Bridge. Its slow. Im just looking at this and showing you that there is no break today. Traffic is going to be slow driving across here. And it has been slow getting into marin. And well talk about marin in just a moment. I can also show you the traffic on the eastshore freeway. 30minute drive right now coming in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and at the bay bridge, we have a 25minute drive. New accident in san bruno. Well talk about that and some of of these other commutes when we come back in just a few minutes. Straight to new information this morning about a fire at a highrise Apartment Building in the south of market district in San Francisco. Firefighters are now telling ktvu an electric scooter was the source of this Early Morning fire. Flames broke out before 5 a. M. Inside a building on clementina street and gallagher lane. One person was hospitalized with moderate injuries. Looks like firefighters also rescued a dog from that burning building. Time is now 7 0
And any barriers to goods and workers should now be removed. U. S. Business is pleading for help as demand and production fall. The president calls says that china will pay. Shery we are looking at how markets are trading. U. S. Futures are under pressure after we saw the nervous rebound in the trading session. The s p 500 slipped between small gains and losses. We have energy in a discretionary stocks leading the gains. We actually saw the nasdaq composite really rising more than 2 because of bargainhunting going on. Twitter andtesla, netflix as well. So we have seen a little bit of upside, especially the energy sector. Take a look at what oil. Is doing it just hot its best day on record. In fact, climb back most of the clawing back from most of the losses we saw earlier in the session. We are coming back from the lowest level in 18 years. This has the president said he would get involved at the appropriate time in the state of between russia and saudi arabia. We have seen the u. S. G
Talking about what is happening with the coronavirus and appointing Vice President pence. As he was speaking, one of the cases of unknown origin that happened in europe as predicted if you look at the treasury now, you see the 10year is yielding 1. 297 . Not negative yet. President trump speaking about preparations last night. We are very, very ready for this whether it is going to be a break out of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way he has tasked Vice President mike pence he also addressed the market response i think the stock market will recover. The economy is strong, consumers are incredible thats why we are doing well and other countries are not even before the virus our consume rp is very, very strong very powerful economically. And the president put some of the response of the dow to the democratic convection. Are you suggesting Financial Markets are overreacting here . I think Financial Markets are very upset when
Taking out energy from russia paying billions of dollars is that what it is a piece of the of the destruction of north stream too is not only a question of Energy Security its a geo political issue. The question of how dependent we are in russian capital cannot be clarified by the question of which pipeline of slaves 3. So i say to you clearly it will strengthen russia and weaken europe. No one wants to become dependent will completely dependent on russia were supposed to be protecting you from russia and youre paying it is it dollars whats that all about. Also coming up tonight the final debate among members of the u. S. Congress before they vote to impeach their president 1st. The evidence show clearly that the president committed these acts 2nd they rise to the level of impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. What are the consequences for National Security for the integrity of our elections and for our country if we fail to act. Once you our viewers on p. B. S. In the United State
Here in u. K. , there was a general election. We are in a blackout period until the polls close at 10 00 p. M. Pound at 1. 3020. 2 . Toxx europe 600 gained day two of trading. It is above 2 trillion in terms of valuation. Plus oil supply cuts will not prevent a surplus in 2020. That is according to the ia. We speak to the president of the Swiss National bank. That interview, 10 30 a. M. U. K. Time. Lets get to bloomberg first word news. Today, the u. K. Goes to the polls. It is the nations first election in over a decade and the first since the brexit vote. It is the first december vote in nearly a century. Polls close it 10 00 p. M. U. K. Time. The House Judiciary Committee is set to conclude a debate on articles of impeachment against trump. The likely result is a partyline vote that will send the measure to the floor of the house. The democratic majority is expected to beat back a number of republican amendments. Israel is headed for its third election in less than a year. The parli