venues have been hit the hardest. Just over 32,000 restaurants are closed. 61 of those permanently. As for retail, 30,000 buzzes close businesses closed, 58 of those closed permanently. Very interestingly for locations, los angeles and new have reported the highest number of closures. Los angeles has seen, what have we seen here, 15,000 closures. Half of which are permanent. New york has seen 11,000 closures, 63 reported as permanent. These are some very, very harsh numbers. Stuart cities in deep, deep trouble. [laughter] thats the way it is. All right. Thanks, ash. Check the markets again, please. Weve got red across the board. Down 35 on the dow and the 350 on the dow and the nasdaq down 215 points. Ed, this is interesting, youre talking about forget about buying the dip, buy this decade. All right, make your case. Well, look, if you remember, history shows that in the 1920s we actually started out with a pandemic in 1918, 1919. There was the spanish flu. And it killed a lot more people on a per capita basis, on a population basis than this one has so far. This ones terrible as was the spanish slue, but the splish flu was then spanish flu was then followed but a terrible recession in 1920s, and then we had the roaring 20s because of technological unvexes that were not expected. This time around we dont have to guess, with know theres a lot of technologies that are being implemented today that are going to have a radical impact on our economy, and i think to a large extent itll increase productivity and increase prosperity. So i think the markets already kind of figured that out, in some ways were having our meltup at the beginning of the roaring 2020s, and back in the 1920s the meltup occurred later in the decade. But i think the economys going to get better after this, and thatll support the higher stock prices for the decade. Stuart you know, surely, ed, it would take a strong symptom the act strong stomach, it would take a will of iron that nub, especially for someone of my age, for example, to jump into the stock market now before the election or even after the election with stock prices at almost alltime record highs. Right. Stuart youve got to be real tough to do this, right . Well, im not telling anybody to jump in, that theyve completely missed this bull market. Ive been bullish since 2009, so im just really telling those who have been invested, who have been longterm investors to stick with it. You know, generally speaking the economy tends to grow, recessions dont last very long, and there arent that many of them. And bull markets last a lot longer than bear markets, and bear markets are often buying opportunities. Look, we could have a correction here coming into the election, for example. And you would view that as a buying opportunity. Stuart but here youve got all these ipos coming on stream, a lot of them are in brand new industries, artificial intelligence, the cloud, etc. , etc. Right. Stuart is the technology that youre talking about thats going to carry us through the roaring 20s, is that what its all about . Exact e lu. This is not the dot. Com ended with a party like its 1999. It was a heck of a meltup, and a lot of the earnings really werent there back then. This time around the companies that have done well have earnings. A lot of the ipos are substantial companies with some very neat technologies that i think are going to be very important in prosperity and productivity. They go hand in hand during the 2020s. Stuart ed, youve been right since 2009 because weve gone up and up and up and we sincerely hope youre right about this. Thanks for joining us, mr. Yardeni. See you soon. Do you remember the Minneapolis City Council, they moved to defund the police . You remember that, sure lu. 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Sports betting still could bring in about 1. 5 billion this year and actually go up to 9 billion in five years, so think of the growth rates there. Stuart these Sports Betting companies have done very well with the publicity. I can see the point. Yep. Stuart were watching a Sports Betting etf, round hill Sports Betting. Ash lu, what are they doing so right . I know theyve surged. Well, they have. Were talking about the etf betz, its about a basket of 36 stocks, its done very well, assets have surpassed more than 100 million in just the last three months. Why . Because Sports Betting, gambling is coming back. The planets have truly aligned, to be honest. The nhl and nba playoffs are being pushed to september due to the pandemic, the First Time Ever that these two sports, along with the u. S. Open tennis finals, overlapped with week one of the nfl season. It was a cornucopia of gambling opportunities. 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Call now and get your free infokit stuart precisely 10 00, there is a lot of red ink still there. Down 230 on the dow. Down 150 on the nasdaq. Youre back to 10,900 on the nasdaq. Big tech, that is the big problem today. All of them down sharply. Microsoft struggled back to 200 a zare. Alphabet down 22. All of them on the downside. The nasdaq were showing on the righthand corner of your screen. Negotiations on the next stimulus bill are at a stalemate but white house economist larry kudlow says that the economy can recover without it. Roll tape. I dont think the recovery is contingent on this package. The president wants an insurance policy. He would like to see more cash out there. It sure beats raising taxes. Stuart it sure does. Im convinced well get some kind of extra spending before the election. Only time will tell. You know how that goes. Ashley, this is your day, the latest read on mortgage rates. What have you got . Ashley every thursday, maybe it is payday why im excited. Anyway, came in at 2. 87 for a 30year fixed mortgage. What is that compared to last week. It is up tiny. Last week it was 2. 86. This week 2. 87. I should point out in the meant of august firsttime home buyer activity was up in 19 from july and the highest level ever seen by freddie mac. So these low rates are finally drawing in these firsttime homebuyers, which is good obviously for the economy. Good for the overall Housing Market. Stuart that is an excellent addition to the housing story, firsttime homebuyers are really in there big time. Ashley, thanks for that. Good stuff. Staying on housing. We did see Building Permits dip about 1 to 1. 47 million. That is permits. Housing starts, where they actually started building, that is down around 5 to 1. 4 million units. That is in august. Okay. Theyre down. Mitch rochelle back with us, pwc development leader. Mitch. Those numbers on permits and starts dont seem to be that encouraging for a vshaped recovery. What say you . Yeah. I think you got to look at the demand side stu. I think the actives there, what ash talked about, firsttime home buyers. Firsttime home buyers has been the story for the past decade how they werent in the market. So i think it is key that were seeing that activity kick up. I think you have to look at Housing Starts over time as opposed to month to month. I think when you look at it over time. You will see that the homebuilders that are incredibly confident homebuilders are building at a pace that we havent seen in many years. Stuart you have no problem saying we still got a sharp, dynamic recovery in the Housing Market . No problem saying that whatsoever, right . No problem because the demand side is there. That is what drives the Housing Market. People wanting to buy homes. Stuart here is something that just surfaced. Lumber prices up 177 since midapril. Is that lumber stock on the lefthand side of the screen which is going up some more. Is the price of lumber really holding the Housing Market back at all . Yeah. I do think so. One of the things i talked about on this show, three ls, house, land, lumber, labor. Lumber is the key component. Number one raw material building a singlefamily home. In fact what is going on right now is sort of a perfect storm. You have outpaced demand. You have the wildfires not just in the United States but in canada. You have the tariffs. On top of that you have the pine beetle in western canada that has destroyed 15 years of supply of lumber. That is enough to have built nine million homes. So were seeing spikes, probably continue to see spikes in that precious commodity of lumber. That is going to be a bit of a headwind. That could be part of the calculus why Housing Starts are a little slow in august. Stuart that is fascinating. Who would have thought the price of lumber could go up so much for those reasons that you stated, actually interfere with building new homes. That is fascinating. Mitch, as always, thanks for joining us. See you later. You bet, stu. Stuart now this. What is the most important and powerful group within the Democrat Party . Unions . Not these days. Blue dog conservatives, democrats . Conservative democrats . They have all but disappeared. Moderates like nancy pelosi . I dont think she is all that moderate. No. People increasingly calling the shoeses are socialists. Mere is alexandria ocasiocortez. Right now what is most important to insure a Democratic Victory in november. That we have continue to push Vice President biden on