A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 58, the nays are 35. The notion nomination is confirmed. Under the prious order, the motion to reconsid be considered made and laid upon the table and the predent will be immediately notified of the senates action. A se
Well also hear from thom tillis, rick gates and arkansas senator tom cotton. Markets this morning look like this. Futures indicating this morning a decline at the start of trading. The dow industrials down right now 276 points, the nasdaq down almost 201, as you see, and the s p lower by 38. Markets finished near session lows wednesday on fading stimulus hopes of. Earnings season meanwhile rolling on. This morning we hear from walgreens, Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab among others. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. The nfl is back in business, you can watch the biggest games on fox, fox nfl lead analyst and three time hall of Famer Troy Aikman is here previewing whats next for the super bowl and beyond. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning look like this. Weve got a negative showing there as well. The fq100 down 133, the cac down 107 and dax index lower by 363. This as we learned covid cases in europe have surpassed those in t
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Encouraging news on the fight against the virus. A first of its kind study kinds the vaccine developed by astrazeneca can very much cut the spread of the virus. Were talking about our medical expert about that. And call it a booster shot, the Biden Administration expanding Vaccine Distribution with plans to send doses directly to pharmacies next week. Dr. Fauci says it cant happen soon enough. Are we vaccinating right now at a pace to keep ahead of these mutant strains . Well, were Getting Better and better, but, savannah, were not. Im Hallie Jackson in washington. We start this morning with Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Garrett, that tribute for Officer Sicknick is starting in just a little bit this hour but as we come on the air there is big news youve been covering from the senate regarding what you could perhaps technically call a power sharing agreement, but if you put in in laymans terms it basically means that congress, now the senate, can function as its supposed to function w
Officials one of its. Responsible to home. Countries across Southeast Asia racing to track hundreds of people who may have been infected with the coronavirus during an event in malaysia that countrys shut its borders to all travelers after registering 2 deaths and 790 cases maybe 2 thirds of those are linked to a religious gathering of 16000 people in the capital straightly and being told not to leave the country its declared a human biosecurity emergency giving the government the power to seal off cities and impose curfews the United States has announced a one trillion dollar plan in a bid to try to lessen the economic fallout but that doesnt seem to have calm Financial Markets and its only patients are being moved to a new Treatment Center in rome more than 30000 italians are infected the death toll has now passed 2500 lets go 1st to kuala lumpur about 0 Florence Louis you can tell us more about the shutdown there how is it going help people behaving. Well its relatively quiet on the