Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand on cspan. Org Supreme Court or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual talk series but im virginia prescott and im your host for this talk. Tonight and talking with lisa napoli about her new book up all night, ted turner and the birth of 24 hour news for you can purchase the book directly from a cappella books and the link is in the chat on the right of your screen and the link is also at the Atlanta History Center website. As lisa and i talked please submit your questions and use a q a feature at the bottom of your screen and will try to answer as many as we can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday and you will hear me do what we call a re id to keep consistent sound while we are going. So excited to speak with lisa napoli who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york, and bc bureaus as a teenager and she is a repo
One progress review should happen soon. More signs offers china strengthening rebound. Sales jumped by one third last quarter to 22 billion. The company insists it is no threat to u. S. National security. Lets take a look at how we are shaping up on this final friday session of the day. Lets get over to sophie he was taking a closer look. What are we watching . Vibes coming through with futures largely higher. We could see some weakness in korea following the drop that we saw for the kospi. On the docket today were looking at cpi from japan. Nikkei futures move slightly higher this morning, while the yen is trading below the 106 handle. Pulling up the chart on the terminal, we are watching to see if tech will bounce back in the region after thursdays selloff which saw the kospi with a big loss and the worst day for the regional tech index since march. Samsung took a hit on the south outlook for to prices. Prices. Outlook on chip potential hits on huawei and delayed 5g. That could hurt
For shinzo abe. The pound is big today. We are up by 1 . Governor of the bank of england indicating we are going to see the possibility of negative rates. We are, as you can see, seeing a big bid for the yen as well. Dollar is down. Stoxx 600 is low. S p absolutely flat. Kailey i want to bring you news. Mgm resorts, the casino operator, is cutting 18,000 jobs. That cut impacts over one quarter of its u. S. Workforce. It has been a hard time for casinos during this pandemic. Mgm operates not just in the u. S. , the las vegas strip, but also in macau. All macau travel was shut down, they have yet to catch up. Las vegas market makes up half its revenue. Mgm cutting 18,000 jobs. At the moment, the stock is higher by about 4 . Guy back to that story relating to the bank of england. Governor Andy Beshear Lee says there is plenty of room for more monetary stimulus. He spoke at the feds virtual jackson hole event earlier. He talked about what is in the box. We are not out of firepower by any m
Endangerment of public health. Hes investigating. In boston, a packed party boat making headlines. Absolutely no social distancing. That party boat operation has been completely shut down. In new jersey, no pictures yet, but 700 people attended a liberian Independence Day party. It was staged at an airbnb rental. Plenty of alcohol and twerking. It took police five hours to break it up. Hundreds ticketed. There is, however, positive news on the virus. Pfizer is now in phase 3 testing for its vaccine. That is the final stage. Just like moderna. And the increase in virus cases in two key states, california and texas, is slowing down. You better take a look at this. Kodak. Remember them . They are getting 765 million from the government to make the ingredients for pharmaceutical products. They will replace china, which currently dominates the supply chain for the Building Blocks of drug products. Watch that stock go. The dow industrials, they are going to be on the down side this morning.
Get a first check of traffic in the south bay. Fa so good. Have not seen any accidents or issues. In fact, we can see a lot of green on our sensors so some good news as you travel out of san jose this morni. 0, 87 or also some better news to report that broken down vehicle we had on the bay bridge is now cleared out of lanes i am seeing a slower pattern coming off the highway as you head into San Francisco. There may be some roadwork on 80 or 101 so that maybe backing up traffic just a bit. Not too bad at the toll plaza. Millions of democratic voters run the country are heading to the polls today for super tuesday. Pete buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and beto orourke are throwing their support behind joe biden this morning. Skyler henry joining us live from alexandra virginia where the polls are now open, so, skyler, house the voter turnout so far . Reporter good morning to. Welcome it has been a steady stream of voters that have come to this middle school here thus far. 14 states will parti