Tech and bond trades play out. Lets dig a little deeper into the virus story in the u. S. U. S. Infectious disease official Anthony Fauci says it wont be a pandemic a lot longer because of vaccine progress. Joining us now with more is bloomberg Senior Editor drew armstrong. We all want to have the monday where we were very happy about the Pfizer Biontech results. What if the state of play in the u. S. . Drew the state of play in the u. S. Is brutal. We are sitting case records because of uncontrolled spread in huge amounts of the u. S. Hospitalizations are higher than they have been at any point during the pandemic. During thet pandemic. Depend on who you ask, 1500 sorry, 1506 to two deaths in the u. S. Yesterday, a number we havent seen since the early days of the pandemic. Numberout every single or way you look at this that you can is going in the wrong direction right now, and newman the hospitalizations and knowing that hospitalizations after that, it is going to be a grizzly pictu
Back to normal until 2022. So hang on to your hydroxy if you still have the. [ laughter ] remember when we were kids and we all thought wed have flying cars by 2022 . Now its like, maybe in the future well be able to go to a movie without killing our grandma. [ laughter ] cases are going up and up about. I think they had the thirdhighest report of infections so far today. Much of that is attributed to what they call pandemic fatigue. People are sick of being careful, so they relax, they start doing risky things. Which i get it. But thats not the way it works. You cant just stop because its annoying. Its a virus, not glee. [ laughter ] you know . Heres a map that might be of interest to you if youre curious as to whether this masking and lockdown works. You see all the red . Thats the United States. Those of the covid outbreaks here. Up above that, that is canada. Doesnt look too bad up there, does it . Even adjusted for population, theyve had onefifth as many infections as we have, but
The focus certainly on the u. S. Not only for the infections but of the transition period and what we can expect from the markets. The markets looking at some caution, we heard from Central Banks saying look, the vaccine is not going to be a cureall. If you look at what investors are trying to assess, it is additional stimulus, an economy that has been battered by these coronavirus cases that we have seen going up and up. Treasuries adding to the gains, and if you look at other things we are looking at, you know, the dging higher afterword that Dominic Cummings will leave his role with Boris Johnson at the start of the year. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hi, laura. Laura good morning, francine. Powell, ecb president christine lagarde, and Andrew Bailey used a Virtual Conference to highlight the risk. The post pandemic economy will be different in many ways. The 2020 election was the most secure in american history. They say there are is no e
The freeman foundation. By judy d Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from vik ers like you. Thu. This is outside sorts. U. S. President donald trump has announced he is feeling better. He will leave the hospital and 3. 5 hours time and tells people not to be afid of covid19. We are expected to hear more about the president s condition from his dtors at a press conference shortly. Also in the program, the u. K. Has launched an investigation after computer glitch meant 16,000 positive coronavirus cases went unreported. The house secretary admitted to failures. Casualtiess mountede conflict enters its ninth day. Howe will look amilitary drones are being used in the disputed region. Hlo and welcome to the program. Only one place to start. The breaking news that President Trump has announced he will soon leeospital. He says i will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6 30 p. M. Which is
The weather. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by the makers of nondrowsy 24 hour claritin. Live claritin clear. All right. Lets look ahead to your weekend. We start off with saturday weve got a much nicer day in the southeast after so much rain record heat continues in the rockies. A fire risk out west wet in the Pacific Northwest sunday, sunday autumnal warmth in the northeast. Much cooler in the plains. And the fire risk unfortunately continues out west thats whats going on across good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Lets take a look at our high temperatures for today. The last, very nice and comfortable day before some high heat comes in. Well see our temperatures in oakland reaching 73. 78 in palo alto. And 85 today in antioch. But then as we go into the weekend, there will be high fire danger for a lot of our bay area hills, especially in the north bay. And there will be a high concern as were going to also have some hot temperatures extending into early next week.