issues from marijuana to Climate Change to foreign policy. I think overall, you can likely push Vice President biden in a more progressive direction across policy issues. Stuart aoc will push a harris im sorry, abide bidenharris administration. He says this. Joe biden will become the most progressive president since Franklin Delano roosevelt. That in this moment is what we need. He is pushing to the left as well. Much what is happening here, is the far left seizing an opportunity. The polls are tightening in mr. Trumps favor. They, the socialist, they blame what they see as bidens moderation. They think the way to win is to pound the income inequality theme. Well, with jeff bezos worth around 200 billion, one man, Michael Speiser making 11 billion on snowflake, they think blasting billionaires is a winner. Socialism made bernie in standout in the primaries. Soakism got aoc elected in the first place. Socialism allowed the squad to expand. I dont think this would help joe biden. That is my opinion. I think it would hurt him. Either way youre looking at a sea change in the Democrat Party. Six months ago we had a world beating economy with incomes rising dramatically across the board and unemployment at record lows for every Racial Ethnic Group in the country. Who would have thought that the democrats would coupler that with socialism. That is my opinion. Lets bring in the man who novembers politics inside and out. His name is karl rove, Senior Advisor previously to bush 43. Karl, do you think that if they really did push full on socialism, do you think that is an election winner . No, i dont. In fact it has been mystifying to me why joe biden who won the nomination being the traditional democrat, the nonsocialist. Remember during the debates he disagreed with bernie on medicare for all. He did not endorse fullthroated way the Green New Deal. Won the nomination. He was the most traditional of the democrats who were at the top of that heap. Since then he has moved left, starting with you know, he went out of his way to appoint a Unity Commission of five, a bunch of panels, five people he nominated, three who bernie nominated and a cochairman from each. Aoc was cochairman of the climate panel. You read the 130 page document of the recommendations, in essence the democratic platform it is full of things from start to finish. Start the on page one and finishes on page 130. Since then he has gone more left. He was for medicare for all. He endorsed in essence medicare for all that takes a little bit longer to put in place. He endorsed the Green New Deal virtually every aspect. There are moments where he sort of realizes that he has gone too far. He endorsed a end to fracking. Then went to pennsylvania im not against fracking on private lands. There are some moments where he has come back. By and large it has been a pretty steady march to the left. I dont see it as a winning strategy. Stuart one last one here. Were told that the polls are tightening. There are polls all over the place from all different places. Bring it all together. Is it accurate, karl rove, to say the polls are tightening in mr. Trumps favor. That is accurate. It may be sort of of the natural dynamic of the election. To bring it to victory strikes me, next 40 some odd days focused disciplined drawing a contrast between him and joe biden. That is only partly by describing what is biden is for. A lot of time has to be devoted what donald trump is for in a second term. He started to do that at the convention. He needs to find the balance here is what i intend to do. Incidentally it is better than what that guy has to do. Stuart next time, would you bring the whiteboard . I had one ready if we got into the right subject i was ready. I will not show you it. I will show you the back. There it is quite quickly. Stuart i will take a freeze frame of that shot, find out what you really wanted to talk about. Mr. Rove, see you soon. Thank you, mr. Varney. Stuart thank you. Back to the market. We got to check it. We have a selloff, not huge by any means. Were down only 157. We were down close to 400. The nasdaq has come back to a minus 126. All right, snowflake, we have to get back to that. Its a cloud startup, went public yesterday. Down today after a huge first day of trading but it is pared todays loss. It is now down just 6 . It had been down 10 . Stay on tech. Here is another. Jfrog, another Software Start up went public yesterday. Lauren, why dont you tell me what jfrog does. Lauren so theyre an Israeli Company and they maintain apps for customers including netflix and google. So theyre constantly updating the app infrastructure. Ipo yesterday on day one, yeah, shares climbed 47 . Now theyre down a bit. Theyre at 64 and change. But their ipo price was 44. Still up this week. Huge for ipos hitting the tape today. These stocks have not started trading yet. You had a Telehealth Company amwell priced above the range and Cloud Management company, sumo logic stronger than expected. Were talking another at least 8 1 2 billion dollars will be raised in ipos. This year . 40 billion. This is a strong part of the market. Investors are hungry for growth and alternatives. Stuart demand is very strong. People want to get into the brand new industries and technologies. These ipos give them a way in. Thank you, lauren. Susan. Susan yeah . Stuart youve been digging into the ipos. What is on deck . Susan we heard lauren tell about sumo logic. Unity software getting into the game, priced well above their indicated range and how well snowflake has done and jfrog doing pretty well. Well look at the upcoming ipos we are anticipating. That does include Peter Thiels Palantir possibly next week. That is big one. Facebook founder dustin moscovitz, a lot of buzz around this one. It organizes work flows, emails, spreadsheets, chats. Both are expected to do a direct listing. They dont raise any new cash. To let the early investors get out and cash in on the companies. Good rx to raise a billion dollars later this month. Airbnb, that is a big question mark. That is a big unicorn that was out there anticipated earlier this year. They had to shelf the listing and covid, how it decimated the travel industry. They had to take in emergency cash. Stuart all the companies on the screen are futuristic companies, new industries. Susan disruptors. Stuart disruptors. Airbnb is certainly a disruptor. I think the public wants in. An opportunity to get into the new industries. Susan i want to get you into the controversy about the pricing of this ipo given snowflake ran up 112 yesterday. Bill gurley, one of the Venture Capitalist saying maybe there is a lot of mispricing in the market right now. I would argue, what is wrong with leaving money on the table for investors to get into, right . He argues, maybe best way to do it go through the spacs, the blank check companies. Also the very small amount of people getting stock in the ipos. Means the rich are getting richer. Not retail average, momandpop investors. Stuart that is true. If you have a chunk of money you can get in at the ipo price. If you know the broker, you can get in. Okay. Leave that up to you. Lets move on to joe biden. 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Yes i say it. At one point the dow was down way over 300. Now were down 126. Nasdaq still on the downside but just 147 lower. Quick check of snowflake, the stock yesterday. Down 7 this morning. That too coming back a little. How about Deutsche Bank . Ashley, are they bringing some people back to work, back to their offices . Ashley well, yes and no, not like jpmorgan. At a town hall meeting Deutsche Bank told the u. S. Employees, guess what, you dont have to return to the office until july of next year. Now many of the workers apparently had asked for a clear policy, what are you going to have us do and the bank acknowledged that workers have, quote, understandable concerns about public transportation, cleanliness, security and other quality of life issues. Now the bank also noted that, well, many of the employees didnt want to return to their wall street headquarters. Theyre moving to Columbus Circle next summer anyway. All in stork contrast to jpmorgan who told senior trading sales, employees and their teams they should return to the office by september 21st. That is next monday. As for other banks, ubs reportedly told some senior employees, yeah, were not going to follow the lead of jpmorgan. Meanwhile bank of america expects the first wave of workers to return by the end of october but adding that employees can opt out if they just dont feel comfortable or have a health condition. No one exactly following jpmorgan who said some of these folks have to be back by next monday. Stuart thats the liability issue, isnt it. If you push them back, they can sue you because you pushed them back, you spot covid. That is the baseline problem here. Ash, thank you very much indeed. Move on to ford motor company. Theyre hiring for production of the new f150 truck at the plant in dearborn michigan. The truck is back to 7 a share. We have formeds International Marketing president. Welcome back to the show. Good to see you, sir. Good to see you. Stuart the f150, is it still the bestselling vehicle in america . It absolutely is. It has been for 43 years, something were very proud of. Stuart okay, the new f150, is it electric model . So were launching the 21 model year right now today here at. It comes with a hybrid power train but were also announcing were making a 700 milliondollar investment here at the complex to bill and allelectric f150 which will come to the market in about two years, in the middle of 2022. Stuart i am told that the electric f150 is the most powerful version of the f150 yet. I find that strange because i didnt think electric cars, give you more power, acceleration, yes, but power not necessarily. What is your answer . Absolutely. It will be the most powerful f150 weve ever built. It will have more torque than any f150 we ever built. Of course because of the electric motor how that torque comes on, gets transferred tote road is almost instantaneous. So great truck. A lot of fun to drive but more importantly our customers are really looking for trucks that can do the job they need to do. This truck will do that. Stuart i am told that building an electric vehicle is very complex, very difficult and it, you really have to be hightech for this. Why are you doing production here in america . How many jobs are you going to bring with it . So we as a Company Always have been and still are very committed to the american manufacturing. We think a Strong Manufacturing base in america is very important to the economy. It goes all the way back to the 5dollar a day that our company started. Its a complex industry, a complex product to make but we make more vehicles in this country than any other automaker. We employ more hourly workers in this country than any other automaker. Here we are today at the historic complex which is a iconic Industrial Complex in the entire world. Well build the all new f150 battery electric right here. Stuart kumar, thanks for joining us. Congratulations on the new production of the f150. Thank you, sir. See you soon. Next lets talk about elon musk boring company. They make tunnels. Theyre building the vegas tunnel. Almost complete. When will it be finished . Susan slated january next year, 2021. Just in time for ces, the Consumer Electronics show. However that huge event has been canceled next year because of covid. The tunnel underneath the Vegas Convention center is almost done according to elon musk, seems well ahead of schedule, dont you think . It will connect the Convention Center and take you two minutes. The trip with regular traffic, 15 minutes at least. The loop will move 4,000 people across per hour in a is a right of tesla cars according to elon musk. Any city that allows for tunnel depth that is deeper than their tallest buildings would work for one much these tunnels. Think new york, beijing in the future. Stuart i got that guy wrong. Susan a lot of people did. Stuart i thought he was a showman. He is not just, he is show man, but he is a genius. Tesla, boring company, spacex. Susan neurolink. Stuart what a guy. Susan why he is the third richest own the planet. Stuart works for me. Susan, thank you. Lets get to minneapolis. Businesses there still trying to pick up the pieces after the riot after the damage. One liquor store reported losing a million bucks in stolen property. How will that play with minnesota voters in were on it. California democrats blame game on wildfires, all because of Climate Change according to them. Nothing to do with for rest city management. Well discuss. Introducing stocks by the slice from fidelity. Now you can trade stocks and etfs for any amount you choose instead of buying by the share. All with no commissions. Stocks by the slice from fidelity. Get your slice today. With the icon that does the same. The rx, crafted by lexus. Lease the 2020 rx 350 for 409 a month for 36 months. 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They issued the last advisory on this, but still bringing quite a bit of rainfall across the southeast and midatlantic and threat for tornadoes. A tornado watch has been issued for parts of the carolinas, up towards virginia. We have a tornadoborn storm southeast of columbia. Well continue to watch that with the tropical systems. We see weak tornadoes and with that the potential for structural advisories. Flash flood warnings for parts of georgia, South Carolina as the system continues to move north, eastward. Potential for four to six additional inches of rainfall, that is swept off the coast by a cold front. Here is teddy. That will become a major hurricane within the next day or so, perhaps making a beeline towards bermuda. One. Reliable forecast models, the euro model shows it moving across bermuda. What happens, it looks it comes close to maine heading into tuesday next week. Watching teddy. If i could, this is another disturbance we think will get a name. The name will be wilfred. It will be last on our list by the way, until we go to the greek alphabet. Here are the models, looks like my kids took a coloring marker to this. We dont know yet know where it will go. It potentially could be issue for the gulf coast later next week. To show you, we go to wil fred and go back to the greek alpha belt. That happened one time. 2005. Stuart you you have your work t out for you. Got hit. Stuart we have to check the waffle house index how many locations close down. It i was an indicator. Lauren, sally did a number this time, didnt it . Lauren she did. She left 50 waffle houses without power and therefore closed in florida and alabama basally just drenched the area. So right now theyre monitoring about 109 locations but 50 cannot operate. That means this storm was bad. If you go back a few weeks to laura, 20 waffle houses closed then. It is an Economic Indicator because they do whatever they can to open, even if that means a limited menu when they close. The index flashes red. You know the storm was bad, stuart. Stuart it is another bad indicator, isnt it . Lauren i know. At least it is temporary of the. Stuart exactly. Wellsaid. How about the price of oil because of the storm in the gulf . About a quarter of gulf Oil Production has been shut down. Still in the dark by the way. 40 a barrel as we speak. A couple days before the storm youre back at 36, 37. Now youre up 40. Wildfires, california, the governor there, gavin newsom, he is trying to fund raise off the wildfire briefing with the president. He claims he is standing up to climate deniers. Then there is nancy pelosi releasing an ad saying california is burning because mother earth is ainge rip. Listen to this. Mother earth is angry. Shes telling us whether, she is telling us with hurricanes on the gulf coast, fires in the west, that Climate Crisis is real and has an impact. Stuart joe bidens pick for Vice President Kamala Harris, saying the destruction caused by the fires is utterly predictable. Roll at that tape. The governor and i have visited these same spots many times. Sadly these wildfires and the devastation they cause are utterly predictable. Stuart jessica milan patterson joins us, gop chair for california. Welcome to the program. Good to see you. What do you say, going into the november election what are you saying about Climate Change and the fires . Well i think you can certainly say that Climate Change exists as well as the fact that our Forest Management here in california has been absolutely horrendous. When senator harris says that is utterly predictable, it really is. Currently we have 17,000 firefighters that are fighting about 25 major fires here. Over 4200 structures have been destroyed. That is peoples homes. That is peoples businesses and we need to get to a place where were working together. We were hopeful when we saw our governor and the president come together on monday that we were getting to a place. Then similarly to how our governor reacts on many situations, he said one thing on monday and on tuesday does another. Stuart jessica, you are i believe the first women and latina chair of the California Republican party in the California Republican partys history. Having said that, what do you make of joe biden playing despacito to the Hispanic Community . Any comment . I think that it was certainly an interesting rollout and interesting choice in the song. Despacito means slow. I think any type of Business Recovery with joe biden would be slow and any type of recovery that we have will be slow. Weve seen him very slow to move out of his basement. I think that is the perfect song to roll out his latino coalition. What i will say is that here in california, you know, California Republicans, we worked really hard to engage in latino communities and many communities around our state that have been neglected by our party over the years. This is something we stay focused on. Stuart can i just bring this up . I have got limited time. Been on the air for 10 years. Almost every year i have said there is no way on gods green earth in my lifetime we will see a republican elected to statewide office in california. Are you going to say im wrong . Im happy to take that first time you said it to me. I think that were at a turning point in california and 2020 is about setting the table. 