But you were talking about the dow being in positive territory for the First Time Since september 2nd. Stocks in china reopened after a week long Public Holiday they both jumped by more than 2 the shanghai composite was up by 2. 6 lets take a look at where things stand right now in europe where there is some trading taking place you can see the markets are open there and theres a bit of a mixed picture. Its actually a little bit higher ftse 100 is right around the flat line, andrew. Hey, becky. Weve got so much going on this morning. Weve got this is squawk planner, two major tech events first amazon sales day it begins after it was postponed, if you remember, back in july. Now running two days, starting at midnight tonight eastern time so watch out for that. Ive already scheduled it and then Apple Holding the big event tomorrow the launch event expected to unveil the new iphone. Everybody looking for the new 5g iphone it will include the first major exterior redesign since 2017 and we
The largest outbreak through death and disability and those International Resources we must ask ourselves what we should do right now to protect the American People before the unthinkable happens to ensure we are a nation prepared. That same road widespread and then to jeopardize and the report states and i quote as a strategic competitor including cyberespionage. This is a growing threat to the nation with Economic Security with every aspect of ours. Lives. [inaudible] and with the cybersecurity to defend america again cyberattack. And then in addition on a daily basis to be critical to have widespread damage. And those recommendations a high level on both sides of the aisle cybersecurity for the white house to develop and to streamline and the role this first formalized and then elevated and expanded and the National Security advisor john bolton with another layer of bureaucracy. And in 2019 and in 2020 it dropped to 17th. Today we have the recommendation to establish National Cybers
Areas were anywhere from 106 degrees to 112 degrees at this hour. So weve had quite a cooldown in part because of the lingering smoke and haze and the more vigorous marine layer than was anticipated. Yet we have high fire dangers 8 00 tomorrow morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. And with very low humidity and strong gusty winds. Wind gusts right now in the higher elevations. The wind advisory will be in effect until 11 00 for the north bay hills and mountains. There is a possible there of downed trees and power lines and maybe even power outages. Ill have a closer look a little later. All right. Thank you. More than 170,000 pg e customers in 22 counties had their power turned off today. Well show you a maam where the out outages are in the bay area. The upside down magenta triangles, well try to get the map for you but it is impacting napa and sonoma counties. Another round of frustrating shutoffs. Reporter heres the latest. Highway 12 has been on the unincorporate
Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i