Deliver remarks on jobs and the economy, and from the Mankato Regional Airport in minnesota looking at the live pictures and then hes headed to wisconsin for another event weve got that all covered for you. Now, theres one area of the economy going full steam and thats housing. The exodus from the cities to the suburbs fueling demand for one company, so much they are actually struggling to fill thousands of open positions, even with millions of people still unemployed in this country weve got the ceo of two men and a truck, hes here on the housing hotspots and hes in the cities where people are going and there was this new forecast by the cdc, predicting that the u. S. Coronavirus death toll could reach 200,000, by september 5 but could a newly approved rapid saliva based test be a major game changer . Its pretty interesting stuff today former secretary of health and Human Service dr. Tom price is going to give his prognosis on this new test and a lot of other things within the pandemi
Things look very different than in years past. It is a Virtual Convention. Speaks come in from across the country. Former first Lady Michelle obama, senator Bernie Sanders will speak there is a republican on the list, speaking at the Democratic Convention former Ohio Governor john kasich. President trump in person will make his way to wisconsin. He will be in oshkosh trying to rally supporters ahead of the Republican National convention which begins virtually next week. The real reason we are here to speak to the voters, trying to get a pulse of the people if you will. You will hear from some of those voters in just a few moments. First our top stories with fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman is at the white house. We start with Lauren Simonetti on the markets. Lauren. Lauren connell, good to see you. The markets are closing the session out mixed. We have a new record close for the nasdaq. Apple shares, where do they end the day . They are within striking that two trillion dollar
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
The election conversation right now. Speaker pelosi calling the house back into session for urgent action, she says, on the matter. So urgent they are not coming back until later this week. Meanwhile, the market shrugging off any possible chaos from the election. The s p, in fact, could hit an alltime high today. Goldman sachs is raising its forecast on the s p to 3600 by years end. Its also a big week for retail as well. Several Big Companies reporting profits starting with walmart and home depot tomorrow. Lots to talk about. Im Ashley Webster. Yes, stuart is back tomorrow. Varney company is about to begin. Its been run horribly and were going to make it good. Now, what am i supposed to do, let it continue to run badly so if you fix it they say oh, hes tampering with the election. Were not tampering. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Look, the post office, theres 25 billion sitting there but they really want 1 trillion to bail out their badly run states. Ashley yeah, that was
Scrambling to get some u. S. Citizens home. Don dahler joins frus an empty Newark International airport to tell bus those efforts. Don. Reporter empty, indeed, norah. Its safe to say that pretty much every major city in the world has american tourists trying to figure out how to get home before it becomes impossible to do so. And what they seem to be getting for the u. S. State department is either very Little Information or very expensive flight options. Some of the thousands of americans stranded in morocco are on their way home today. We spoke to two of them, floridians, Lauren Davenport and daniel fernandez, before they left. There wasnt any warning. For us, there were 48 hours. In other countries we heard thrurp only 24 hours. It was a shock that this could go into place so quickly. Reporter last night, the u. S. Embassy in morocco sent word that anyone wanting to leave could get a seat on a charter flight connecting through london for 1,485. In some cases, thats twice what their