2022 is about recruiting candidate that can run and win for governor in california. That is republican. Stuart fair enough. Jessica milan patterson, thank you very much for being with us. Come again real soon. Love to see you again. Thanks. Stuart thank you. Check that market. Were following closely off course. 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How many businesses in minneapolis are trying to recover . I will tell you. 1500 businesses were damaged. One liquor store lost a Million Dollars worth after stolen property. They lost a Million Dollars worth of liquor. Put it like that. Ashley, do we have the dollar number on the damage from these riots . Ashley initially 55 million, stu. There are projections that number could ultimately rise to 229 million when you consider more than 1000 insurance claims. There you have it. 46 million has already been paid. That is only 20 . Clearly a long way to go. As you mentioned, the number of reported Violent Crimes in minneapolis, assaults, robberies, homicides, way up over 2019. Same story for property crimes, burglary, auto theft. Incidents of arson up 55 over the same point this time last year. Interestingly, more than, well, about 100 officers have either left the department or taken leave. That is much more, practically double what the usual number at this point in the year. Can you be is sure priced as the city council moved to defund the department. City Council Members arguing theyre on the streets not doing their job trying to make us look bad. Can you blame the officers in minneapolis to be honest with you . How will this play out in a swing state like minnesota. Very interesting, sad summation of what weve seen in minneapolis. Stuart i think the minnesota could swing to trump because of what is going on in minneapolis. Hillary vaughn is in minneapolis reporting to us in our next hour. Ashley. Thanks very much indeed. Lets get to new York City Restaurants. They can charge customers a new fee. That should entice customers back, shouldnt it . Lauren, how much . Lauren so it is 10 . The city council approving this surcharge on diners bills to offset any Financial Hardship been caused by covid. This is actually a big deal. This is the first surcharge in the city in over four decades. It can only be used by small restaurants. What does that mean . You have to have less than 15 locations. Only from until 90 days after Indoor Dining is allowed to resume in the city at the end of the month. Im kind of fascinated by this, stuart. It was introduced by a republican joe borelli. He has been on the show many times. What the democrats want to do, add a provision, an amendment, only restaurants that pay workers 15 bucks an hour can apply. They want to do that before de blasio signs it. Some restaurants are calling this a bailout. They say they dont want it. Others say why doesnt de blasio focus on increasing the Indoor Dining numbers to let us really survive, then we wont snead this . Do you think new yorkers will pay extra 10 to support their Neighborhood Restaurants . Stuart no, i dont think they will. They will be reluctant to pay it. I think it will be a drag getting people back into restaurants in new york city. Lauren, i have more on new york city. Just coming to us right now, breaking now. Mayor de blasio just said new York City Schools will delay inperson instruction for a second time. Not sure when it was supposed to resume. It will not resume when he said so. It is delayed again. More bad news for new york city. Got a big number for you 3. 4 trillion. That is how much joe biden would raise from new taxes if elected. I got to tell you. It is the rich that will be paying most of that and some middle class people will pay up as well. President trump blasting the nfl for its falling ratings. He says people will not put up with the game being disrupted by politics. Brian kilmeade on that. Im a performer. Always have been. And always will be. Never letting anything get in my way. Not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. And certainly not arthritis. New voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief to help me keep moving. And it can help you too. Feel the joy of movement with voltaren. Here . Feel the joy of movement nah. Here . Nope. Here. When the middle of nowhere. Is somewhere. The allnew chevy trailblazer. So youre a small bor a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. Powered by the largest gig Speed Network in america. But is it secure . Sure its secure. And even if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. So how do i do this . You dont do this. We do this, together. Bounce forward, with comcast business. Stuart you know, maybe were coming back a bit here. The nasdaq is only down 109. The dow is only down 68. That is a comeback. Lets check big tech. Way, way down earlier. Still down but not as bad. Microsoft down just a buck. Apple is down a buck 30. Quickly snowflake, got to take a look. Has that come back . Yes it has. It was down 10 earlier. Now down 7 . You can call that something of a comeback. Susan and i were discussing dukes the commercial break, both of us think we may, may end the day higher. Susan weve come back from 3 down. People buying risk assets. Oil is well. Stuart risk assets . We utessed to have a buzzer for jar gone. Susan oil. There is no panic on the market. Ill tell you that. Stuart no panic. Down 100 on the nasdaq. Still down on a big tech. They have come back significantly. Susan thats right. Stuart i want to see how snowflake closes. I cant wait to see that one. Were about 10 seconds away being precisely 10 51 eastern time. That is when were allowed to go to Brian Kilmeade who will join us from his radio show. Three, two, one. Here he is. 10 51 eastern time. Here is Brian Kilmeade joining us this morning. Brian, big 10 football is coming back. Ncaa basketball coming back late november. Seems reich College Sports making a comeback. What do you say . I think it is great. President s, players, parents got together. They saw the acc, the sec, yeah, we know the risks. We know some of the finest athletes, fittest athletes in the country are playing. It is not just about the opportunity to gopro. These once in a lifetime opportunities to be with teammates. To compete. We would love to have fans. Stu, you guys know about the bottom line. You get no broadcast rights if you have no game. Stuart did you say the president was instrumental bringing back the big 10 . No question. Some the parents reached out to him. Players reached out to them. Instead of saying what do you need . Five weeks they decided not to play that the testing, the protocals have gone up. They learned more. They think they got a system to make it work. If im to believe that i like the fact he did it behind closed doors. Didnt say this is a bad guy, they better play. He gave the word out to the pac 12 on the west coast. They bailed right away. I know theyre dealing with fires. They got a lot of challenges with civil unrest but now the pac 12 commissioner and the governor said, im not standing in their way if they want to play. Stuart interesting. So the president was instrumental. That is good. What do you need . That is good stuff. The president actually slamming the nfl for having its ratings crater. Ratings have indeed plummeted compared to games last year at the same time. How much has this got to do with politics in sport . Whats your opinion on this . I cant even go to the game and talk to the fans as they leave because theres no fans. I will say this, the ratings are great. They have a high level to go to. Over 20 million is fantastic. Beats the academy awards. Compare it to last year, you have the giant game on the first game of monday night football was off 1 . Tennessee, denver, really good game. Off 28 . 12 miami new england. And chargers and bengals, 12 , the ratings were off. The only place we saw an increase was on fox. Tampa bay against new orleans was up but you had tom brady and drew brees playing. It has to be somewhat of a concern while still saying football is the king of all sports. They got to be worried about it though. Stuart seemed to me watching the games over the weekend, it seemed the networks were doing their best to focus entirely on the game and not letting activision, activism creep into the game itself. If you just watched the game you were not aware of all the protests going on around the outside. I think networks did, the networks actually shielded the nfl. That is my opinion. No question. I had to read the next day to find out a bun. Of giants kneeled. The dolphins didnt come out. Locker room. When they played the socalled black National Anthem and players did not come out. What is the point playing the black National Anthem if my personal anecdotes. Im used to hate mail. I guess sadly maybe some people dont like you, i dont know how. Im not used to people saying i watch you every day and i listen to you every day and i have never been so disappointed for you not condemning the protests and the kneeling on the National Anthem. People are outraged that i interviewed troy aikman last week and dave wannestedt and others, i talked about the game. How dare you watch. People are still incensed about the disrespect for the flag while not saying we dont need to make games on racial justice. Stuart