Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
And snow in the sierra. Were going to tell you how much more is in our forecast. And a glimmer of hope tonight as covid cases surge. Late details on a vaccine and how soon it could become widely available. But first several counties are quickly tightening restrictions to slow the spread. Tonight covid cases are surging sf statewide. Cases are up nearly 50 in the first week of november. Many of our local counties are stopping Indoor Dining, and more restrictions could be on the way. Heres nbc bay areas ian cull. Reporter it was eight months ago tonight. Bay area counties were limiting crowd sizes and preparing a shelter at home order. Fast forward to today doctors say we are fully into the third wave of covid19. After a slow drift up in the month of october its started to head straight up. Because of it santa clara is joining with San Francisco, copia costa and marin counties to ban all Indoor Dining. The south bay expects to fall back into the red tier tuesday. And if it does that also
When can we expect to see it . Were going to see the rain moving if by tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime were enjoying nice, sunny weather and well above normal temperatures. Were looking at highs today that will reach into the mid70s but well start to see the rain moving from north to south by tomorrow morning and most of the bay area seeing it by the afternoon. The rest of the week is looking nice. The rain is moving through parts of the northwest. Ill have a look at the time line coming up and how much rain to expect. Mike, any issues as drivers get ready to head out on this monday morning . Yes, kari, an unpleasant surprise out of tracy on to the Altamont Pass. A very jammed drive for west 580. This is a vehicle that was on fire, engulfed in flames. Everyone reportedly out safely. We have two lanes, two left lanes open as youre coming out of the alat thtamonaltamont. The rest of the bay, of course, very light. Well track this slow drive out of tracy but bigger news on the world f
Wall street expects some kind of stimulus. We have another monday morning rally with plenty of green and the dow jones is closing about a gain of 150, but nasdaq up over 100 points. Big tech up this morning i think pretty much across the board, yes. Its all green. Even though three top executives will be hauled before Congress Next week, both sides of the aisle angry over big tex wealth, power, influence and serious discontent about censoring conservative opinions as some senators subpoenaed jack dorsey concerning twitters suppression of conservative voice service. On the campaign trail absolutely no change. The president continues his rallies hammering his message home in the battleground states and joe biden will hunker down. He appears to have put a lid on the week staying home preparing for thursdays debate. That debate is controversial with the moderator who is supposed to be neutral anything but. Her family has donated tens of thousands of dollars to democratic campaigns and in t
No unemployment benefits. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in washington vote no on the deceptive watching all of this for us to uber, lyft, explain what will happen there doordash prop 22. And on the campaign trail. One ride california doesnt want to take. Good morning, tracie. Reporter hi, kris and laura, good morning, everyone. Lets start inside the hearing room. The hearing just about to get under way. This is a languager ro larger r normal. Senator thom tillis who came down with covid19 and appeared virtually yesterday will appear in person today after getting clearance from his doctor and weve also learns that there will be a number of questions that could take until 10 00 or 11 00 tonight. Its expected to be a really long day. A long day from President Trump. Moving to pennsylvania today getting back on the campaign trail in full swing after being hospitalized with covid19. The president talks about that saying he feels great. He thinks hes immune now. There have been medi