Captioning sponsored by wpbt this is n. B. R. Susie good evening, everyone. Im susie gharib. Tom will be along a little later in the program. Lastminute christmas sppers filled the stores today, but will it be enough to push retailers into the green this Holiday Season . The clock is ticking to the fiscal cliff deadline, but with those talks on hold, so is the santa claus rally on wall street. And theyre a rare breed in corporate america. We look at why so few c. E. O. s are women. That and more, tonight on nbr. Susie not a very merry day of trading on wall street today. It was a holiday shortened session, and the investors and traders working on this half day were playing it safe, especially with the fiscal cliff talks on holiday break as well. When the closing bell rang at 1 00 eastern time, the dow was down 51 points, the nasdaq lost eight, and the s p was off 3 points. So while wall street worked half a day, washington was on vacation. Lawmakers are increasingly pessimistic about a
Deal but one chair and can and did hold up the cyber bill until just recently. They did a program governor thompson referred to because they also have a referral and stopped the legislation from moving to the floor. I think it is counterproductive and dysfunctional and quite honestly that hurts the American People because we cant pass legislation that can protect them and in addition the oversight issue with 100 committees and subcommittees how can the secretary j. Johnson who had a Great Respect and admiration how can he do his job when hes constantly preparing for testimony and he has a very important job and the whole legislative shock us to do that. You look at the judiciary and it has the department of justice. They have the entire department of defense. Why doesnt the committee on Homeland Security have jurisdiction over the entire department of Homeland Security and not have to deal with all of these offshoots . We are passing bills to demonstrate the leadership from any other c
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And theres the waves there, south florida on saturday night, as the storm gets ever closer. Shelters there are opening up. Some officials worry having people together, though, could lead to a rash of new infections. Hurricane season could put a further strain on hospitals filled with coronavirus patients as well. The states reported more than 480,000 covid19 cases, more than 7,000 people dead. Now, the storm is expected yet stronger in the hours ahead. For that lets turn to cnn meteorologist tyler malden whos going to fill us in on where it is and where its headed. Tell us what you know. So michael, right now its 100 miles to the southeast of west palm beach. And exactly 70 miles to the eastsoutheast of miami. You can see the center right there. It is moving to the northwest at nine Miles Per Hour, packing winds of 70 Miles Per Hour. It was an 85 mooilt perhour hurricane. It has since weakened since the last time i saw you 24 hours ago. But it is expected to strengthen back into a cate