Confirmation in the senate, where republicans still hold a narrow majority. For now, at least with the transition poses officially under way, some of the uncertainty and turbulence of the past weeks seems to be settling down. Peter joins with the studio now for some analysis, peter, after 3 weeks, this transition is can finally begin about time. Its a big a big deal. Is this right on a normal set circumstances . This would not be a big deal. I mean, this is something that usually goes very smoothly in the mallets, you know, just days after the election, we see the, the 2 teams come together and start the transition. But in this case, it is a big deal for exactly the reasons that were 3 weeks in. Were looking at competing crises, we have a pandemic. Theres an economic crisis and experts are really said, you know, if every day that this transition is delayed, means that more american americans could be dying from the co bit because the governments are just not ready to handle the price a
Into the evening tonight and relaxing finally and for the rest of the weekend by the middle of the day tomorrow temperatures are already climbing look at this oakland here at 80 degrees at this 09 00am hour already starting to see some warmth out there and only getting warmer and warmer come the afternoon. This is eventually going to set us up for daytime highs by the close of the day. Back up into the 90s even warmer than yesterday, especially for bayside areas, ive got more on your forecast still to come robert. All right, thank you john back to the bay bridge toll plaza checking in on 80 west, its looking good. I like what i see here for the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza because this 1520 minutes ago was stacked of way back from a t now im looking at just a minor weights so come on in its only 11 minutes after fremont street. Heres our trouble spot. Its in san jose, its an rv fire that sparked a grass fire. It started early this morning and crews are still cleaning up and pu
His Supreme Court nominee. No more stimulus talks, according to the president. The dow had been up more than 200 points and now you can see, it has swung to the downside, now lower by 267. Weve got the s p down 33. Nasdaq has lost all of its gains and more, down 128 points. But what are we to make on top of all of that . Of a trade deficit that expanded to its widest margin in 14 years, despite President Trumps buy american drum beating, the countrys taste for foreign goods, yes, thats you, remains firmly in place but a slight shrinkage in demand for chinese products. Is team trumps china trade war working or are we seeing squishy numbers in the middle of a Global Pandemic . Trumps biggest china hawk, adviser Peter Navarro, joins us live. And could it be the most intensely watched Vice President ial debate in history, as the vp candidates get set to battle it out on a utah debate stage tonight. Democratic nominee joe biden is just hours away, about one hour away, actually, of his own v
Longer the attempt to revive its ancient culture. So that into a straight and journalists have returned home from china after a diplomatic standoff Chinese Police had demanded interviews with the pet and initially bought them from leaving the reporters one from the state broadcaster a. B. C. And the other from the financial review so refuge in australian diplomatic compounds while the safe departure was negotiated this comes after the arrest of another straightly journalist john lay who was working for chinas state owned channel c g t n. That is. Why you. Believe that if there is. A country with genuine rule of law but. 5 this is a whirlwind of some kind of. Got a few good. Well lets bring in mark a straw man in sydney hes the president of australias media union and Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance markets so mike smith and bill birtles back home now but clearly unable to do their job what do you make of all this well were very glad that the 2 of them are back home and safe becaus
Ridehailing company grab is among the companies reconsidering partnerships. And it is rent day for britains commercial tenants, but how many businesses will pay up . Theu. K. Plans this as u. K. Plants substantial easing of lockdown measures. We will get analysis. Lets have a look at where we are on the futures picture for equity markets. This is the picture for european futures. Stoxx 50 futures and ftse futures both down around. 06 0. 6 . It looks like we will have a bit of a move to the downside at the start of trade. U. S. Futures are fairly flat this hour. Futures on the s p entirely flat, on the dow entirely flat, the nasdaq or positive, up 0. 2 . Yesterday we saw concerns around the second wave of the virus or the third wave, perhaps, in the u. S. , the south and southwest of the United States, taking the edge off gains in the s p, but the nasdaq is powering through to new record highs. Lets show you whats been going on through the asian session. Things looking pretty mixed. Som