The official start of summer. As we look at live doppler 7 youll notice the fog hugging the shoreline making its way across the bay. 5 46 is the sunrise and you can see from our east bay its clear. 52 in gilroy, 53 santa rosa, 57 in concord and looking at the visibility reduced to just over 2 miles around Half Moon Bay. But well talk about the summer spread today, and that temperature were going to change that. Its going to be in the upper 80s later on this thanks n vo enewsom just over t countless fireworks overnight. One of them exploding over ove merritt. Check out that car that even drove onto the grass to get around other cars and street trash as fireworks wept off. Hundreds of people had been there celebrating juneteenth. A similar scene in San Francisco. Thats at hunters point. People in several bay area cities said they heard plenty overnight. There had been lots of fireworks in the past couple of weeks but there seemed to be a significant increase lastatt n stu being ton docou
Key National Challenges. In 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face is to hold the National Challenge National Selection during the covid19 pandemic. Today, we are honored to host leading experts from the national and intergovernmental community that protects state and local government Information Systems. First, well hear from jeffrey hale, the director of the Election Security initiative at the department of Homeland Security. He will be followed by a discussion including questions from the audience. Please feel free to use the chat function here on zoom to ask questions. After that, the second half of our program will feature a discussion with representatives of associations of discussions on leaders. Lindsay forson, with National Association of secretaries of state. And Maggie Brunner, a director for Homeland Security at the National Governors association. First, its really terrific to have an opportunity to hear from jeffrey and the department of Homeland Security. Si
Starting the quarter with gains. The nasdaq was up more than 1 by an alltime high. S p was up half a percentage point. The dow was up slightly. A decline of about 0. 3 . Burke buckle your seat belts a lot to come. We have been watching what is happening with the futures at this point, all three in the green. The dow up almost 200 points all coming before the big jobs report the last trading day of the week before a long Holiday Weekend for the 4th of july. You could see some activity happening here a quick look at the treasury market youll see right now, the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 676 . It is that jobs preview people are waiting for to get a sense of what is happening in the economy. Lets bring you the preview maybe not the numbers itself but get ready for them markets in the u. S. Are closed tomorrow in observance of Independence Day today is jobs thursday forecasters expecting an addition of 2. 9 million nonfarm jobs in june Unemployment Rate expected to dr drop calling
Getting some headlines for the International Energy agency. The focus on what they see oil demand like in the coming years. Oil demand will not fully recover until at least 2022. That may have an impact on the price of oil. New york crude wti pretty much flat. Markets focused on this extra stimulus. We are also expecting to have more data points with damage the economy. Plans with sentiment in the wave of it would also be great to look at treasuries and things like that. Lets get a Bloomberg News here in london. President trump is weighing an infrastructure proposal worth nearly 1 trillion to spur the u. S. Economy according to bloomberg sources. The plan would reserve most of the cash for traditional work such as roads and bridges but they would also go to wireless and broadband pretty broadband. Ae eu and u. K. Seem closer to brexit deal. Russells is confident Boris Johnson is willing to compromise and the Prime Minister said chances of agreement are very good. Injected new momentum
Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p