Vice president ial contenders take the stage for the one and only vp debate in Salt Lake City tonight. We will take you straight to the beehive state for a live preview of what could be the most intensely watched vp faceoff in history. And our allstar Political Panel, Brad Blakeman and mary ann marchon on why the president chose his Supreme Court nominee over trillions in coronavirus stimulus yesterday only to reverse. Plus, slack stepping it up to take on tiktok and instagram . Slack unveiling workplace video stories as it fights off new challenges from google. Ceo Stuart Butterfield joins us live in just a moment because they have a whole host of other things they are floating. Really interesting things. In the meantime, lets get to the president s tweet thats got the markets doing quite a dance. This is what we saw at this time yesterday, after President Trump put a full stop to stimulus negotiations. You could see it. It really began to fall very dramatically. His tweetstorm right
59 minutes heft to trade, folks, stocks on fire day two. Look at the dow jones industrials. Not even at the highs of the session, right now up 291 points. Had been up 376. Nonetheless, when you put these two days together, yesterday and today, youre looking at 690 points of gains. S p jumping 18 points. Weve got the nasdaq up 36. Earlier though, so were definitely coming off the boil here. The nasdaq had been up 169. Russell 2000, the percentage winner, once again up 1. 25 or 26 points. But we begin with breaking news and kind of dueling headlines here. Apple and the reddit ipo. As we kick off the final hour of trade, i need you to looked at apple. A major lawsuit by the department of justice and 16 astronaut attorneys general slapped state attorneys general slapped on apple is dunking shares of the iphone maker all the way to the bottom of the dows barrel, down 4. 25. The stock the is tanking 4. 25 . Merrick garland announced the Consumer Electronics behemoth has allegedly violated fe
Taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought in every war from the revolutionary war on up until that time. Within a couple years the organization broadened its mission to want to construct what they called a National Memorial building to negro achievement and contributions to america in all fields of endeavor from business to education to the arts, et cetera. Essentially a National Muse
Day of 09 plus got up to 09 plus got up to 91 in newark and temperatures tailed off a little bit in and around new york city and especially around coastal areas with a wind off the water and also north of the city with a couple of showers and thunderstorms providing a little bit of relief but 93 right now in morristown and 90 sussex. Still very warm if not downright hot just heres the High Resolution futurecast and to the evening and any thunderstorm activity should tend to weaken as we lose that daytime heating. So the heat wave is going to be winding down. But if anything, the humidity will actually be on its way up over the next several days. And eventually that will lead to some more widespread thunderstorm activity. Well have much more on that coming up in your full accuweather forecast a little bit later in the half hour. Liz david back over to you. Thanks lot. Now to the developing story involving Rosie Odonnell. The actress comedienne says her 17yearold daughter Chelsea Odonnel
Of a headache for the Trump Administration with four gop senators still refusing from moving from nay to yea on health care bill. President trump says he will stump for the plan. White House Press Secretary sean spicer was much more optimisticically and thinks chances of passage are high. Democratic critics continuing to blast away at the senate labeling it as, quote, cruel, mean and even deadly. Congressman from california, actually agrees with those assessments and has one more big reason he says he blames the president. He will join us live in just a few moments and weve been warned over and over again that our nations lek call grid is vulnerable to hackers and now theres proof, russia shutting off the power in ukraine. Should we be even more worried or ramp up efforts and ceo has been sounding alarm for years and what the Trump Administration should do first. On wall street we have the dow and the s p struggling stay in the green. Dow is down about 15 points. The nasdaq aims to clo