Nbc news because of the rockets nature of the first debate between these 2 candidates, the microphones will be muted at certain times during the debate there are 6 topics for discussion tonight. Fighting covid19 American Families race in america Climate Change National Security and leadership also because of concerns over the coronavirus and because President Trump had a recent diagnosis for the illness there were plans for plexiglass partitions between the game than this however weve got minutes ago that were that those plans were dropped there will not be plexiglass however both candidates did have to test negative for the virus and today they did also because of covid only about 200 people will be allowed inside that auditorium there were. The debate is being held at Belmont University in nashville representative with the commission on president ial debates. Well use the mute button backstage to ensure that each candidate has 2 minutes on interrupted to deliver opening answers to th
Markets looking to start the week to the upside. Futures inching higher this morning take a look there. The dow jones up about 71 points the nasdaq up about 63, and the s p 500 indicated higher by just about 10 points. This after markets finished a little change on friday. Retail, of course, and focus this week earnings expected from heavy hitters including walmart home depot lohse and target fighting back former mcdonalds ceo steve easter brook is slamming lawsuit from the company over his severance his defense later this hour. And heat wave, brutal temperatures hit the west, threatening the power grid in california. Plus, the state of travel airports bracing for a whole new world of changes at checkin what you need to know before heading to the airport. Mornings with maria is live right now. And were taking a look at the european markets edging higher as well. Take a look there the ftse higher and now investors are keeping the focus on travel restrictions, and u. S. China trade tensi
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 71, the nays are 21. The nomination is confirmed. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell on monday, republicans introduced a 1 trillion proposal to give American Families more Coronavirus Relief. Most urgently, the republicans want to continue a federal supplement to state Unemployment Insurance which is set to expire, as we all know, tomorrow. If our democratic dleetions had acted colleagues had acted with the urgency struggling people deserve we could right now be finishing up a major bipartisan package for kids, jobs, and health care. If our democratic colleagues had acted with urgency, unemployed
How did the revolution survive , its darkest hour . While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing british 5000 warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on Manhattan Island in kips base on september 15, 1776. At the time, one of the soldiers saw the ships gathering in new york harbor and later said i afloat. Ll london was it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many more years of struggle. And the first thing americans had to do was just survive the onslaught that was coming in the form of the british army. We have a really e
Troops. There is only few fragments of that statue that have survived. Its a great story. American up next on artifacts in the second of a twopart visit to philadelphias museum of the American Revolution, Vice President of Stephenson Scott leads us on a tour of the exhibit galleries covering the 17761778. We asked visitors in the gallery four big questions. The first of those questions is ow did people become revolutionaries. When they come back to the iii, they king george should be able to that question f how they become revolutionaries. The second question how did the revolution survive its darkest hour. While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and accusations and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition headed ean history is towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eye witness epiction which weve blown up as a mural showing five british 6,000 britishabout and hessian troops in landing to land on manhattan base on sept