employees. bank of america and morgan stanley among big banks reporting. dow component johnson & johnson right here. futures in the red. we are standing by for retail sales and jobless claims this morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern. stocks edging higher, investor sentiment over covid-19 vaccine pushing markets into the green. the dow industrials up 227 points, nasdaq up 62 and s&p up 29. the state of travel today airlines in the midst of a sharp downturn as pandemic fears keep travelers grounded at 7:30 a.m. eastern i ll be joined by ceo of delta edward bastian. plus this, drink up, how moderate alcohol consumption can protect against cognitive decline. mornings with maria is live right now. maria: european markets on the decline. standing by for the ecb decision for the next hour, rates are expected to stay unchanged. ftse 100 is down 36 points, new data this morning from the uk shows half a million workers were furloughed in the month of may. that s in response to the pandemic
another day. they wanted to hear from mayor san francisco mayor london breed also in attendance at that location on the steps of city hall was actor and activist jamie foxx who addressed the crowd as well, i mean there their anger is still there about what happened with george floyd but now they were as says widespread as what we saw from say saturday and sunday monday was a little bit better and what we saw over the weekend we still have not heard of any new numbers in the overnight hours and we re still working on that for san francisco, let s go across the bay to open with thousands of people gathered at around 4 o clock in the afternoon at oakland tech. and this gathered momentum on social media and it was widespread i even saw on social media, they said show up protests don t create any destruction and for the most part that was pretty much what happened from oakland tech they marched down to the oakland police department through the streets and they were followed by po
rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds. there were some arrests that were made as well, we know one officer was injured. that s a police say since these protests are expected to continue the contra costa county board of supervisors. we ll decide this morning of a county-wide curfew is needed for now the sheriff had just been recommending county residents to stay at home. specifically after 8 o clock so that meeting kicks off this morning at 9.30 so we ll have to see what the board of supervisors decides however cities across contra costa county already have curfews in place including walnut creek know i m hearing word that another protest could happen here in walnut creek but no concrete information quite yet obviously we re waiting on a lot more information as it all always stay tuned right here to the kron 00:04am morning news online walnut creek sarah stinson back to you all right still a very fluid situation. sarah. thanks a lot for that report from the inspecto
procter & gamble nelson pelt z wants a seat at the table because the stock has underperformed the cohort and the broader market for the life of me i don t understand why they won t let him in given how well companies tend to do once he s on the board. on the other hand, you have to wonder how much he can do to really make it work better still, my feeling is that procter and gamble is worth owning that s been my view. you have one more way to end the uglier it gets, the more shareholders can gain. i regard a make or break level, dow dipping 8 points today nasdaq advancing .03%. there s a slew of earnings that every important group i follow the results we get this week, i think, would determine where stocks are headed for the rest of the quarter we re certainly off to a good start with netflix, tonight reporting a huge subscriber number international subs exceed domestic users the good news sent the stocks soaring after hours. i think it might be good for the other fad names. a
brian: how did you approach this differently? mark: this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet participants so i was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and also the vietnam ease viet cong, the north vietnamese army. i think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives than hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archive. there are also the records of the johnson administration at the lbj library. all of william westmoreland s papers are there. the national security staff papers. so 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. the record is established. the participants are still alive. brian: in the early part of the book you say the battle would be the bloodiest of the war and a turning point not just in that conflict led in american history. why? mark: well up until the tet offensive, which this is part of, general westmoreland had argued that this