Where julie hyman has the latest. Julie another quiet rally pushing us to new records again for the dow and the s p 500. 51 points, but i track for a record close. The s p 500 as well. The nasdaq has been the big leader with a more than 1 gain on the strength of tech heavy earnings. The s p 500 reached an intraday record over the course the day if you look at trajectory. We saw a record high not that 130. Ago, right around we will see if we see more strengthening into the close. As far as strength in earnings take a look here. Microsoft that is the big one contributing to gains in technology, up six point 5 after cloudbased revenue beat estimates. Performing best performing and the s p 500, a uniform maker whose numbers beat estimates, and intuitive surgical, the maker of the Da Vinci Surgical Robot its numbers beating estimates as more folks, more hospitals ordered robots. Vonnie some deals causing it to move around. Julie it looks like the big year deal is a must a done deal. In beth
Today. It seems a guy quietly, but here we are at these record levels. The dow and the s p are there. The nasdaq is the outperform her, but it is not at a record. It does not take much for the dollar and the s p to get to record status. Today, tack is driving the indices. You can see that the nasdaq outperformance today, and also by the fact the S P Information Technology index is at its highest in about 15, 16 years. Microsoft is helping lead the gains thereafter earnings Beat Estimates on the strength of its cloud business. The company, like many legacy tech firms, has been trying to migrate in that direction. Ciscos chain at its highest and him us a decade, and facebook is also trading higher and at a record as well today. A lot of records to go around. It is not just limited to, sort of, software and social media. We are seeing gains in chipmakers as well. Intel reports after the close of trading. Mermel technology reported after the close yesterday and Beat Estimates. Micron is ge
Procurement safety procedures put in place after alleged expense account abuse , and an ordinance that says all security equipment be approved by the board of supervisors before it can move forward. There are ways to expedite the rules. Thats we need to focus on more. We are developing policies and proceed wrdures right now a waiting for the bodyworn cameras to be delivered. Reporter you dont know when . Unfortunately, we dont have an accurate timeline. Reporter in fact, we also found out the issue was not even scheduled for the board of supervisors to address, but today board president told us he will make sure its on the agenda for the next meeting. Live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Robert, thank you so much. Turning now to decision 2016. As we take you live inside the Republican National convention. This, of course, under way in cleveland. These are the delegates inside the arena. They are awaiting tonights headliner, indiana governor mike pence. Tob tob tonight, he
And im katy zachry. Its 73 degrees until the studios outside of bella kinned with. The humidity is rung higher but the temperatures are cooler. Look at the 50s in the lehigh valley. Clear skies suns not up yet. South jersey and suburbs in low 60s and 70s in philadelphia. 68 degrees in delaware. We will see plenty of sunshine today. Afternoon temperatures will reach into the low 90s. 92 degrees for the lehigh valley. Upper 80s for bright sunshine for the suburbs. We go through the forecast hour by hour. Im back in a few minutes to show you how quickly the temperatures will rise. First, lets check in with Jessica Boyington and see how the roads are this morning. Thanks, bill, were watching nicetown for the clearing of a fatal accident scene. An accident investigation under way at roberts avenue. This happened around 1 30 this morning. So we are a few hours into the investigation and clean upof that scene. So, well, of course, keep you updated as soon as it becomes open again. Also checki
Debate are john mashek, correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarles, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sander vanocur, senior Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Vanocur thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of our format tonight. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last. Therefore Vice President bush , will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the four reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question and then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts. The first section on domestic , affairs, the second on foreign affairs. Now the manner of address was decided by the candidates