Pick and we will see how she works out. Chris we will get reaction to the bidenharris ticket from somtrump Campaign Senior advisor chris as we said, this weeks Virtual Convention will steve cortes buried end. Be different than any weve ever ive directed the secretary of the treasury to send direct seen. Theres been a marriage of Party Conventions in television for payments, 3,400, for a family of more than six decades now. Four, to all americans. Democrats are holding this up. The big speeches and funny hats and balloon drops have produced a great show and provided some perhaps you mistook them for someone who gave a damn. Indelible moments in our chris we will ask a panel politics. And for much of the action, ive about the continuing stalemate of a Coronavirus Relief package. Been lucky to enjoy a front row plus our power players of the seat. Week. The hope still lives in the the Democratic Party assembled for its National Dream shall never die. Chris a look back at Great Convention a
Pandemic, a lot of you wondering, including me, what the chances are of getting sick on a plane from covid19 . As weve gone through this, we havent seen a lot of studies on this until now. I saw this very interesting study done recently by professor at m. I. T. And look, chances of catching covid19 from an airplane, what does your Research Show . First of all, no one knows exact exactly, the issue is whether or not important from the safety perspective to keep the middle seat empty, some airlines like delta, jetblue, southwest are keeping the middle seat empty on their planes, the narrowbody planes. Whereas america, united and spiritre fildle seat. Alaska is also keeping the middle seat empty. I know its an important airline in san francisco, and i remember thinking its very rare, extraordinarily rare that u. S. Airlines differ overtly on a matter related to safety. Anyway, so i tried various approximations, which im glad to describe the interminable lens and if youre on a plane, like
The new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you with the latest from the president. Reporter the latest is about an hour away, connell. Were set to hear once again from President Trump, he will be once again bringing back the coronavirus briefings for the first time in many, many weeks. The brief from the white house is they say that the president will be talking about medical advances and the look ahead. That is why they say these are coming back. However when you hear from the top democrat in the senate, there is much different story as Chuck Schumer said today, these briefings shouldnt happen at all. These are going to be short briefings of the president mainly delivering information to the American People that is needed on therapeutics and vaccines. President trump should not take the podium. Every time President Trump takes the podium at one of these briefings he is a threat to public health. Reporter up on the hill earlier today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell outlined rep
Plunges and a financial panic gripped the world. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island i have but one desire, and that is to see my country again on the road to prosperity. This land was made for you and me let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you around the country to places like toledo. And then in 1931, five of the six largest banks in toledo all failed at the same time, which made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. Two successful Infrastructure Projects of the time still impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. Well take you to saint paul where depression gangsters and the corrup
Operation yet. Not much to be disrupted. Romaine lets talk to our reporters. Abigail . I want to check in with this cross asset chart. We have bonds are the winner in pricedtreasury futures slightly above the s p 500 by 50 thes points, but netnet, s p and bonds are higher. Everything else is lower. China is down just slightly in blue. In orange, we have emerging markets, overall taking a bigger hit wn bottom, copper in pink and crude oil in yellow, those commodities that lag risk assets. Tat could be a bearish ell on volatility ahead. The chipmakers are getting hit the hardest, off 1. 5 , relative to the s p 500, but if you look at this chart, i want to put the underperformance of the stock into perspective. Im looking at stocks relative to the s p 500. Over the long term, they are still outperforming at a ratio , so you are still near the 18 year high despite todays underperformance. On a relative basis with the chipmakers holding in there. It was a strong day for real estate stocks a