Come whichrevious also been revised higher. There was some expedition that as prices come up because of the fact you can get cheap lending at the moment or cheap borrowing , you would expect that at some have, that would start to an impact on a month by month basis. Nevertheless, the market was looking for this month on month number two actually slow, and that hasnt happened, which is really interesting and the light of what we are starting to see in the employment market. We saw initial jobless claims out a little bit earlier on. Youre starting to see the negative data could begin from the employment side of the economy, starting to come in a little softer. Bloombergs mike mckee joining us now with the details of that. Michael at one point on the housing numbers, existing home sales or closings, so these contracts were signed a couple of months ago when things were a little better in the economy, and we got low mortgage rates, so the one thing the fed has been able to do is stimulate
Dangerous heat, likely record breaking high temperatures as we head through the day today. The daytime highs well above average, more than 20 degrees above average for this time of year and also dealing with that extreme fire danger with the red flag warning that has been extended until 6 00 p. M. Today for all the areas highlighted in red north bay, mountains, and Santa Cruz Mountains with offshore winds, low relative humidity values dropping down to the Single Digits and teens. Were talking dangerous fire conditions, critical conditions as we head through the day today. Tracking some changes as we look to the weekend, we have cooler air with the ocean breeze finally kicking in. Details on the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Thousands of people remain without power in parts of the bay area and Northern California after pg e shut it off to prevent strong winds from damaging equipment and sparking wildfires after the heat wave. 30,000 customers are still in the d
Most noticeably at the coast, thats where we feel the biggest drop in temperatures today. If you are inland you may not notice a whole lot of difference maybe a couple of degrees cooler but not enough to make a significant change. If we look outside now, the numbers have a sitting right around the upper 50s for most locations although our cold spot in santa rosa at 49 and a look ahead to the rest of today. That number inland, 94 degrees for the daytime high, that is still coming in about 15 to 16 degrees above average for this time of year but it does pull us back a couple of degrees from where we were yesterday. Look at the bay, 82. We were sitting in the low 90s for much of the bay yesterday. So that will be an improvement that you will field and to show you what the detail highs look like across the bay area in general, low 90s for places like concord and livermore. 89, santa rosa. 81 in oakland. That number yesterday was 93, we are done doing 90s in the city. Ill sue you with the r
Shake up the race several states away. Plus months of protest calling for Racial Justice, why a new initiative for statewide affirmativeaction seems to be a losing traction. Good evening. First at 5 30, the state of the president ial race this evening, we are joined by kathy frank of it, she is one of the worlds leading experts in Public Opinion polling, kathy, welcome, and lets talk about how biden and trump are faring in the latest polls. What is going on . I should say the latest polls are come in away, not so different from the polls we have been seeing for a month or more now. The latest economist poll, which was conducted sunday through tuesday, has joe biden up by 10 points. 52 to the president s 42 , among likely voters. That is almost the same as it was just a few weeks ago. When joe biden was up by seven and eight points in the poll. Sirles in National Polls, and they look at everything, from coast to coast. Im wondering, do they drill it down to look at these states that are
Was joe biden the democratic challenger who is important to call health who is mentally incapable now its their candidate who is seen to be the one who is questionable in terms of his capacity i think if trump was a different type of person you might try to count on the sympathy vote to try to rally people to vote for him but donald trump has never relied on sympathy on the past and he certainly didnt on tuesday night with that very aggressive performance trying to attack by. Now this is a time of a lot of focus on domestic issues anyway but given that this is a president who may now be more preoccupied with with his Health Condition what does this mean for how much attention is left to Foreign Policy issues do you think. I mean i think Foreign Policy wasnt even getting a look in any way the door was shut on it on tuesday night between joe biden and donald trump dont you reference is outside america i can think of was donald trump blaming china for the virus and joe biden saying inshal