we have something on this program called friday feedback. Were seeing if i get any hate mail there. Do you pick any bad ones . Stuart i do. I do. You do . Stuart people are critical of me i will put it on the air. If it is reasonable. Is anybody critical of susan when she is there . You probably tell you she can hear you. Susan never, never. Six feet apart. I love that. Stuart very popular. So is lauren. So is ashley. Were doing all right. Brian, thanks for joining us. Well see you again soon. All right. Stuart. See you in the halls. Make sure you wear jeans. Stuart giving it away. Amazon, lets talk that. They have taken a shot at spotify, with what . Susan podcast. Stuart what is going on . Susan theyre trying to draw new listeners with 70,000 new titles originals from d. J. Khalid and i know youre a fan of and will smith as well. This will be free across amazons music subscriptions and ad supported tiers. Theyre playing catchup, number three behind apple and spotify. Spotify spent 100 million for a deal with joe rowing again. One hundred million. Stuart im in the wrong business. Coming up in our next hour, tiki barber i will ask him to pick a super bowl winner. Why not if he is on the show . My take on joe biden who would okay mandatory mask wearing nationwide. Well discuss that for sure. Third hour of varney right ahead. Apps are used everywhere. Except work. Why is that . Is it because people love filling out forms . Maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much Vacation Time they have. Or sending corporate their expense reports. Ill let you in on a little secret. They dont. By empowering employees to manage their own tasks, paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. To learn more, visit paycom. Com stuart 11 00, and the markets are coming back, yes, they are. It might look like a sea of red ink, and it is, but were only down 67 on the dow. Nasdaqs down 128, and the s p down 22, but all of those indicators were much lower earlier in the day. I will call it a comeback of sorts. And now this. Wearing a mask has become a political flashpoint. On masking, joe biden and President Trump see things very differently. Lets say biden takes the hard line. Under questioning wednesday he said if he had the authority, he would order a nationwide mandate, mask up, everybody. He would do that if the Scientists Say thats required. Think about this, please. On the advice of an unelected committee, a biden presidency would tell you what to wear all on the grounds of safety and following the science. With the antimask movement growing, imagine the divisions in our already divided society. If 320 million americans were told mask up or else, what do you think the division would be after that . Now, President Trump, hes on the opposite side of the masking fence. Hes not wild about it. He doesnt agree with the cdc guy who says a mask is better protection than the vaccine shot. And the mideast agreement signing with 800 quests on the white house launch guests on the white house lawn, masks were optional, and few of the guests wore them. The left went apoplectic about the maskless crowd. Is this a medical safety issue . A constitutional issue is . In my opinion, its become a political issue. Bidens looking for votes appealing to safety. He would force us to mask up. Trump sees it as a freedom issue, and he sees going maskless as encouragement to return to Something Like normal. My opinion, this is america. Freedom beats the dubious claim of enforced safety every day. Thats my take. Okay, that is my opinion. Now, i want you to listen to what joe biden said about the rush for a vaccine. Roll tape. Let me be clear, i trust vaccines, i trust scientists, but i dont trust donald trump. Stuart look whos here, fox Friends Weekend cohost pete hegseth. First of all, pete, lets deal with the mask issue. Sure. Stuart i think im right in saying that there is a clear Political Division here. I just dont see america going for a mask mandate. I just dont see 320 million americans taking it calmly when theyre told were going to tell you what to wear. What do you say . I agree with you. It flies in the face of common sense which is all too uncommon, unfortunately. And thats, i think, the difference between joe biden and donald trump. Joe biden says im going to virtue field. Im going to wear a mask in a field even though im socially distanced from everybody. Im going to tell you to wear a mask no matter what and make it look like im with the scientists, im the one who wants to protect you versus donald trump who says i think you should apply common sense. Im the most tested man in america, im surrounded by people who are tested. If i need to, ill put on a mask, otherwise im going to let you choose, i think you should be free to choose. And you talked about the balance between free come and enforced security . Freedom . Thats been the balance since 1775 when the first shots were fired. We could have been under the cloak and the comfort of the British Crown forever if we wanted, but we wanted to live free, and that comes with risk. Each person makes their own calculation. Thats the point the president is making. Stuart thats so important, risk. Your assessment of risk for yourself is a powerful force. Correct. Stuart now, as a military guy, i always think of you as a military guy, i want to get your take on abc swore respondent jon carl telling the National Journal that covering an indoor trump rally is, quote, like you are taking your family with you to fallujah. Have at it, pete, what are you going to say . Ah, hes a fool. Ive never actually walked the streets of fallujah. I know many fellow soldiers of who have. Ive work walked similar streets in baghdad, and its dangerous. But, of course, weve chosen to be there as someone whos chosen to put our life on the lewin. Its absurd, i mean, its the height of absurdity to pretend thats what it means again, virtue signaling. Im so good that im going to [audio difficulty] compare it to war as i wear my mask and tweet and text about all these angry, terrible, deplorable people who would actually take their risk calculation and go to see the president that they love. So its more absurdity and, again, shows you how detached these the reporters are in real life and never having having walked the streets of fallujah, boy, i would not want Jonathan Karl in my squad, ill tell you that. [laughter] if i could pick a guy, it wouldnt be jon karl. Stuart it probably wouldnt be me either. Stuart, dont count yourself out. Susan, you too, i think you both would be pretty darn good. [laughter] stuart i do come from the a military family, thats another story. And you shoot straight. Stuart pete, youre all right. We welcome you back anytime you like. You got it, brother. Stuart lets get back to those markets. Just a second ago we saw the dow turn positive. Down 300 around 9 30, and then it went up a few points. Now down 6, just as i was saying that, it goes up again. All you, its all you. Stuart it might be right, you know, we might see the market end higher today. I think so. Weve come back a long way. Stuart would you say the same about snowflake . That was the big winner yesterday. Wow. Stuart opened this morning with a 10 drop, now its only down 6 . It shook wall street when it went public wednesday. Look at it now, down only 6 . Amazing. Look whos here, heather zumarraga. Heather, i think that was an absolute, just a real shock to wall street, what happened with snowflake. But i welcome it, because i think its saying that Retail Investors, people like you and i, for example, we want to get into these brand new industries that are burgeoning and which are the industries of the future. I think this is a wonderful thing. What do you say . Well, it is a wonderful thing. I think the underwriters are going to have some questioning as to how it was so vastly undervalued. But looking great for the Retail Investor at the end of the day. It shows that theres [audio difficulty] techheavy names, facebook, google, amazon have had a tremendous run. This is the largest software ipo ever in history. And before the ipo, i have to admit, i didnt know much about snowflake, i hadnt heard of it. I heard about it but in a different sense, the word snowflake itself. This is a raging success story, and i just think it speaks to confidence in the marketplace right now. Stuart i must say i really would like to know how they got that name yeah. [laughter] before the p. C. , yeah. Stuart well, they picked it and did well. Lets talk about the Federal Reserve. Look, in my opinion, the Federal Reserve sounds like theyre going to keep Interest Rates at near zero way into the future, and that will put a floor under the stock market. Where am i going wrong . Well, you would think it would, but they also expressed some uncertainty about the future. They highlighted the accomplishments of having half of the americans that were laid off go back to work, still 13 million though unemployed. But this is a lower for longer story, Interest Rates near zero through 2023. And for the First Time Ever, the fed actually said were going to let inflation heat up above 2 and maybe keep it there for a little while. Remember, we always had this 2 inflation target. Theyre