On saturday and again on sunday. And here we are again on monday, and this senate is virtually a ghost town. A few people here, but for the most part everybody was sent home by the majority leader, by senator mcconnell. He told senators go home until further notice. Go home. Were going to put the senate on standby. No need to b be here doing the peoples business. Mr. President , the coronavirus is not on standby. The coronavirus is very much alive and well, and spreading throughout the country, more severe in some parts than others, but spreading throughout the country, and with it has, the spread of economic pain and economic harm. So covid19 is not an standby and neither is the economic pain and fallout that its caused. I here in the United States senate, the republican leader, majority leader has said go home and be on standby. Mr. President , that is not leadership at any time. It is certainly not the kind of leadership that the American People need and should expect during a Globa
He will be having a press conference detailing a little bit more on that capitalgains tax cut he continued in a radio interview. Also maybe a follow up on that shooting outside of the white house yesterday. It was pretty scary to watch. A lot of folks not knowing what was going on at the time. We do know what is going on in chicago and we do know it is not right. Right now the unrest continues. Fears of more unrest today. They have drawn up the bridges around chicago to limit where protesters can gather. Good luck with that. A number of College Football conferences, that can buy the bullet today and decide there will be no fall College Football season. Can you imagine that . Already some very big conferences at least have members contemplating just that. The quarterback of the clemson team does anyone bounce this off of us . I would like to play football, guys. The president sympathetic to the players concerns. Right now proving to be an uphill battle. There is of course what is happen
Been happening out there. We received word that officials are planning to close down a city jail in the middle of all of this. Well talk about the timing. Back here in the new york area, there are some in business who are now saying that new york city is among the worst places in this environment to do business. Well talk about why. Also talk about, when and how that might change. It is all coming up coast to coast on a wednesday. Edward lawrence starts us off on the aforementioned drug price wars and vaccine developments. Joining us live from washington. Hey, edward . Reporter connell, pfizer says they will have 100 million doses of Coronavirus Vaccine by the end of the year. Now the u. S. Government has a deal to buy all of those doses from pfizer and biontech which they partnered with for that. Federal government will pay 1. 95 billion for all 100 million doses by december. We have five vaccine candidates that prioritize the u. S. People where were going to manufacture vaccine and w
Biontech delivering millions of doses of a potential vaccine for covid19. Well kick it off with Edward Lawrence in washington. Reporter melissa, very big news for pfizer and the vaccine. We could have three vaccines in circulation by end of the year. First one by astrazeneca, they hope by october. Moderna and pfizer follow by the end of the year. The governor of connecticut toured a pfizer plant in his state. Senior Vice President for drug safety and development for that facility says pfizer focused on doing the next studies and getting that data to the fda for a safe and effective vaccine. Governor ned lamont says it will be widely distributed. Listen. We continue to hit the metrics we need. We continue to get the fda approvals. We continue to do this safely. We have a real opportunity by end of this year to be able to go to cvs or the local pharmacy to get a Covid Vaccine just like you get a flu vaccine. Reporter a clue how governors think the vaccine could be widely distributed, wit
Burning documents, not shredding them burning them, China Threatens to retaliate and feels and looks like a new cold war. We have a significant turn in the fight against a virus, President Trump says its going to get worse before it gets better. A clear sign that the economic effects will drag on past the election. However, the trump team signed a contract with pfizer with 100 million vaccine doses. America gets the vaccine first, they pay pfizer 1. 1 billion and the cost to you, 0. Two stocks, got to watch them all day long, microsoft and tesla, the Financial Results reported around 4 00 oclock eastern this afternoon, in advance of that those stocks are on the upside. By the way, as of right now tesla is the most valuable car company in the world worth more than gm, ford, and honda combined. And microsoft at 1. 5 trillion is the second most valuable company right behind apple. We have big news on real estate two, applications for mortgages to buy a home of 19 over last year. Refi appl