Volatility in the markets today, it could had into it during the election next week. Speaker nancy pelosi had a conversation with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin late this afternoon. Well have more on what we know about that conversation here as we bring in our reporters. Fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman at the white house for us. Today were starting with Ashley Webster on the market selloff. Ashley . Ashley what a day it has been, connell. All sorts of skittishness and fear on wall street. Fear of a second wave in covid as weir seeing in europe. Fear of the unknown when it comes to the election just eight days away. Fear congress will be unable to finally agree on a stimulus bill. You put it all into the hat. This is what you get as a result. The dow off 650 points at the close. But was way down more than that. 950 at one stage. The s p down nearly 2 . The nasdaq also down about 1 1 2 . All 11 sectors on the s p 500 finishing down on the day led by energy, tech and industrial
Going back and forth, there will be plexiglass tonight and social distancing tonight. We have more from what we can expect from utah. Were hours away from the first and only president ial debate. It will be an exciting night and one highly and faced. During a election year, it wouldnt draw a big audience. This year, all eyes are on Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris. The president has covid19 and joe biden is 77 years old. Topics could include the economy, health care and the supreme court. A big focus will be on covid 19. Not only will the stage be different with plexiglass and 12 feet of space between the two. The pressure is on for the Vice President mike pence will have to talk about the handling of the pandemic. He will put harris in the hot seat too. He could push her on changing her stance on the green new deal. He may try to separate her from joe biden. Dont expect this to be as chaotic as the first debate. He said given the temperament it will be different. Mi
Francisco. We want to get more now, though, on that accident that happened today during a Training Exercise. Lets bring in henry lee with more on what we know. As you said, this is an outpouring of respect honoring a firefighter who gave his life protecting the city that he loved. Reporter a somer gathering at San Francisco General Hospital. Firefighter jason cortez died during a training incident a few blocks away. We can confirm this was at training incident. Reporter it happened at 10 00 in the morning in the initialen district. He was treated there and taken to the hospital. Unfortunately shortly before 11 00 this morning, jason succumbed to his injuries. Reporter the Fire Department would not discuss what led to his death. The circumstances under investigation. Immediately after the incident, firefighters converged on the hospital. There they stood at attention and saluted during a somber procession. Cortez was 42 and leaves behind his wife and two young children. She the son of a
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