thousands more people are waking up to the news they will soon be out of a job. after google s parent company alphabet announced it is slashing a whooping 12,000 jobs worldwide. that s more than 6% of its workforce according to cnbc. it s one day after microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs. so what s driving these signature job cuts and what does it say about our economic climate? president biden marking the halfway point of his first term in the white house under a cloud of controversy. the president finally broke his days long silence about classified documents from his time as vice president found in his former office and home. i have no regrets. i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it s exactly what we re doing. there s no there-there. how will that response land with congressional republicans eager to launch investigations? plus, a look at the very first march for life happening in washington since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade
Congress to declare a war so this is a time when house leaders and Senate Leaders and the president need to get on the same page. Most of these countries, these countries dont have the United States best breast at heart and interest at heart and god forbid, i do not want in the worst of days for america to go through this. We have a president that declared war on American Energy and were pay ago high price in terms of economy and National Security. The theme for the market is continually ignorance is bliss. The market focuses on a handful of things and ignores everything else. Stuart good morning, everyone. 11 00 on east coast and monday, october 16th and ill call that a rally, a strong rally. Dow industrials up 400 points and nasdaq up 170, s p up 55 points. Show me big tech, please. I presume theyre all higher. I presume correctly. Microsoft, amazon, me taxer alphabet all up. So is apple. Microsoft up nearly 7 a share, 2 . The yield on the 10year treasury, wheres that going this morn
Good wednesday morning. We begin with the republican snores doubleteaming President Trump with scathing criticism. Overnight the attacks continued after announcing he will not seek reelection, arizona senator jeff flake arailing against the president condemning what he calls reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior. Retiring senator bob corker is calling the president a divisive bully. Abcs Serena Marshall has the latest from washington. Good morning, serena. Reporter kendis, diane. Good morning. Senator flake did not hold back with his criticism of the president. Senator corker, a man who once campaigned for him, even going on the record and saying that he continually says untruths taking us far beyond a mere twitter war of words. It has all the makings of a civil war. Senate republicans rejecting the behavior of their republican president. It is dangerous to a democracy. Reporter arizona senator jeff flake, announcing he will not seek a second term because he is disgusted. Flagr
We begin with the republican senators doubleteaming President Trump with scathing criticism. And overnight the attacks continued after announcing he will not seek reelection, arizona senator jeff flake is railing against the president condemning what he calls reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior. And retiring senator bob corker is calling the president a divisive bully. Abcs Serena Marshall has the latest from washington. Good morning, serena. Reporter kendis, diane, good morning, and thats right. Senator flake did not hold back with his criticism of the president. Senator corker, a man who once campaigned for him, even going on the record and saying that he continually spells untruths taking this far beyond a mere twitter war of words. It has all the makings of a civil war. Senate republicans rejecting the behavior of their republican president. It is dangerous to a democracy. Reporter arizona senator jeff flake announcing he will not seek a second term because he is disguste
Sarah good morning, everybody. Happy wednesday morning. Its 5 00 a. M. Im sarah french. Christa golden dream, right . Sarah sticking those landings. Christa gymnastics back in the day. Sarah back in the day. I could never do it. Christa absolute powerhouse of a team. Reason to be proud this morning. Chris i pulled a hamstring just watching them. Its amazing. In slow motion, is that two flips or three watching them tumble in the air. 70 in boston now. Upper 50s i upper 60s in many other towns. We had some gold medal weather the last couple days. Not the case today, but i think a lot of us would consider this liquid cold at this point. Its been so dry we need the rain. Were going to have system scattered showers and storms working in through the day. The highest chance late this morning, early this afternoon, but even mid to late afternoon, there will be an isolated shower or thunderstorm there. Theyre hitandmiss. Not going to rain all day. Not talking about an allday rain event that soa