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and joe santoli. joe and andrew are off today with the storm and everything going on, thank you for being here it was one nasty storm. it did a number when you think about businesses dealing with a lack of power, it is like the plague coming down we ll start this morning with the markets. nasdaq with the fifth straight positive day up 22% for the year to date. pretty good day for the dow and s&p. s&p indicated up close to 20 points the dow up close to 200 points and the nasdaq up as well. the treasury story has been incredible yesterday, the 10-year note at a record low this morning, the yield is at .526% it seems the context is the same, which is the dollar weaker you see that downward pressure foreign treasuries can buy our equity yield we have bond yields below inflation. that means huge tech stocks that means gold and bonds b. what are the implications for this market and the companion market corporate wise, you have earnings better than give up-type forecast ....
refusing to sign legislation that would fund 9 of 15 federal departments, dozens of agencies, unless democrats agree to more than $5 billion in taxpayer funding to start building that barrier. and with neither side budging, the shutdown is starting to bite. national parks closed, other programs curtailed, 800,000 employees furloughed or working for free. paychecks set to go out friday will not be delivered. the president will speak in about eight minutes, expected to argue that a wall is needed to combat a national security and humanitarian crisis at the border. then house democrat nancy pelosi and chuck schumer will respond for the democrats. here now, the president. my fellow americans, tonight i am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. every day, customs and border patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country. we are out of space to hold them and we have no way to p ....
records and issue markers, making sure every veteran service is honored. in alexandria, virginia on karen kfile and thank you so much for joining me today. i m fredricka whitfield, the newsroom with jessica dean starts right now you re going to see in a newsroom. hi everyone. i m jessica a dean in washington and we begin with breaking news out of ukraine as russia ramps up its attacks on the country s second-largest city of kharkiv military officials there say russia launched a third strike this afternoon that left more than a dozen people injured that includes a 13-year-old boy, that attack coming just our whereas after a strike on a shopping center in the city dramatic surveillance video capturing the moment of that attack. officials say at least two people are dead, more than three dozen injured and 11 when people who work at that hardware store are now missing. cnn chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is live in eastern ukraine. he s been tr ....
alto high school. matt? reporter: good morning, reggie and natasha. james franco is obviously a big star but he s always come back to palo alto high school. a move by the school s principal may make him feel a little less welcome. franco painted a mural on campus in 2014. according to the school newspaper, the voice, earlier this week, the principal there decided to have workers paint over it on the school student center. the future of his paintings inside the media arts center will be left up to that community. this comes after sexual misconduct allegations against the actor. he s publicly said the claims are not accurate. franco graduated from palo alto high school in 1996. he s come back several times to speak and taught a film class in 2015. reporting live in palo alto, matt keller, abc 7 news. from our live desk, i m tracking a muddy watery mess in palo alto. look at this. people in one neighborhood woke up to a water main break this morning. abc 7 news was on ....
but not without controversy. the battle over who carries the american flag and the figuring skating flop overnight kicking off the games, we re live in south korea for all the action. right here on gma. good morning, america. and so much excitement this morning, just moments ago team usa arriving at the olympic opening ceremony. and amy is there in south korea. we can t wait to talk to her in a little while. there she is waving back at you, amy. a lot of drama there and back here at home as well starting on capitol hill overnight. the government shut down for the second time in three weeks over a funding bill. it was forced by senator rand paul making a point about the deficit but lawmakers were able to scramble, strike a deal just moments ago. mary bruce coming off an all-nighter. good morning, mary. reporter: good morning, george. we ve never seen anything quite like this. two government shutdowns in three weeks and there was a government spending bill on th ....