Welcome to cnns special live coverage of the tragedy near miami. Im wolf blitzer, near the scene of the 12story condo Building Collapse here in surfside, florida. And im pamela brown in washington. We have a lot of Breaking News to cover this hour, pamela. Well do it together. The Structural Engineering company that inspected the Champlain Towers in 2018 says they also gave estimates back in june of 2020 for the buildings 40year recertification. The consultant only provides Engineering Consulting services, not repair or restoration contracting, the statement said. And they also stated, and im quoting, we are deeply troubled by this Building Collapse and are working closely with the investigating authorities to understand why the structure failed. As we do so, we also continue to pray for all those impacted by this tragic event. Tonight, surfside officials are warning residents of a Sister Building, the Champlain Towers north, and theyre warning them to evacuate now. We have a full team
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To increased economy. There is a one month to in germany, not good for our market, same thing in france and a Record Number of new cases in america over the last seven days. Thats not good either and a time clearly running out for stimulus package before the election. We will ask larry kudlow about that. Dow industrial 900point drop yesterday, dead flat at the opening of this morning, pretty much the same story for the s p, modest rebound for the nasdaq. This is the big day for big tech, apple, amazon, google and facebook will tell us how they are doing financially. Report on this about 4 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. Extreme importance because these are the most important and powerful countries in the world. Their stocks have had a terrific run, but they have come off their highs and we will ask if the blue is coming off the big tech. Campaign headline, joe biden leaves his house again. Today hes off to tampa, florida and so is the president. The latest poll shows a dead heat, 48,
Sunday. Meanwhile we should note that this comes as joe biden is going to be attending a town hall on abc this evening. That is set to begin at 9 00 eastern. It comes as President Trump will also have a town hall at the 8 00 eastern our, and they will be on abc and nbc respectively. This is supposed to be the night of the debate, but that has been canceled. David dueling town meetings on two rival networks. Is there any reason to believe this information will interfere with that town hall meeting from joe biden tonight or with Kamala Harris being back on the campaign trail monday . Kevin no. They are saying theyre having rapid tests throughout several days, they test both of the candidates and staffers. President trump weighing in earlier today, saying he takes frequent tests but did not specify how many tests. David thank you so much to our chief washington correspondent. Every day bring some new development that may or may not affect the election. What are the markets telling us abou
More than 2 and the s p and nasdaq at more than 3 a piece for the week and the s p and the green, five weeks in a row and that the longest winning streak since december, the dow on track to have for august since 1984. So the run keeps going for stocks, we will talk a lot about it, number of stories were covering with fox Business Team coverage, edward lawrence, blake berman, sit down jerry, we start with edward in washington. A quick flight back to jacksonville, part of the gains that we saw here in the markets could be related directly to the Federal Reserve and the action that the fed took yesterday, the Federal Reserve president said its an evolution, not a revolution specifically related to averaging to achieve the average of a 2 target in an inflation, the Federal Reserve trying to see if they can make things average about 2 , theyre saying that the people will not see the prices of the things that they buy jump noticeably, what theyre looking for is the price stability, less than