Expected, the question is how much. And bigtech in the cross hairs, Senate Committee holding antitrust hearing today. Companies expected to face tough questions from both sides, plus, President Trump ripping the New York Times once again, a lot to go at today including more problems for wework and half billion dollar deal to bring seinfeld to netflix, Varney Company begins right now. David day 2 of gm strike, Kristina Partsinevelos from picket line in arlington, texas, what are you hearing about the status of the negotiations . Well, right now its been pretty tense, went into the evening, im at the arlington plant over here, over 4,000 workers are focused primarily on larger vehicles, suvs, chevy tahoe, for example, the issue, a lot of Sticking Points, the one we were told by source that issue mexico, Union Workers that want the production to come back to the United States, more Jobs Available for workers and several talking points i guess you should say the laundry list of items that
rising death toll. we are all hunker down praying. praying to god. russian police have arrested a female suspect in a bombing that killed a prominent supporter of russia s war on uke. plunnouncests flashing worldwide production. nasa names that accrue for a history making mission to the moon s orbit. this is our crew. this is humanity s crew. norah: mcdonald s temporarily shudders its u.s. corporate offices ahead of reported layoffs. lsu has captured its very first national championship. norah: good evening thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight at this hour, donald trump is meeting with his new legal team as he prepares to be the first former president to see the inside of the courtroom as a defendant. on tuesday he will travel down to lower manhattan terror surrender to the new york district attorney and tonight we are wondering, will there be cameras in the courtroom? trump s lawyers opposing them, arguing it would create a circus
Bock sheppard. Exit sandman. One of baseballs alltime greats. Mariano rivera, leaves the Pitchers Mound at Yankee Stadium for a final time. The emotions pouring, and departing in hardearned cheers and thunderous chants in the bronx. We do say good morning, america. George is off. Great to have josh back with us. You talked about bob sheppard, the announcer for the yankees. He was welcoming mario rivera for the final time. Sam was asking, why do you call him the sandman . Because you might as well put the game to bed. Oh, yeah. When that man, right there, 42, shows up. One of the games alltime greats. And one of the great gentlemen in sport. We have lost a singular person. We have more on that ahead. Also, were going to hear from two former president s today and this weekend. That was me yesterday, with president george w. Bush. Got a chance to sit down with him. Ask him about his health. And george sitting down with former president bill clinton. Youll hear about that today and sunday
Deaths have been reported. The crisis is pummeling florida and california right now. They both set records for the number of deaths in a single day. As we wait to hear from the president , lets get more on the breaking pandemic news, and nick is joining us from l. A. The numbers in much of california right now are moving very much in the wrong direction. Reporter they are, wolf. 157 people died in this state in just a 24hour period, and that is an alltime high. We also now have had two days of more than 12,000 new cases reported. You know, right now across the south the average daily death toll from this virus is higher than it ever has been. 173 people reported dead today in florida. An alltime high for that state. One person is getting exposed or sick and they are infecting every Single Member of their household. Today we passed 4 million confirmed covid19 cases across this country. Now, getting to the first million cases took 99 days. The next million took 43 days. The next, 28. And
Ted cruz is now over but the threat of a Government Shutdown is still very real and if that happens, democrats are already pinning the blame on that tea party senator. Nbcs trac tracey potts is live washington. He doing a lot of talking to each other . Its a lot of pingpong back and forth. Four days before the deadline for the Government Shutdown monday, ted cruz talked and talked to prevent a vote that happened anyway and at the end of that vote it looks like democrats and republicans are still at odds. Ted cruz finally sat down after 21 hours. This was all about elevating the debate in the public. It was a big waste of tile. Reporter now the senates on track to pass a budget that will likely include money for at fordable care act, thats sure to go nowhere in the house. Democrats say theyll fight for it. Anything that diminishes the Affordable Care act is not anything we want to support. We cannot rely on the commander in chief to negotiate. Reporter republicans are expected to count