after months of anticipation and a vote that lasted all night long, we re one step closer to covid relief. the senate passed president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief package. will the stimulus bill help speed up the process of reopening states and cities, especially now that vaccination rates are improving? we ll dig into that next. also this hour, levar burton, the long time host of reading rainbow is here tonight. we ll get his take on six problematic works by dr. seuss going out of print. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. the covid relief bill passed the senate, paving the way for $1,400 checks to reach millions of mailboxes. not one republican supported the bill despite its widespread support among voters. after today s senate vote, president biden had this to say i want to thank all of the senators who worked so hard to reach a compromise to do the right thing for the american people during this crisis
biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief package. will the stimulus bill help speed up the process of reopening states and cities, especially now that vaccination rates are improving? we ll dig into that next. also this hour, levar burton, the longtime host of reading rainbow is here tonight. we ll get his take on six problematic works by dr. seuss going out of print. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. the covid relief bill passed the senate, paving the way for $1,400 checks to reach millions of mailboxes. not one republican supported the bill despite its widespread support among voters. after today s senate vote, president biden had this to say i want to thank all of the senators who worked so hard to reach a compromise to do the right thing for the american people during this crisis and voted to pass the american rescue plan. it obviously wasn t easy. it wasn t always pretty. but it was so desperately needed. the b
the action with advice from another billionaire. and only three and a half trading days this week but a big list of events that could impact your money will be naughty or will it be nice we ll get you ready for it all it s monday, december 21st this is worldwide exchange. good morning and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. i m brian sullivan thank you for joining us on a busy holiday-shortened week. dow futures off 300 points nasdaq futures off about the same on a percentage basis this could be a volatile shortened week thursday is a half day of trading. equities close at 1:00 overall it s been so far a great month for stocks the russell 2000 coming off its best month ever. it s up 8% so far in december. however we are seeing futures down sizably now let s eyeball the hottest of the hot asset classes, that s the cryptos. we are seeing bitcoin move slightly higher right now once again. the big moves are in europe. many stocks there are being slammed
900 covid-19 patients. we ve seen over 22,000 patients since the beginning of the pandemic. just to put it into perspective, in the middle of april, when we were at peak, there were nearly 3,000 covid-19 patients that we were treating. we actually actually, that number decreased to about 50 at the end of the summer, and we ve seen a steady increase to 900. our i.c.u. capacity is getting stretched. we still have some capacity and medical surgical capacity. our biggest challenge now, margaret, is staffing because during the first surge we were able to source staff from literally around the nation. but as you ve been reporting, there is a surge all over the country now, so it is much more difficult to supplement our regular staff with additional staff. brennan: and what is access like to some of the therapeutic drugs that have been developed since the spring? the access has steadily improved. we ve been doing clinical trials since the beginning of the pandemic. but rem rem
trading today. we ll speak with one investor who got in early in d.c., washington buying themselves more time to hash out a stimulus package and boom goes the dynamite, or this time an unmanned spacex rocket the video and full story all coming up on this thursday, december 10, and this is worldwide exchange. good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching. i m brian sullivan thanks for joining us. let us jump right in we are seeing stock futures mildly in the green right now, dow futures with implied open up about 50 points, nasdaq we ll call it flat the major averages did end the day lower yesterday, but they hit record highs earlier in the session before doing so. quite a bit of a steep selloff toward the end, tech leading the move lower and the nasdaq 100, the qqq etf, snapping a ten day win streak. that s right, it was up ten days coming into yesterday. we ll get more into that later outside of stocks,