Mondays big gain. Thatters the s p 500, nasdaq following suit as well. The tenyear note yield 1. 86 . Americans heading to the polls today, including president ial nominees, Hillary Clinton and donald trump both casting their votes early today in new york. Our don harwood closely following the election. He is here at the wall with the very latest. John. Scott, Hillary Clintons favored to win today t. Pom versus shown her ahead by four points or so on a national basis. This is the battleground picture. If you look at the assessments. A lot of blue on that map. Enough to get her over the electoral votes she needs but she has to deliver, significant amount of vote has been cast early, but not all of it. And so donald trump has to hope to pick up florida, pick up georgia, pick up north carolina, pick up ohio and flip some other state thats on this map colored in blue. Maybe michigan. Maybe virginia. He has a shot in New Hampshire as well. Its not going to be easy. A lot of work for drumplt
Showdown between political allies. It would be one of the largest tickers of all time. Pfizer and allergan are in preliminary discussions about getting together. Our first look at Third Quarter gdp, coming in at 1. 5, slightly lower than estimated as yesterday is in the red first up, a lot of action during last nights republican president ial debate. The candidates discussed numerous topics, the economy, taxes, the fed and entitlement reform. One of the biggest moments involved former governor jeb bush and senator marco rubio. Marco, when you signed up for this, this was a sixyear term. You should be showing up to work. Literally, what is it like a french workweek and you get three days where you have to show up. You can campaign. Just resign and let someone else take the job. There are a lot of People Living paycheck to paycheck looking for a senator that would fight him each and every day. I dont remember you complaining about john mccains vote record. Someone has convinced you that
Its linked to a murder case. And the president ial candidates face off for a third debate. Were talking about fantasy football . More highlights from last nights debate. Announcer this is ktvu mornings on two. 7 01, thursday morning, october 29th, im gasia mikaelian. Good morning. Im dave good morning, im r im dave clark dave clark. Sunday im dave clark. Sunday and monday looks pretty good. The Higher Elevations along the surface, not too bad yet. There may be a few clouds but its mainly clear. Chilly, theres a lot of 40s around. Oakland, 55, 75 for a high. All of the temps will be above average. High pressure building in, so if you have 40s, 44 in santa rosa, 44, san romoney, and the north bay. Lowdown to the four corners. Pacific northwest, that equals a breezy pattern, but also a early patchy fog, looks like its flying 70ings to san ro mown ramon. 71 minutes between the k ashgs rshgs carquinez bridge, and the motorcycle bridge accident. Some of it may be on the shoulder, but the dam
Runway and crashing into a set. A young son on board. A quick thinking air Traffic Controller may have prevented something even worse. And great white quest the most feared in abcs thunder, nbcs Kerry Sanders is setting off to find one in the wild today. Today, thundershowers may 28 2015. Nouce this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, on a thursday morning, apparently at this table. In search of those wonderful creatures. We will watch in this case. Get to that in a couple of minutes. Lets start with our top story this morning. Problems with storm after storm in texas, rivers ridesing in houston and dallas. Some neighborhoods are being told to evacuate. There was a tornado outbreak. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in hard hit wimberley, texas. Good morning to you. Reporter matt good morning. The death stole now to 23. Rivers are swollen. Severe thunderstorms are expected in parts of the state. All this as we are hearing more
The outbreak began. There are now more than 185,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the u. S. More than 38,000 people have died in this country. Tonight nearly 80 of americans are living under stayathome or shelterin placeorders. The president formally extending social distancing guidelines for one more month now, at least until april 30th. Lets discuss now. Don harwood is here and daniel dale. Thank you for joining us. John, today the president seemed to be aware on some level of how bad this could get. Talk to me about his response today. Don, i think we saw a president today who had been smacked in the face hard by a reality that is very, very grim. You know, so often the president comes across as somebody who is out of touch with what the rest of us can all see presenting a hucksterish view. He called himself today a cheerleader but it is much harder to do that when youre not looking out at a curve that may rise up sometime in the near future. When its rising right now and wh