Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
We have all long operated we covered the white house together, weve done that. We know how all president s and their Communications Team try to throw information out there because they want us, they want us to echo that. They want to put that out there. In an amendment such as this that so challenge with the subject of the continued influence the fact, do you change the way you put that information out there . How do you address that reality . You are muted, mara, sorry. This is a really, really, really tough problem. Because were so tribal, because of the tribalizing effects of social media, you know, whatever we do to discuss a piece of misinformation or disinformation, we putting that piece of this information out there and by definition i guess were giving it more life for airtime. Npr is a mainstream News Organization. We try to surround this piece of misinformation or disinformation with as much context and Fact Checking as we can, but what we found, maybe we can talk about this,
Start the week and much calmer winds also compared to where we were to start the week. Fog this morning pushing into San Francisco just the top of the Sales Force Tower in the distance there, and also see some lights from the bay bridge there somewhere down there in that blanket of fog that has moved in across the bay. This onshore breeze has really helped to keep air quality near the coast on the cleaner side now we do have spots pockets where quality is in the very puerto worst category and that includes portions of Sonoma County and then especially on over into napa county the east bay also looking at it impact from range of moderate to pour conditions, zooming in on the north bay though we do have some of that worst of air quality as you know up in northern portions of napa county closer itself. To where the glass fire is still burning this morning now with relatively light winds. We dont have a whole lot of a transport system said pick up the smoke can get it out of the region, so
Virus which has claimed more than 207,000 american lives now reaches into the most powerful office in the world. Good morning, america. We want to get right to the major breaking news overnight. At 12 54 a. M. President trump announced he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for covid19. The Stunning Development raises significant questions about the president s health, the stability of the country, our standing in the world and the state of the race for the white house just 32 days before the final votes. We will cover it all this morning, and we begin by wishing the president and the first lady a speedy and full recovery. We certainly do, and with that, we want to show you a live look right now at the white house where the president and first lady are in isolation at this moment. And there are so many Big Questions this morning after the president s jampacked schedule this week. We want to know who else in the white house inner circle could potentially be infected and wh
Washington has been demanding business transparency and threatens to delist mainland companies. Protests against Police Shootings spread to the nba. Playoff games are canceled as refused toee bucks leader court. Haidi we continue to have that lackrnaut rage despite a of very meaningful headline developments on the positive side. We are getting incremental positivity when it comes to u. S. China trade as well as daily developments on the search for a Coronavirus Vaccine as well. We are seeing futures flat at the moment, lower by. 1 after both the s p and the nasdaq hitting another alltime high. Optimism being seen in the fourth straight day of record highs for u. S. Stocks. The nikkei 225 just erasing some of the earlier moves, flat at the moment when it comes to futures trading in chicago. We wait to hear from president abes press conference tomorrow. The focus being on his health and the future of auburn onyx and where dollaryen goes from here. It is holding at 105. 91 at the moment.