The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at
Whats been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Guest its been around some people think the early 1920s. There was a lovely picture in one of the magazines, not popular science. They had different name for it then but it shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit with a doctor on the other side. The concept is been around for a while, the late 60s when it got going and it has puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when of course we told everyone in the u. S. They had to stay in their home, and we as clinicians had to take care of them. So blossomed overnight. Host how can it be used today . Guest they can be used in number of ways. The best uses worst of all Mental Health is the number one probably used and the diagnosis is growing need so thats wonderful. A lot of urgent care type things such as sore throats, earaches and actually screening for the coronavirus is quite handily done using this type of technology, so virtua
Im tom hanson in for annemarie green. A very happy thanksgiving to you and your family. Despite urgings by Health Officials for americans to stay home, people are still traveling for todays holiday, even as coronavirus cases continue to surge. Yesterday there were more than 181,000 cases in the u. S. There were also nearly 2300 deaths, the most since early may. It was a recordbreaking day in california, which recorded more than 18,000 new cases. Thats the largest single day increase for any state since the pandemic started. If you plan to watch the iconic thanksgiving day parade here in new york city, it is going to look a bit different. You guessed it thanks to the pandemic. Naomi ruchim is along the parade route with more. Naomi, good morning. Reporter hey, tom, good morning to you. Thats right, the parade route is much shorter this year. In fact, it is only about a block long, starting and ending right here in front of macys. The balloons, though, they will still fly as organizers h
Service and brought to you by your television provider. This week on the communicators, a discussion about a growing form of telecommunications and that is telemedicine. Are dr. Joseph kvedar along with our guest reporter Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider. How long has telemedicine been thend and what has been growth or use of it in the past couple months . It has been around since the early 1920s, there was a picture in one of the magazines, not popular science, it had a different name, it shows a family huddled around a radio having a visit with a doctor on the other side. The concept has been around for a while. The late 1960s is when it got going at it puttered around for the next several decades and a couple months ago when we told everyone in the u. S. That they had to stay in their home and we as clinicians had to take care of them, it blossomed overnight. How can it be used today . It can be used in a number of ways. The best uses, Mental Health is the number one use and god
For changes that make things a little more convenient for the boaters sounds good at least the last part of it the convenience or Catherine Heenan host of inside bay area politics talk to an expert about that a captain at you know a grant of income people still have a lot of questions of course we know. Lots and lots of people are voting early both in person by mail. This was the scene in San Francisco recently but what happens to those ballots being returned before election day. If you return one early does that mean it will be counted early well, generally, yes, we talk to somebody with the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office. Boats come in and that person happens below biz scanned thats the signature area is scanned. That signature is compared many only by human eyes. To what we have on file and if the signatures match and then the humble of goes to the pass as they call it where it is open and the ballots are removed now we we do process the ballots before the close of po