Welcome back to our special, highlighting the feelgood stories of 2020, we take you to martinez, where an attorney is helping feed people who are in need of a meal amid the covid19 pandemic, christina tells us that he is also helping restaurants that need a boost in business by pairing the two together. The lunch rush has slowed a bit during the pandemic. Owner david getting a boost from a donor. Going day by day, wondering how you are going to make rent, somebody comes with a check for 1,500 out of just the kindness of his heart, thats something very amazing. It is one of 16 downtown restaurants gifted money from a program called meals to martinez. I think a lot of people when they hear about this, it doesnt make sense to them, they feel it is too good to be true. The local attorney donated 30,000 from the restaurants to the law offices with the help of the nonprofit main street martinez, the meal program is giving out 600 meal vouchers to people in need redeemable at one of the 16 re
You dont want to miss this last hour of trading here and see whether we can finish positive or negative. The dow is up 28 points. The s p 500 adding just about a point, the nasdaq is barely above the 4,000 mark. A lot will come down. Given the redemption numbers weve been hearing, a lot will come down to what we here in the next session. This would be you. All right. Have you heard many youve heard many warnings about bitcoins. An alarm bell is being sounded about the Digital Currency. A Cashless Society, get this, will jeopardize our freedom. Will the government really track everything you buy right down to a pack of gum . Thats his concern. His argument to lay out why hes very worried. Whats interesting is he runs a bank. Might have a stake in the game. Thats very interesting. If you google the term world takeover, you might come up with two words amazon and google. Amazon is expanding even more, looking to take some of costcos market share and new plans from google indicate that, if
Exchange tape. A is the New York Stock Exchange tape. Now were going on 45 minutes with a Major Exchange essentially halted. In theory, you can trade many nasdaq listed stocks on other exchanges, including here at the New York Stock Exchange. Right behind me, in fact, are nasdaqlisted stocks that trade on the nyse. However, the New York Stock Exchange a short time ago halted all training in nasdaq listed stocks here at the nyse specifically at the request of nasdaq. So essentially, here at the nyse, were not doing any trading nasdaqlisted stocks right now. Let me interrupt before i toss up to bertha and give you the latest from nasdaq, a statement that just arrived here. It says nasdaq intends to reopen trading in all tape c securities with a halt cross with a fiveminute quote only, period, started at a time to be determined. Nasdaq will not be cancelling open orders on the book. Customers who wish to cancel these orders may do so, and any customer who wishes to not participant in the
Minutes. All other markets will remain open with scheduled break between 5 15 p. M. And 6 15 eastern time. We see red arrows in europe. Well talk about things driving that action later on. We have your bases covered on Hurricane Sandy and what is at stake for businesses and your family. We begin with scott cohn in battery park. Scott . Reporter good morning, melissa. This was completely dry just a couple hours ago. What you are looking at here is high tide. This isnt storm surge to speak of yet. It is high tide exacerbated by the full moon and somewhat exacerbated by sandy. If you fast forward about 12 hours from now when the next high tide comes in and the storm is coming ashore, add about a foot of water onto this and then you start to look at what manhattan is facing. Its not that much drier inland from here in this socalled zone a where 375,000 people live. Some very important businesses and Financial Capital of the world is located which is why they are not trading stocks today. I