Early, its made things a little smoother today, but still expecting a big turnout. If you havent voted, avoid the long lines later today. Thats a message i expect youll make at did beginning and end of our segment. How are things going in california . Its been fairly smooth in the bay area. Tell us in terms of the voting and ballot counting how its going. Theres a fewishes here issues here. There are the two big steps weve taken. Every active registered voter in california received a vote by mail in advance. 22 million voters on the rolls, more than 12 million ballots cast as of midnight last night. Great return. That means theres nearly 10 Million People who play be voting today. Maybe they were returning it by mail, a great first choice, but voting in person, bring your mask to keep voters and poll workers safe. The polls are open until 8 00 p. M. Its been light. We havent seen too many huge lines. We know its always busiest within the last couple of hours. Tell us if you expect to h
Tiktok launches a legal bid to stop President Trump from imposing a ban in america. He says the app is a threat to National Security and tiktok says the bands peer politics. The president marks the official nomination at the Republican National convention by criticizing mailin voting and saying the opponents his opponents want to steal the election. Shery u. S. Futures are opening flat after solid gains for u. S. Stocks in the new york session. Record highs for the s p and the nasdaq. We had optimism over vaccines and treatments for coronavirus. The s p 500 saw most of the sectors in the green. Small cap biotech got big moves from the authorization of convalescent plasma for treating covid19. Vaccine developers tumbled on this new focus on plasma treatment. The dollar weakness we saw earlier in the session did pervak. Did pare back. Look at what oil is doing. It rallied and gasoline surged to a fivemonth high at the moment under pressure headed to the 42 a barrel level. Laurae storms m
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of our destiny, you have watched over us from generation to generation. May our lawmakers trust your faithfulness during this challenging season of our nations history. Lord, inspire them to recall how you have sustained the land we love in prosperity and adversity, in peace and in war. Give our senators the wisdom to believe that they can trust your constancy and greatness, as they cling to your promise never to leave or forsake them. Believing in your power, help us all to face fresh challenges with total confidence in you. And lord, we pray for the health and safety of all as communities begin the process of reopening businesses. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it
A big bringing in 500000000000. 00 annually to keep its Global Leadership b. M. W. Dima and v. W. Will spend 45000000000. 00 on electric Vehicle Technology over the next 3 years for its part says its last fossil fuel based car will be released in 2026 but environmentalists say thats too little too late they want all manufacturers to phase out polluting engines by 2028 so how realistic is this now to serious Dominic Casey has been to a car plant in eastern germany to find out. This is the production line of the folks going to plant in sickle whether robotic and human workforce combine to assemble more than 300000. 00 vehicles every year the decades virtually all the peoples cars produced here have been powered by petrol engines but not for much longer now electric is the buzzword but we are convinced that not just german drivers but also european ones are ready for this and we are ready to roll out these cars to the whole world why because an electric car is not a compromise they have e
Are placing value. We will get on that little bit later in the show. Back and forth between ourselves and iranian over tanker attacks, theyre saying its not us, we are saying, yes, its you. We hope it doesnt get to that and what could be happening this weekend. Iranian tensions escalating as we speak. Hillary vaughn on all of that, hillary. Secretary of state mike pompeo, indeed, iran was behind yesterdays attacks on two tankers but iran Foreign Ministers say this is not true, the u. S. Is lying, no evidence to back up the claim but there is because the United States military has video showing iran taking evidence from the scene of yesterdays attacks in this video you see irans revolutionary guard removing an unexploded mine from one of the oil tankers that it hit yesterday, iran is denying that they were responsible for this but the president this morning saying iran was caught red handed. Well, iran did do it, you know they did it because you saw the boat, one of the mines didnt expl