Not my first trip. Ive been to the border many times. This important aspect of this visit is having this visit after the work we did in guatemala and mexico. I said back in march i was going to come to the border. This is not a new plan. Harris however, critics are asking if this is too little too late. The Vice President finally went to the border 93 days after President Biden named her point person on the migrant crisis as i mentioned. Leaders in both Political Parties say Kamala Harris is avoiding the real trouble area. When it comes to the numbers encounters with people flowing in illegally has surged by nearly 450 in the el paso sector in the first part of this year. Thats bad. But thats certainly not the real epicenter of what were seeing. In the rio grande sector the numbers are up 700 . In fact, the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick is calling what he is seeing an invasion at this point. It is an invasion. I know people dont like that word. Some people dont like it but its
The vaccine is expected to be highly effective at preventing symptomatic disease. And very effective at preventing severe outcomes from the disease. We believe that this data, these data are robust and should be clearly sufficient to enable the emergency use, authorization. In the u. S. , we anticipate that the benefit of the spec scene is going to be quite significant. We really look to the ability to deploy this initially under emergency use authorization. Also coming up irans top nuclear weapons, scientists murdered tehran, says the weapon was made in israel. It was the u. S. Involved. Is the u. S. Now a target for retaliation, but they sink to proportionally act it was very difficult for you dont to kill a u. S. General so they would try it made me once and theres a way, but the timing once again is not the best. But to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all of our viewers around the world, welcome, we begin the day counting down the day is how long will it be until t
Bigfs, Mark Zuckerberg and dabbing jurorsy faced over scrutiny over censorships. The very latest coming up. Has dabbing is up 40 and s p higher by 8 and 3 quarters. Retail once again in focus this morning with lowes, target and tjmaxx reporting. Its a tough day. The s p down 17. Carlos goshns legal battle, i spoke with one man who helped the former nissan chairman escape from jail as he faces 90 milliondollar civil suit in japan. You will hear from him himself, carlos goshn will join me next hour with his side of the story as the man who helped carlos goshn, Michael Taylor possibly get extradited to japan. We will talk about it. Dolly parton gets it done. Maintaining Public Health all while making return to playboy, its making a buzz this morning, mornings with maria live right now. Maria lets check european markets this morning. Mixed story. Ftse 100 down 9 points, cac up 5 and dax higher by 25. Japans daily covid number case reportedly reaching 2,000 for the first time causing the ca
Commodities having a positive session the far. Astrazeneca stock is actually down today. The s p is up i 014 . It is a monday. We get vaccine news. Generally it is taken quite well. Cyclicals have a bigger day. That seems to be the narrative that is establishing itself. We do have a euro that has weakened. The manufacturing pmi data out of the united states, and i know the ism is more important in terms of what people look at, but nevertheless, the manufacturing data was strong, and as a result, the dollar went up. It does seem to be something of a consensus now that the u. S. Is simply a few weeks behind europe. You only have to look at what is happening with the eurozone data today to get a sense of how far pmis can fall. Highs,off our earlier off by 0. 2 percent. Boris johnson is currently talking about covid. We are also possibly making some progress when it comes to the brexit story. Certainly today, the big driver is definitely that news on astrazeneca. Alix Boris Johnson saying
144,000, 65000 people hospitalized and we are averaging over a thousand deaths a day. A new round of restrictions would surely slow the economy and put more people out of work, heard even more with travel, retail and Entertainment Industries perhaps, thats one reason the market is selling this morning. After the huge recent gains the dow looks to be down about 200, s p down about 10. Look at the nasdaq with a modest bounce to the upside with the dana may be a quarter of a percent of the standout political headline comes from Bernie Sanders. He says yes, if offered the job of labor secretary in a biting next he would take it. On that, we will say this, varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart born to be wild, well i guess thats fairly appropriate. What you are looking at is rather empty new york city on a rainy thursday morning. Of course, its been half empty for about eight months and Governor Cuomo has more restrictions on businesses. Ashley, bring me up to speed. Ashley he certainly has.