Welcome back welcome back to the weekend, everyone. We are following Breaking News out of gaza. The israeli government says hamas terrorists killed six hostages this weekend, adding they were brutally murdered by hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them in a Tunnel Under Rough Appeared one of the victims was american Hersh Goldbergpolin. He was kidnapped more than 330 days ago at the supernova music festival. Vice president Kamala Harris condemned the killing saying, the threat hamas poses to the people of israel and american citizens in israel must be eliminated and hamas cannot control gaza. The palestinian people have suffered under Hamas Rule for nearly 2 decades. In a msnbc forum, correspondent Matt Bradley is in Tel Aviv with the latest. Matt, tell us where we are. Reporter we are about to see a protest that could be one of the biggest we have seen. We dont know exactly because there have been so many huge protests advocating for some sort of deal to release these hostages
In the terms of fresh firefighters, theyre stretched thin, but they are making a lot of progress 17 can tame and thats up from 13 and good news to pass along they hope to make significant inroads in the fire over the next several days because the conditions look really good meaning winds are down humidity is up and that means they can launch their aircraft once again which yesterday they did for the First Time Since the fire started more than a week ago and they were able to drop 200,000 gallons of water down to the flames. They hope to do as much if not more today unfortunately because the fires are still burning in a lot of times theyre in rugged hard to reach areas that the new number to pass along this morning. 330. Thats the number of structures are homes destroyed thats up from around 280 yesterday so the fire has been destructive although not as deadly. No fatalities in the overnight hours, no major injuries as far as evacuations people. 77,000 people have been told to evacuate
Unemployment claims last week, but we are seeing sectors most sensitive to economic reopening. Sharply hire American Airlines rilgt now, trade iing up some 45 wilfred. Its actually pared some of those gains. About 43 . Ahead on todays show, tim ryan has a six step plan outlining his companys pledge to support black lives and it goes well beyond cash donations. Hell join us with his message plus, a key question for millions of newly unemployed americans. What happens when federal stimulus programs run out . Lets focus though on the big stories were watching today first of all mike is tracking the Market Action phil lebeau is watching a huge surge for airlines before the pullback and Courtney Reagan covering a battle between landlords and retailers, but mike, lets start with you and the broader markets. Hard to make too much of this headline softness after such a sprint that the market has had take a look at the two year chart the s p has had. We did see today mostly, the nasdaq 100, cli
Simonetti is watching the markets and Hillary Vaughn is on capitol hill. Lets kick it off with hillary. Reporter melissa, Bernie Sanders is out of the 2020 race but he is not off the ballot and he is still has his eye on the Democratic National convention this summer. I will stay on the ballot in all remaining states, continue to gather delegates. While Vice President biden will be the nominee, we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the Democratic Convention where we will be able to exert significant influence over the party platform. Reporter former Vice President joe biden is now the presumptive nominee for the democratic party. Biden often attacked sanders for his calls for a Political Revolution but now today biden is thanking sanders for being the leader of a movement saying this, quote, while the Sanders Campaign has been suspended, it is impact on this election and elections to come is far from over. Well address the existential crisis of climate c
That nobody would have ever thought possible. It has been incredible. That is why the numbers are so far much better. We want to keep it that way. If you look at the original projections, if we did nothing, it would be disasterous. If we, we decided to do something, we closed it down. Had no choice t was a good move. That was a good move. The early china move was a good move. Early europe move was a good move. We did a lot of good moves. Closing it down was a big statement, an important thing, but were looking to have far viewer deaths than originally thought and i think were heading in that direction but it is too early to talk about it. I dont even want to talk about it now because we want to work and, i think that people are doing an incredible job. The doctors, the nurses, the firefighters, the police, all medical people, what theyre doing, the bravery theyre displaying is just incredible. Every citizen should take immense pride in the selflessness and all of the courage and compas