Despite urgent warnings, people are traveling this holiday week at the highest levels since march, more than 1 million flying in just 1 day tonight the parts of the country most at risk as hospitals see more Record Numbers. The search for solutions. How to keep schools open safely. Why some are succeeding even as the pandemic grows. The Big New Recall by gm, almost 6 million vehicles could be on the road with dangerous airbags. Which models are affected and holiday displays for our times, my report honoring the heroes on the front lines. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone there is Breaking News as we come on the air tonight. The governments General Services administration is for the first time acknowledging joe bidens win for president. Notifying the President Elect that the formal and official transfer of power can begin. The decision comes more than two weeks after biden was projected as the winner and after a series of legal an procedural defeats in Pr
Weve seen the dow and triple gains. S p in positive territory too. Down 22 points, s p futures are off by four. Yesterday was a good day for the markets. You had the nasdaq wed been watching closely was a big outperformer gain of 293 points the first day out of the last four both the nasdaq and s p have been in positive territory. Those three days before that give you something to worry about . Futures had been higher. Down a lot but come off the highs in the session looking at the treasury market where the 10year stands right now. Just below 0. 7 . Oil prices which really fluctuated and sold off sharply. This morning are down again. Wti off 1. 5 andrew thanks, becky a couple big stories to talk about. The senate set to vote on that slimmed down relief bill today talks between the white house and House Democrats and a report that President Trump may step in with more executive actions to try and fill the gap if something doesnt get done joe . There are other places in the world too. We
The inland spots as well. That gray start. Well, our temperatures are running mid to upper 50s to low 60s at this hour. And heres what you can expect as we take you through our day. So right around the bay well see partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies and topping out at just 63 in San Francisco and 70 in oakland and 82 in san jose with a little bit more sunshine inland and 86 for concord. So seasonal if not just a little bit below average for this time of year. Well talk about our warmup through the week coming up in just a few minutes. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we just got word of a computer hack on the vatican linked to the chinese government. That is according to a u. S. Firm that tracks state backed cyber attacks. It said that this began in may. The vatican and beijing expected to engage in talks this year over the renewal of a deal that stabilized their relations. But this report says those targets included communications between the Hong Kong Diocese and the vatic
Shares dropping as much as 6 . What made this company take a turn for the worse the traders are here to break down theout look for in name and a lot of others. Were starting with retailers. That was the story certainly this morning when we were on squawk on the street at the beginning of the trading day, the etf tomahawk tracking the space falling nearly 2 . The worst day in more than a month as retail earnings kick into high gear tonight we bring you good, bad and ugly today. Wow. Sound effects and everything. Retail wreck. Lets start with the gold. Tj maxx bucking the trend closing in the green after a beat on both on the bottom line. But then there was the bad thats home depot. It did get hammered this amp missing revenue expect rations cut the 2019 Sales Forecast but the ugly, that is reserved for kohls, the shares down 19 posting the worst day in more than two years we shall also note we just got results from urban outfitters. You can see it the stock down as much as 14 in the aft
Speaks to bloomberg about the path ahead. What we are talking about now is taking it into a whole other class of objection to what the president has done. Kailey results from some of the worlds biggest tech companies. This is a year where apple is rebuilding confidence. Nothing really hurts facebook these days. Kailey plus, Sheryl Sandberg discusses bloombergs stance on political advertising. We believe in Free Expression. We believe in political speech. Kailey that is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Kailey hello, and welcome. This is bloomberg best , your weekly review of the lets start with a look at the headlines. As the week began, a deadline for reaching the brexit deal was still looming. The eu had not announced whether it would approve an extension beyond thursday, but monday, they announced a decision that triggered another phrase of parliamentary maneuvering. Extension granted. The eu is agreeing to a threemonth delay for brexit. That will take us to january 31. Because