Yesterday. It ended with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, check out this nasdaq, up 86 points, three quarters of a percent, s p 500 up 12 points at 34, 43, unchartered territory. Violence erupting in wisconsin for a third night in a row, the gun battle in the streets leaving two people dead. Weve got the latest. Hurricane laura a category 2 storm, it is gaining strength, barreling towards texas and louisiana. Well take you live to the gulf coast this morning. How far did it go . New details in mcdonalds investigation into steve easterbrook, examining if he and other employees covered up misconduct. Peloton ready for the ipo, giving investors a look at its finances. Finding your happy place, the surprising spot more americans are going to relax. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning are mixed, take a look at the fq100, down 9 points, the cac is up 8, the dax in germany up 60 right now, about one half of 1 . In asia overnight markets were split,
Board at the virtual emmy awards, winning seven. We begin with leaked documents that revealed how some of the uks is known banks have allowed criminals, money launderers and sanctioned russians to move dirty money around the world. It shows that in london is a hub for Money Laundering with billions of dollars of suspected money moving through the financial system. The documents known as the fincen files were leaked to buzzfeed and shared with the bbc. In this unprecedentedly, thousands of reports of activity filed by banks were lea ked activity filed by banks were leaked to Buzzfeed News and passed to the International Consortium of investigative journalists at bbc panorama. They revealed some of the International Banking systems most closely guarded secrets. In one example a payment of 8 million flagged as suspicious was sent to a russian businessman and former businessman and former businessman living in blitzen, vladimirjernigan. It came from this man, a billionaire ally of presiden
The breaking news coverage, nbc news projects joe biden is the president elect. At this hour joe biden has 273 electoral votes. President trump at this hour as 214. Joe bidens projected win was called after nbc news projected joe biden the winner of pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes. President elect joe biden will address the nation tonight and will be joined by Vice President elect Kamala Harris, who will be the first woman and first woman of color to be Vice President , and she has a video of the moment she called joe biden. We did it. We did it, joe. You are going to be the next president of the United States. Americans across the country are celebrating at this hour, including outside the white house where cheers erupted in support of joe biden, but President Trump is not there to hear those cheers. He is at his golf course. President elect biden released this statement saying i am honored and humbles by the trust the American People have placed in me and Vice President elect
Massachusetts. Got his law degree at yale law school. He has served in the Obama Administration and many positions there, one is the deputy head of the nec at that time and also as deputy head of omb and for a while acting head of omb. Between the Obama Administration and the biden administration, he worked in the private sector at black rock, where he was the head of Global Sustainability investing. Thank you so much for coming. Let me ask you the first and most important question, are we going to go into a recession anytime in the foreseeable future . [laughter] brian thank you for having me. [laughter] i shouldve expected nothing less. Thank you for having me. Thank you for putting this together. We are no doubt in uncertain times. But i think that if you look at the u. S. Economy, my perspective, the most striking feature of the u. S. Economy right now is resilience the resilience of households, consumer Balance Sheets, business and business investment, and globally, the resilience
Was so much crap going on with the announcer you can watch this program on our website, cspan. Org. We will take you live now to a discussion with brian deese, assistant to the president for Economic Policy and director of the National Economic council. He will discuss President Bidens economic agenda, inflation, and the economy. He is a native of massachusetts. Got his law degree at yale law school. He has served in the Obama Administration and many positions there, one is the deputy head of the nec at that time and also as deputy head of omb and for a while acting head of omb. Between the Obama Administration and the biden administration, he worked in the private sector at black rock, where he was the head of Global Sustainability investing. Thank you so much for coming. Let me ask you the first and most important question, are we going to go into a recession anytime in the foreseeable future . [laughter] brian thank you for having me. [laughter] i shouldve expected nothing less. Tha