The name is eddie micah jr. Youre welcome to the program. The theme for this year as well. Aids day is hiv aids, epidemic resilience on the impact. Now, while theres been great progress in tackling the virus in recent, yes, the global aids hiv epidemic is far from over. Especially in africa. South africa is a country where one in 5 people are living with the virus. Our correspondents reports from cape town. For almost 2 decades, the Nonprofit Organization hope has been an important point of contact for those living with hiv. Like here in the cape town township of delft. 30 years ago, luis morris worked in a textile factory, but then her life took a difficult situation, and accident left her unable to work out the whole problems followed. And then she became infected with hiv. But my family didnt want to have anything to do with me. After my hiv diagnosis, they cut off contact. And even now if my neighbors knew that i had a hiv, they would only say hi from a distance. They wouldnt invit
Listen live with the radio app. Lawmakers held a News Conference to unveil a bipartisan covid19 emergency relief will. Ae measure would provide liability provision. This is about 40 minutes. Phones off. [laughter] you might want to put your phones on silent. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . Let me welcome all of you, thank you for being here. Intense effortn and we want to thank staff for doing this work. As you see, we have with us a Bipartisan Group of people working diligently for the last 30 days or more to try to get to a conclusion. This is covid emergency relief framework. This is exactly what it is. Can you hear me . Ok. Back off. Let me just say that this is an intense amount of work the staff has been doing for quite some time. Every senator, every congressperson here has put an enormous amount of time on this inperson and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. We have worked in the best interest of what we believe is great for our
Also coming up, the u. N. Calls it the shadow pandemic. Rising reports of Sexual Violence against women and girls under lockdown. We need a woman in kenya who they are working to shed the social stigma around survivors and helps heal each other. And the world gets to know us president elect joe bidens 1st cabinet choices. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world. Not retreat from biden is moving quickly to fill all key positions in his administration. Now that donald trump has stopped blocking the transition. Im sorry, kelly, welcome to the program. We have some breaking news coming in here in the german capitol of car has been seen crashing into the gates of german chancellor Angela Merkels office complex. Just a short distance from our studios. Youre looking at pictures there where there have been no reports of casualties. Police say that they have taken the driver into custody now. Merkel was scheduled today to host a Video Conference with 16 st
Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea