Outside the white house. The new details this morning. Chicago crackdown. Overnight the city under curfew, bridges lifted after that mass looting leading to more than 100 arrests. Violent storms wreaking havoc in the midwest leaving more than a million without power. Winds blowing at more than 100 Miles Per Hour, flipping this semi truck on an iowa highway in blinding rain and ripping this roof off a chicago building. And overnight a wildfire shutting down an interstate in ning, the red flag warnings for fire danger in the west. Ginger is tracking it all. Faceoff. 14 popular face coverings put to the test. The new demonstration using lasers to see how effective they are and the one mask researchers found that was actually worse than no mask at all. Game over . One of the top conferences in College Football reportedly on the verge of canceling the entire season. Will other conferences follow if the big ten backs out, ivorin for a chance to take the field. The commissioner of the powerfu
Star1 if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump in. We will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Reporter hello, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me pretty well up there. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint, we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supplies back to earth.
Officials say it is the key to stopping the surge, but not everyone is listening. Certainly awkward for me to approach a citizen thats my customer and tell them that they need to cover their face. Tonight a new effort to crack down on people not wearing masks. There are new numbers out tonight that illustrate why covering your face can put a big dent in the spread of covid19. State Health Leaders now say wearing a mask 80 of the time could reduce transmission by as much as 60 . This as late tonight another bay area county puts some teeth into its mask mandate. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd explains. Reporter the emergency order making it mandatory to wear face coverings in Contra Costa County is in effect not everyone is happy in danville. I dont understand that. You know what i mean . Where youre forced to wear a mask. I just had a kidney tooken out. I got bad lungs, this and that. I cant wear a mask, but it is what it is. Reporter according to the state, wearing a mask is essential if yo
One Pharmaceutical Company says the phase three trials of its Coronavirus Vaccine appears to be working in monkeys. It comes as another interesting study is released involving teachers in classrooms. I spoke earlier with dr. Alok patel. Lets begin with that new research from the university of minnesota on how teachers can protect students from the virus in the classroom. The researchers say if a teacher stands directly under an air vent, the coronavirus aerosols wont spread nearly as far, and they released a video showing this. What is your take on this research . I think its a pretty elegant way to look at air flow. We know that coronavirus can be aerosolized. That was one concern about reopening of schools. Are crowded classrooms going to be properly ventilated . What these researchers did is kind of looking at Different Air flow patterns to see what was going to be the most optimal. It gives schools another tool, another option to make sure theyre protecting teachers. So if schools
Basically kind of bouncing around. There is a lot of concern as to where this rally can go based on the fundamentals with the economy and corporate earnings. Caroline the economy, corporate earnings, this is exactly what Bloomberg Intelligences Gina Martin Adams has been talking about. The second phase of the recovery will be slower, choppy or. We have real earnings progress to underpin some of these numbers. Today, we got a little bit more betterthanexpected Consumer Confidence data. Taylor driving valuations on the s p 500. One of the first times in a very long time where the s p trading at a valuation is higher than the stocks index. Typically, those chipmakers have been so overvalued. Refocusing back here just on the u. S. Is really led that market higher. Romaine when we talk about risk assets, we look at some of the havens. Gold at one point today traded above 1800. Having one of its best quarters ever. Treasuries have been kind of range bound over the last couple of months. Year