Good afternoon. President elect biden and i just met with some of our nations business and union leaders. Together they represent millions of workers across our country. And some of americas leading technology, auto and retail companies. We had an important conversation about the impact that this pandemic has had on workers. Especially essential workers, frontline workers, who have risked their own health and the health of their families and many whom have given their own lives to keep us safe and keep our economy running. And we all know that this pandemic and this recession have hit communities of color particularly hard. Black americans and latinos are threetimes as likely to contract covid as others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. And last month, the Unemployment Rate for black americans was almost twice the rate of others. And we have also had a conversation about the impact this pandemic has had on our econ
From bear market to a new record at the fastest pace since 1991. 193 trading days from low to a record. But the vaccine by both moderna and pfizer are about to create a mountain of medical waste. This is all great news for one company out there, steracycle which disposes of it for hospitals and medical facilities all across the world. The ceo is in full preparation mode. Shes going to explain what theyre doing to get ready for that in a fox business exclusive. And as casino stocks rally on the vaccine news, are they kicking off the party a bit too early . The ceo of circus sports just opened the biggest sportsbook in the nation. How hes actually calm about this. Hes betting his early open will earn him a lot of green. First, weve got team fox business coverage ready to roll. Blake burman live at the white house with the plan now in place to distribute the moderna vaccine. Hillary vaughn is in wilmington, delaware with what president elect joe biden is about to say in a speech about the
The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at
White house were with the senate or with thehe hous [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] the u. S. S who has gaveled back into session. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speakers table the bill h. R. 6395 with the Senate Amendment thereto, disagree to the Senate Amendment and request a conference with the senate. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 6395, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities for the department of defense for military construction and for Defense Activities of the department of energy to describe military personnel strength for such fiscal year and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore is there objection to the request of the gentleman from washington . Without objection, the request is agreed to. Wi
And well obviously were still in the midst of some of them looking at her views behind me you can see skies are pretty gray overall. In fact some areas are looking at some dense fog, especially right along the coastline. This is your Half Moon Bay view right now definitely a wet roadway out there along highway one just as the rest of the bay area seeing. And youve got that fog a marine layer that is pushed in right along the coastline, what youre seeing in the speckled green those are drizzly areas a product of some of those low clouds that have pushed in across the region. Some of our rainiest of sponsor actually sitting further south in the bay area. We have been seeing showers around fremont those really cleared out moved southward now and now youre looking at a heavier band of rain right around san jose to alum rock. So if you are traveling in the south bay, not only is it wet from last night showers like the rest of us are seeing that youre getting some additional rainfall on top