Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th
Much out. For many in the bay area, this is what they woke up to this money, if there wasnt a downed tree, many found leaves and branches scattered all over the ground, on the left, a tree fell on Market Street in san jose, damaged some Electrical Equipment and knocked out power, in the middle, those strong winds knocked a tree on 103rd avenue in oakland, it also took out power lines. On the right, city crews were busy cleaning up a downed tree in san leandro this morning. In orinda, we saw downtown banks and businesses in the dark this afternoon, the neighboring cities of moraga and lafayette were also affected, pg e turned off power in a large part of the east bay holes and contra costa and alameda counties today, including parts of berkeley, oakland, and san leandro. You can see the widespread outages indicated by the purple triangles, power was cut all across the bay area, including in sonoma, napa, solano, and marin counties, customers in san mateo and santa clara counties are als
Seeing it move in further to the north. Mike, any issues for drivers heading out to work this morning . Yeah, kari, on the nimitz we have it maybe once a week and on friday the 13th looking at the coliseum camera where northbound is jammed solid from about 66 and hitting the brakes. Maybe the slower drive there as you travel north past the coliseum. At the bay bridge is just fine and no other surprises for folks out on the road. Back to you. Thank you very much. 6 01. Arizona after days of counting the projected winner is expected to be joe biden. In the meantime in georgia a recount is under way. All votes will be counted by hand. Biden leads President Trump there by just over 14,000 votes. We havent heard from the president in eight days . Reporter right. But he has been on twitter making unsubstantiated claims about the election. We have, however, heard from republicans, a few, not many, agreeing joe biden is the winner here but more are now saying President Trump needs to cooperate
Over to you. Thank you, mike. Breaking news out of turkey where a 7. 0 earthquake has reduced some buildings to rubble. It construction about an hour ago southeast of ismere off the coast of turkey. This video of a building just came toppling down, layer upon layer, so much debris. Images of crumbled buildings and smoke are flooding twitter this morning. The governor of the city says the city suffered extensive damage. The video is said to be some of the hardest hit neighborhoods there. So far we dont know of any injuries to report but you imagine there must be some with these buildings reduced to rubble. Well continue to monitor everything going on there. 6 01. Now moving on to decision 2020 just four days to go until election day. A record 82 Million People have already cast their ballots and this morning we have live Team Coverage. Cierra johnson with some of that early voting. The final push on the campaign trail, tracie, its really all about the midwest today. Reporter right, marc
And morning welcome to the program facing possible defeat u. S. President donald trump is doubling down again making false and baseless claims that he was robbed of a victory in the u. S. President ial election which wrapped up just 48 hours ago meanwhile hes losing ground in counting in the 4 swing states that remain undecided lets have a look at that now the latest figures show biden with 264. 00 electoral votes to President Donald Trump 2 114. 00 now what are some of the states that are out there with those votes georgia for 116. 00 electoral votes up for grabs it is in intensely tight race both candidates biden and trump are neck and neck with 99 percent of votes counted the latest count has shown the democrat less. Than 2000 votes behind the republican and he is catching up fast then we have pennsylvania the big prize of the evening of this week 20 electoral votes there donald trump currently holds a narrow lead but that gap has been narrowing further still and the remaining mail