going to let inflation run in and when it if and when it ever does heat up, and i think with all the stimulus, the cares act and the feds monetary support, which is more support than we had during the 2008 financial recession, i think theyre going to keep it going for some time. Stuart i see a little disappointment on the jobless claim numbers and the housing numbers, a little disappointment. Yeah. Stuart do you think the recovery is slowing down a bit . Yeah. So the data is softening. It was in line, the jobs data, we lost another 860,000 jobs this week, in line with expectation, but it is somewhat worrisome because as were i reopening the economy, you do want to see that number come down. The fed did note that their unemployment forecast is that things are getting better, moving in the right direction saying, look, the recovery has been faster. [audio difficulty] there are were still shopping and spending, but in different areas online versus restaurants and bars, for example. Stuart still in good shape except for the election thats coming up. Yes. Stuart thanks very much, indeed. Yes, sir. Stuart thanks, heather. All right. A couple of stories on the airlines. Southwest, they are grounding about 130 of their boeing 737 jets. Weight discrepancies, is the reason. Im not sure i understand that one. And southwest is one of a lot of Different Airlines on your screen now with their chief executive at the white house today. Those airline chiefs, theyre at the white house. Theyre talking with chief of staff mark meadows. Theyre talking about a clean extension of their ppp loans. They want more money. Will they get it . The markets pointing them up just a little at the moment. The latest on oracles deal for tiktok, the president s not quite ready to sign a deal. Give us the latest, susan. Bloomberg just came out with a headline saying oracle has excessive revised treasury terms on tiktok. We dont know exactly what that looks like right now, but earlier reports say that walmart will be partnering with oracle, and oracle will take a 20 stake in tiktok, and walmarts ceo also taking up four seats of the newlyformed board of directors for tiktoks u. S. Board of operations. 20,000 new jobs headquartered now in the u. S. , President Trump revealing the deal today and likely to make a decision before the september 20th deadline which is this sunday. So this scenario means that chinas parent still keeps majority ownership of the social media app, oracle now the watchdog over the data. And remember this is not an outright sale of tiktok, its a tech partnership, and the president said he wanted a full sale of tiktok. So is this enough to get through the china hawks like the Peter Navarros and the mike pompeos, is this enough to get President Trump to sign on to it. Stuart thats what theyre dissing at the moment, is that enough. Yes discussing at the moment. All right, the nfls ratings plunged tiki barbers going to join us later this hour [audio difficulty] super bowl pick. I mean, why not . Footballs back. And nearly half of new york citys top earners, you know, if you make more than 100,000 a year, youre a top earner in new york, theyve reportedly considered leaving. Is that a point that the citys not coming back . First though, a new report claims joe bidens platform would raise taxes 3. 4 trillion. Big number. Tax guy Grover Norquist joins us next. Looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. Theyre going to be paying for this for a long time. They will, but with accident forgiveness allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident, even if its your fault. Cut sonny. 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In fact, we talked to several undecided voters that say that that issue is something they are thinking about before they head to the ballot boxes in november. I want to point out what is behind me. This used to be bling bling beauty supplies. They were hit very hard. Their inventory was gutted, and if you look across the street here, this used to be home to several retailers. They were looted and torches including a tmobile and a flipflopper. Now there is nothing left. A lot of the businesses months later still have been sitting vacant over the summer and are still in rubble. So far just 20 of insurance claims have been paid out to businesses here in the twin cities. For a commercial property, 46 million in payments are gone out, but thats really just a fraction of whats expected to be paid out, over 229 million in damages need to be covered. Just down the street from here is a book shop that specializes in scifi, they had over 100,000 rare books, collectors items, comics. We talked to the owner yesterday, wallace crane was finally getting to clear the rubble from their business. He told us that he is worried about opening back up again because hes worried about his businesses being burned down again. Going to wait until after the trial for four policemen because if the mob does not like the decision of the jury, we could is have rioting again, and i dont want to be burned out a second time. Reporter stuart, another hurdle that businesses have encountered here and part of the reason why you still see piles of rubble on what used to be business storefronts is because of a state law that requires that all property tax it is be fully paid before a business can clear their lot, and a lot of these businesses were struggling because of covid before the riots came through and torched their businesses, and they cant get rid of the rubble because they cant afford to pay the property taxes on their businesses that dont exist any longer. Stuart . Stuart that is absolutely ridiculous, but thats just my opinion. Of hillary, thank you very much, indeed. Unbelievable. A new study shows the biden platform would raise taxes by, what, 3. 4 trillion. And his spending plan, by the way, that costs more than double Hillary Clintons proposal back in 2016. Grover norquist is with us, founder of americans for tax reform. Grover, if i were to, if i were to ask you whos going to pay most of this extra tax, the answer would have to be the rich. I mean, that would be the honest answer, wouldnt it . I know that middle class people are going to have to pay some, but most of this burden falls on the rich, correct . Well, unless you consider losing your job or not getting a job to be a confiscatory tax. The damage will be on all americans. Biden says hes only going to tax people who make more than 400,000 a year. The problem is that he said something very similar when he and obama came in, they were only going to tax people who made more than 250,000. But they immediately launched a series of attacks on middle income americans. Biden is going to increase the Capital Gains tax as he has said on video again and again on every single american up to 40 . 40 Capital Gains tax. Thats a tax on getting rich, not a tax on being rich. He also wants an energy tax. All of us use energy. Thats not a tax just on rich people, thats on everybody. He does have huge taxes on the death tax, not allowing a stepup in basis, another 40 tax on Capital Gains when you die. I mean, hes really going after the ability of being able to hand money off to a child, a family. Stuart and your point would be that if you raise estate taxes, income taxes, business taxes, Capital Gains taxes, no matter who you take that money off, it results in a severe downside move for the economy which means more unemployment. Thats your bottom line here. You take a look at what trumps and the republican tax cuts did, it cut Corporate Income taxes under what china charges. Biden wants to raise the Corporate Income tax higher than communist china at 25. Youd have to go to 28 or 35 depending on the day of the week, but always higher than chinas, always higher than germany, canada or britains. Thats where you lose money if investors dont go to the United States for tax reasons, they go elsewhere. Thats what happened during the obama years. That was not helpful. The republicans took the corporate rate down, money flowed into both american money, but also foreign investors. The biggest tax is killing your job, and what republicans did is wage increases at rather dramatic a rates compared to what obama and bidenned had done. But everyone will be shelling out money. A carbon tax and energy tax is just a gasoline tax on everything. Stuart keep plugging away there, grover, because we like to hear it. Well win. [laughter] stuart famous last word. Thats pretty good. Thanks very much. Now listen to this on a similar theme. The governor of new jersey, phil murphy, he struck a deal to raise the millionaires tax. Lauren, break this one down. Yeah. It was his third time trying to do it, and he did it. If you make between 15 million a year, your income tax rate goes up to 10. 