The freeman foundation. Blby judy and peter kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Source. Thousands of peoe in the u. K. Haveit been injectedh a covid19 vaccine. The 90yearold margaret was the first to gett. I am thankful for it. It is free and the best thing that has happened. And joe biden has introduced his health team that will fight the pandemic and set out a threepoint plan. Masking, vaccination, opening school. These are the goals for my first 100 days. Donald trump has held events on the vaccine rollout, but used it to repeat unsubstanated claims he won the election. Next administration will be the trump administration. You cannot steal hundreds of thousands of votes. You cant have fraud and deception and all the things they did. There is no evidence that happened on that scale. Boris johnson will go to brussels for dinner with the president of the European Commission to unl
Workers and people in longterm care facilities to be the first ones to get it. The covid19 tracking project found the u. S. Hit a Record Number of new cases in hospitalizations. More than 210,000 new cases reported just yesterday and more than 100,000 people are in the hospital with covid19. Abc News Reporter faith in washington with the president elect bidens plan to slow the spread. Reporter more americans yesterday died from covid than weve ever seen, and now president elect biden is promising a new plan. Thursday the darkest day more than 210,000 new infections. President elect biden promises a different approach. On the first day im inaugurated to say im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. He plans to keep dr. Anthony fauci on board. I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well and be part of the medical team. The Covid Task Force anxiously waiting for a vaccination as cases rage across the country. And hospitals moving in mobile morgues. We became completely
Outside the home with two americans dying from tobit every minute, the nation is bracing for a starkest period of the pandemic. Time is running out before the United Kingdom cuts ties with the European Union and today, the two sides failed to secure a trade agreement. Instead saying talks will be paused. Negotiators want to talk to politicians so they can get better guidance on where to go next. With less than four weeks before the transition period ends, it is down to the same three Sticking Point that have threatened to derail the process for months. Lets bring in our correspondent in london. It has been a dramatic week of ups and downs. Now it is ending in this pause. Is that a surprise . It is a surprise that suddenly they are paused tonight, but we have an explanation. What they are trying to do is reach this post brexit trade deal and that time is really short. We have said that many times. We have seen sincehe eu was no longer bluffing for the United Kingdom because of the refer
Stock hitting what . An alltime high ahead of its investor day next week, despite all the obstacles that face its parks and movie businesses weve got those details. Look at disney run and later the director of National Intelligence says china is the greatest threat to the United States and wall street may be getting stuff in the middle of the war of words we will explain as power lunch begins right now thank you, ty. Record highs across the board including the russell small cap two 2000 lets go to dom chu. The composite index is still up on the yeartodate basis offer the last few months, the gap or difference between the dow and s p has stayed relatively constant. Still, though, the s p up 14, the dow up 5 to 6 on that yeartodate basis looking at other trends in the markets today, look at shares of caterpillar. One of the bigbigg egebiggest ie biggest contributor. Caterpillar shares up 4. 5 we put a gold star up there as well one of the other things that were watching right now is what
Welcome to squawk box. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe and melissa lee, becky is off the s p looking to open about 12 points higher. Well explain why some of this is happening and lets show you treasury yields as well the ten year note right now looking at 0. 931 . But maybe a little bit of an explanation coming up here, melissa . Yeah, some optimism Mitch Mcconnell said that compromised deal was within reach and well get a live report from washington at 6 30 a. M. And we heard it before, but it seems like btoth sides are comig a little closer. On a much lower number. And im just thinking about, i dont know, andrew, what did we do to deserve this i mean we are living right or i mean, who ushered in the new week on squawk box on monday who is helping us usher out the week that was on squawk box . A monday and a friday. Is this46 w was this planne melissa, what did we do to deserve this not wouldby not by me how long has it been, stimulus vaccine i guess the election, although we do