But you were talking about the dow being in positive territory for the First Time Since september 2nd. Stocks in china reopened after a week long Public Holiday they both jumped by more than 2 the shanghai composite was up by 2. 6 lets take a look at where things stand right now in europe where there is some trading taking place you can see the markets are open there and theres a bit of a mixed picture. Its actually a little bit higher ftse 100 is right around the flat line, andrew. Hey, becky. Weve got so much going on this morning. Weve got this is squawk planner, two major tech events first amazon sales day it begins after it was postponed, if you remember, back in july. Now running two days, starting at midnight tonight eastern time so watch out for that. Ive already scheduled it and then Apple Holding the big event tomorrow the launch event expected to unveil the new iphone. Everybody looking for the new 5g iphone it will include the first major exterior redesign since 2017 and we
Sky fox. To demonstrators, you cant see it from this picture but demonstrators are gathering at the bay bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and the dumbarton bridge. Is possible, underscore possible , that the protests might cause problems for the evening commute we will continue to follow the story and keep you up dated the moment we get new developments. Heres a live look from the plaza in oakland. To demonstrators are expected to gather there at any moment. There are a handful of people there now. It looks like there are some poster boards there with pictures. Im not exactly sure what those pictures show. Im guessing though, it is probably people who were killed in incidents with Police Officers. We are working to get more information on that. As we do, we will bring it to you. Again, the protest is set to begin around 5 00 tonight. In louisville kentucky a kerf a curfew will remain as people prepare for protest. Thousands people for the protesting side are expected to show up. 125 demonstra
Election. We have to be careful with the ballot, as a big standard. Reporter President Trump is noncommittal if he is asked to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if you should lose the election in november. Distract the president said he does not trust mailin ballots. They are susceptible to fraud. Because of that, the outcome could be tainted. We are now join live with what this means. The election now 40 days away. Reporter President Trump is threatening to amend the Constitutional Order in the way things are playing out right now, we could be in for a messy president ial election. President trump doubled down on his refusal to support a peaceful transition of power should it not go his way. This may be perlis handoff in a contentious race for the white house. I dont know it can be with this whole situation, unsolicited ballots. Millions been sent to everybody. Will say. Reporter when the president first raised the possibility it drew backlash from members of the Democratic Party
That woman in oakland tonight, one of many who feels the decision to clear those officers is unjust. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. Here in the bay area we saw protesters making a statement tonight with their cars. Take a look, traffic on the bay bridge slowed to a crawl around 6 30 tonight as caravans of protesters collectively slowed the evening commute this video from scott fox shows the unusually heavy traffic on the upper deck headed into the city. Because of the backup some transit agencies, including muni , temporarily suspended their trans bay service. We also saw slow traffic on the dunbar bridge in another display of civil disobedience. This was shortly before 6 00 as a small caravan of slow moving cars made their way west across the bridge. In oakland protesters gathered outside city hall tonight to display their displeasure with the term events and also to recognize lives lost in california at the hands of police. Tran wants amber lee joins us now a
Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state