The nasdaq gaining 1. 7 . There could be a big threat bubbling underneath this market. President trump and chinese president xi jinping both dialing up the rhetoric today at the u. N. General assembly. Reporter President Trump has often used his annual speeches at the u. N. General assembly to challenge his adversaries, whether its the Nuclear Regimes in iran and north korea or for the second year running china, which he took direct aim at in his speech this year that was prerecorded despite consummating a trade deal with china in january. At this years virtual diplomatic gathering, the speeches were prerecorded and shorter than usual, but President Trump pulled no punches against china, which he accused of letting citizens leave the country and infect others and accused it of withholding information about the virus. The Chinese Government and the world health organization, which is virtually controlled by china falsely declared that there was no evidence of humantohuman transmission.
Though still awaits aprooul from the house of rep sentives. That vote expected tomorrow. Jobless claims surging above 3 million americans, far outpacing the record of 700,000 and also well above what economists were looking for around 1. 5 million unemployment claims and the virus itself remains front and center for wall street as italy reports more than 6,000 new cases, the most in five days, the worldwide total now shy of half a Million People wilfred. All of the sectors of the s p higher up 4. 7 . All higher, but one to keep an eye on is energy it has been the best performing. Its now towards the bottom. Still up by 4 oil prices slipped a lot this afternoon. Theyre down 7 , so well hope that doesnt drag the rest of the market lower weve got a huge lineup of gu guesting coming your way, ceo of General Mills, plus peter orszag whether he thinks the stimulus bill is enough to ease the pleading and well speak with the ceo of hertz about their program the give free rentals to new York Ci
Indopacific region at the heritage foundation. His talk focused on the future direction of the marines and the technology in their future missions. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [ applause ] were sitting next to General Mills and were infantry guys so were not pal, but you look at the guy who introduced me and i dont know down in pensacola, they decide what aircraft theyll fly, but that guy will not fit into the cockpit and he must fly big helicopters. General mills is one of my mentors for life so its sort of intimidating to be up here in front of him. I if i could follow your foot steps and do half as good as you d i would be really happy, sir. Good to be here this morning. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me to be here this morning, as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. In that kind introduction, thank you for also keeping it short, sir. Bullet. I have to think of how you got that call assignment, bullet and theres probably a story there. Dakota, very quickly, has been mo
Introducing, in pensacola, deciding what aircraft theyre going to fly, but he was not fit cockpit, sojet he might fly helicopters. General mills is one of my istors for life, so it intimidating to be up here before him. If i follow your footsteps and do half as good as you, i would be really be happy. Its good to be here. Dr. Holmes, thank you for allowing me too be here as well. It is a privilege just to be asked. Thank you for keeping it short. I have to think how you got that call sign bullet. Theres probably a story behind there. Real quickly, dakota has been more helpful to me over the years than you all will understand. But he is a lot like me in that he is a critical thinker, and thats how i was trained to think, every path you go down questioning that and for continuing to do that please do not go down that at all. I thought this morning i would offer two parts to this. First, i think i owe you some perspectives on the Planning Guidance that we published the summer. I will just
District about whats ahead for kids returning to the classroom and more self driving taxis are coming to the streets of San Francisco, even as residents and city leaders are split on the decision. My from jack london square. This is morning time to the nine to today is friday, august 11th. Were looking live from maui right now where the sun is coming up. Just past this shot is a devastating scene on the Hawaiian Island. Welcome to the nine. Officials in hawaii have now confirmed the deaths of at least 55 people from the fire on the western side of maui. Yeah, crews start searching through burned out buildings and that could lead to a rise in the death tolls. Most of the deaths are in lahaina. The wildfires there destroyed more than 1000 buildings and more than 1000 people are still reported missing, though the Maui County Police chief says that that number could be much smaller. He went on to say they truly dont know how many people are unaccounted for because its so difficult to get a