Emergency use authorization next week. But there is a caveat, the efficacy of the j js vaccine dropped 57 from the highly contagious variant from south africa. Despite the travel van to stop that variant from coming over here, the new variant is already here. Two cases identified this week in South Carolina with two patients with no ties to each other and no travel history given that, signals community spread. During todays White House Briefing dr. Anthony fauci stressed the importance of vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, before those mutant strains get out of control. Whether or not thats going to ultimately take over in the sense of being dominant is unclear by now. The projection that is made with regard to the uk is that probably by the end of march, the beginning of april, it actually will become more dominant in this country. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possible can will always be the be
Senator ted cruz will join us on why he thinks there should be more backlash for tech power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im dominic chu. Real estate, financials in the green as well. Technology stocks, though, the worst performing sector in the s p 500. On the dow youve got walgreens, the best performer after its Earnings Report this morning the company expecting 2021 Profit Growth despite the pandemic worst performer, it is vertech pharmaceutical kelly, ill send things back over to you. Thank you very much stocks well off their worst levels of the day. No stimulus, jobless claims higher so are covid cases earnings may be the only hope. To bob pisani for more on that bob. And, kelly, were near the highs for the day but there are reopening worries out there if you look at the markets you can see thats all the travel stocks are weak again so the airlines, expedia, weak, even work from home stuff like ebay, salesforce, same thing mastercard and visa and American Express
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Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Were in for another day of sweltering heat across the bay area. The heat wave has prompted a Public Safety power shutoff over the next few days, all while people try to get out this Holiday Weekend afterpendg months inside because of the pandemic. Good morning, everybody. It is sunday, september 6. Thank you for joining us. Im liz kreutz. Today is the 20th straight spare the air alert for the bay area. Lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at what we can chargexpect today. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. From the mid60s t the delta. Winds are light so the offshore component isnt with us yet, that will be late tomorrow. Water view shows the smoke smoks the various fires burning in california. A high of 94 today at the host. 80 in mountain view. 72 downtown. Mt. Tam a little hazy there, 18 already in 79 in livermore. Our 24hour temperature change, were building on the warmth of the overni
I have to start. Well break down the Holiday Retail rush as power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Lets take a look at where we stand. Stocks are shrugging off the d. C. Drama as tyler mentioned. As tyler mentioned, its christmas crunch time, six days makes me nervous too lets check out some of the retailers hitting record highs today. Nike, best buy and target, hitting their highest levels ever were going to talk about some of those names as the hour goes on thank you very much wall street focused on washington today at least a little brit as the house begins to debate impeachment. A vote is expected to take place later this evening, and a man javers has more. You. See the action taking place down on capitol hill, on the other end of pennsylvania avenue from here at the white house, where it is all quiet in the west wing. In fact, surprisingly quiet, no indication of any particularly special meetings today no indication that the president is doing much of anything at all