And tourists returns to the islands after months of pandemic restrictions. Announcer live from cnbc Global Headquarters, the facts, the truth, the the news with Shepard Smith. 15 days to the election members of the same Russian Intelligence Agency senior charged with some of the morse Cyber Attacks to date around the world. A federal grand jury in washington charging six Russian Hackers in connection with crimes over the past four years. Todays charges include hacks that the feds say led to nearly a billion in losses for a Health Care Company in pennsylvania, plus a blackout in ukraine and computer problems for the 2018 olympics Pete Williams is with us we knew russian intelligence agents were involved, but now they have charged individual. Right, individuals they have attributed these tacks to, and they used some of the most damaging computer malware ever unleashed. Fbi says all six are Intelligence Officers in the Russian Military who carried out the cyberattacks to sport the russian
Nix says the material could have an adverse effect. Government would like state leaders to do more. Check in on how markets are trading. U. S. Futures are coming online 0. 5 higher. We were bracing for some more turmoil this week after President Trump was hospitalized late friday. We havent had such big or huge losses. The president was headed to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment. Down a seeing it come little bit. 0. 3 . Gaining this after it dropped to its lowest level since june based not only on the uncertainty of the president s covid19 diagnosis but oil supply concerns. The dollar was sort of steady in this in the close. Fact that thehe u. S. Jobs report is pouring cold water on the outlook continuing the u. S. Economy adding fewer jobs than forecast in september. Are releasing this tension in the markets where you aresee how reluctant bulsls to give up their positions. This is where the nikkei 225 chicago futures are. Up just about 0. 5 at the moment. Across asia we are looking
Dont touch the doorknob if its too hot. This could be quite a mess. There are already long lines. Voting is under way in several states, including california, where not only are people casting their ballots, theyre also cleaning them. Sacramento county officials are asking people to stop disinfecting their mailin ballots. The registrar of voters says they have received at least 100 ballots damaged by disinfecting alcohol spray. In one case the registrar says someone microwaved their ballot. Jimmy well. That makes sense. What set doing you use to microwave a ballot . Potato . I have to say, if youre purelling and microwaving your mailin ballot, im okay with you sitting this one out votewise. There are brazen attempts to steal this election going on already. After months of trump yammering about how the vote is rigged, the vote is rigged, the vote is rigged, the California Republican party stands accused of setting up illegal ballot boxes to collect votes. More than 50 unofficial ballot
Changing condition. Futures point higher in sydney and tokyo. The yen holding back. Almost everybody is softbank thinks the group taking a Group Private is a bad idea. We will look about the chances of such moves actually happening. Lets take a look at how we are kicking off trading in sydney. It is a public holiday. But we do still have the cash 4 in thep about 0. First two minutes. This comes on a busy week for australian traders. The budget where we are expecting to see assumptions made about a vaccine becoming available and we are also getting a report that is trillion is set to further lift that that australia is such a for the lift that debt ceiling with 4 billion u. S. Dollars with the debt ceiling being lifted higher to 1. 1 trillion. Looking at the aussie dollar ahead of the all be a. We are expecting no change. Markets are significantly pricing and now another rate cut. Before the end of the year. Dollar trading at 71. 67. In new zealand, two weeks out from the election. Kiwi
Randy we will be broadcasting for half an hour on tv. We will extend that on the web. Right now, we want to introduce you to the candidates. First in the studio, joining us live, is the incumbent for district 21, republican congressman chip roy. Ryan and we want to introduce, from austin tonight, democrat wendy davis. She is a former state senator who ran for governor. Both candidates were given the chance for an in studio appearance. Thetor davis opted to do debate remotely due to the pandemic. The district includes much of the hill country and part of san antonio stretching east up to parts of austin as well. Randy before we get to their questions, here is a quick word from our sponsors. Randy we want to share the rules for tonights debate that each of the candidates agreed to. Each of them get two minutes for opening remarks and two minutes for Closing Remarks. Ryan each candidate will have one minute to answer a question, then each get 30 seconds for the rebuttal. We have a timekee