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The oranges we have seen the past couple of days once the sun eventually does come up, you will notice that the air the smoke has a bit of a tinge to it but its going to look more just and healthy than anything else air quality continues to deteriorate and now almost all of the bay area is in our very worst category as far as air quality goes this is the worst weve ever put on this smoke map. Not all season long so far weve seen some bad air so far but as that smoky level continues to sink further and further down. Now this is where were sitting and likely will be sitting throughout the course of the rest of the day so its not just fog. Its a lot of smoke imbedded within that fog thats making its way on shore visibility in Half Moon Bay below a mile right now San Francisco also has some visibility problem spots as do the hills above the east bay and fog is going to be sitting with us for some time so do expect kind of a gloomy start to this friday morning and not a friday that you want
Burning documents, not shredding them burning them, China Threatens to retaliate and feels and looks like a new cold war. We have a significant turn in the fight against a virus, President Trump says its going to get worse before it gets better. A clear sign that the economic effects will drag on past the election. However, the trump team signed a contract with pfizer with 100 million vaccine doses. America gets the vaccine first, they pay pfizer 1. 1 billion and the cost to you, 0. Two stocks, got to watch them all day long, microsoft and tesla, the Financial Results reported around 4 00 oclock eastern this afternoon, in advance of that those stocks are on the upside. By the way, as of right now tesla is the most valuable car company in the world worth more than gm, ford, and honda combined. And microsoft at 1. 5 trillion is the second most valuable company right behind apple. We have big news on real estate two, applications for mortgages to buy a home of 19 over last year. Refi appl
Of taking harsh new policy action against beijing and lets get to Kayla Tausche in washington kayla . Melissa, todays policy announcement by President Trump was essentially a doubling down on pretelegraphed policies that the administration had already announced. Today from the rose garden, President Trump said that the u. S. Would be terminating its relationship with the world health organization, that it would be suspending entry into the u. S. For certain students and researchers that it finds to be affiliated with Chinese Military arms, that it would be starting a study of the Chinese Companies Accounting Practices and exactly what their role within the Financial Markets is with the potential delisting on the table there and studying the economic status of hong kong any possibly eliminating special treatment for that territory in the wake of beijings new National Security law and most of that was already laid out by white house or Administration Officials in the weeks leading up to
Romaine we will get back to david in just a moment. Taylor to jump over to riggs. Taylor attack, the big movers. Wanted to take a look at interday of the s p 500. Pretty volatile. Earnings around, so if you dont mind, i will jump to the end of my segment here where we were taking a look. Amazon saying that they are 26 ng net sales up yearoveryear and just a little bit higher than the estimates of of a 73 and three quarters billion dollars. Secondquarter net sales a here, versusy estimates of about 78 billion. They are saying that they see the crisis, demonstrating adaptability and durability. Amazon First Quarter net sales just above estimates. Sales rising about 0. 25 . In theally interested cloud service. That is where we saw a lot of strength with microsoft and alphabet. Strength within that cloud business. Very curious as Amazon Web Services is the leader. I will leave you all with that note. We will finish that later. Amazon coming out. That is going to be the key driver here as w