Afterwards is, well, just what the Christmas Season is all about. Early today starts right now good morning im valerie castro. Glad youre starting your week with us im Frances Rivera the start of this week brings new hope the u. S. May soon see the approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but as the country anxiously waits, cases and deaths continue to climb as of today, there have been over 14. 8 million infections, and over 283,000 deaths, according to an nbc news tally. The pandemic isnt stopping pope francis from spreading an uplifting message this Holiday Season at his sunday blessing, the pontiff said the Christmas Season provides a sign of hope in this difficult time his words come as most of california enters a new virus lockdown nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald has the latest. Valerie, good morning millions of californians are waking up to some of the most restrictive measures weve seen since the beginning of the pandemic all while state officials do what they can to try to stop hospitals fro
tonight on the reidout what is the specific constitutional crime that you re investigating? well, we re having an inquiry so we can do an investigation into all the production of witnesses and what is the crime you re investigating? and documents. high crimes, misdemeanors and briberies. what high crimes are you investigating? look, once i get time, i will explain what we re looking at and i will make the equivalency. no, i m asking for you that is congressman joe naguse asking a simple question, one that republicans still can t answer as they breathlessly approve a biden impeachment inquiry. the congressman joins me tonight. there appears to be a growing rift between president biden and israel s benjamin netanyahu. representatives rashida tlaib and cory bush join me tonight. and there s breaking news tonight in one of jack smith s federal cases against donald trump. the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit handed trump another setback. i ll
Tenyear below october lows right around 1. 8. 30year, a record low, above 2. 40. Road map begins like this futures taking abig hit. Monthly retail sales log the largest drop since this time last year. Banks on the hot seat. Jpmorgan misses estimates across the board. Well hear from wells fargo. Good year for gm . Auto giant expecting improved profits in 2015. Futures extending losses as weaker than expected retail sales in the u. S. And concerns about Global Growth. Sales fell. 9 in december even if you strip out gas and autos, sales in most other categories fell below estimates on a day where the world bank jim, says global economys running on a single engine and that is us. 24 hours ago a mark up 1. 5 . Everything seemed great. Then copper fell kb homes disappointed, next thing you know were down big. I caution people that we open down very big, maybe midday something happens thats not so bad. I didnt think wells was that bat bad. Just disappointing, except for people who have been f