We have blake burman at the white house. We begin with gerri willis. We finished with the s p at new record highs for first time in six months. Above the prepandemic highs. Think about that. That is the 14th record close this year. Turn to the nasdaq as well, also at a record high today, second Straight Record close for that index. The 34th record close this year. 174th record close since election day. Good news there. Market keeping an eye as you said on two big earnings reports today. One was walmart. Shares down after the nations largest employer reported eps of 31 cents a share, blowing out estimates samestoresales up 9. 9 . Online sales up 97 . Even so the stock is down. Dont know what it takes to get walmart up today. Home depot that stock up as well. Blowout Second Quarter with the sales up 23. 4 . Americans are remaking their homes as they are forced to live there, stay there, work there all the time. Finally weve been watching apple shares closely. They are higher today as the
Hit a daily record in the u. S. Safer now al jazeera meets a group of or hinder refugees sheltering it into after weeks at sea. Im joined again go with the sports. He is awaiting finally yields in English Premier League title for liverpool. We begin this news in the u. K. And the suspect in the stabbing attack in glasgow has died after being shot by police 6 people and hospital including a Police Officer after the incident reportedly happened in the stairwell of a hotel police say theyre not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident lets go live now to london and to al jazeera as Lawrence Leigh lawrence what more do we know about what happened today in glasgow. Well the i mean the details are exactly as you describe them a man enters repeatedly stab several People Armed Police for calls shot him hes since diets of his injuries and its now widely reported that 3 people who were stabbed by the man have died as well so all very horrific obviously everybody is wondering whats
In mass. The speed record is four years for mumps. Moderna uses Artificial Intelligence by the way, fueled by Amazon Web Services to speed up the Drug Delivery and discovery process their covid vaccines are already going to phase two trials, shooting for phase three this summer thats incredible. Thats much fafster than anyone believed a long time ago that would change everything how many ifs . Mighty big ifs, too the rally gives us a glimpse of what the future may look like if moderna works with the dow up 211 points [ moo s p climbing 1. 1 and the nasdaq 1. 4 hallelujah. At least thats the Glass Half Full version of what happened today the world view says you have to ignore tomorrows hideous nonfarm payroll number at 8 30 because thats in the rearview if theres a vaccine around the corner, you have to believe the economys bottom and fuchl is much brighter than the past. Were buoyed by companies that said april and the beginning of may have been surprisingly strong lyft, uber, pay pal
2. 3 billion trillion dollar stimulus package that is providing relief to Small Businesses. One of the biggest of that is 386 billion set aside to help Small Businesses with loans, checks, money that can be outright grants, Edward Lawrence has been following that because a lot of banks are handling the transactions, bank of america was up and running on this. He has the latest on all of th that. Reporter very interesting, Community Banks have led the charge on the spanking figure going forward, at 830 this morning, Steven Mnuchin has been on top of this to make sure. Look at the latest numbers, as of 1130, there was 2330 banks loans that have been given out for a total of 889 million that is direct stimulus into the u. S. Economy for the Small Businesses to keep people on pay checks and to give people pay checks and keep their lights on and pay the rent. On the jobs numbers, we expected was going to be bad but the number was really a surprise. Look at this a 4. 4 unemployment over all
We have also engaged a cleaning reporter after placing primarily to richmond lab where third in her home state, well be able to test very service and will use the time massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warrens Campaign Says shes to deep clean the entire quickly within just a few hours campus. Reassessing and will have more another passenger, by the way, to say in the coming days. Those samples to determine on that grand princess cruise while primary contests across whether or not these have tradi ship infected with the virus is the country will continue through june, the president is now being treated in sonoma county. Looking ahead to the general kpix 5s Wilson Walker will election, weighing in on his cold or flu or may have have the latest developments democratic challengers. There coming up for us at 5 30. One thing this whole thing has shown me, you cant buy an contracted the covid19 virus. And now to the latest on election. Its a beautiful thing. I think joe would have the we also w