Call me at 1800743cnbc. I just came back from washington and i got good news and bad news. The good news, they all want to rise above. The bad news, the republicans want to rise above tax increases and the democrats want to rise above spending cuts. You can see that investors want to rise above washington. But this morning rally, the averages got pulled down when harry reid said there probably wont be a deal in time for christmas. Whos calling the tune . The nasdaq climbing 1. 8 . Apple rallied eleven and change. I hope this mini rally is happening because people have looked over the fiscal cliff and they werent terrified by what they saw. I hope we will get by. I hope they dont mind Government Intervention in their portfolios. Because they are not going away. I hope that because what i heard in washington today were two sides even though i can tell them that a deal would be done and there would be no vacation without legislation, wed be in much better shape. I have to tell you, as enc
And therefore she actually seemed to get through it fine, and it went from a positive test to, the next one was negative. Britains empty town and city centres the government launches a campaign to get staff back into the workplace. Bowing out japans longest serving prime longest serving Prime Minister, shinzo abe, stands down because of ill health. And for the first time in history, a commemorative blue plaque is awarded to a woman of Indian Heritage she was a British Secret agent in the second world war. And coming up on bbc news more sporting events in the us are called off in protest over the shooting ofjacob blake, with Baseball Players joining the boycott. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The best is yet to come, said president trump, as he formally accepted the Republican Party nomination to run for a second term. He warned that no one would be safe in an america governed byjoe biden, his democratic rival, in novembers election. He condemned mr biden as a left w
The president s demands to increase direct payments to most americans from 600 to 2,000. Since the covid packages tied to a massive Government Spending bill, if vito could trigger a shutdown. Correspondent Mark Meredith is in West Palm Beach where the president is spending the holiday amid a stimulus stalemate. Good evening, mark. Good evening to you, mike. We still do not know whether the president will or will not sign that 900 billion stimulus package. That was the bill that congress has already approved. We know that the president is not happy about all of this. Now lawmakers are really trying to divert that disaster here with millions of americans wondering if theyre going to get a check or not. We do not have unanimous consent. House to mcgraths tried but failed to approve the president s latest demand to increase the amount of money some americans would get indirect stimulus payments. The American People need to know with certainty that democrats are trying to get them higher st
We begin with signs that the Coronavirus Vaccine supply in the u. S. May, soon, outstrip demand. According to the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention, more than 93 Million People have been fully vaccinated. Over the past few weeks, average daily vaccination rates have started to fall. Cnns Polo Sandoval takes a look at what might be behind the drop. Reporter as Johnson Johnsons covid19 vaccine is cleared to go into arms again, a slight but ongoing drop in overall shots being administered a day. That average number, according to the cdc, dipped below 3 million this week. The Biden Administration attributing it to vaccine hesitancy. Its a trend that the university of washingtons health institutes. Facebook runs a survey every day and we look at that day that on a daily basis. And thats shown that vaccine confidence, in the u. S. , has been slowly but steadily going down, since february. You know, not huge amounts. Like, a percentage point, a week. But that starts to add up.
The Army Japan band is shutting down in October for a second time in its 82-year history, which includes service in the Western Pacific during World War II, according to U.S. Army Japan.