The party itself and marine Le Pen, of course they deny all this. Its going to be a long trial, a couple of months as they go through all the evidence. At the end of it, though, whats crucial and why this trial matters is that it is marine Le Pen s political future which is very much at stake. Why . Because one of the potential penalties she could suffer if shes found guilty is an ineligibility for office. She could be banned from standing for public office for a period of, say, five years. And that would mean she couldnt stand in the next president ial election in 2027. Marine Le Pen is Riding High right now in french politics. Her party did very well in the last elections. It can make or break this Sitting Government of michel barnier. Her next step is this bid for the presidency again in 2027. But if this guilty verdict, if its a guilty verdict and it ends in an ineligibility for office, that obviously means that that plan is up in smoke, and she will need urgently a plan b. We have
Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
Is that it, supervisor ronen. I remember the first meeting where trent came and we just were on the cusp of it and trent immediately pivoted. It was so crazy. It makes me sad to see this, but trent, i see you have 224 vacancies. I knew you would come to that. 224 vacancies and are those general fund vacancies . So, supervisor, none of our positions are 100 general funds. Either we charge them to a state or federal program and in some cases like a medicale would be federally funded. So because were the county designated Public Human Services agency, were able for every one of our employees, draw at least a portion of funding through federal and state sources. Its generally 40 issue, Nongeneral Fund for each position, yeah. And so its hard. When we say a hiring freeze, youre not hiring a medicale worker and even brings overhead. I think you understand. What i dont understand is that so many vacancies. Yeah, well, its a function of the hiring freeze, the modified hiring freeze, where we o
Major increases in the oec through the prop c opening, as you know, thats in the budget for 2021 and significant increase in our feeding in response to covid and that it will be included in the dos budget and the one Million Dollars increase for ihss is the wage increase and the impact on the general fund of that and given the economic downturn due to covid, we anticipate significant increase in our cash assistance programs in human services, specifically in county and assistance programs for adults and families. You can see the total of 19 million there and the bottom is our attempt to move thousands of people into subsidized employment through our jobs now, expansion to provide paid sick leave to employers in San Francisco so that their employees could take sick patients if they get ill. So next slide. And you asked in our presentation to lay out the fte count and we lay this out by department and you can see the bulk is in the department of human services, almost 1500 employee, dos,