Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
Zimbabwes military and police enforce a ban on government protests. Dozens have been detained. News, yet another Major League Baseball team is hit by coronavirus. And nba basketball returns with social justice high on its agenda. We will hear from lebron james. Anchor coronavirus has already had a profound impact on the global economy, changing the way we live, work, and travel. The World Health Organization says this will reverberate for generations. In a meeting, the director general said the pandemic was a once in a Century Health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come. More optimistic news from americas top Infectious Disease expert. Dr. Anthony fauci believes a vaccine could be available within months. We are also starting to learn more about the impact on the economy. The pandemic has plunged the eurozone economy into a recession. Elsewhere, about 4 Million People in the north of england are returning to coronavirus restrictions because of a surge of infect
Cable Television Company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host representative Yvette Clarke is a democrat from new york. She is vice chair of the energy and Commerce Committee and is also cochair of the smart cities caucus. She is our guest this week on the communicators. Congresswoman clark, thank you for being here to be too be with you, peter. Host what is the smart city caucus and how you envision smart city . Guest we decided to establish a bipartisan smart city caucus originally darrell [inaudible] was my chair and it is now congresswoman from indiana. We knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. Its a utility we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future. That we are efficient in our use of energy and it enables socie society, i think, to be far more productive then our 20th century industrial age. We were looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected and
And we are going to hear from all of our members who want to speak and then will be taking your questions. Our country is facing two major battles, the fight to make sure every american is protected from the virus and the fight to get the economy back on track. So Many Americans have a lot of anxiety right now and this back to work checklist is meant to provide so many who are going through i think what many are , im a business, when can i reopen . We have put together a checklist. These fights are on two different battlefields, health and economic. They must be fought simultaneously so that is why we are announcing these benchmarks to reopen the American Economy. We need a Regional Industry by industry multifaceted data driven approach. It will not be a onesizefitsall approach. Combine to be dynamic, Public Health, economic rescue, and plans for the future. All members of the caucus have worked so hard on this and i am grateful to everyone. Dealing with the coronavirus impacting our c
Host congratulations. Your book is a major comp which meant. It is a significant scholarly work. I think it is fair to say you moved the seal. Guest thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david. Thank you so much. Host how does it feel . Guest like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the works to make this book and so its a relief than just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and cigarettes Richard Kluger who won a Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Guest amazing. It was really a pageturner. Host allen grant the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette industry and the deception of the industry and in trepidation. When you started here had giant oaks out there and you took a risk. Guest yes but you know i really feel those three books ashes to ashes cigarette century and robber proctors whole corpus of work the biggest of which is called golden holoc