Muchneeded good news on treatment and vaccines for the virus. Health and Human Services secretary elex is our wednesday and in operation warp Speed Reading same expects 40 million doses to be ready for distribution by the end of the summer, but 20 million americans. Pfizer and moderna said this week their candidates proved to be about 95 effective in the late stage clinical trials. Pfizer said friday it would seek emergency use authorization from the fda. Professor of Health Policy and the Johns Hopkins Public Health and fox news medical contributor. Doctor, welcome back. Good to see you. Before we get to the vaccine, i would ask you about the state of the pandemic right now. How much worse will he get before it gets better . If you think about it in terms of the electoral college, we need to get to about 220 americans having been infected to have community immunity. Hopefully we will have good vaccination rates before we get to that number but we are taking a lot of infection into the
Tested positive. 10year fore spanish bonds and portuguese bonds ever lower. Yesterdayorld shifted in the United States of america. We are on the cusp of a constitutional crisis. I have no idea in america how friday is going to work. The president is clearly inserting himself on a constitutional basis into the state crisis in michigan, and into wisconsin. What im watching friday is simple. Vice president pence travels to georgia. It will be fascinating to see if he makes Public Comments on this contested election. Absolutely, tom, and we are also trying to find out what the next step is. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. Another legal setback in President Trumps bid to overturn joe bidens election victory. Last night a federal judge denied a request to halt georgias certification of its election results. That is supposed to take place today. According to a hand recount completed wednesday, biden won georgia by more than 12,000 votes. Me
Good morning, welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc this morning. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and kelly evans. Becky is off today lets show you where futures stand at this hour maybe 12, 15 hours after President Trump returning to the white house. The dow looks like it would open down marginally about 63 points off, nasdaq off about 83 s p 500 off about 15 points. Lets also show you treasury yields as we speak, well show you the ten year yield right now, you are looking at 0. 763. Meanwhile ill pass it over to kelly. Thanks for joining us this morning. And youve got the news on President Trump. And before we get to that, joe, we were just joking about, you know, you and me we could banter and we were in studio and andrew wasnt and now, you know, were all no, you are in studio still im still here. Ive been here since april and i like it here there is no delay. Is that are you wearing orange or that red i think that were in sync sort of yeah, it was an orangey red
The selection and presentation of library of congress for fiction is one of my favorite responsibilities the product is this Great Institution an opportunity to honor the novelist for short story writers to interview books from the most recent novels and short story collections past prizewinners include luminaries Toni Morrison it is my distinct honor and pleasure to award the prize this year to one of our nations most gifted writers someone Time Magazine the longest largest recipient and only one of four writers in history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice i am talking about none other than none other than colson whitehea whiteheads most recent novel, the nickel boys won this years pulitzer as did his 2016 novel the underground railroad. Colson has an extraordinary ability to write about historical events and transform them into meaningful events of today the rewriter of literary fiction whose works are best sellers a testament to his talent to communicate to everyone wh
The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the