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Up for the season that starts next month with all the teams playing in phoenix. The cdc and National Institutes of health are supportive even espn. Even though there wont be any fans, it seems like we might return to some semblance of normalcy well, dont take me to the ball game, but have a ball game i think thats the perfect metaphor for today the market started strong, kind of excited about the baseball season dow up at 1. 900 points i think the metaphor is actually wrong which is why we sold off hard in the afternoon. Dow ended up closing off 26 points s p dipping. 16 it was quite a reversal. Were supposed to be in one of the saddest moments in history while we slow the spread of covid19, the death toll keeps rising the darkest is just before dawn. What do they think dawn looks like if you judge from yesterdays action, investors are buying on a vshape recovery boom, boom, business comes back, everything comes back to normal. A v says we have this virus whipped in no time id love tha
Taken since yesterdays 3,000 point drop jim, you have never been a huge fan of futures, but you think they are especially irrelevant now. Right these are fraught. I got up three, the market looked great it was up like looked like we would make up half of what we lost yesterday i come back, were down. Lets stay focused on individual stocks individual stocks are all being brought down by the indices. The great opportunities, i want to use that word, come from the obliteration of the futures, mean while there are companies who are doing well theres companies doing quite poorly well go over both there will be opportunities today. Theres a lot of give up yeah. I want to get i have a lot of specific questions for you i know you have regeneron tonight. Signs of hope, whether its test kits from roche, therapeutics, you heard gottlieb a moment ago talking about it those three things, test, therapeutics, vaccines we are starting to see very early signs of progress. Absolutely. You look at tesla.
Foxs David Lee Miller live in newark tonight, where that trial was, and david, whats next . I know you talked to the senator about the decision today. Well, one of the big uncertainties, is what the Justice Department is going to do. They can decide to retry this case. They now say this theyre reviewing the matter, although this trial is now over, his legal problems are not ending. Apparently, the Senate Majority leader, mitch mcconnell, put out a release, saying that hes going to ask the Senate Ethics committee to look into the event, leading up to the indictment. One of the interesting things today, iaian, as soon as he finished his remarks, i ran up to the senator, as he was get ting into his car, and i asked him essentially you are not convicted today, but you also were not acquitted. Do you feel exonerated . He pause in the his tracks, he looked at me, he he said at that point in this country there is pre presumption of innocence, and he said hes at innocent today as the day this
Union. Eants governmenantigovernmenn nepal, many died. In sport, another 100 meter goal for jamaica, this time in the womens final, details later in the program. Well they looked for some time as if they wouldnt work, marathon talks between north and south korea, finally ending in a agreement, that nearly pushed the two countries into the brink of armed conflict. Reported north korea had expressed regret over a land mine incident that wounded two south korean soldiers. This month, both countrys militaries have been on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border. Harry fawcett, give us an idea of the importance of this expression of regret and what the south has agreed to do in exchange. Reporter well, it was very important that there was, what President Park geunhye was saying there need to be a clear apology from the north as well as measures to make sure there was no recurrence of the kind of provocation that south korea terms this has been. What there was in terms of the text