To start in september. The s p 500 is therefore positive though not at a record. Were 59 minutes left to trade and we have two big exclusive interviews coming your way on todays show delta Ceo Ed Bastian will join us with the latest view from 30,000 feet on the state of the Airline Industry and his companys announcement today to keep middle seats blocked until at least the end of the year. Plus, well speak with marc short about stimulus negotiations or the lack thereof. China trade talks and the latest signals on the economy you dont want to miss either of those conversations. Lets get to the big stories were tracking a volatile day for the lows we have a look how the economic recovery hasnt benefited everyone but we begin with the fast moving developments surrounding uber and lyft in california. Fast moving indeed. We found out just moments ago that uber and lyft have won a delay for converting drivers to employees. The i was about to come on tv and tell you that both apps were going
Looking at the biggest weekly loss since late june the s p both with interday trading. The nasdaq is on track the fourth week in a row on higher prices dow futures indicated down at this poirchlnt looking at yields for the 10year. New this morning, china and the u. S. Have agreed to review the progress of the phase one part of the trade deal well do that in the coming days talks are scheduled from last saturday the review comes as u. S. china ties have deteriorated just summarizing you know that. Thats one of the reasons why. We knew that yes we have seen a series of things that show the relationship has deteriorated if you were to try to put the different segments of the rift, you are up at almost double digits how many Different Things have become bones of contention and the second largest, largest some days economy in the world. A global nightmare we need them, they need us on a certain way it is official taking advantage on what the administration would argue from the markets persp
Burning around the bay and as they continue to rage that major that declaration will help us right now the latest from cal fire puts the lnu complex fire. At 17 containment. That is the fire thats burning in the north bay. The scu lightning complex fire which is in the east bay has burned 10 contained right now and the czu lightning complex fire. Thats the one along the peninsula. Its just 8 contain still that is a jump from yesterday morning by about 3 so little by little they are working on it as fast as they can to knock down these fires before there is a threat. More dry lightning. Lets talk about the csu lightning complex fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties in total. This fire has burned 71,000 acres, 60,000 people plus have had to flee their homes and as you can see many structures have gone up in flames 2 people suffered minor injury. There are now 1300 fire personnel there battling that fire right now. Lets take a look at the map and that shows you Scotts Valley and santa
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Democracy, theyre all on the ballot. Who we are as a nation, what we stand for, most importantly who we want to be, thats all on the ballot. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, i think the message of this convention to me boils down to character and covid19. That is the democrats trying to make the case that trump failed in controlling the pandemic and the reason is his flawed character. Did they succeed in delivering that message well enough in your view and strategically, politically was it the right message . Daniel yeah, i think so. What the heck . They could not have possibly have overstated it one speaker after another went after donald trump. I believe joe biden opened his address last night by describe ing a season of darkness which sounds to me Netflix Series rather than political campaign. [laughter] daniel this is a poll tested convention, make n