Stories. Lauren simonetti following markets in the newsroom. Blake burman at white house, Hillary Vaughn on capitol hill, and Edward Lawrence with more reporting from washington as well. Lauren, on this 2,000 point gain today we start with you. Lauren biggest point gain the dow has ever seen. Rallied into the final hour of trading. What caused this . Is this fact that donald trump wants to open the economy up by easter . Is it fact the senate is awfully close to spending a two trillion dollar stimulus or both . The dow up 11. 25 . The s p and nasdaq up 208 and 557 points respectively. Each had the second biggest point gains in history. A lot of investors today are saying this is the birth of a new bull market . Have we hit bottom or is this just a temporary bounce . Look, nobody knows the answer, but Credit Suisse looking at the broader market, they see by the end of the year, s p 2700, which is a 21 gain from yesterdays close. Take that with a grain of salt. The big tech stocks we lik
In congress and at the white house on the issue of vaping and underage use of ecigarettes. We are joined by andrew, who covers health care for cq roll call. Tell us why underage vaping became a bigger issue in 2019. Andrew i think it was a combination of factors that really drove this to the front of the policy debate this year. One was just a year over year increases in the number of teens who are reporting ecigarette use. Thats been increasing for several years, but 2019, we saw another significant increase over last year. Another was interrelated, but sort of distinct issue that we saw, starting over the summer with vaping related illnesses that were beginning to emerge, that weve now seen thousands injured and dozens dead from this. Thats related to illicit thc vaping, which is distinct from the problem of ecigarette use. But the urgency of those illnesses i think really prompted policymakers to want to respond more broadly to the vaping issues were dealing with in the u. S. Host a
The russell up nearly a full percent. The broader markets, though, flat s p just lower dow, just higher joining us for the full hour, stephanie link very good afternoon to you thanks for having me. Markets flat overall, but whats happening underneath . Massive rotation today, and it actually started over the last couple of weeks and a lot of that has to do with a little bit better Economic Data that were getting around the world. Even over the weekend, we got the export import numbers out of china. And even though they were down year over year, the trend is still definitely up. And this comes on the heels of better pmi so i think a lot of it is a little bit better Economic Data. And then its this trade talk seems to be making some sort of progress so the cyclicals are actually the ones that are leading. Its financials, tech, industrials. And within tech, its se semiconductors versus Software Software is actually getting slammed. Is it that the expectations came down too far, too fast,
System tuesday afternoon before switching out of the northwest in wake of the frontal passage. Dry weather conditions then return region wide late in the week and will likely persist into early next week with seasonably mild daytime temperatures and cool overnight conditions. Hot spot sb 101 at burnett all lanes blocked. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 robin breaking news from overnight out of the south bay. Police say a Security Guard shot a man trying to rob a store. It happened at the walgreens on south first street in downtown san jose. Just before 8 30. The suspected thief was rushed to the hospital with life threatening injuries. The Security Guard is cooperating with the investigation. robin new details about the offduty Richmond Police officer who was arrested after a standoff. 45yearold Sergeant Philip sanchez was taken into custody after ope
No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. james happening now. Berkely police are investigating a hit and run that happened at the 3100 block of san pablo avenue. Police say a car hit a pedestrian and then took off last night. The victim was taken to the hospital with multiple injuries. There is no word on the victims condition this morning. Traffic investigators are still at the scene. darya caltrans is dedicating millions of dollars to fight freeway shootings. james and the city of pittsburg is joining that fight. Kron 4s Lydia Pantazes joins us live with the details. Lydia. lydia with an average of one car shooting per week on bay area freeways. Pittsburg city council the Council Members just voted to let their Police Monitor a large scale freeway safety project. Pittsburg city Council Voted 50 in favor of their Police Department hosting a large scale Security System across Contra Costa County freeways. There have been more than 100 shootings on b