Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
Bridge toll plaza. It is. Metering lights are on and we are starting to see a back up. You see traffic stacking up a bit as you work out of the east bay into the city via bay bridge. Once you pass this, it looks better across upper deck into San Francisco. A couple hot spots to look for, if you are taking bart, we are dealing with bart delays on the richmond lines. This is due to an equipment problem on the tracks. Do plan ahead if you are taking bart. South 880 is pretty busy. We are seeing brake lights away from 92. There is a crash not far from the connector and theyre just clearing it out of lanes. Reporter we are getting new information in now on this Apartment Fire in San Francisco. This is video from the citizen app from earlier this morning. You see the flames shooting out of the window. Thats on the 11th floor of this high rise on davis court. A total of 22 apartments were significantly damaged by this fire and five people were injured, escaping the building. When firefighters
Africanamerican representation in the 20th century and have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be eleshgted in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carkarcar and a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Oscar depriest from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So theres a long period. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or the senate. And that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south, and the way that that changes over time during those decades, theres a critical thing going on in the south where africanamericans begin to l
Trillion since he was elected four years ago. President trumps stewardship of the i economy and these markets coming despite a never ending assault from the radical left, the deep state, are resistance from the rinos of his own party, a politically corrupt judiciary, not to mention a Global Pandemic unleashed by china on an unsuspecting world. 2020 has been an unforgettable year. And an impromptu press briefing today, the president hailed his administrations efforts and congratulated the American People for their part in this historic achievement on the market. I just want to congratulate everybody. The stock market, Dow Jones Industrial average just hit 30,000 which is the highest in history. Weve never broken 30,000, and thats despite everything thats taken place with the pandemic. Im very thrilled with whats happened on the vaccine front. Thats been absolutely incredible. Ing nothing like that has ever happened medically, and i think people are acknowledging that. And its having a b
Danger that continues to just be here with us. Half moon bay other coastal areas on the peninsula and upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay, all of us a in lake countys most of napa and then upper elevations of sonoma and marin counties all these areas affected by red flag warnings now extended through tomorrow night as winds gust as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in some of these areas and its not just the winds, but also the very low humidity to our current temperatures right now actually looking pretty comfortable id say get outside enjoy this morning before another warm afternoon around the corner right now were in the 50s 60s with one exception near santa rosa. At 49 degrees currently so your forecast today again going to be warm and again going to be windy course we need to know what traffic is looking like though still a little bit early i think for most of busy spots but where we sit right now robin the earlier folks can get out there the better job