Open they are opening someone leaving there maybe just at the end of their working day but the word is that u. S. President will leave via those doors of the Walter Reed Medical Center any time from now head to his motorcade his motorcade which will take him to marine one the helicopter the official helicopter for a i believe its about a 10 minute flight very short distance from bethesda maryland to the white house 13 kilometers as the crow flies and he will head back to the white house all of this happening 28 days before the United States goes to the polls who would have thought our attention would be on a hospital in bethesda maryland which the parish president had spent 3 days in just a month before this election mike hanna is our correspondent in washington d. C. With us this hour it is extraordinary isnt mike as we wait for this to happen to think were so close to an election the fear because thats gone on for the past few days around a man who is on will. Indeed yes well it has
Police also protesters in hong kong on the day a local election was too stupid to help. Socalled excess deaths figures in mexico raise questions over the real scale of the corona Virus Outbreak that well have a live update. And im leah harding with all of your sports news clear ghastly is just a few laps away from winning his 1st formula one grand prix and 3 in a williams battles past Sloane Stephens at the u. S. Open shes still on course to equal the record 24. 00 grand slam singles titles. Tens of thousands of by the russians staging another huge mot sure the capital minsk keeping up the pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko whos responding with increased force hes refusing to quit weeks off the disputed elections others took him to. For help to stay in power to serious bona smith is monitoring developments for us from neighboring the few waiting up to 4 weeks of protests then despite increased intimidation out a rests what are we to make of the old. Calling in those protesters
Faced with the worst economic crisis in 75 to 80 years. The message from the Republican Senate of the aisle this think small. Do as little as possible. See how this works out pretty edit time when we have unemployment figures breaking all records, when we have ten times and deployment claims in illinois that we did a year ago, might add it tenme times the employment claims in the commonwealth of kentucky. That they did a year ago, we consider hearing from the republican side of the aisle that the problem with our economy is not unemployment. Is the fact that the people who are unemployed or be given too much money. Right now we have a federal benefit package with 600 week. It is enacted in the care sacked in march 26th rated and it expires in three days. 600 week, over the state payment. The republicans have suggested, is to cut that 600 federal supplement to 200. And then they turned and say, what we really want to do is compensate the worker with 70 percent of what they were earning
The plus column and big tech really help the nasdaq today but for most of the session weve kept in check after congress failed to agree on the next stimulus package. Nasdaq of 1. 5 in the doubt up about half 8 and that stinky gaining three quarters of 1 . Lets look at the month all three up, up four months in a row, the big winner was the nasdaq almost 7 , look at the s p up five and half percent and the dow up 2. 4 . Apple, new alltime high, worth more than any other company in the world including the oil, facebook hitting a new record height, apple as well as alphabet reported earnings yesterday and investors still cheering the first two, also but shares are down and the Company Reported the first annual revenue decline. Google under a little bit of pressure today. Finally we know who hacked twitter about two weeks ago, a florida teenager accused of being the mastermind of a bitcoin hack on prominent news users that negative 100,000, he did not act alone, to others charged in the sch
Coming into the pandemic we were seen a system already broken, only exacerbated by this problem so where we stand today is post a whole bunch of state shutdowns that limited capacity led to 30 of childcare workers being laid off and now that we are in a stage where were trying to, you know, regain the economic gains we have had over the last year, get people back to work and parents are going to struggle to be able to find affordable and available childcare as they look to return to work. Phone numbers are on the screen for our guests, isabel soto, parents call 202 7488000, employers is02 7488001, everybody else 202 7488002, our guest is isabel soto with the American Action forum. Explain what the American Action forum is and what its mission is and how it is funded. Guest could you repeat the question . Host your organization, tell us about it. Guest the American Action forum is a centerright think tank and we focus on Rapid Response policy pieces to inform the public as well as polic