Into Historical Context the significance of the selection of Kamala Harris . Prof. Brown this is huge. She is the first woman of color, the first black and Indian American woman to serve in the senate, she is the first woman of color to be on a president ial ticket. This is monumental. There are no if sandor butz about it. There are two other white women who are there are two other white women who were Vice President ial nominees, Kamala Harris is the first woman of color. Host you are quoted as saying black women in politics are invisible and hyper visible at the same time. What do you mean by that and does this election change that . Prof. Brown i hope it changes some things. By hyper visible i mean black women are ever present. People notice them and we stick out because we are not the norm in american politics based on the simple majority of american politicians are white man. Of the American Senate are women. Any time there is someone who is a body out of place, someone who is not
History in congress. The story begins with Jennette Rankin who is elected to the house in 1916 from montana shes elected to the house four years before women had the right to vote nationally. And in a way shes really a bridge from the sufferage movement to women attaining full political rights. She was active in a National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote not only in montana but a couple states west of the mississippi and she runs in 1916. Shes elected to one of montanas two atlarge districts. Part of her platform shes a passivist. Shes sworn into the house on april 2nd, 1917, and the house has come in to special session, extraordinary session because the president that night, woodrow wilson, delivers a message to Congress Asking for a declaration of war against germany. This is the u. S. Entry into world war i. And rankin, when that vote is held, is one of a group of about 50 members who votes against u. S. Intervention in world war i. She served a
Head through the afternoon. Were going to catch that clearing for most of us. Except for the coast. So right now in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s at this hour. And as we head through the day, looking at mid 60s in San Francisco. Low 70s in oakland. So around the bay, mild. And then for our inland locations, that sunshine from 82 in san jose and 90 for concord. So right around where we should well talk about our warmup as we look ahead to our weekend. Details on that coming up in just a few minutes. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are following the search for eight missing military members right now off the coast of Southern California. They were involved in a Training Exercise and at least one marine was killed and two others injured after they were rescued. They were in some sort of Amphibious Assault vehicle in the waters off of San Clemente Island and they radioed for help just before 6 00 last night. Saying their vehicle was taking on water. And that is when the res
Investors are increasingly pinning their hopes to a virus recovery on the vaccine so modernas news is helping the market this monday morning. And its own stock, of course. The dow industrials, probably going to go up a few points, maybe 70. S p up about 12. The nasdaq, up 85 points. Green this monday morning. Next headline, gold. The price is now at an alltime high, closing in on 2,000 an ounce. A weak dollar plus the fear of a postvirus bout of inflation, plus the u. S. china escalation, all pushing the price to, what, 1956 per ounce as of right now. Were expecting the republicans to detail their trillion dollar stimulus plan perhaps today. 1200 checks, Liability Protection for business extended but reduced emergency unemployment bonuses. Larry kudlow on that later on todays program right here. Now, look at big tech. Top executives from four of them virtually testify to Congress Later this week. This is important. What are we going to do with the crown jewels of americas business . Ta
Wells fargo a bad day as they put up a disappointing quarter. The first loss since 2008 and they cut their dividend from . 10 from . 21. A choppy day in a choppy time. David we are also getting mixed messages about the coronavirus. Yesterday it seemed like the news coming out of california may have triggered some of that happening. Why would that hit the faang . I thought if we had more coronavirus we like the faang better because we have to use it more from home . Abigail i think the two are a bit separate. The news out of california did take stocks lower, but the faang started to turn lower earlier. Au have these stocks up in huge way because of the stayathome element. Also these Companies Put up great quarters in april. We are into the earnings season now. We will be curious to see how they have fared over last three months. There is Something Interesting also ahead later this month. , jeffe the ceos of amazon bezos, Mark Zuckerberg of testifiedand alphabet before Congress Later thi