Gain i think im looking at the right place, nasdaq composite, up 1. 5 . We are doing well this morning. Now look at this. Novavax started phase one trials of a vaccine with human participants. Results expected in july. Big stock gain. By the way, the ceo will be on the show today in our 10 00 hour. Merck are working with an austrian vaccine maker and they have established partnerships with others in the field. Merck is a dow stock and it, too, is on the upside. 3. 7 higher. Heres the bottom line. There are hopes that a vaccine may be developed more rapidly than thought possible. All right. Im going to show you some of the scenes from around the country this memorial day weekend. Its the official unofficial start of summer. We took every opportunity to get out and have a good time. That suggests the recovery is picking up steam. We will show you more about this in just a moment. Joe biden, he broke out of his basement for the First Time Since march 15th. He was wearing a mask. He and hi
Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec
Tonight, the president predicting a painful two weeks, saying as many as 245,000 people could die even with social distancing. Now then during financial crisis. Even before this pandemic started, life for amber was precarious. We get food stamps. Now with me looking for work its ten times harder. The single mom from orlando fearing any small thing could put her ever the edge. That takes my bill down to under 200. She like some americans finds herself on the brink, a thin line between making ends meet and financial ruin. With President Trump now extending federal social distancing guidelines until april 30th, the financial hardships will be compounded. An abc shows 50 have experienced a cut in pay. The fear over how to meet financial obligations palpable. How am i going to make rent . Student loans . I have other medical bills im still trying to pay off. Its completely unsettling. You start to ask yourself, am i going to be able to buy food . And all we can do at this point is hope and
house to keep roe v. wade the law of the land and president might be ready to cave any day. todd: supreme court justices are still the main brett kavanaugh was confronted at a dc restaurant, still no condemnation from democrats. keep up the information on what is happening and keep up the outrage for what it means for women and pregnant people across this country. todd: you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. ashley strohmier is live with new words of encouragement coming from the president himself. good morning. ashley: president biden is throwing support behind abortion activists saying he may declare a listen. president biden: keep protesting and making your point. we can do a lot of things to accommodate the rights of women in the meantime, but fundamentally, the only thing that will change this is a national law. ashley: progressives, including alexandria ocasio-cortez and elizabeth warren and former members
bill: we have gotten a lot of this video in overnight. precision missile strikes blanketing the waters around taiwan, threatening the democratic republic that the u.s. considers to be a strong ally. dana? dana: china demonstrating its ability to bombard the island by air and sea. the show of force prompting taiwan to put its military on high alert and cancelled dozens of commercial flights. bill: beijing is conducting these drills closer to taiwan than ever before. some of them happening a mere 12 miles away. beijing surrounding the island with helicopters and war ships showing its ability to enforce what could be an all out blockade at some point. dana: meanwhile, republicans are blaming president biden. they say his mixed messaging on pelosi s visit gave china the green light. he sent the wrong message like he did to putin. let s invade a little portion of it. we should be very upfront at the very beginning. do not send a missile across. we should set a fine line