President and his refusal to concede. Calls for justice growing following the death of 15yearold Quawan Charles, the mystery surrounding his death and what his family is saying about the preliminary autopsy report. Hurricane iota rapidly intensifying. The catastrophic rainfall forecast for a region just hit hard by hurricane eta earlier this month. Our weather team tracking the storm. And ready for launch. The Spacex Crew Dragon Team making final preps for their historic mission. The experiments on board they hope will lead to medical breakthroughs and the vips Just Announced for the liftoff. Good morning. This morning there is basically no part of this country not feeling the surge of this pandemic. Cases are going up in almost every state. In 47 states, plus d. C. , puerto rico and guam cases are higher and staying high. The death toll in this country now surpassing 245,000 people with cases nearing 11 million. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. This week the biggest Public
Shanghai composite, 3 10 of an percent of the upside. Lets have a look at what is going on currency wise. This is the dollar index. Not that much changed. Bitcoin. Oves is down nearly 2 at the moment. [indiscernible] thetocurrency left to 18,000 level. Citigroup causing a stir with a 300,000 plus estimate with regards to bitcoin. U. S. Dollar index pretty much unchanged. Stasis as weoil in wait to see what is happening with some of these internal squabbles taking place with members of opec, mainly the uae. Mitchell with the first word headlines. Early south koreas trade data shows exports extending their recovery. The yearose 11 from earlier. South korea shipments received a boost from china and the u. S. Cap exports were up almost 22 . Singapore sees at the economy expanding by between four and 6 next year as it rebounds from the virus. Thirdquarter gdp shrunk by 5. 8 on the year and the estimate for contraction was revised to six to 6. 5 . The decline for the Third Quarter compared t
He either has to reverse these things or he keeps up. Thats a wrap up of the days top headlines for now, but you can always head to our web site, r. T. Dot com for the details on all those stories. And many more. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show. And ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics. Sports business, im show business. Ill see you then. Greetings and salutation is the definition of the American Dream. By james, true slow, adams in 193131 was quite simply that quote, life should be better and richer for and fuller for everyone. With opportunity for each according to ability or achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. Now that is a sales pitch and its a beautiful dream. But as the late great, George Carlin observed the reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. Yes. Tragically the promise of a richer, fuller life regardless of social class or circumstances, is just not the actual reality.
Shares of pharmacy giants are under pressure after amazon said it was jumping into the Prescription Drug business bowe is off a little pour than 100 points nasdaq and s p clinging on the gains. Coming on todays show, retail earnings season full swing. Shares of coles are higher after topping eps estimates this morning. We will talk with the ceo. Plus, as the u. S. Is seth coronavirus records we will talk with dr. Eric gooseby. All of that still to come. First lets focus on the big stories today. Mike santoli is tracking the market phil lebeau has more on teslas spree into the s p 500 and we will talk about the pharmacy space and amendss move into it. Mike santoli lets start with you. It was the morning was off the lows a mild pullback. Market seemed like it needed to cool off and rest for a day. Right now riding the upper rail here we close at a record yesterday remember that. Above 3600 working below week ago mondays high hard to tell whether thats going the matter or not. Thats about
Provide an update on emergency efforts. Here live coverage tuesday at three, cspan cspan. Org, or on the cspan radio app. On thanksgiving afternoon, President Trump held an event with troops overseas. He spoke with reporters about the results at his legal efforts to overturn the. This is 25 minutes overturn them. This is 25 minutes. Know whatp we dont his last. If you look at what is going on, there finding tremendous discrepancies in the votes. Nobody believes those numbers. Those numbers are incorrect numbers. A lot of numbers have been reported as incorrect. You are going to see things that are going to be shocking to people. If you look at the numbers in michigan and pennsylvania and five foot votes. I cant say what is first and last, if this is the first one or the last one or is this the first one of his second term. We will see what happens. No one was to see the fraud this has come to represent. We are looking at things that are so bad in georgia, they dont want to show signatu