Welcome to squawk alley for a wednesday morning. Im carl kwinquintanilla. After a rocky start, donald trump named the republican nominee for the 2016 president ial race along with running mate indiana governor mike pence. Governor pence, the headline speaker tonight along with harold hamm of continental resources. Eric trump, speaker gingrich and others. A lot of unity coming together. The republicans argue as we had some members of trumps family speak last night. One thing to watch out for tonight, senator ted cruz and whether he has a fullthroated endorsement of trump. Primetime coverage on cnbc at 10 00 p. M. Eastern time on whats already a busy market day, too. Yes, indeed. Thank you, carl. Taking a look at the market. The dow is up about 44 points. S p up nearly 10 and microsoft certainly leading the dow, kayla, up 6. 3 . Cisco right behind it. Worth noting, the fact were currently set for nine Straight Days of gains on the dow. The nasdaq hit its record high one year ago. Its sti
Legislation that would revamp the department of Veterans Affairs into a nonprofit organization. The first woman to ever be a presumptive nominee of a major party. But she has to get past donald trump if she wants to make it to the white house. It may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a Glass Ceiling right now. But dont worry. We are not smashing this one. Thanks to you, we reached a milestone. First time first time in our nations history that a woman will be a major partys nominee. Charles that was Hillary Clinton soaking it all in. All eyes of course turning to the general election. Donald trump gearing up to take on Hillary Clinton instilling some of the democratic supporters in the process. Im going to be your chapelon. Im going to be americas champion. This election isnt about republican or democrat. Its about who runs this country . The special interests or the people. And i mean the american people. Charles joining me now, eboni williams, tammy bruce and lisa
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Morning. Then all rain by midday. The amount of cold air the system has to work with is whats in question. Well continue to watch and have updates. Temperatures will greatly improve by the end of next has been arrested hes accused of innapropriately touching one of his coworkers. Columbia fire captain jeffrey rish is charged with Second Degree assault and battery. Rish is accused of inappropriately touching a male firefighter on october 5, 2015 while working on blume court. Chief Aubrey Jenkins released a statement he said that captain rish is on investigatory suspension pending the outcome of these charges. Rish turned himself in to cpd in court, a judge set rishs personal recognizance bond at 5,000. Today president ial candidates are all over the palmetto pushing to get voters before the upcoming first in the south among the democrats, Hillary Clinton is in Bamberg County clinton is talking about healthcare, education and jobs in South Carolina. The event is a corridor of opportunity
And judo, the philippines are showing off their skills. The clock is ticking but diplomates trying to remain confident about an agreement over Irans Nuclear program and major world powers and tie ran have until midnight local time to strike a deal with talks in vienna and its one of the most controversial issues for the west and the last couple years the diplomacy has been nonstop. Looking back two years ago to may 2012 negotiates fell apart and increased sanctions against iran and fell 40 and they agreed iran could enrich uranium to 20 and u. S. President barack obama spoken the phone to the new president and it was the first call between the two leaders of the country since 1979. Talks finally led to a breakthrough, a deal that would temporarily freeze the Nuclear Program and the next was a comprehensive accord, between july and november 2014 that has not been easy, july deadline passed and Nuclear Negotiations are hours away from another deadline. And jena hall is there and where ar