George floyd. A Minneapolis Police officer pressed his knee into the unarmed African American mans neck for more than seven minutes monday as floyd pleaded for help and said he couldnt breathe. Frustation over the lack of charges against the officers turned into anger overnight, as protesters looted stores and set buildings on fire. Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Hose riots continued today, spilling into st. Paul, where crowds ransacked shops and smashed windows. Late today, the state capital was evacuated. And it all comes as minnesota and the rest of the country are facing th dual toll of rising jobless claims and cases of coronavirus. Today, we learned another 2. 1 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits in the last week, and as we come on the air tonight, more than 101,000 people have been killed by coronavirus in the u. S. There are now more than 1. 7 million confirmed cases nationwide. So theres a lot of news to get to tonight. Were going to begin wi
Says they should be in jail for murder. Twitter takes action. The social media giant obscures the president s latenight tweet on minneapolis saying it violates rules on glorifying violence. How it raises the stakes in a free speech fight. And coronavirus job crisis. The pandemic puts more than 40 million americans out of work. What one hardhit city is doing now to get people back on the job. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. George Floyd George Floyd riots and violence across the country with people outraged over the death of george floyd. In minnesota, the stores all over the state have been looted. Businesses have been damaged, and cars torched. Protesters have set fire to a Minneapolis Police precinct. I have not seen black people this upset in 20 years. Longer. President trump signed an executive order that takes aim at the Legal Protections for social Media Companies. If twitter were not honorable, if youre going to have a guy like this be your judg
Lots of guests coming up mel Mellody Hobson will join us. Well ask if todays the start of a downturn or a buying opportunity. The ceo of icelandbased Decode Genetics will join us. What the company has learned about how the virus spreads. Its an interesting study. Lets focus in on the big stories we are watching in this final hour of trade. Bob pisani tracking todays selloff Courtney Reagan with plunging retail Sales Numbers and wilford. Bob, a little recovery weve seen lets take a look at the s p and call this one cuomo versus the horrible Economic Data because the markets once again, cuomo moves markets. 12 30, started talking about lower hospitalization rates, the market lifted at that time continuing to lift but cant compete against those horrible Economic Data sara was talking about. The energy, the banks, the small caps, the industri industrials, Economic News, they suffer the Energy Stocks getting pounded, even down double digits, some recovering off the lows like apache and hess
Eight today have enough test to implement the criteria and phase one if they choose to do so. Chris we will discuss the new federal guidelines with governors will be empowered Vice President mike pence and to tailor an approach that makes with Small Businesses bearing the brunt of the economic the diverse circumstances of their own states. Shutdown, congress negotiate the deal to save them. Every state is very different. We will ask house chris President Trump Speaker Nancy Pelosi how close announcing new federal they are to a compromise. Guidelines thursday for reopening the economy saying pence and pelosi only on its governors who will take the fox news sunday. We will ask our son a panel of lead. Its time now for our sunday the president ial election will end up being a referendum on how mr. Trump handles the crisis. Group. G. O. P. Strategist karl rove. Executive director of the serve america pack, marie harf. Top Chef Jose Andres on feeding and the anchor of special report, bret b
Getting a nice lift today. Nice bounce for tech led by apple. Crude is also jumping today for a change and that perhaps has sentiment a little bit better. I know, joe, youre watching everything so how do you feel today, you know, were trying to rebound. Lets see if we can hold it. Where does it leave us we havent heard from you in a couple of days what do you do and what does the whiteboard suggest hey, scott, good to see you the opportunities are becoming a little bit more limited than they were in the past couple of weeks, obviously, with the market rallying. That being said, i agree with your opening comment oil kind of stepping out of the way and not pressing to the downside thats allowing for some visibility in a lot of the sectors to move higher here. So i still view this as a buy the dip overall market youre looking for and mining for opportunities. I think in the last couple of days, youre mining for those opportunities and some of the places that we had not been in the last co