E freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Laura i am lauraly tre and this is bbc world news america. With six days to go before the election more than 70 million and counting, early voting is all the rage across the united states. Germany and france impose a Second National lockdown as vid19 cases in europe continue to rise. What you need tonight. We will meet the guitar girls who are using music to change their lives. One day i am be a fous. Not just in afghanistan. Laura welcome to world news america. It is just six days to go until the official u. S. Electiobut more than 70 million have already voted including President Trump and joe biden, including me and my first ever ballot as a u. S. Itizen i went to downtown boklyn in the cold and rain to find out what was getting everyone out and about so early. The line in brooklyn for early voting
You i am at 7th and webster. That is in china town. And it is still a very active scene. The street is closed to any and all traffic. And you can see behind me the f 5 alarm. Right now the fire is contained but theyre on the roof working to find any hot spots and work to see if theres any pockets of fire within the ceiling. I do believe we have a shot from the chopper above. I was told by interim chief that this building takes up nearly twothirds of this block here on webster. She said that at this point they believe that fire started in a dumpster. Now, several businesses primarily restaurants in this building were damaged. Right now she says she does not believe that there were any legal residences into this building. But she said shes proud of her firefighters. They had a difficult time with the visibility and some of the low points in that ceiling. Right now good news that fire is contained. Take a listen to what the interim chief had to say about this particular firefight. Im happ
Coronavirus cases and political tensions. The Trump Administration rejects beijings claims in the South China Sea, accusing it of bullying. The u. K. Is set to ban huawei from its 5g mobile network. The plan would mean British Companies need to remove huawei infrastructure by 2027. Welcome to the program, everybody. Lets check out the futures. Lots of moving parts in terms of the market action. Lots of geopolitics to talk about as well. We have futures pointing to the downside in europe. We have to play a little bit of catchup with the united states. Lets get to some of the breaking news out of the u. K. That is certainly going to be one of the focuses in our program. The u. K. Economy shrank by 19. 1 in the three months ending in may. Getting a three month figure. Main manufacturing production rising by 8. 4 . Somecoming out manufacturing facilities coming out of the Strict Lockdown measures, working out how to manufacture in the current environment with covid safe practices. Mayecono
Hour with our Investment Committee today. They are our committee let oos get a check lets get a check on the market. Stocks are marching higher we are right near session highs. Lets take a look at what exactly is driving things and for that, well start with josh brown because youre in the box right next to me right now what can you make of what this jobs report told us and why does the market continue to rally given the fact the economic prospects may be so dim . Im pretty comfortable saying this is the worst monthly jobs report any of you watching will ever see for as long as you live this is it this is the ugliest youll see we have lost 20 million jobs the all time record was two million jobs after world war ii and the worst we saw during the great financial recession a generation ago was 800,000 in a month. Youre not going to see this again. I think whats important to point out and i want to be delicate in the way i say this wall street is coming around to the fact that for the most
Above 24,000 keeping an eye on whats happening with this. The dow has been up. The First Time Since february. If the dow is up again for the fifth session, the first time that has happened since the middle of january. Crude oil has been a big concern. That is down 11. 5 to 11. 85 you are looking at energy being the best performing for april even despite these big swings we have other energy news back with bp out the energy giant reported a 67 slide. Ceo Bernard Looney that the company had a good quarter tough environment here to date it has just been historic and went negative for a while. Back to 12. Crazy. Which is relative how many acres do you have there. You could store oil. Could you put a tank in the ground or just fill the pool we could probably do both we could do a whole oil field here no one Takes Delivery you would think given the challenges that uber is having, they would be doing oil delivery the other thing i told you to buy with all that land is live cattle instead, we