75 . So if you take 2 million a year, youre paying 18,000 additional in taxes every year. 35,000 people would be affected. The tax could raise 390 million. That would pay for a rebate check going to the middle class in the state, these 500 checks for every household with income under 150,000 with at least one child. You know the argument, the democrats say lets tax the rich to make up for the pandemicfueled shortfall for everyone else, and republicans say, yeah, okay, just watch because your residents, theyre going to flee. In the new york cuomo is begging the people who left to coming back. New jersey might be doing the same thing. Stuart youve got one more item of news here about new york city and the mayor. Whats the news here . So hes delayed the inperson chats for a second time classes and did so three days before they were set to reeau open. So one million parents completely frustrated right now. The kids are not going back to school yet. So mayor de blasio met with the principals and the teachers union, and they say the schools just arent ready. Teachers dont want to come back, theyre going to need a lot of substitute teachers. So what we know now is that the phasedin reopenings will start with Elementary School at the end of the month, september 29th, and theyll phase it in for now. Stuart this city a is a wreck. Really extraordinary. You wanted a last word . Go ahead, got time. Well, im in new jersey, and my daughters in prek, so we have full days of school, private school. Everybody in kindergarten and older on my block, all of the parents are so jealous that i is have that because their kids are doing two half days a week. Parents are frustrated. Stuart they absolutely are, i can tell you that. Thanks, lauren. Im going to show you the white house because in just a few moments, the president s going to participate in a credentialing ceremony for newlyappointed ambassadors in washington d. C. He may speak. He may answer a question or two. If he does, youll hear it right here. Ive got a headline for you, democrat madness from the harris Biden Campaign. That was deliberate. I know its biden harris, but the wall street journals headline reads harris biden. It was written by Dan Henninger. Hes on the show next. First though, who is former nfl superstar tiki barber picking to play in the super bowl . Im going to ask him because hes on the show. Why not . Thats what my dad does. Good job, michael ok, lindsey now tell the class what your mommy does. 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Muck stuart i like that song. Ive got to say, thats Florida Georgia Line at the academy of Country Music awards. Social distancing, as you saw, no crowds. Lauren, come in a second. That wasnt the only thing that got the virtual audience talking, was it . Yeah. The academy of Country Music awards last night was the first show ever with a tie. Will be. Oh, my goodness gracious. Keith, what is happening right now . 2020, man. Thank you, god, so much. Stuart so Carrie Underwood and thomas rhoett tied for coentertainer of the year, and fans were saying, look, what are you going to do . Just pick one. They didnt want them to share it, but both tom and carrie seemed fine sharing the award. Stuart i dont know what youre talking about, but ive got to tell you this, social media really opens up the floodgates of criticism, doesnt it . Whatever you say, something will Say Something nasty about you. Lauren, thank you very much, indeed. The nfl, the leagues pr team, they are working overtime to convince people that thats not really the case. They issueded a tweet, and they said football represented the top five t shows of the week tv shows of the week. The ratings were down, but thats the story from their pr people. Tiki barber, former running back for the new york giants, is here. All right, tiki, i think that politics and protest in sport is turning viewers off. Thats my opinion. Its not the whole story, but its a big part of it. What do you say . Well, we wont have ties, well go to overtime in the nfl, just saying. [laughter] its something that you cant discount, stu. We know how this president has had his eye or ire, i should say, on the National Football league and some of the protests that have gone on for the last three or four years. And you cant say that his supporters arent following him. With that being said, i think this is just a very odd year as well. There was no hype leading into the season, there was no preseason, there was no get ready for this game because its going to happen, and were going to tell you the reasons why you should watch. And so that could be an excuse. Also the basketball schedule was pushed back, Major League Baseball was pushed back, so theres we i decision for our entertainment eyes and our entertainment minutes. And its just a weird year. Well see how this persists, but its not something that you can just dismiss if youre the National Football league especially, stu, because the Television Rights deal is happening or is going to get renegotiated in 2021, so this has to be a great year for the nfl. Stuart i thought that the networks did a good job of really concentrating on the game, and that to some degree excluded the protests. But im wondering if the players are going to be satisfied with that. Well, its interesting, stu, because some of the players understand that by protesting, that it creates a divisive, a sense in the country and in the sports world. But others are saying this is my chance, this is my platform, this is my opportunity to highlight the wrongs that have been going on in this country for hundreds of years. And so i think its going to be a mixed bag of guys protesting, guys not protesting. But youre absolutely right, i think the programming networks, the cbss and abcs and espns have said we want to show the sport. And when the sport is on, we hope thats what youre focusing on and not on the other things. Were doing all those other things as well, but lets focus on the sport while the sport is being played. Stuart tiki, lets get serious, shall we . I want your super bowl prediction. [laughter] well, id be foolish not to pick the Kansas City Chiefs to get back from the afc. Their rookie running back who just won a National Championship at lsu, he started his career with 138 yards and a touchdown, i mean, theyre going to be good. But on the other side, i like the seattle seahawks. Russell wilson is one of the greatest, maybe most underrated great quarterbacks that weve seen in a long time. Hes never got an mvp vote, yet he almost had a perfect game in week one this past weekend, 88 completion percentage and over 300 yards and 4 touchdowns. I like seattle. Their defense is still good as well against kansas city who was there last year. Stuart okay. Whod you like for the championship of the establish premier league . English premier league . You know im going to say liverpool, right . [laughter] stuart okay. Whos going to win the European Championship . Well, this is a tough one. Ive become getting a little affinity for byron munich as of late. Stuart im impressed that you even knew they were the winner of the championship last week. Well, they won the champions league, they won the european the german cup as well, they got all three. Stuart you know it. Whats the name of the Italian League . The ciria. Stuart yeah. Hes good. Who won the u. S. Open . Naomi, of course, she protested for a match, and everybody followed suit, and then she went out and won which only highlights her message. Stuart who won the ashes . [laughter] i knew id get him. If you ask me, ill know. Stuart thats a cricket game. Oh, i should have known. Stuart congratulations. Youve been nominated for the hall of fame. I have, i have. Me and my identical twin brother both nominated this year. One of these years, hopefully, ill get in, stu. Stuart i didnt know that. My twin brokers he likes to wear a board. He played in tampa for 16 years. He doesnt look like me, but were identical. [laughter] stuart you are a favorite guest on this program, and were always glad to have you. Congratulations, by the way. I appreciate you, stu. Stuart yes, sir, thanks. Sally leafing parts of the leaving parts of the panhandle of florida under water, well have more coming up. And 65 of people believe maintaining law and order is a big problem. My next guest says if joe biden and Kamala Harris dont condemn violence, it could cost them the election. Well be back. Geicos been helping people save money for over 75 years. Theyve really stood the test of time. Much like these majestic rocky mountains. Which must be named after the. That would be rocky the flying squirrel, mr. Gecko sir. Obviously ahh come on bullwinkle, theyre named after. Our first president george rockington that doesnt even make any sense. Mr. Uhh. Winkle. