President obama pushed back. In a virtual commencement ceremony, the 44th president saying, this pandemic finally has pulled back the curtain on the idea that people in charge know what theyre doing. This as the number of coronavirus cases in the United States has reached nearly 1. 5 million with almost 90,000 deaths. Well have a live report and get into it with chuck todd. Plus, well have the latest on breaking news overnight from los angeles where nearly a dozen firefighters were severely injured after a massive fire and explosion. We are life on the scene. All that plus the first named storm of what is expected to be a very busy Hurricane Season just ahead. And later, in our sunday spotlight, we take you inside one of the worlds most famous casinos as it sits eerily dark and quiet. In our sunday closer couples getting married any way they can right now, even in the parking lot of a hockey arena. Later, another favorite sunday sitdown wfany haddish e difficulties that brought her fro
Clouds gather. And Boris Johnson heads to downing street. Must avoid a damaging no deal divorce at all costs. Check ofget a quick the markets. We saw the s p 500 topping 3000, gaining the most in more than a week. Earnings from the morning session. Ofults out of the likes cocacola, united technologies, not to mention Lockheed Martin beating expectations. We got news u. S. Negotiators were headed to china for the first facetoface negotiations since may. U. S. Futures under pressure, down 0. 1 . Taking a hit after hours after reports they would be facing more antitrust scrutiny. Lets see how we are shaping up in asia. Pointing to a mixed start as investors consider the warning on Global Growth with china receiving a global downgrade. Even as we have optimism around the u. S. China trade talks. The boj expected to downgrade some projections as well as lower Inflation Forecasts. Pmi datapanese flash and earning seasons taking off in earnest with names reporting in south korea. Of updates f
A cold start to your morning. Warm coat, the clouds will hang around today. Not much in the way of sunshine. Theres that storm system. Its starting to come together down south. Rain and snow with it. Thats going to be closer to us. Ill show you what to expect coming up. Thank you, sheena. Well start out with break news on the wildfires burning in california. Take a look at the pictures. Six fires now burning across the state including a new one that broke out in san diego county. In all, about 500 buildings destroyed, 5700 firefighters are working the frontlines trying to get a handle on the fires. Lets go to jinah kim in ventura with more on the Biggest Challenges facing the firefighters this morning. Good morning, jinah. Good morning, chris. What a difference 24 hours makes. This time yesterday we were el fires in southern california, mostly contained to the general l. A. Area. Since then, weve added the lilac fire and the liberty fire in murieta. The lilac fire being the one theyre
Cold air is and locally we have some hints of flurries kind of induced by the mountains near luray, charlottesville. Well be watching for that. Your wakeup weather. Temperatures mid to upper 30s. Look at future weather. Heres the wide view. Theres the storm system offshore. That is snowfall. We expected more widespread now into your saturday morning. Well zoom in on this. Well show you more detail what you can expect for your saturday and the totals in a bit. Lets check the roads before you head out on your friday. Good morning, sheena. Chopper 4 moved to the east. Powder mill road at edmonton road. Right now traffic is alternating around this. Completely shut down. A short time in beltsville. Southbound bw parkway at powder mill. We had that crash investigation from overnight. The lanes have reopened. Thats looking better. Outer loop before georgia. Left side blocked by the crash. Inner loop, outer loop everywhere else looking good right 66 and 95 just fine as well. Thank you, melissa
Coverage is going to continue over on our companion network, cspan. You can also see all of todays fcc hearing later in our schedule. And on the cspan. Org. Here on cspan3, well bring you a discussion with House Democrats on the ways and Means Committee. They held a meeting yesterday on the republican tax reformulation. Joining them were House Democratic leaders, nancy pelosi and steny hoyer, invited speakers, mark zandi of moodys analytics and jason fuhrman, former chair of the white house economic advisers during the obama administration. This is 90 minutes. [deval patrick tolet me bring this hearing order. It might be the only hearing let me bring this hearing to order. Take note of the fact this may be the only hearing on impending tax legislation where conferees will get together for the first time today. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us. Todays hearing is the first, and as i noted, likely the only hearing on hr1, the Ryan Mcconnell tax legislation. So i thank our witn