666 Migrant Children the struggle facing military veterans locking to b lockioy a home good evening covid is about to change our lives, across our nation, in ways that are hard to process. Thats the warning from doctors, scientists, hospital administrators, everybody involved treating the virus spreading unchecked. Think of this, you fall and break a leg or get a heart attack or the flu and there is no hospital for you or doctor with time for you. Covid has disrupted the medical systems ability to function in iowa, they say to have a backup plan in case you cant get into a hospital. And el paso, alert that hospitals are unmanageable and bodies are piling up six freezer trucks being used as mobile morgues, four more expected by the weekend. Hospitals forced to battle beyond their walls of the crisis a recordbreaking 27,000 cases today. And a nurse took on covid in new york when it was the epicenter now he said el paso is being overrun. People are getting sick. I never expected it to be
108 points hire. So good news all around. Lets see if it can stay this way. Treasury yields, you can look at a 10year note at. 681 we have so much going on the fed kicking off a twoday meeting. The first since it put new framework into place isnt expected to change Interest Rates fed chair powell planning to answer questions about the outlook during tomorrows News Conference then we have the data coming in today where we get august import and export prices. The latest productions numbers and the earnings, we have fedex and adobe. A lot of other news, joe i can hear the bounce in your step i hear it in your voice. I think it might be the guests we have again today. I know you are excited for the hour we had great guests yesterday and great guests today we have bob from viea come cbs Jared Kushner coming up in the 7 00 hour. Kevin mccarthy then i realize we miss becky whenever shes out but you like to talk and i guess i do too so it is 50 50, instead of 33, 33, 33 you dont have to admit
How one hedge fund may be getting ready for double or nothing after a historic run to the march bottom this is monday august 17th, this is Worldwide Exchange. What a day to start the week. Appreciate you joining us to kick off your weekend here on cnbc and see record breaking remarkable rally can roll on and futures indicating that it can and it might but still they are off the s p 500 is now up 45 . Its now just 0. 6 how is that for a pacific. Hitting an all time intraday high if we go more than just a half a percent we have a new closing high and theres now four dow components that are each up more than 10 thats in august by the way. Traditionally the worst month of the market where is the money coming from people may be selling bonds to buy stock because you may not know this but its huge for the last few days. The ten yore yield surging 25 yes, i know thats only to 0. 7 of what we are right now but a five day, 25 move in treasury yields is almost unheard of. It also means that Mort
Discussion entitled, historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life in American History, an evening with spencer crew and paul finkle man. Before we begin, let me also welcome our audience whos streaming the discussion through the museums you stream channel. Our twitter handle this evening is historicallyspeaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast via cspan book tv and will be aired at a later date. Through dr. Crews compelling new biography introduces us to the constant battles of equality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his believe in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History, follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days as a Supreme Court justice. Thurgood marshalls inspiring story illustrates how pervasive is racism in American Society and reveals the difficulty of the struggles of africanamericans to make progress against it. Throu
Sight years of heavy fighting and bombing have left many cities in ruins around the 6000000. 00 syrians have fled their Country International observers accuse president assads regime of bombing its own people and torturing thousands of members of the opposition. President assad is still in power but now an unprecedented trial is underway in germany 2 of his alleged helpers have been charged with supporting a subsystem of torture and oppression syrians around the world are closely following the trial among them would in berlin for her the Court Proceeding opens up old wounds but also offers hope for a long awaited justice. Fatwah mahmoud in her apartment in the german capital of berlin the opponent of the regime in syria lives here on her own in exile isnt she this is my husband. Says 2012 hes been missing disappearing in a prison run by the syrian secret service. Just like her son my here. Theyve been mediators for the opposition and had been on their way back from outside syria when t