When the final stretch of the u. S. Race for the white house is officially underway. The final day of talks among the e. U. Foreign ministers in berlin the pressure is on sanctions are imposed on bellerose over suspected election fallout. And the trail of destruction left behind by Hurrican Laura the task of cleaning up begins. And this for us president all trying to slam the n. B. A. Calling it a Political Organization with bad t. V. Ratings the president s comments following it seems it was quoting a playoff games in protest of Racial Injustice and fish. Where we begin this news hour with the resignation of japans Prime Minister shinzo abby the. 65 year old has long been suffering from an intestinal illness as the countrys wont just serve in leader Priyanka Gupta has more now on his rise to Prime Minister. A chronic illness that cut short his 1st oval office 13 years ago has come back to force shinzo up a japans longest serving Prime Minister to step down just one year before general
Coronavirus across the United States. 573 people have died. So far, john hopkins is not reporting any data on people that have recovered from that virus. Worldwide, there are more than 100,000 people who have recovered. California is under a major disaster declaration to bring in more federal assistance to battle the coronavirus. Today the white house said fema is distributing 8 million n95 masks to those that are in need. The government is also delaying the start to the real i. D. Requirements that was supposed to begin in august. The president urged congress to two pass a huge security bill as well that is currently stalled in the senate. If we want to save american workers, and we are going to say them quickly, and we are going to save our Great American companies both small and large. This was a medical problem, we are not going to let it turn into a longlasting financial problem. The president also talked about protecting the Asian American community, and he did not call the coron
They bounced back and it was up 567 points. Yesterday another wild ride but at the end of the day the market was unchanged. Then of course today. Another massive drop and the dow down 132 points. Joining us from our newsroom is james mcbride. James, what is happening here. We have unemployment down and the economy improving with the tax reform plan into law. All of that is positive. The market was just getting ahead of itself. Ultimately the stock market is going to reflect the economy and the economy is good and the stock market is good. The numbers are pretty big but when you think of the stock market being a 25,000, 26,000 percentagewise, the numbers are not that big. I checked and we are back to where we were in november. If we had stopped at november we had of thought that last year was a good year. It just took off having related to Program Trading and things like that. Based on the concerns of inflation, everybody ran for the hills and now we have the correction we heard that pe