Elementary. Marin county at this point in a category of its own with being in the red county surrounded by a lot of those other purple tier counties. We broke it down by numbers. 51 counties are in the purple category. Just six in the red category. One lone county is in orange. These counties in purple, according to the states covid website, represent nearly 40 Million People in the state or 99. 1 of the states population really in a league of its own. Pa rin marin stands out. In a letter to parents, the superintendent and the School Principal emphasized that families are encouraged to quarantine when needed and some of the school day will be a little different. Dropoff and pickup, drivers are to meet at a designated gate and the drivers are to remain in their cars. Some feel the district may be moving too fast. Increase depression and other maladaptive behaviors. Reporter and in this district the high school is expected to reopen school in january. It is important to note for schools
Year. Just this week then your Governor Andrew Cuomo defended his mandates. This Holiday Season is the problem, this is not a political issue, this is not a normal thanksgiving, keep your children home, close businesses, stay home, stay home, stay home. Gerry i think you got that message loud and clear, many businesses the next few weeks are usually crucial for the ability to thrive or survive, we spend a disproportionate amount of our income on this. Every year, but its coming at a time when the coronavirus maybe hitting the maximum spread and a few months before the widespread availability of vaccinations. Companies especially small firms that have been entered badly damage now face potentially exponential threat, we will take a detailed look on how the pandemic and the lockdown has affected key sectors of the economy and what future there might be when this is all over. Consumer spending accounts for more than two thirds of total Economic Activity in the u. S. And its been hit hard
Cold in the house and cold as you step out the door. We will warm up to highs in the mid60s. We still dont have any rain in the forecast and at times will have gusty winds. Im tracking that and well talk about whats ahead coming up in a few minutes. Mike, any problems for the morning commute . There was an issue at the bay bridge toll plaza there is an issue. Its reported in lane one, one of the hov lanes at the bottom of our screen. A disabled vehicle just passed the metering lights. The slowing not a surprise. We look at the map, that tends to happen as the volume builds out of the maze and slowing, traditional pattern. Most of the bay very light. In fact, all the bay very light. We do still have some slowing im tracking. Back to you. All right, thank you very much. Were also tracking some new restrictions across the bay area from san jose up the peninsula to San Francisco. Millions are now under new covid restrictions. In Santa Clara County travelers returning home were told to quar
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive
The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at