Matt the coronavirus spreads stateside. New cases across the u. S. Including in new york city. President trump meets with pharma executive today as the global death toll passes 3000. The fed is in play. Policymakers stand ready to cut rates but doubted they can fully offset the virus in fact. Goldman sachs sees a 50 basis point reduction this month. Berlin reports its first case of the coronavirus. Italy seeks a wider deficit to pay for emergency economic measures as cases soar. We are under an hour away from cash trading in europe. You are getting 1 to 2 gains in futures, the ftse futures up. This is after the biggest route we have seen, we saw last week since 2008 for the broader stoxx 600 european index. Getting gains in the preachers in the u. S. Are not as sharp but we are 7. 5 hours away from the start of trading there. The nasdaq, down, many contracts rising this morning. What are you seeing . Money going into risk assets. That is the theme through the Asian Session and markets
Veterans of those wars. And at 9 00 a. M. , National Museum of American History director on womens suffrage and the 19th amendments centennial. Host morning. Its wednesday, february 19, 2020. The democratic primary candidates will debate in las vegas and they will be joined for the first time on stage by former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg. President trump is offering alternative viewing in the form of a Keep America Great Campaign rally in arizona. Campaign 2020a question to begin the washington journal today. With the nevada caucuses this weekend and the South Carolina primary 10 days away, we want to know what you think the role of voters of colors will be this election cycle. Phone lines, black voters 202 7488000. Hispanic voters 202 7488001. All others 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on wj. Al media at cspan you can also send us a text message this morning. Include your name and where youre from. As can start calling in now we take you to this story from the Washing
Now news to build a better bay area from abc 7. Two local shops in San Francisco were each hit by a thief that used the same tactic to steal from the Cash Register. Thank you for joining us. The owners are both out hundreds of dollars. And joins us live with more on this story. Reporter its less than 50 seconds. In both cases the suspect waited for police to look away, walked up to the Cash Registers and walked away with hundreds of dollars. Take a look. 7 30 p. M. Friday, approximately 12 customers. One of them was this man. Reached his arm around, felt for the key, turned it and grabbed the money, closed the drawer and went straight out this way. Reporter how long did it take him . Literally, like, ten seconds. Those were ten seconds where it was left unattended. The same employees watch the video and recognize the suspect from earlier in the day. They believe he was learning their habits and taking notes. He came and came back 15 20 minutes later, grabbed a water and left. Lee got t
Too close to call. One reason, problems at the polls. This is what it looked like outside several locations in los angeles tonight. Not just a big night for biden. A big night for california. But its not going smoothly across the board. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this election edition of nbc bay area news. Well be going until midnight tonight as we expect a lot more results on the local races to keep coming in. Lets begin, though, with that frustration. This video just in to our newsroom. Thousands of people are still waiting to vote. Theyve been in line for two to four hours. This is happening across l. A. County. This is from our nbc chopper down south. Its prompted the Bernie Sanders campaign to file for an emergency injunction to keep the polls open. Now, lets take a look at the results so far. This is where california stands. The night might belong overall to joe biden, but california might belong to bernie. Here are the numbers right now. Nearly 50 of the precincts re
We will throw them by caucus. Were in whittle mode. Last night in New Hampshire, senator Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg finished one and two. A very tight margin between them. That is turning out to be some matchup. An old jewish guy versus a young gay guy. Like an uncomfortable thanksgiving dinner. The media is eager to crown a winner, but the truth is, it takes like 2,000 delegates to win the nomination. Iowa and New Hampshire combined have 65, and neither state is demographically representative of anything but a Jimmy Buffett concert. Declaring a frontrunner at this point, its like picking a Plastic Surgeon via yelp reviews. Jennyp and the bigdave505 like him. But it was another disappointing night for joe biden who finished in fifth place and then had to hitchhike to South Carolina. Because hes not allowed to drive at night. But if you are, if you are joe biden, 77 years old, you lose New Hampshire to 78 year old Bernie Sanders, that has to feel like getting dumped by a woman an