President ial and parliamentary elections but opposition parties say the vote has already been corrupted by manipulation and violence. Im going to have you with us germany closes down at least partially today german chancellor Angela Merkel and now its a limited National Lockdown for most of november the goal is to stop an out of control rise in corona virus infections bars gyms and theaters will shut next monday the bundesliga will have to proceed without stadium audience but schools and shops will stay open the government is earmarking up to 10000000000 euros and Financial Support for businesses hit hardest by the shutdown. The deserted streets of the spring are about to become all too familiar again in germany for 4 weeks from november 2nd the entire country will be under a partial lockdown faced with another record high of daily coronavirus cases on wednesday chancellor Angela Merkel in the country 16 state premiers quickly found consensus. Theres a. Lot of it today is a difficult
The Senate Returns today and they vote later on a house passed resolution disapproving a new federal rule revising oversight oflow income banking services. Later in the week , a vote on a gop backed coronavirus Economic Relief bill. They will also take up the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Live now to the senate floor on cspan2. In the law and the prophets. We praise you for this profound maxim to guide our ethical conduct. May it provide our lawmakers with wisdom to make sound decisions and strength to walk in the way of justice and freedom for all. We pray in your wonderful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the president pro tempore. Mr. Grassley one minute for morning business, please. Th
Selloff. The dow industrials down 36 points, nasdaq up 61 and s p higher by 3 and a quarter. This as we await testimony from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chairman jay powell today, both on capitol hill later today. This follows a huge selloff yesterday sparked by an open Supreme Court seat and impact of it on the ledge Kellyanne Conway slalegislative agenda. Dow indusn 500 points, nasdaq lower by 14 and s p lower by 38. The state of our cities, the department of justice naming three major cities anarchist jurisdictions that could lose federal funding due to ongoing unrest. Rudy giuliani is back with us with his take on all of this. Then, fine on the field, nfl handing out massive fines for mask violations, all the numbers coming up this morning. Women and wellness, how some are expanding business while keeping their cool in the era of coronavirus. Super model Kathy Ireland is here with lifestyle tips you dont want to yo miss. Mornings with maria is live right n
A big move from stock, consumer launch from amazon big picture. This home in tech is about a new series of overlapping platform wars tiktok versus instagram. Sws versus aftezure julia, i would argue u. S. Versus china is shaping up to be a platform war platform war, jon, what youre saying is reciprocal trade. Were seeing this between china and the u. S. The question of whether it makes sense, safe for americans to have these chineseowned Companies Operating here in the u. S. Keeping in mind that u. S. Owned companies are not allowed to operate in china. Im talking about facebook i think its interesting to see how that dynamic plays out and this question of whether or not there should betiktok, mayb going to address that issue. Sand then apple, youre referring there, of course to this battle between epic and other companies that are participating in this new coalition. And apple in this battle over that platform. And those fees, right . Well, i am talking about that, and mike, im also t
Make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the china virus that will save countless lives the f. D. A. Has issued an emergency use. Authorization and thats such a powerful term emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent. This is a. Powerful therapy transfuse is very very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection set an incredible rate of success todays action will dramatically expand access to this treatment now this comes one day after President Trump took to twitter and slammed the f. D. A. For making it very difficult for Drug Companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics of flu Drug Administration chief steven hahn he said this type of plan its been used with Infectious Diseases for years now. So plasma is the liquid portion of the blood. That liquid portion contains the Natural Immunity that someone develops in response to an infection in this case called