Inperson activities shut down can the nfl save football from a covid collapse announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with shepd ard smith. Good evening. Doctors and Health Experts warning about another surge of covid cases. More on the cure in just a moment but first, a look at where this pandemic stands heading into the month of december. The United States now averaging more than 162,000 cases this past week. This month alone, we reported more than 4. 2 million new cases. That means near lily one third all of the cases have been added in november. Right now 93,000 americans are hospitalized with covid. As you can see here, the deaths are climbing towards that peak it comes as millions of americans struggle to dig themselves out of financial holes caused by the pandemic so far congress has failed to provide more relief. The consequences of the inaction growing by the day but its a different story on wall street. The dow rose by more than 11 in just
Addition to the pandemic relief and fighting the coronavirus, what else should be a priority. Republicans, one line, democrats, one line, independents and others,. One line you can also send us a text. Include your name and where you are texting from. And onter, cspanwj facebook. We will hear from a couple of members of Congress Later in the program. We will ask them both about the status of a potential pandemic relief bill. We will also show you some of the highlights from last nights cnn interview. First, a piece from page of washington journal using data from johns hopkins. The whole front page, if you go online, you will see the interactive map showing the spread of the virus across the country. The april 17 spring peak, july 25 at summer peak, the low point between the summer and fall of september 19. So far, in the fall, the fall peak to describe, two weeks in november, over 2 million cases. Over 12 million cases. The bottom line is how the surge engulfed. They write today, about
And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Check out this rally right now all 11 sectors are in gree green. Taking a look at some of the stocks were watching. Salesforce is under pressure for the second day in a row, down about 7 in the last week as it gets set to report earnings after the bell and reportedly to make a deal. And we have exclusive data on how the bitcoin boom is boosting this payment stock first lets get over to bob for more on todays rally. Hey, bob hello, melissa. Good start to a traditionally good month we got talk about a new stimulus plan, janet yellen on the air and, overall, 11 sectors all on the up side. Bank stocks leading the way but technical stocks also. No dig selloff in tech that was also a november play there. Theres energy you have your value play with banks, energy up you have your growth play with tech, cyclical with industrials up and even more defensive groups, Consumer Staples on the up side as well. This is what i mean when i say the goldie locks
Introducing the world of paint mixing. The Company Repays him by firing him. That employee joins us live today. All that and more on making money. Charles even though shares are slightly lower, my stock of the day is deere. Regular watchers of this show know i have talked about this company, i have great affection for it in the past and one of the reasons i love this company, it was born when a farmer saw a void and decided to fix it himself. That was 182 years ago. This morning, the stock reported earnings that was all about the american farmer, the Agricultural Equipment sales increased from last year, operating margins soared to 13. 9 from 9. 2 . Management credited a shift in sentiment, market access, government actions and prices, in addition to a mon centster government actions and prices, in addition to a mon centste be management gave strong guidance. If you are in the stock, hold it. I was also thrilled we did not allow our farmers to be destroyed by the Chinese Government in
The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from th hello is outside source. The u. S. Announces further troop withdrawals from afghanistan and iraq. By january 15, 20 21, our forces, their size in afghanistan wille b 2500 troops. Karen americas troop presence will be have by midjanuary, daysor bdonald trump leaves office. We will have the reaction in washington. The you and warns of a humanitarian catastrophe in rlethiopia after ntwo weeks of conflict in the tigray region. 30,000 have led to neighboring sudan. The ceos of facebooktt and t defend the roles of their platforms in the u. S. Election as they face a grilling from senators or the second ts. E in three we the kenyan government response after a bbc africa investigatioe un shocking evidence of child trafficking in nairobi. Within 24 to 48 hours, we should have arrested anybody who was volved in this issue. Karen war w