And we do have fox Business Team covered set up with Jackie Deangelis in our new york newsroom blake burman across town from where i am in the white house north one, well get to moment blake but jackie we start with you. But took a look at where we finished the day, the s p 500, the nasdaq, the new records, the dow did not manage to get a positive gain for the week but it was positive for the session up 190 points. Their use of s p up 11 points, the nasdaq up a 46, tech continuing to feel the rally and theres the optimism about treatments and vaccines when it comes to the coronavirus as well as slowly reopening the country and getting the economy back to business, that seems to be happening and investors are grasping onto that, you could say momentum from the convention depending on how you want to read that statement, having said that lets take a look for the week as well because we are seeing the markets, mostly in the green, the s p 500 and the nasdaq showing a weekly gain, the dow
With oneeading intellectuals and commentators, his new book is the Second Mountains, how many people read this book yet . Okay . How many are going to read after this is over . Okay. How many people are going to get an autographed copy from david today. Okay so david thanks for doing this. So lets go before we go to this book Second Mountains which i have read, i would like to go a little bit about your background. You grew up in new york . I grew up in the lower side of new york and my parents were somewhat left wing, so the story i tell about my childhood is when i was five, and they took me to it a place where hippies would go to be. Im one of things they did is they would set a garbage can on fire and they with their their wallets in it to just show about how much they little they cared about money and material things. And i saw 5dollar bill in the garbage can and i reached in and grab for a breach in the fire, and grabbed the money and ran away that was my first step to the right.
Away and we should have that understanding and that sympathy of oui understanding and that sympathy of our responsibility to ensure eve ryo ne our responsibility to ensure everyone is able to live in safety, where ever they are in this country. 72 people lost their lives on that night injune 72 people lost their lives on that night in june 2017. 72 people lost their lives on that night injune 2017. If that situation rocked the community and shocks the whole country. And it brought together help from lots and lots of people, local churches, mosques, synagogues, people from Different Community organisations, and people rushed to grenfell and as the fire was still blazing, with gifts of food and toys and support and so on. That understanding, that simple Human Understanding of so many people are something that i think we have to cherish and begin to understand. Because there is a natural human instinct to help people and thats what was demonstrated and i cannot forget going there straight
But six, seven hours from now, it will start to warm up and we have lots of sunshine. It is dry. 60s on the temps. The off shore breeze is not as pronounced as it has been. It is there but not as pronounced. It is called a rex block pattern named after a guy who named it back in 1950. They are tough to break down. Maybe middle of next week. There is the circulation to the low to the south and the High Pressure to the north. Everything goes up and over. We cant get anything in this kind of a pattern. Berkeley lab, showing a east or northeast breeze at 20 to 25. At the surface, it is not that strong. And it is allows 20s and 30s for many. This is one of the coldest mornings we have had yet. Other than that, sunshine and warm temps. Something has to break eventually but it wont be this week. 60s on your highs today. These are all above average for this time of year. 7 01. And sal tells us that things are what. Things are just a little better than normal. Okay. Good. Although we have slow
Its thursday 8th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Within the next half hour the leader of the house of Commons Andrea leadsom will be presenting the results of a cross Party Investigation into Sexual Harassment at westminster. Well be taking you there live when it starts, but first the findings show that nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have experienced or witnessed Sexual Harassment in the past 12 months. And the report recommends a new code of conduct and compulsory training to help mps understand and prevent harassment. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is at westminster. We now have a set of proposals which mps will vote on, to revamp procedures for pursuing complaints of Sexual Harassment, a new investigating process, a new code of conduct, but nothing particularly new in terms of sanctions, and that is what will concern many people who work at w