This weekend, but again, these are fast moving pieces. Were looking at uber and lyft that might be exiting california because of some new requirements that they treat their freelance workers like employees. That could be a costly issue for them, so much so even though it accounts for about 60 of their combined business, the state of california alone they would still leave rather than put up with that. In new york city, forget about the virus, forget about eventually opening up gyms next week, the fact of the matter is, new york city is a safety concern right now with residents in once red hot real estate markets saying enough. It has gotten so bad theyre bolting. The visitors upon hearing this, theyre just not coming. So were following that. Right now were also following the drama in washington as at least the house considers coming back to deal with this postal issue. Chad pergram on that. What are we talking about here, chad . Reporter the house of representatives is going to meet on
A hollywood movie a critic of rwandas president is now arrested on terror charges. Thanks for joining us venezuelas president is pardoning more than 100 of his political opponents ahead of parliamentary elections in december the government says this is a goodwill gesture but Nicolas Maduro his move is widely seen as an attempt to boost participation in the vote u. S. Backed Opposition Leader one of my dog has already said hes boycotting the elections because of concerns about cheating human Rights Groups in venezuela say around 330 Political Prisoners are being held in the country Arline America editor the c. E. O. Newman has more from santiago chile. Well everything about this has to do with the upcoming parliamentary elections which are due to be held in december the opposition to a lawyer who was recognized as the interim president by over 50 countries has announced that he and most of his supporters will boycott that election and he has called on all of the opposition parties to jo
Unshakeable. Woodruff and to denounce President Trump. Today we are a country divided and we have a president doing everything in his power to make it that way. At the time like this the oval office should be a command center. Woodruff tonight former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former president barack obama and this years Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris. Day three of the Democratic National convention. Woodruff again, im Judy Woodruff and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the Democratic National convention. Were now on night three of this virtual event. Tonight, we will hear from Hillary Clinton, the partys nominee four years ago. Well hear from former president barack obama and then we will hear from Kamala Harris, a historymaking Vice President ial nominee. Im here in our studio with political analyst amy walter and right around the corner our senior correspondence amna nawaz. Both socially distanced. And we have reported and guests across the coun
We are looking ahead to the fed minutes out on wednesday. Lets change the board and look at the currencies and we will check in on some of the commodities. The u. S. Dollar index currently flat. You have the euro gaining just four basis points. A stronger euro over eight straight weeks. That is beneficial for emergingmarket currencies. The yen, 76. Rsus some gains for the aussie versus the safe haven yen. Gold had its first weekly drop since early june. Gold firmly in focus. Down 3 10 of 1 . 42 for wti. Over in the u. S. , 17 basis points on the 10 year. Lets get to the first word news. Good morning south korea is warning of a new mass Coronavirus Infection after reporting its highest number of cases since early march. The latest infections are being linked to a church in seoul. Tokyo confirmed new cases. Young adults in their 20s the largest group, almost 18,000 people are infected in the capital. New data show the japanese economy continuing to stumble amid falling Global Demand and
On the dow. Stocks now on pace to finish the week in the red. Those big name tech stocks we follow so closely every day, down again. We have news of a possible delay of the new iphone and apple was responsible for yesterdays market selloff as well. News on the virus. President trump says now is not the time to be holding a big event in florida, canceling the jacksonville portion of the Republican Convention. The rnc will join us in the 11 00 hour to talk about that. To chicago, where two Christopher Columbus statues came down overnight. Just as a way to appease the protesters. We will see what tom homan has to say about that in our next hour. But lets end on a positive note, shall we . It is feedback friday. Always fun. Theres stu smiling. Yes, baseball is back. Dr. Anthony fauci throwing out the first pitch of the baseball season. It wasnt great. You could say he flattened the curve with that one. Whoa. Just outside. The ceo of fox sports and Keith Hernandez joins us on baseballs retu