Back the National Defense authorization act as the defense policy bill seen on the hill is the best passed bill especially this is how much we will pay members of the military how many planes, ships, guns will buy, buy, and includes policies with overseas exercises. Its the pool that sets the next five years of military planning is something that is seen that they need to get done every year is a big enterprise every year and that prize the congressional leadership this year might be a little bit tricky we will see what happens there is confidence every year this is a bill at the end of the day they will come together to make sure it goes tough. Host there are two different versions how far apart are they quick. We just went through the conferencing process so essentially now we know there is one version that they came together to make agreements. With a Republican Senate and Democratic House there were issues of contention but the leadershipe of the house and Senate Armed Services com
As Connor Knighton will explain. Reporter the past few months, bears have been packing on the pounds, getting are there get r their selfimposed quarantine. The first time i got to see them during quarantine, they were so cool. Reporter scientists study the mystery of hibernation. Underneath all of that fat may be everything from diabetes tools to space travel. A long winters nap ahead on sunday morning. Pauley from there it is on to one of the great comic legends of all time. And his name is bob newhart. And he is talking this morning with our Ben Mankiewicz. Hello . Bob newhart had not one, but two, hit tv shows named for him. Not bad for an accountant. If i had been with enron, they would have still been in business. The government would never have figured out my books. Reporter laughs with the trailblazing comedian later on sunday. [laughter] pauley and then we consider a question over mind over matters, those matters being the daily challenges of living with covid and the emotional
Traffic on this wednesday morning. Good morning. We are starting to see the slowest spot forming for that typical traffic pattern as you work into the pass. Things starting to get a little sluggish there. If are you getting ready to head out the door and plan to take 580 you will have a pocket of slowing between the 580, 205 connector. We are seeing speeds dipping down to about 19 miles an hour there with a 32 minute drive time from 205 toward 680. Also chp still working on a trouble spot. You have a big rig blocking the high street onramp to northbound 880. Firefighters in Southern California struggling to contain the silverado fire. One of two explosive wind whipped wildfires in Orange County that forced the evacuation of almost 70,000 homes and badly injured two crew members. This is new video of flames around lake forest. The fire and the blue ridge fires have grown to almost 30,000 acres combined in less than 48 hours. At last word silverado was only 5 contained. Some different nu
What a top. Its not a pretty picture. Avert your eyes. Lets take a live look at the latest numbers right now in the stock market. The dow down almost 800 points right now. It has been down all day long. Big sell off on wall streeto start off wednesday and thats after dropping over the past two sessions. A new surge of coronavirus cases being reported worldwide. German officials announced an agreement for a four week partial shut down closing restaurants, bars and theaters. Not good for the economy. France is also preparing to tighten its controls. Their president is planning a National Address thisevening. The United States just recorded its worst week for new cases since the pandemic started. More than a half million numbers are rising in 43 states, roughly a third of all new cases are coming from the midwest. A member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force Said that the numbers arent just up because of more testing. Even though testing is up. This is a real increase in cases. We k
Gyms theaters, for about a month. Were following all of that. We have fox twist Business Team coverage. Grady trimble, in chicago. New restriction being imposed. Edward lawrence on the tech hearing in washington. We have to first hear from Ashley Webster with the market selloff. What a day. Ashley all proving to be a toxic formula for the markets as Investors Cash in and the vix fear gauge hitting the highest level since midjuly. As you just said, connell, the dow, the s p, the nasdaq all down 3 1 2 on the day. We saw a little extra selling heading into the bell. Maybe that news out of france, adding to germany on a national lockdown. May be a lockdown light. Never the less, businesses will be closed, that having impact. Shares of hotels, airlines and cruise lines all hit hard as covid fears grow for the economy. Check out the airlines. American down 2 1 2. Delta 3 1 2 . Southwest four 1 2. So on and so on. Jetblue down 6 1 2 . As for the cruise lines who just cant buy a break like the