Good morning it is 8 00 a. M. At tesla headquarters in palo alto, california it its 11 00 a. M. On wall street squawk alley is live good Tuesday Morning im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla back again it is a busy day on wall street with the dow hitting an all time high making another run at 30 k. That comes as president elect joe biden is reporting tapping former fed chair janet yellen to run the treasury department. Tesla is continuing the record run now topping half a trillion dollars in market cap. Making elon musk the worlds second richest person on paper and apple making another concession, carl on App Store Fees a lot going on yeah. We talked about that early moving being the small crack that starts to widen as for tesla, i mean, whether its some of the reports about a hatch back in europe or longer range vehicles or just enthusiasm over the ev space as we gheet into a Biden Administration on top of the gm news yesterday, jon. So there is a lot happening in the ev space and then m
Is the security of america at risk . And covid continues to peek across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . Dropping asstocks fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news. About vaccine develop at Abigail Doolittle has more. Generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail truly a sleeper for much of the day. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. As new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 seven day rolling Positivity Rate here in new york city, at least according to the mayors office. Looks like the governor may have ha
And no fly zone to stamp out a separate a struggle here in flags of concerns of war crimes in the goal of care about or for armenia and azerbaijan are accused of committing atrocities. There its been 4 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president s race to the white house is headed for a 4 to finish with every hour narrowing the gap between donald trump and joe biden heres the overall picture as it stands this hour there are just 4 battleground states left to count and any one of them could give joe biden the win that he pulled ahead in georgia in the last hour or so and he also has a lead over in nevada donald trump however is ahead in the others. She states but the margins are razor thin no those states being counties are the ones that you see here in yellow nevada georgia North Carolina and of course pennsylvania by the nih has 264 Electoral College votes trump meanwhile has 214 that still puts both in range of the magic number
A lot of work to do particularly when it comes to absentee ballots as well so they will all have to be added so a warning to people watching across the world this election which has been as you see contentious it has been difficult it has been hard fought but it might not end in the next few hours it could be a couple of days before we get a final result so people should be weary of politicians declaring victory unless on either side the result is clear cut the polls suggest thats whats going to happen donald trump says in 2016 they said the exact same thing and they won and hes clinging on to that hope. At least 14 people have been arrested in austria after mondays shooting in vienna and the memorial was held for the 4 people who died another 22 were injured when a gunman opened fire in the city hall soon authorities are describing it as a terror attack. Police in ivory coast have clashed with supporters of former president and Opposition Leader only conan betty it happened as police
And covid continues to peak across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . All of those stories in a moment, but first, u. S. Stocks dropping as fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news about Vaccine Development. Our Abigail Doolittle has more. Abigail, generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail yeah, truly a sleeper for much of the day. Very small, fluctuating moves. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. Then new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, you had these two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 , sevenday rolling Positivity Rate here in new york