Francine, went up 15 . That was the kind of move we saw. Last night, and a lot of people missed this in america, exhausted from the election, we nestor8 00 or 9 00 p. M. , barr making these statements. I would suggest this mr. Barr mr. Barr making these statements. He was extremely careful. Every word was chiseled out. For me the headline is the 20year veteran of this under election crimes, mr. Pilger, a herk to james moody, resigned. To me that is the real headline. Francine it is a huge deal and we are trying to figure out what this means for the Republican Party and the strategy possible there. Stephanie baker says it could have something to do with the Senate Election in georgia. We will have plenty more on that. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trumps attorney general, william barr, will let the Justice Department investigate potential voting irregularities in the president ial election. But barr has acknowledged there is no conclusive evidence and w
That debate this hour. Look at whats leading the dow now. It would be Goldman Sachs up nearly 6 . Apple and microsoft leading the tech heavy weights they are in the poll positions power lunch starts right now thank you, tyler stocks are near the highs of the session right now with the nasdaq leading this mid day turn around lets get over to bob for more kelly, it doesnt feel like it but its been a very volatile two days i want to show you the s p 500 believe it or not, we have moved in 100point range in the last 24 hours we opened yesterday about 3320 and we had a low this morning at the open of 3220 theres 100point range. Right now were in the middle. Part of the problem is valuations we cant figure out where the stocks should be even the megacap names okay, they are up today but they have been all over the place apple has been 105 to 112 in the last 24 hours. Thats a pretty big range for the biggest stock in the United States the problem is our cash like to sap we did this within thi
Washington cut the number of visas for Chinese State media in the us. And with the sports the olympic flame head to tokyo but this is the same to see officials one of whom says its insensitive and irresponsible to hold the games. Welcome to the news hour restrictions are becoming more severe across the globe as more and more countries ramp up efforts to contain the corona virus pandemic now the number of confirmed cases now exceeds 200000 worldwide and thats according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. More than 8000 people have died from the virus the number fatalities in china italy iran spain and france are amongst the higher. With the latest jump in italy and spain the overall death toll across europe are suppose trying to soothe a province where the virus originated the World Health Organization says the continent has replaced today as the epicenter 5 days ago well strict lock downs are now in place across much of europe and the effect is very clear take a look at
Mr. President , this is a commonsense piece of legislation. It does not saddle Small Businesses, American Business with a new mandate that they dont have a great deal of confidence and then they would actually be funded 100 by the federal government. By the way, the house bill doesnt fund this 100 , it leaves gaps, and it would definitely be temporary and utilize an existing program in the states, sitting on top of it providing federal support for the workers that are going to actually need it as we go through this unprecedented event in our nations history. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor to the senator from pennsylvania. The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey thank you, mr. President. And i want to thank the senator from wisconsin for leading on this effort. I rise in strong support of this amendment, mr. President. The two of us, and i expect most everybody in this chamber, fully support the idea, the goal, the need to provide relief to workers
In december of 2019, and infection startedhi in china and is spread rapidly through the wilpon region and by january, there were thousands of people affected to the foremost before the most of the world knew it existed and now almost every country in the world has infections. Hundreds of thousands of people that if in contact with this virus. And unfortunately we have lost thousands of people worldwide. In United States numbers continue to increase and the number of people that we can actually test. Fortunately the vast majority of the people get this virus have little to no symptoms. Cold or mild food to them but for a vulnerable population our elderly population, hard to among issues, smokers diabetics, can be a very serious thing. The challenge that we face in our healthcare, is that for every person that walks in and gets tested, the facetoface their healthcare workers especially in rural areas are saved that may be the only healthcare professional for that entire county. And if th