The last 19 seconds. We are up 52. The nasdaq up 223. So heres the situation. We are indeed about to get an update from the president s physician on the president s condition and breaking news of the timing of his discharge. We will take you straight to Walter Reed Army Medical Center as soon as the briefing begins. We are told 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Its right now, 3 00 p. M. Eastern. We are watching it. Little moving target but we have the cameras set up. The testing storm that whipped through the white house since the president tested positive last friday is shining a bright light on xpresspa at this hour. Tomorrow it will roll out its Rapid Testing site at jfk in new york. Diagnosis in five minutes for anybody at the airport now, passengers, workers and first responders. Ahead of that, you are about to get an exclusive first look, the walkaround at the brand new Testing Center from the ceo who is there on site. A full 24 hours before they open. And the latest entrant in the electric ve
These days lets face it can happen to anyone because incidents like this are becoming common. Dont like that, happen last night, the confrontation again in louisville, demonstrators try to set the library on fire, a black cop shot in the stomach, 24 rest, urban violence is an election issue and polls show a sharp decline for antipolice demonstrations. Thats that, lets get back to money. After battling the threat of impeachment, Speaker Pelosi and the democrats are pushing a 2. 4 trigon dollar stimulus plan, and was 3 trillion and now its 2 trillion, now they come down, we dont know whether the treasury secretary will go up from his original trillion dollar, 1 trilliondollar plan. Not that much action in stock so far today, the stimulus plan news not really affected the market, the dow will be down 100 ands and p down a little bit but the nasdaq looks like a gain of 16 points at the state, not Much Movement but look at this, william hill, the reddish bookies getting to takeover bids and
Help, food aid. Yes, they are still talking. Investors like the idea of many more trillions poured into the economy, but it aint a done deal yet. The political world really cant stop talking about the debate. The president says he won. He, quote, held joe accountable, thats what the president says. Biden says the debate was a national disgrace. The Electoral Commission seems to agree. I they run the debates, and theyre looking at new rules. They agree, they seem to believe and blame the president for the interruptions and insults. Theyre even considering a kill button for the moderator to cut the mic of any offending candidates. The numbers are in. Far fewer people watched than i expected, just 73 million tuned in. Down from 84 million who watched the first debate in 2016. And if you look inside the numbers, the audience dropped away as the chaotic debate kept going. They tuned out. Stay with us for the next three hours, i promise it will be worth it. Varney company is about to begin.
Hard to digest the news. Well cut right at it, give you the details in a moment. Overall, the market lacks real direction. The dows going to be up maybe 15, s p up 10. Nice gain for the nasdaq though, all green at this point. Politics [laughter] can you say softballs . One after another, they were lobbed towards joe biden at the cnn town hall last night. Not very good preparation for the first president ial debate which is, by the way, 11 days away. The standout for me came when biden suggested that if the president had acted sooner on the virus, all those people would not have died. So the president killed 190,000 people . Not a word of pushback from the moderator, cnns moderator. Today biden goes to minnesota, an opportunity for him to clarify his position on urban rioting and defunding the police after the minneapolis disturbances. And get this, the president will also be in minnesota today. You can bet hell brung up law and order bring up law and order. Mr. Trumps press secretary,
Another one coming in half an hour from now. Lets go through the techs because they are obviously doing well. Apple, you have to share with apple, tens of millions of shareholders, up again 3 bucks higher, 137. Amazon, now well above the 3,500dollar mark, the company is worth over 1. 7 trillion. Microsoft, also worth 1. 7 trillion with another record high. Up another buck today at 228. We will bring you the rest of the tech titans in a moment, just wait till you see zoom and how much its worth. Politics, you are going to see a sharp contrast in Campaign Styles today. The president continues to fly all over the place answering reporters questions whenever possible. Hes off to North Carolina today. Joe biden will not be getting on a plane when he travels to wilmington, delaware. He never goes far and shies away from reporters questions. This is becoming a political issue, favoring President Trump, hes out and about almost every day. Joe seems unwilling to abandon his basement strategy an