Endangerment of public health. Hes investigating. In boston, a packed party boat making headlines. Absolutely no social distancing. That party boat operation has been completely shut down. In new jersey, no pictures yet, but 700 people attended a liberian Independence Day party. It was staged at an airbnb rental. Plenty of alcohol and twerking. It took police five hours to break it up. Hundreds ticketed. There is, however, positive news on the virus. Pfizer is now in phase 3 testing for its vaccine. That is the final stage. Just like moderna. And the increase in virus cases in two key states, california and texas, is slowing down. You better take a look at this. Kodak. Remember them . They are getting 765 million from the government to make the ingredients for pharmaceutical products. They will replace china, which currently dominates the supply chain for the Building Blocks of drug products. Watch that stock go. The dow industrials, they are going to be on the down side this morning.
Hospital workers pushed back the strike. Well when the pandemic first hit but say they could not wait any longer as they work on the front lines in what they say is unsafe conditions. The hospital says they are disappointed their staff is on strike during a pandemic these are Health Care Workers of all kinds medical technicians and see all just nursing assistants respiratory therapist and people working alongside nurses and doctors to care for coronavirus patients. Joining us right now is a tell me your name and what you do again. Taylor davis an and i work in Emergency Rooms registration. You guys work with the union your steward tell me the biggest fight that youre looking to change in that contract. Well i think our biggest fight first and foremost as always our protection so that we can take care of people in the safest and most effective way possible and the hospitals failed us. And second thing is our Health Benefits they want to raise our Health Benefits, 25 every single year. H
8000. Republicans come your opinions will come in on 202748 8001. Independents, your line will be 202748 8002. You can always text us your always ond we are social media at twitter and on cspan. K. Com tensions have been ratcheting up the last few days, with both countries forcing the other to close a key embassy in that other country. Ae wall street journal has story about that this morning that we will bring to you so i want to bring that story to you. The u. S. And china moved rapidly friday to shut down consulates and evict diplomats, unprecedented steps followed by calls on both sides to ease tension. Flareups between the worlds two biggest economies, even amid the move to avoid further acts of immediate excavation escalation. Aging ordered the shutdown of , describingsulate it as a necessary response after washington ordered china to consulate in houston. U. S. Defended the closure, citing unacceptable espionage and intellectual property theft linked to the outpost. As evidenced
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Dow and s p, you know if they keep going at a pace like this they will be at a record pretty soon here. Well be monitoring that. Monitoring true to our name, coast to coast, what is going on around in our fabulous country including in florida where cases are heating up and i mean really heating up. Were in atlanta where the cdc is reporting when it comes to the young, more of the cases are going up for them as well. And in texas, where joe bidens poll numbers are going up and up. One has him in the lead, in the lead in texas. Then, back to washington, d. C. , where the, shall we say dr. Fauci aint all that rhetoric is heating up as well. So weve got a busy couple hours ahead my friend. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Get latest numbers and stats out of the cdc for that we go to Jonathan Serrie in atlanta. Reporter florida released latest numbers, 12,624 of new cases overnight. Only time that was higher, what they reported on sunday, alltime record not only for florida but any state