When you can soon line up with one. We begin with mike tobin at pfizers factory up in michigan. Reporter we saw that historic first shipment leave here yesterday carrying doses of the vaccine. The followup today is more trucks, more boxes nilled with vaccine leaving the pfizer plant in michigan. Yesterday, 189 boxes left here. That works out to little more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today, 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine ship from here. Within hours of the first shipment leaving here, ups landed its first plane with 38,000 doses of vaccine at its World Distribution facility in louisville, kentucky, where the doses are sorted. Planes and trucks take it from there. It is humbling, you know, being part of this vaccine process. Its going to take a lot of lives. Reporter three kentucky hospitals got 975 doses of vaccine each as the priority has been to get the vaccine to Health Care Workers. Dr. Jason smith got the First Vaccination in kentucky. The vaccine is going to 636 di
Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
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Fastest pace in three months. I think probably the fed needs to be here, but the october number is the one you want to look forward to. Lets get the totals of what we learned today. It is kind of a good news, bad news day in terms of the economy for some we have had one good, one bad, and michigan is kind of neutral. Retail sales of 1. 9 in the month of september, much better than the forecast and much better than the. 6 gain the month before. Retail sales, ex autos also big. Car sales were strong during the month. And then we look at the control group, the part that goes directly into gdp, and that was percent inly up, 1. 4 august. In august it was down by. 3 . A significant boost for retail sales in the u. S. Economy in september. On the other hand, that news on the manufacturing side, Industrial Production falls. 6, a lot of that because airconditioners were switched off, utilities went down. When youre factoring production surprisingly went down by. 3 . That was the bad news for to
Ill kiss at the guys and the beautiful women and everyone. Trump there. Sident welcome to bloomberg, a servant welcome to bloomberg surveillance, im Francine Lacqua. Earnings in the u. S. And that could move some banking stocks. Overall, stop think stocks are dropping. Bank stocks are dropping. Period forbusy corporate earnings. After fluctuating something with workers in the u. S. Gulf heading back following hurricane deltas landfall. A major step towards reopening. News. Get the first word here with me is leighann gerrans. Has announcedon bars and clubs will closed in the worst hit parts of england. His Health Advisorys it wont be enough. He says local authorities will need to take more action to take the virus under control in some areas significantly more. Crossing to the u. S. , the confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett descended into a partisan clash over obamacare, the pandemic and President Donald Trump. She cast herself as someone who puts personal preference aside, pointi