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. Stuart we were talking earlier about the market coming back, and it is, a little. Dows down 51, but the nasdaq is still down 141. But that is an improvement from where we were about 9 30 this morning. Susans been doing some digging on these ipos. Whats going on today, whos on deck . We have two. Unity software, sumo is a cloud data mining company, were awaiting to see how it does especially after snowflake and a 112 rally yesterday. The big ones next week possibly palin tier, also facebooks asada, and both are expected to do a direct listing which means they dont raise any cash, but they let early investors and good rx. The unknown here is airbnb which is the highflying unicorn this year. They were expected to go public in march, had to shelf that. Stuart palantir, they helped find Osama Bin Laden . Thats right. They try to find data on the internet. But if we can quickly just talk about some of the controversy when it comes to ipos since weve been talking about snowflake and how blockbuster that stuart what controversy . The controversy was did the banks underprice this ipo because its more of an art instead the of a science stuart they priced it at 120, and the thing went to 240. Thats right. Stuart so thats the fault of the bankers . Well, look, we had bill gurley, who is a very vocal Venture Capitalist, and he says that its possibly the most underpriced one that hes seen in 40 years, 020 is the worst year yet. Lining the pockets of underwriters and investment bankers, whats wrong with leaving some money on the table . He suggests that in these ipos its the rich that get richer because only the rich get access to the small tranche of shares available. Stuart bill gurley was the guy who knocked out from uber . I didnt know that either. Youre learning today. Stuart youre so good. I like this story. Moving out of california, costly. This is all about the rental cost of a uhaul to take your stuff out of california. Fill me in, ashley. What have you got . Well, its very simple, stu, leaving california is getting expensive due to high demand and a shortage of those available trucks. Moving to california is getting really cheap because theres no demand and a surplus of trucks. Back to you. No, im kidding. [laughter] stuart youre killing me. Heres the proof. September 30th departure, if youre leaving california on september the 30th, uhaul rates if youre going to austin, for instance, from l. A. , it would cost you about 700 for a 10foot truck, about 930 for a 26footer. Now, if youre going the other way from austin, from l. A. To austin that was from austin to l. A. To go to l. A. From austin, so youre getting the heck out, its going to cost you 1800 for a 10footer and nearly 4,000 for the 56foot truck. By the way, budget track, thats almost 24 times more, Budget Truck Rental can be five times more expensive to get out of california. You cant blame the pandemic, you cant blame the lockdown measures, you cant blame the wildfires. This trend has been going on for many years. Makes you go, hmm, i wonder why. [laughter] stuart i wonder what the uhaul rate will be for getting people out of new jersey and down to florida [laughter] now that the governor of new jersey promises to increase taxes on the rich. Again. Going up. [laughter] stuart yeah. I mean, im going to to check the uhaul rates, you know . Why not. [laughter] all right. Thanks, ash. Good story, ashley. I mean, thats a sign of the times, if ever i saw one. Lets get the latest on sally. It is now a tropical depression, and its moving up the southeastern coastline, threatening more flooding, maybe even tornadoes. Grady trimble is in pensacola, the panhandle area there. Almost underwater, arent you . Reporter well, it was just a couple of days ago, but now its the cleanup process. And for some people thats going to be more difficult than others. To give you an idea how powerful the storm surge was here, this is a barge that washed ashore into peoples yards. The barge was a attached to a bridge that has, it came detached from that bridge and got washed ashore. There was several feet of water in peoples houses here. A lot of them flooded. Amazingly, a lot of the people stayed in their homes despite the fact that water came into the first levels and in some cases even to the second levels of their homes. Still in florida today there are more than 200,000 customers without power, there are 7,000 power crews trying to restore that power, and they have a long road ahead in terms of recovery, as you can see. There is debris, parts of docks and stairs and peoples houses all over the place here, stuart. And there is a big question in this neighborhood how are they going to get this barge out of here. Its 12 feet from the shoreline over the seawall, so they dont know how theyre going to remove it. Stuart thats an astonishing piece of video right there, grade doty. Can you imagine being in those houses and seeing that barge i dont know whether those people were still at home seeing that barge coming at you . Thats huge. Good lord. Reporter they were. And actually, stuart, it hit one of the houses. It didnt go all the way through it, fortunately, and the people were home at the time. Pretty remarkable that nobody here is seriously hurt or worse. Stuart grady, thank you very much, indeed. Susan, can you imagine that . That barge is gigantic. Like a movie. I mean, that would be scarily. Head on. Stuart head on, indeed. Dow jones now down 77 points. The nasdaq down 167. We came back and then we gave back some more. Nasdaqs down 1. 5 , and we will be right back if back for you. Here . Nah. Here . Nope. Here. When the middle of nowhere. Is somewhere. The allnew chevy trailblazer. And then found the home of my dreams. But my home of my dreams needed some work sofi was the first lender that even offered a personal loan. I didnt even know that was an option. The personal loan let us renovate our Single Family house into a multiunit home. And i get to live in this Beautiful House with this beautiful kitchen and its all thanks to sofi. If i could, baby id and i how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with Xfinity Mobile. Stuart i knew that, i knew who that was, i didnt have to read the top thing along the thing there. The prompter . Stuart michael bolton. I know that. Singing a love song about paneras broccoli cheddar mac and cheese. When a man loves a woman. If youre so inclined, you can get the mac and cheese nationwide. No, the weird corporate food stories arent done yet. Tell me about Cracker Barrel making zoom backgrounds. [laughter] yeah. Okay, so so they want you to feel festive this year, so theyre selling these holidayinspired virtual backgrounds for your computer. They correspond with the actual holiday decorations that they sell in their stores. One more quick thing, if you need a bigger pick me up, Cracker Barrel is also selling beer and mimosas in all of their restaurants. All this started as an experiment at the start of covid19, but they are expanding booze. Think brunch, 600 more locations. Stuart okay, booze. Im done. Stuart i never did like that word, but i guess its suitable. Libation . Too formal. Stuart all right. You thought we were done with these silly food stories. No, were not, not even close. Tell me about i chipotles chips and guac oh, for heaven sake. I know another commercial. You can wear these while youre driving your tractor around, stu. Chipotle has unveiled a new product line, yes, its the chipotle chips and guac slides. Raised white lettering, they come in two colors there you go, the red color and black bean. And chipotle says the wide with wording wont rub off. By the way, they even have a fine luxury goods collection, you can get apparel dyed with upcycled avocado pits. I cant believe i just read this story. [laughter] stuart but you did, you did. I did. Stuart wait a minute, ash. I remember years ago not that many years ago, a couple years ago, dismissing chipotle as overpriced and very expensive rice and beans. Thats when the stock was around 200 a share. And look at it now. Its gone up by 1,000. Whos laughing now . Stuart yeah, right. Im not laughing because i missed thats another one that i missed. Oh. [laughter] stuart lets have a look at those markets, shall we . Susan and i were talking about how maybe well end the day higher. Thats when wed really come back a lot on the market. Well, now i think were going back down some more. Look at that, down 176 on the nasdaq, s p down 31, dow jones down 91. Do you still think well end higher . Itll be tougher, but i still feel the momentums there. The fact that people are buying on the dip, i think its a good sign. Stuart youre desperate. [laughter] thats nice. Thats really nice of you to say. Stuart welcome. Hook at that, snowflake on your screen. Thats gone down some more. It opened with a loss of about 10 , then it came back to a loss of maybe 6 , now its back down 9 . Ooh. More varney after this, but first, another look at an empty times square. I have an idea for a trade. Oh yeah, you going to place it . Not until im sure. Why dont you call Td Ameritrade for a strategy gut check . Whats that . You run it by an expert, you talk about the risk and potential profit and loss. Couldve used that before i hired my interior decorator. Voila maybe a couple throw pillows would help. Get a strategy gut check from our trade desk. Lease the 2020 nx 300 for 339 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. How did you come up withd opened all these backstories . Tudio. Experience amazing i got help from a pro. 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We dont do that here. We dont want to invite trouble. Looking forward to that welcome, everybody, im neil cavuto. Youre watching coast to coast. Man, oh, man, there is a lot to tell you about, not the least improvement on the jobs front although no improvement on the stimulus front but you never know. A lot of those big issues that made their big debut yesterday. Theyre having Trouble Holding on to those gains but it was a lot worse earlier. Well get int