Mcconnell. Do you have anything what the republicans would support. Youd have to ask them. 90 of the American People support common sense background legislation. And thats 200 days ago, earliest days of the democratic majority and we passed the legislation thats been sitting over there for just about 200 days. 100 people a day die from gun violence, 40 of them children or teenagers. Every single day for 200 days, some many of those deaths could have been prevented with background checks. From your standpoint, are background checks a starting point or an end point when it comes to Gun Legislation . Background checks are a critical point because they save the most lives. People talk about other initiatives which are important, but what saves most lives are the background checks and what this legislation does is just expands on the background check laws that are there now. When the law was passed and i was here and on the floor as a new, relatively new member of congress, we didnt have on
Not enough he vows to help hawaii rebuild from catastrophic flames. How california is now lending an effort to stop the fires. Plus. I time ago was on front street the it . Stories of survival and tragedy this afternoon as thousands of people are still racing to evacuate the islands where history has also burned to the ground since 2018, shooting 13 notice of violation. Just answer steel. And demanding answers after a fire erupted at an oakland steel plant choking our skies with potentially toxic smoke. What were learning about the sites history of alleged violations. Now from the areas local news station. This is kron. 4 news at 3. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at just involvement and we will start with the thousands of people who are trying to evacuate maui right now as Deadly Wildfires continue to burn across the island. And as that smoke clears in some areas, the damage left behind by this fire can finally be assessed and that damage is significant with the
In political matters, that is, in the election of the president of the United States of america, but it comes out of the debate that was on the first day in the Supreme Court, what exactly will be decided, what the decision will be made, we will see very soon, probably, or maybe later, from this, of course, depends on whether trump will already be a guaranteed contender for the president ial seat from the United States. Republican party, is it possible that niki hellia still has any chances . Ugh, well, literally on march 5 , super tuesday will take place in three days, which should determine the fate of the democratic republican primaries in most states. I understand that no matter what this super tuesday is, the Court Decision you are talking about will be decisive, so there will be a decision. Important, and if the Supreme Court imagines that if the Supreme Court sides with the Colorado State court, then there will be a situation that possibly a dozen or more states too will make ap
Rebounding after a few sessions of losses. Lets get the details from Abigail Doolittle. Abigail bitcoin is one of the bigger stories. It is up 30 , breaking five major levels, climbing above 16,000 briefly. Around 15,000. Pretty extraordinary. The futures for bitcoin will itrt trading on the cme, will be interesting considering it will allow investors to shore bitcoin. It is up more than 45 on the week. Lets take a look at equities. On the nasdaqs 100, russell 2000, the biotech and stocks and chip indices. Biotech, up 1. 6 . We have seen some recent selling for stocks. Today, between bitcoin and some of these other indexes, true growth and momentum. A rebound, suggesting may be the tech selloff we have seen recently was a very shortterm phenomenon. Time will tell. Dig beneath the surface here, take a look at some of the movers we are going to see. Nvidia nicely,tocks up probably being helped by bitcoin, considering some of its chips are used by the cryptocurrency. Facebook and alphabet
If it closes up higher again today that will be eight days in a row of gains thats the first time the nasdaq would have done that since february of 2015 got a whole lot of earnings coming out that will very likely influence where we trade today look at the dollar dropping to a tenmonth low against a basket of currencies the euro rising above 1. 15 for the First Time Since maze of 2016 look overnight in asia the nikkei down by 0. 6 . Markets in china were higher with the hang seng up 0. 2 the shanghai up by 0. 3 . In europe, in the early trade, you will see dax is weaker down by a half percentage point. The cac is down by a third of a percentage point markets flat in london with the ftse sitting just fractionally higher lets get you through the big corporate story of the morning netflix shares soaring to new highs. The company added 5. 2 million new streaming customers in the Second Quarter thats 2 million more than wall street predicted most new subscribers came from foreign markets. T