Right . This quarter did nothing it did nothing at all today, at least, the dow climbed 135 points. S p gained. 7 . Nasdaq vaulted 1. 04 . Wow, breaking that streak, huh . You know what, i say good riddance to the first quarter. Because this market slaughtered some of the best highest growing companies and saluted the down and dirtiest industrials and techs that have yet to show any real growth. Im telling you. Now, what they did, they went out of the good and into the bad, and im tired of it. But thats the way it is. Ill talk about a rotation later. No matter, nobody i know was really talking about much about the market today anyway. They were talking about a new book. A book by one of the great writers of our time Michael Lewis entitled flash boys which asserts that highfrequency traders have rigged the market. Rigged the market against you. Do you know what i found was most shocking about this book . How about the fact that anyone finds it shocking in the first place. If you watch t
Because words do matter. His words matter. And it will be those words and those deeds that will ultimately be the true legacy of president donald j. Trump. Hes gone from a young politician with swagger. They said we think you should run for the senate. I said, im not old enough. To a father suffering great loss. My brother looked at me hes an irishman with a life story that reads like a greek tragedy. How can you experience the worst thing imaginable twice in one lifetime . His career has been long and often controversial. Do you swear to tell the truth, nothing but the truth so swear you god . That has a new twist. A senator, a Vice President , finally his partys nominee on his third try. Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Tonight, do you see yourself as the polar option of donald trump . I hope so. A cnn special report, fight for the white house. Joe bidens long journey. Its a good night and its going to get better. More than 30 years after his first run for the
Members of congress, donald trump was reluctant to use the Defense Production act to nationalize production and distribution of these crucial items that could save lives. There was no such reluctance on tuesday when trump invoked that very same law to classify meat plants as essential infrastructure that must remain open. While Health Care Workers are forced to reuse masks until they fall apart, they should at least be able to score some chicken nuggets. Am i right . For the kids. Priorities. The move forces lowwage employees, many of whom are black, latino, or immigrant, to working conditions right for the spread of the virus. Already, more than 20 meat packing plants across the country have closed due to concerns about illness. According to a new report by the cdc, nearly 5,000 meat and poultry plant workers in 19 states have been diagnosed with covid19, 20 people have died. The federal government has also failed to coordinate the National Food supply which is why youre hearing about
Where heavy rain unleashed floods that triggered massive mudslides. This was the result. Cars and trucks, hundreds of them, were stuck deep in the mud along highways north of los angeles. Road crews spent the whole day hauling away the mud and the vehicles, just to try to get the roads open again. Carter evans is in the thick of it. Carter. Reporter scott, these are just a few of the hundreds of vehicles that drivers had to abandon as a wall of mud came down the hill and overwhelmed this highway. It happened so fast that many of these cars were buried up to their windows in a matter of minutes. The floods came with little warning. Oh, my god run for your Life Reporter torrential rain, four inches an hour, triggered massive mudslides, trapping rush hour drivers on busy interstate 5. Nearly 200 cars and trucks were overwhelmed in less than 10 minutes. I have never seen anything like this. Reporter how long is that going to take to clear the mud and all those automobiles out of there . Th
For erin burnett. The markets deep dive. The dow plunging more than 1,000 points within minutes of the opening fall. The fall epic. Stocks did try to stage a co comeback but fell back. Thats 3. 5 for the day. Overall today, the worst for the dow since august 2011. It caps the biggest threeday point loss in history for the market. Americas biggest and best known Companies Like ge and pepsi crashing more than 20 at one point. Apple dropping 10 . This is part of a meltdown on stock markets across the globe, raising fears this do be the beginning of something worse. Allison kossick is outfront tonight. Give people a sense of how crazy today was. 14 billion shares traded, the most in four years. The dow see sawing 3,000 points in the first 90 minutes of trading. What is going on here exactly . It was a stunning day when you look at what happened in the markets. This was all about china and it all sort of began at least for todays trade it began the night before when we saw chinas main index