Just the magnificence of your artistry. What the two have in common, plus, his new president ial portrait unveiled. Black friday blowout. Shoppers falling all over each other to get the best deals. Couch surfers ruling the day shattering online records. The hopes for Small Business saturday and a possible boost for the bottom line. And goal for it. College soccer star sarah fuller ready to become the first woman to participate in a power five football game. What shes saying about the opportunity to make history. Hey, good morning. Were going to start here with the latest on the surging pandemic. The u. S. Has now surpassed 13 million confirmed covid19 cases, adding more than a million cases in just six days, and that comes during a holiday week when some results and reporting are expected to be delayed. Hospitals from coast to coast are feeling the strain. This week, 24 states hit a Record Number of current hospitalizations with the number of patients across the country increasing near
We are awaiting updates from the keystone state this hour. We are expecting former Vice President joe biden to speak in prime time. First, the u. S. Stock market close the week with gains. The s p and nasdaq having both their best week since april hold into next week. Lets get the latest from Sarah Ponczek from new york. Investors dont seem to care about the uncertainty of the president ial election. Sarah they do not seem to care. Today, we did see a slowing in the rally. Look at where the major indexes didnt today. The dow element lower, the russell 2000 and smallcap cages lower by 1 or so. The constant remains that tech holds that leadership position. Albeit a small gain. It is unbelievable to watch the best weeks since april the 9 . Up 7 , the nasdaq up even though we have this delayed election result and we are not going to get a blue suite, still on question a little bit as it stands but with the outlook we have, markets do seem to be happy with it, even though last week it was i
Major topics here were the protection of intellectual Property Rights and also chinas commitments to purchasing significantly more products from the u. S. Now this call was largely seen as a way to clear the air between the 2 countries to talk about how phase one of the trade deal has been implemented and then also to look at setting the stage for negotiations to go into phase 2 deal well rachel there seem to be a lot of remaining disagreements on the table from from both sides when it comes to social media platforms or is also on the Technology Front you mentioned intellectually intellectual property theft whats going on there where youre really seeing this latest fight over to talk and we chat ramp up in recent weeks and it seems to be sort of the last frontier in the trade war that were talking about now if we take a look at the timeline here where you see that following President Trump executive order to ban the platforms earlier this month a group of we chat users in San Francisco
Al jazeera investigation reveals serious flaws in obtaining e. U. Passports in cyprus. India records more than 3000000. 00 coronavirus cases in the worlds highest daily increase included 19 infections plus. Im malcolm webb in a tea plantation in kenyas highlands more than 60 years ago british colonialists forced the local people off this land to make space for it will be speaking to the few that still survive about their fight for justice. Position in belarus has called for another round of mass process to push for president Alexander Lukashenko resignation 2 weeks after he claimed a victory in the disputed elections that crowd streaming into the center of the capital minsk a defiant look at schenker has ordered the army into full combat readiness despite a violent crackdown demonstrators have been coming out every day since the disputed vote on august the 9th. Earlier my colleague. Spoke to the Opposition Leader spent lunna took them off sky shes in exile across the border in neighbor
And the worlds highest daily increase in covert 1000. 00 infections plus. Im webb in a tea plantation in kenya as highlands more than 60 years ago british colonialists forced the local people off their land to make space for it will be speaking to the few that still survive about their fight for justice. In the sport and finally to take on paris for the European Champions League title will be in lisbon ahead of the big game. The opposition and belarus has called for another round of mass protests to push for president Alexander Lukashenko his resignation 2 weeks after he claimed victory in a disputed election these are the scenes in the capital many square tens of thousands of people are now streaming into the center of the city defined has ordered the army into full combat readiness in the past hour of the Russian Foreign minister has come out in look assange has support. Says there is no way to prove the embattled belorussian leader did not win the president ial election despite a vi