Scandal. Government buildings are being targeted. 2020 race with less than 100 days to go to election day, major Bernie Sanders supporters say they cannot get behind former Vice President joe biden, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley will join me on more on 2020 race. Bringing critical supply chain back to america. Assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing, pete navarro with big announcement coming up plus latest tensions with china. Folks on earnings this morning, we will hear from 3m, mcdonalds. Jetblue among the names reporting before the name this morning. Futures searching for firm direction, we are expecting decline at start of trading, dow futures down 75, nasdaq down 40 and the s p lower by 8 and 3 quarters. U. S. Markets kicked off the week with gains yesterday finishing with near session highs as vaccine trials moving forward. Dow industrials up 115 points and nasdaq up 173 and s p higher as well, covid19 slamming the sports world meanwhile days into th
We begin serious concerns about the quality of its covid19 testing data. Health officials there say a statewide glitch is causing massive under counting and is now affecting their ability to track the spread of the virus. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Chris wynne has our top story from san jose. Reporter tonight growing concerns after officials discovered a glitch with cal redie the covid19 reporting system. We are back to blind. We dont know how the epidemic is trending. Reporter a fraessment as she the data isouies on it to gde t reopening of econog businesses and schoo very anxio issue to get resolved. We expect all of these numbers are going to gohat extent we do. Reporter so far the governor hasnt said much about the problem. However, the states Top Health Official shared this during a recent briefing. There is a specific component that feeds information from labs to both the state system and local Public Health system that may be the place where data is getting stuck. R
Were monitoring very closely for you, what is an acceptable surge . They usually like to say three to 5 increase over existing cases and a three to 5 increase of positive cases from what were positive cases before. It is not a hard and fast rule. But were watching that very, very closely because were told right now senate cdc is going to start giving specifics to that. I have not seen that before coming to air to join you right now. That is really going to be the big one to follow today, because if that shows to be beyond that range, some of the states that had planned roll outs will delay those rollouts. Whether that applies to florida is anyones guess. Right now the cases there have been noteworthy in terms of the spike but so far on the part of the governor there no plans to change the continuing rollout of these sheltering and various phases that will essentially get the entire ocean state open by the end of next month. All right. Lets get the latest. Excuse me, from edward lawrenc
Angel funding. Those are the earliest and smallest rounds. You have series a, later funding of series b, and so on. Generally speaking, series a is still a small round, meant to fund a company for a year, possibly two. Ill give you some context. Zoom, a company we have had on the show, is worth 21 billion now. But its series a, the first round of venture funding, was 6 million. Six. Some kind of Silicon Valley record leading a series a round to a Company Called one pass for 200 million likely the biggest series a in history, the biggest investment the firm has made. One password seems like a promising country. It deals with password management and security. But 200 million . On the first round of Venture Capital . Arun joins the reporters this week. John schwartz of dow jones and katie roof who covers venture journal. One more bit of c this is seriet was 285 million. That was a series c. What are you doing investing 200 million, and you did it with some other investors as well, in a se
Months lets take a look at the treasury markets watching the 10year back up this morning above 1. 8 at 1. 811. Investor tensions remain on iran even with that snap back yesterday. Tensions mounting with the u. S general Qassem Soleimani was buried in his home town of kerman officials have threatened retaliation against the u. S. For the targeted killing the defense secretary has made no decision about withdrawing troops from iraq another surreal day with that letter that came out from a general that was not signed. Later, they came out and said that was a mistake wasnt signed, poorly woorded wasnt in its final form but to let you know, we are withdrawing from iraq. Let me start with that. Flip the order here and start with that letter we spent several very confusing hours at the white house as officials scramble to figure out what the heck is going on after a marine corps general in iraq sent a letter in which he appeared to suggest that in response to the Iraqi Parliament vote to remo