Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
It is 60 in san jose, 49 up north. Looking at the current conditions, 86 containment from the fire. 56 degrees. 72 relative humidity. And well begin to see some warmer conditions today. We also have a sparetheair alert. Poor air quality not only in the north bay but drifting to the inland east bay. Elsewhere, it will be moderate. Starting out with the clouds, then by noontime, upper 60s to near 70 around the bay and inland. Low 80s should be the high end today around the livermore valley. Mid 70s around fremont. 60s Half Moon Bay. Tonight, just a little patchy fog. Well talk about a warmup for includes gusty ho win z . Few nute nurse hethe st are demanding better protection from covid19. Abc7s Lauren Martinez has the story. Madeline johnson 70. Registered nurse, new jersey. Passed away reporter names of registered nurses around the country who lost their lives to covid19 were read aloud during a candlelight vigil outside of Alameda Hospital. Each one of them a life lost. Each one of th
As i mentioned order last days with temperatures this cool that well see in quite some time. Im talking the heat and increase fire danger to all still to come. Robin wright, thank you john were off to the bridges were checking in on the drive around the bay area this morning, some spots are crawling other spots are just wide open so. Lets start off with some good news and thats your drive to the richmond sandra fell west 5. 80 is looking really good early at 7 minutes to make your way into the north bay starting to see a minor back up at the bay bridge toll plaza right down the middle with stocking up just a tad 12 minutes and growing to make it in and heres a motorcycle crash in livermore 5 he was found in greenville we have injuries, lots of debris scattered across the lanes the left lane is closed. It was already a mess through the altamonte and tracy so now that we have this new problem youre backed up all the way into tracy on to 2 05. But thats good news for those of you getting
Pelosi at the beginning of a ceremony that was held inside in which she delivered the opening remarks in honor of the late justice. Very briefly just saying that, you know, she had dedicated her life to trying to change the lives of women in america, minorities, and anybody who is oppressed or discriminated against in any way in her many, many years of legal life as a lawyer and then a judge and then Supreme Court justice elevated to the court in 1993 by then president bill clinton. There you see the man who would like to be the next president of the united states, joe biden. We saw President Trump pay his respects when the casket was at the top of the Supreme Court steps where she had been a justice for 27 years. And now we say goodbye to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And she will be buried next to her husband of more than 50 years at Arlington National cemetery. This service will last until about 9 30 our time this morning. At that point the casket will be tack enaway and we will continue to
Now at 5 00, Movie Theaters reopening in one bay area county. But the strict guidelines were expecting. And fertility fraud, and athome dna test leads an east bay woman to sue her former doctor. The unexpected results uncovered 40 years later. And heavy smoke impacted yosemite. Mike is looking at our air quality. Good morning, everybody. It is friday, september 18. Good to see you guys. It was really weird to hear that yosemite, i was supposed to go there last weekend and we had to postpone the trip. But now seeing the park being closed all together, it is weird yeah, it has just got worse as the wind shifted. You cant escape it. And it is going to be there for the better part of the weekend. Plus they have the high fire danger right near the red flag warning. And back here at home, still green. How about that for the third consecutive morning. We do have a few clouds out there as a dold frocold front w through today andbring us a touch of autumn. And katrina is to our south and that i