Manufacturing, down 1. 3 million. Overall, whats striking is how fast we descended into a depressionlike situation and of course, we want to know how fast we are going to recover. White house economist larry kudlow will join us in just a few minutes. Is this as bad as it gets and whats the timetable for returning to growth . We will ask him. Before the news came out, the dow futures showed a gain of about 250 points. The moment we saw the numbers, dow futures were pretty much the same. We have now moved up a bit more. We are looking at a gain of 284 points but remember, these numbers were expected. They were already baked into stock prices. Stocks are up because investors are looking to the future, where the economys in recovery mode, and theyre looking at, what, 7 trillion worth of stimulus. That always goes down well on wall street. As we said, the dow up 280. The s p up 33. The nasdaq up 87. Lot of green despite the terrible numbers. Obviously, this is a big day for your money. Its
Some of the democrats wish list has been taken out but the Kennedy Center for performing arts still gets 25 million and there is a provision which limits the response of Small Businesses to union action. Surely at times like this we should be able to pass a clean bill without measures that have nothing to do with rescuing the economy. It is a 900 page bill. We are still going through it. We are looking for the pork. Now look at the markets. There is virtually no reaction to those really bad jobless numbers. We will open with a very small loss, maybe go to the plus column at the time we open up. Right now we are looking at a 57point loss, 67 points for the dow industrials. Remember, please, this follows backtoback trading sessions where stocks went up. Some think that is a sign of at least a shortterm bottom. Well see. Again, the dow is now down 70. S p down 13. Nasdaq down 21. Lets get to the virus. 200 americans have died in the last 24 hours. The death toll now exceeds 1,000 in the U
rachel: it s great to be back in new york city and the team is back here in studio and still cold in new york p. we saw the earlier photos of daytona and going why weren t we back there? it s true. pete: rock island due west of chicago in northern illinois. rock island, illinois. clearly on a river. i should know what river it is, i don t. google maps not updating fast enough. will: what did you say? pete: on the border of illinois and wisconsin. no, border of illinois and iowa. will: mississippi. pete: that little mississippi thing that goes from the top to the bottom in louisiana. yeah, rock island. rachel: somebody that also doesn t understand the geography of the united states or doesn t want to go places he should be is president joe biden who s saying, you know, i m just not going to go he officially announced he s not going to go to east palestine and here he is dismissing the criticism of the handling of the issue. three weeks now since the toxic train derailmen
rachel: good morning, everybody. we go straight to a fox weather alert. florida is still reeling from the devastation caused by hurricane ian. we watched everything just go flying by. we lost so much at this point so we appreciate everybody. we are very much concerned about the storm. i should have left. i shouldn t have stayed. most of the time, we are all kind of doing our own thing just listening to the winds, which were horrible for hours. reporter: the storm soaking the mid atlantic making way up north and the death toll in florida and the carolinas unfortunately continues to climb. alexandria hoff is live in fort meyers beach this morning with more. good morning, alex. reporter: good morning. we re on san carlos island part of fort meyers beach and this is a challenging rescue and sadly a recovery operation has had to become and look at mangled pieces of metal and boats on top of hopes and look at residences and think, my goodness, i hope they were among
pete: kevin. rachel: i can t believe that. i know it s kenny. will: i once said deke bentley. if you wake up and tell your man he s a big star, it s going to be a good day. that s all every manments to hear when they wake up. today is national hunting and fishing day. will: where s the hunting and fishing? pete: unclear. it didn t make the rundown. we re doing the show from central park from the reservoir or pond. rachel: i don t know if you can shoot pidgeons but that would be fun. pete: you ve seen the famous video come across and the fly fishing and the reservoir and the pond and wherever. will: somewhere in central park. pete: he was in central park doing that and he comes up with a cell phone and acted like he got tucker. you re doing something wrong. i got you. he s like, what? rachel: was tucker like on his own? will: he d go to central park and fish and someone thought he had a got ya moment. pete: he s like this is legal. you re allowed to fish here. rachel: i d love