Day. We ask your blessing upon those throughout our country who are suffering so much more each day. Keep safe the firefighters out west. Keep safe those who are responding to the destruction of Hurricane Sally on the gulf coast. Listen to the cries of those who have lost so much as a result of these natural covid rs even as the pandemic weeks its havoc in our communities. Here in the capitol impel with your spirit the members of congress who, more than any others, have the opportunity to address our nations needs. Give them the wisdom and ourage to do so working as a united force for good in these times. Lord, have mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker thank you, father. Pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from michigan, ms. Slotkin. Ms. Slotkin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and
Runs out and shares of Bed Bath Beyond are surging, the retailer reports comps of 6 , online sales soaring 89 , jim so earlier in the week, jim, and even last week you seem to be pessimistic about the prospect of a compromise coming together. Do you feel any different this morning . Look, i think the Airline Layoffs are looming large because with layoffs come a cut in roots, with a cut in roots is a pain point, but i think its the senate, we keep talking about mnuchin and we keep talking about speaker pelosi, but i think the senate is buying into the president s vshaped recovery and i think Mitch Mcconnell is buying into it which says why do we need more we have a v shape, its just Certain Industries that can be triaged. I know that the industries represent small and mediumsized business so im against that, but i would say in favor of the mcconnell position, at least if you are looking at the stock market, this set of earnings, now, that is not what they care about and i dont want to m
As the original aid package and agreement expires. There is talk of the stimulus plan, the environment for them does not look good. Well go live to a number of national airports. Linear air, big in the private arena. They have and all tern tiff for you. They say business is booming. President will be out to new jersey, a fundraising event at his club. He will be whisked back to the white house. Republicans and democrats are pulling out all stops to raise as much money as they possibly can. Back to the stimulus measure. What we can make of it as it comes to pass, not that long ago, a lot of people were worried about the government shutting down and wouldnt come together in an agreement to keep government lights on. At the last minute they cobbled together something. The president signed off on late last night. There is no government shutdown. For the naysayers out there, assuming all the worse when it comes to stimulus, maybe not. Chad what are you hearing . Reporter let me be very clea
The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the
Earth, splashing down in the waters of the gulf of mexico on sunday. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us at the Johnson Space center for the splashdown News Conference. Doug hurley and Operations Commander splashed down in the gulf of mexico after 64 days in space. In space. Completing the first crewed flight of the spacex crew dragon. Their mission was to test the capabilities of the knew commercial space vehicle for regular crew transportation to the International Space station, but they contributed a whole lot more than that on their mission, during their 62 days aboard station they dedicated more than 100 hours to science investigation and worked with the competition 63 crew to upgrade the stations power system on four space walks. Today is the first opportunity after splash down to ask questions to bob and doug, well be taking questions on our phone bridge as well as associate media platforms if you are on the phone press star 1 to ask add yourself toll queue. We would lik