Steve scalise, nancy nancy maces Jeff Van Drew and louisiana senator, john kennedy. Futures starting on a mixed note. The dow industrials are down 120 points, the s p is also weaker by 3 and a quarter but the nasdaq is up a little bit of a rotation going on this morning, back into technology. The nasdaq up 50 o 50 points. This follows a mixed performance yesterday, investors rotating into the tech sector. Were standing by for key speeches from Federal Reserve officials later today. Well take a look at market moving words on rates and the economy. Pfizer and biontech 90 effectiveness report helping drive markets. What challenges do we expect before its rolled out of. Ill speak with the companys founder and ceo of biontech later this hour. Then, cruising into the future, one state is anticipating a future filled with flying cars and its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. I just cant get you out of my head. Boy, your loving is all i think about. I just cant
Philippines. On an Agency Reports from inside Syria Government forces pushed back on opposition fighters in the capital damascus and elsewhere. Workers at japans Damage Nuclear plant have started a delicate and risky operation. Theyre removing fuel rods from a reactor building at the cushion and itt. Its the first step in whats expected to be a decades long process to de commissioned the facility electric Power Company workers. After a move that more than fifteen hundred fuel run assemblies from the reactor for building the rods are currently stored in a pool. Most of them are used extremely hot and highly radioactive. The march two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami triggered a Hydrogen Explosion that damaged the reactor for building workers we use a crane attached to a specially built structure to remove the rounds to go Officials Say will take more than a year to complete the operation. The workers will then have to remove fuel rods from three other reactor buildings. Reside
Remember, modernas vaccine is 94 effective against infection and 100 effective at preventing the most severe cases of the coronavirus. U. S. Officials say nearly 6 million doses of modernas vaccine will start shipping as soon as it gets approved. Were also get something surprise very goes nuod news ab the Pfizer Vaccine. There are more doses out there than previously reported. Doctors have found some vials that are supposed to hold only five doses actually hold as much as six or seven. That means there could be thousands and thousands of extra doses out there, and the fact is, we need them now more than ever. Lets look at the numbers. We just passed 17 million cases of the coronavirus in this country going from 16 million to 17 million in just 4 1 2 days. That is massive. In fact, the total number of cases in the United States has doubled in the last two months. Worldwide, more than 74 Million People are infected, including french president Emmanuel Macron who learned overnight that he