Measures. The new Field Hospital just opened as one city warns it will run out of beds within weeks. Rudy guiliani tests positive for the coronavirus as President Trump gives his first major speech since the election. Local republicans spent today refuting it. The government report first obtained by nbc news, was a foreign adversary hitting american diplomats with Microwave Radiation to make them sick . Plus, the show must go on. The nutcracker in the age of covid. The Sugar Plum Fairy Dancing under the stars. This is Nbc Nightly News with kate snow. Good evening. There is some hope on the horizon at the start of a new week. The first doses of the Pfizer Vaccine landing in british hospitals today. Here in the u. S. The fda set to meet this thursday to consider Emergency Authorization for the same vaccine. But that hope is over shadowed at the moment by far too many cases of coronavirus and deaths. California Just Announced they recorded 30,000 cases yesterday, a new record in that stat
Jumping. Wait until you see whats happening on the ground in iowa. Meanwhile, though we begin with the markets and those 1 gains or thereabouts. Lets get the trading action. Bob is live at the new york stock exchange, Bertha Coombs following the movers at nasdaq. Bob, you go first. Another big story on the floor today is avon. Whats going on with that one . We just had a wild morning here. This post was filled with almost 100 traders. They have halted three times on whats called a volatility halt. That is for unusual trading action. Apparently there was an erroneous and false report that they may have had a takeover offer. Now, were trying to sort all of this out. Again, it appears that it was erroneous and false but the important thing is that three times the stock was halted. The company did not make a clear statement down here so absent that, it couldnt be halted because the company had a statement to make. It could only be halted because we had circumstance breakers kick in as a re
Buzzing about carl icahn, eyeing apple as his next target. Bob, whats going on . Reporter it was a very interesting new world tweeting out positions like this. Lets look at apple, folks. 33 million shares . I looked at that and blinked, because normally apple does 10 million. Three times the normal. The tweets carl icahn sent out. We currently have a large position in apple. We believe the company to be extremely undervalued. Spoke to tim cook today. More to come. Well, there was more to come. Theres the next tweet. Put it up. Had a nice conversation with tim cook today. Discussed my opinion that a larger buyback should be done now. We plan to speak again shortly. The company did come out and say that acknowledged there was a meeting, nice to talk to mr. Icahn. The bottom line here, folks, the stock market had a great day. And apple moved up and that helped the nasdaq. Let me move on and talk about the rest of the market. We saw the market down throughout the day. This has been a patte
Aviation mystery thats baffled the world. Here are the latest developments as we have them. Pakistan says no trace of the missing plane ever showed up on its radar systems. And pakistan says the plane would have been treated as if it was a threat if it did show up on radar. Right now, police are examining a Flight Simulator taken from the pilots home. Harsh new scrutiny is bearing down on the pilot and the copilot. Plus, the search for the missing jet airliner is getting even bigger. Now authorities are scouring ocean and land. You will hear why some believe the plane may have landed before its last satellite contact. We are bringing in all our experts to track the unsolved mystery of Malaysia Flight 370. But first, as daylight breaks in what what sha, its another day without questions. As the are the tloauthoritie getting any more details after searching the pilots home and searching the flight simulate their the captain of the plane had in his home . Well, pretty much as for this ent