How one hedge fund may be getting ready for double or nothing after a historic run to the march bottom this is monday august 17th, this is Worldwide Exchange. What a day to start the week. Appreciate you joining us to kick off your weekend here on cnbc and see record breaking remarkable rally can roll on and futures indicating that it can and it might but still they are off the s p 500 is now up 45 . Its now just 0. 6 how is that for a pacific. Hitting an all time intraday high if we go more than just a half a percent we have a new closing high and theres now four dow components that are each up more than 10 thats in august by the way. Traditionally the worst month of the market where is the money coming from people may be selling bonds to buy stock because you may not know this but its huge for the last few days. The ten yore yield surging 25 yes, i know thats only to 0. 7 of what we are right now but a five day, 25 move in treasury yields is almost unheard of. It also means that Mort
We might know you better than you know yourself. 7eleven. Always open. In San Francisco we spoke to a single parent who says Distance Learning is just not working for her kids. Several summits are reacting to governor newsoms plan on reopening schools in the fall. A sweet surprise. An unexpected baby shower spread across an entire community. Bringing the heat this weekend. Ill have the temperatures coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Civil rights hero and congressman john lewis has died. The 80yearold had been battling cancer for seven months. He stood shoulder to shoulder with the legendary dr. Martin luther king jr. In the 60s and continued to fight for equality on capitol hill. A look back at lewiss iconic life. Reporter john lewis was born outside troy, alabama, in 1940. The son of share croppers. As a teenager he was drawn to activism surrounding the montgomery bus boycott. In the 1960s he was at the center of nearly every major mole in the Civil Rights Movement. Organ
Was one of the first freedom riders. This shows him with a bandage on his head after he and other riders were beaten, just the beginning of what would be many arrests for the civil rights activist. We must all cry together. We want our freedom and we want it now. By 1963 at the age of just 23, he was dubbed one of the big six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement who helped plan the historic march on washington. Let us not forget that we are involved in a social revolution. Reporter he helped spearhead one of the most defining moments of the era, leading more than 600 Peaceful Protesters across the bridge in selma, alabama in 1965. It was known as muddy sunday. He was struck in the head, suffering a fractured skull at the hands of the police. I was the first one to catch the blow. Reporter lewis was elected to congress in 1986. He served as u. S. Representative of georgias fifth Congressional District where he continued to get into what he called good trouble. I got arrested 40 times in
Mean for our behavior and our health. Cost millions of people in the australian city of melbourne are locked down again the government says it is the only way of preventing a catastrophe. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the European Union to unite and emerge stronger from the greatest challenge it has ever faced the coronavirus pandemic at the European Parliament in brussels merkel laid out her vision for germanys Council Presidency which will be dominated by economic recovery from the pandemic she will come to the e. U. Commissions plan for a massive relief fund for struggling european economies it is a 2nd time that germany has taken over the years Council President presidency with america as chancellor 9 a democrat to survive and merkel said members. States would need to compromise to sign off on the joint Recovery Fund before next months summer recess then she said this diffidence than it might in some of ruth if we ar
Steve tonight join jimmy and his guests gwyneth paltromusical guest ale, and the legendary roots crew and now hereimmy jimmy welcome to the tonight show, everybody thank you so much for tuning in, i appreciate it. What a show we have for you tonight. Gwyneth paltrow is here. [ applause ] i want to get some face tips from gwenny. I dont even call her gwenny, but anyway i did it tonight. Zachary quinto is on the show. I going to talk to zacky and see what we i dont really call him zacky, but you know what, maybe tonight i will who knows . And then Alec Benjamin [ applause ] lecy is doing a new song tonight. Lets get to some news earlier today President Trump held a press conference in the white house rose garden. He was there to sign an executive order on Police Reform but when the topic of a coronavirus cure came up, he looks like he got a little side tracked along the way. Check it out these are the people. The best, the smartest, the most brilliant anywhere. And theyve come up with th