Details. Larry . Ama, dan, the coronavirus shut down sports for months. The nba restarted in a bubble, but that bubble may be about to burst. Maybe it already did. Not sure tonight. But the lakers and the clippers voted to boycott the rest of the playoffs following that shooting by police in wisconsin. Exactly four years ago today, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick chose to sit during the National Anthem to protest Police Brutality and social inequality. Well, today, the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play their game with orlando in protest of the Police Shooting of jacob blake on sunday. Despite the overwhelming plea for change there has been no action, so our focus today cannot be on basketball. Like dominos, teams began calling off games. Three Major League Baseball games, including tonights giants dodgers contest postponed. The wnba and Major League Soccer also postponing play. I dont think it should require athletes needing to boycott playoff games to remind us black lives matter
A year ago comes together again in a show of you to see. Them come from al this is just there on live from doha also coming up. Hurricane laura makes landfall along the u. S. Gulf coast with warnings that it could cause unsurvivable damage. We need for more years of president john the truck u. S. Vice president mike pence makes his case for why he and President Trump should stay in the white house for another 4 years. And more National Guard troops are deployed to can no show wisconsin to support police during another night of protests over the shooting of a black man. For the 1st time in new zealands history a judge has ordered the convicted person to spend the rest of their life in prison without the possibility of getting out the sentence was handed to brenton talent the selfconfessed white supremacist who killed 51. 00 muslim worshipers and knowledge of last year he was responsible for the countrys worst mass shooting reports. After a harrowing emotional 4 days in the high court in
Action from jay powell call it a pandemic breakthrough, the fda clears a near instant testing kit that could change the tide in washington, d. C. , lawmakers looking to make a deal over a skinny stimulus package. It is thursday, august 27, 2020 you are watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Top of the morning to you. Im Brian Chu Dominic chu in Brian Sullivan this morning. S p lower by about two points, the nasdaq off by about six. Monitor day for the nasdaq yesterday. Coming off fresh alltime highs. The dow did end higher yesterday and is now less than 1 away from the break even level for 2020 that is 28,539 digging deeper, it is not just the big names keeping the rally alive. Looking at the semiconductors, both of those coming off intraday alltime highs. Up more than 2 this week alone. Cloud computing getting a boost. Three etfs tracking the space. Coming off the fresh high with a huge move, a massive move. Salesforce goes into the dow next week. That stock higher by 26 for its second
Decided not to play their game with orlando in protest of the Police Shooting of jacob blake on sunday. Despite the overwhelming plea for change there has been no action, so our focus today cannot be on basketball. Like dominos, teams began calling off games. Three Major League Baseball games, including tonights giants dodgers contest postponed. The wnba and Major League Soccer also postponing play. I dont think it should require athletes needing to boycott playoff games to remind us black lives matter and that Police Brutality is unacceptable. This is its clear theyre committed to pressuring team owners, politicians and police to make real changes. Its amazing. Why while we keep loving this country and the country is not loving back. Tennis star naomi osaka is bowing out of her match, tweeting, before i am an athlete, i am a black woman, and as a black woman, i feel there are much more important matters at hand that need immediate attention rather than watching me play tennis. The que
Third term. One can only hope that a new mayor will bring peace and healing to a city in desperate need of both. Heres our town hall from chicago. [ applause ] good evening, everyone, im Laura Ingraham and welcome to the first ever the ingraham angle town hall. Now id like to thank the city of chicago and the audience for hosting us for an incredibly important discussion. Chicago is one of the truly Great American cities, spectacularly beautiful in the summer and winter. But in recent years Gang Violence has reached epidemic proportions and a level of violence that is unacceptable for anywhere in america. The city is on pace for more than 2,000 shootings this year which will mark the fifth Straight Year its topped that grim mark. Just so you get some perspective, since 2011, the year that rahm Emanuel Took Office as mayor there have been over 4,000 murders in this city. Thats more than the 34,481 killed in action from 2003 to 2010. And its not just the level of violence in the city tha