Of optimism into the market. Thats sending a huge swath of the markets to record highs, as president elect joe biden gets clearance from the Trump Administration to begin preliminary transition protocols. Yes, it crashed through the 30,000 ceiling but can the dow close there . Heres what you need to watch in the next call it 59 minutes with me. The dow has got to be up 359 points for a brand new record. But were above 30,000 and that means we are up about 437, just 29 points above 30,000. So you get to do the math there. The s p has got to be up 49 points. We are at the moment up 55. No record for the nasdaq, but it did pop above 12,000 for the very first time and we are still there, 12,026. The russell, im not going to ignore it. I know you russell fans. These are the small and midcaps. Any gain is a record. The dow transports also about to close at new alltime highs. We are watching it all so closely. But as the markets say let the good times roll, there is a darker backdrop at this
We have all seen the images of the food lines. Help us understand the scope of the problem. How many more children are food insecure this thanksgiving week then compared to last year at this time . Guest thanks. We are in a position we really have never seen before. It is shaping up to be possibly the hungriest Holiday Season in memory. There are lots of different ways we measure hunger. It looks like we have gone from one in seven kids being at risk to one in four. As many as 17 million American Kids at risk of hunger. Not just during the Holiday Season but especially poignant during the season but since the pandemic began. Bureausure is the census does a pulse survey. They take a regular survey of americans. They found that 15 of adults say their families are struggling to feed their kids. That is up from 1 just a year ago. Really remarkable change. Host struggling to feed their kids. Define what we mean by Food Insecurity. What does that mean in practice . Guest Food Security is kin
In the balance now hes asking the Supreme Court to intervene in unfounded claims of voter fraud. And nationwide Trump Supporters clash with pro biden groups. Its 800. 00 g. M. T. Thats 1 pm in the eastern United States and 3 days since election day but we still cant say who is going to be the next president things are heating up every hour joe biden whitens his lead over donald trump in several states that sum up this vapidly changing scenario heres what you need to know that are just a few battleground states still being counted joe biden is now ahead in georgia nevada and in pennsylvania biden is projected to have won 264. To Royal College votes donald trump has 214 the number to hit is 270 any single women for biden could effectively end the race but officials in georgia say they expect a recount there is also know that a new batch of ballots in a state weve already projected arizona they increase bidens margin but this is one of the states the trunk campaign is trying to contest wi
Win the 2nd highest u. S. Office. Writes down barriers and highlights sacrifices made by american women the president though donald trump remains defiant showing no signs of conceding we will look at what band could mean for the transition of power. In other news as a by johns president says his military has taken the 2nd largest city in the disputed region of. And in sports tokyo is testing its ability to host a safe olympics next year the city staged its 1st International Competition at a games venue since the infix headspace i spoke to to coronavirus. It is just on 10 am on the u. S. East coast where the next president s promising to restore the soul of the nation while the current president still refusing to concede defeat joe biden has made his 1st address to the nation as president elect. Speaking of an end to an era of demonization and promising to heal americas deep political divide donald trump though threatening legal action in an attempt to overturn the election which was ca
Temperatures with deny 67 currently pittsburgh our first spot back up to 70 degrees while still hanging on to the 50s for areas like petaluma and berkeley. Later today at 70s and 80s for daytime highs for most of the bay area even out towards the coast. A few 70s. Ive got more on your forecast ahead robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge toll plaza and it looks good. Its finally delay free into San Francisco. We have some slow traffic earlier. Its all gone, so its going to be easy trip of 12 minutes off to fremont state. Im still tracking this overturned big rig in livermore it happened over an hour ago the vasco road on ramp to 5 in the west will be closed until further notice the rate flipped over spilled oil in the road so theyre still working to get this cleaned up you may want to head over to first street or North Livermore avenue and use those ramps instead of because vasco is closed until further notice and just a quick update for capital cord or 20 m