Postpandemic academy dominated by americas big tech companies. This friday morning, stocks are going up somewhere, can you believe that, we dont know how were going to close the session but the opening bell the dow will be up another triple digit, over 100 points, s p coming up a series of records of another nine this morning and the nasdaq made 39 records and moving higher again as of right now. That is the market, that is financial history, cue the fireworks, spectacular way to close out the republican convention, they lit up the sky over the white house after President Trump accepted the nomination for second term. It was a long speech, 70 minutes, the president made his pitch, vote for me and ill keep the streets safe and restore prosperity. Joe biden would ruin the country. You will hear it all, and then there is this, senator rand paul and his wife leaving the white house after the speech into an angry mob of demonstrators. That was intimidation that bordered the very close to re
Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the eastern and central time zones can call in, 2027488000 democrats in the pacific timezone, 2027488001. You can also send us a text. Andse include your name where you are from. Also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj. Democrats only can start calling now. We hear from you about which woman should appear with joe biden on the democratic ticket this fall. Phone lines are on your screen. Cnn editor this from at large his final Vice President rankings, his top five on the most likely picks are. Numbe
Their only crime your arse off their relatives and survivors recount the horror of last years massacre at 2 mosques in new zealand prosecutors say the white supremacist gunmen plan to cause maximum carnage also this hour hundreds of thousands of families displaced by to wrenshaw rains and flash flooding in yemen. And on pieces to this sport its a heros homecoming football in munich off to winning footballs European Champions League for a 6th time. Thank you for joining us we begin with breaking news just use our from germany and the berlin hospital treating russian Opposition Leader alexei in a balmy says test results indicate he was 4 days and now vonnie was flown from a siberian hospital in an induced coma on saturday is a long time opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin he fell on a flight on thirtys say doctors in russia earlier had said that no poison was found in his system as bringing our correspondent in berlin dominic kane who joins us now live so doctors saying that. Wa
The only spots on the map that arent lit up in pink or immediate coastline and San Francisco today. As for a chance of thunderstorms that really drops yesterday we had some in the north bay obviously sunday, it woke us up and carried us through the morning. Today we take a step back from that. Just keeping the hot temperatures around todays daytime highs in the 70s 80s at the coast. 90s in triple digits, further inland. Ive got more details on what to expect this afternoon where youre at still to come back to you. All right, lets get back to the big story which are the fires for large wildfires and you can see pictures of all of them here on your screen the burning in the east bay and in the north bay and they were likely sparked by lightning, lets zoom in on the fires and look at them on a map james yes, those begin to the one for this to the south a marsh fire burning near sunil in the regional wilderness area there in Alameda County. Right along santa clara border broke out sunday.
Well be following this. In the meantime, that was not the only march here in the bay area. A group march have beened to Oakland City Hall to protest for change. Reporter they have said that much has changed, but much has stayed the same. They had a simple message. I want you to stop killing us stop killing us now stop murdering us reporter 57 years after dr. Martin luther kings i have a dream speech in washington, his call resonates, especially in todays climate. Are you waiting for another video, another attack on our community to bring us down . Well, thats not what were waiting for. Reporter with the deaths of george floyd, breonna taylor, and others, killed by police, civil rights, a pressing issue now much as it was back in 1963, and had hoped for greater headway since then. Its disappointing we are here, but we have to rise up and do something about it. Reporter speakers adapted dr. Kings speech with a plea connected to the Current National reckoning over race and policing. Its h