Nobody wants a second wave. The market starts the week on the upside again. Investors like the get back to work trend and there are several forecasts of imminent recovery for the economy. Secretary mnuchin says there will be a rebound july, august and september. The dow is looking at a 200 point gain first thing this morning. Thats close to 1 . A nice gain for the s p, close to 1 . The nasdaq will be up over a half percentage point. Now, the reason the nasdaq is up, because of this. This week, many Big Tech Companies report their financial position. Strong results expected because the virus lockdown has a more limited effect on these companies. Premarket, most of them are up. But look at oil. No joy for the drillers. They are looking at 12 a barrel and the worldwide glut shows no sign of easing. Over the weekend, the price slump claimed another victim, diamond shamrock. The drillers declared bankruptcy. The price of gas still falling, albeit slowly, about one cent down a day. The avera
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin with an urgent call for evacuations across gaza, as israel expands its fight against hamas. the israel defense forces are now telling civilians in parts of both southern and northern gaza to evacuate as it carries out hundreds of air strikes. the u.n. estimates that more than 1.8 million people, nearly 80% of the population of gaza, have to leave their homes for safety since october 7th. and in the red sea, a u.s. defense official says an american warship shot down drones and responded after a cargo ship from the bahamas was attacked. let s go straight to cnn s matthew chance live in tel aviv for us. matthew, what is going on? what s the latest? reporter: well, when it comes to that attack on the cargo ship in the red sea, it issued an alert, a warning, and a call for help, a distress call, after a ballistic missile was fired toward it by houthi forces. these are iranian-backed forces i
Africanamericans in the trump administration, it matters. It bears repeating, a stunning 98 of black women who voted in alabamas Senate Election cast their ballots for doug jones, giving a democrat the victory in a state that has been redder than red for years. So the Trump White House cannot afford to have this be their message to africanamericans. What the hell do you have to lose . Sources tell cnn omarosas departure was a long time coming. Yes, there have been questions all along about how much she was doing for the voters she was supposed to represent. But the fact remains the trump administration, one of the least diverse in years, is less diverse tonight. What message does that send to voters . Well discuss all of that, lets bring in now cnns politics editor at large Chris Cillizza and political analyst april ryan. Good evening to both of you. Hey, don. Its a very interesting story. And there are lots of legs to it. Lots of tentacles and nuance here. Right . Its not just the dep