Test, how will this impact our sunday football . Surging covid cases across the country overwhelming hospitals. Theyre exhausted we have been going at this for nine months now. The struggling front line workers and the people most at risk live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening, we begin tonight with hope, a Silver Lining even, as another wave of covid sweeps across our nation in big business and small brace for the fallout. There is a new and promising sign for our economy as we head into the weekend the numbers are in, and they show americans are spending. Retail sales up sharply last month. We just got the numbers today. More than doubling the expectations shoppers spending big on clothes and accessories, up 11 . Music and book sales jumped 6 car sales up 3 1 2 . Thats all good, and now the big test Small Businesses and Big Box Stores are heading into a make or break Holiday Season with the virus bearing down now and no
So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
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
Will airlines survive the pandemics economic wrath . And dont become a victim. Real estate wire fraud. It seemed too good to be true. Home buyers devastated by a sophisticated hacking scheme. And then, i called lindsey and i said weve been robbed. Live, from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news, with shepherd smith. Good evening. The covid surge weve been hearing about. The fall winter uptick its here. It started as a trickle. Then, as a stream. Now, its a flood. This new wave or whatever you want to call it is right, this minute nobodys told us we see it, so we are reporting it look at this this is a new covid Field Hospital at the wisconsin state fair it opened, today, for recovering patients, so theres room for new ones in strained hospitals well go there, live remember, it was central park, back in the spring, in new york city now, its the wisconsin state fair and look at this map in minnesota, the National Guard called out to help with Nursing Homes on opposite
But tonights game four. Thank god the First Amendment protects that right. [laughter] it was going so well. Is. Sasse i noticed ted wearing a Lone Star State fly, but not an astros mask. Tonights game for in the championship game four in the championship series. If used in loses to tampa, they will be if used in loses to tampa, they will be done. To cap aston loses they will be done. That leaves people feeling desperate at times. Tampa,ouston loses to they will be done. That leaves people feeling desperate at times. The ends justify the means. You can imagine that the houston astros, have cheated in lots of ways in the past, with sign stealing, might try to go to the umpire and try to persuade someone to expand the strike zone just for houston in the game tonight. That would honestly be inappropriate, right . Judge barrett right. Sen. Sasse we cant have two sets of rules. I think an umpire is supposed to imply rules fairly to both teams. We can all agree on that as rules of fair play.