nasdaq up 73 points. those are strong gains for the tech related stocks which we ll talk about here as we move forward. good to be back with you in new york after a couple days in washington. welcome to after the bell. time for the news, happening at this hour. for example business team coverage, edward lawrence is in washington. president biden has been rolling out the plan to tackle the pandemic. jackie deangelis reporting on big corporate earnings in our new york newsroom. ashley webster in florida today with a different angle on the vaccine state of play which we ll get to in a few minutes. edward, start with you. reporter: president joe biden signing 10 more executive orders bringing the two-day total to 27 executive actions. now a big focus today is beating the coronavirus starting with the vaccine. we ll move heavy enand earth to get more people vaccinateed for for free and get more places to get vaccinated, mobile more medical teams to get more shots in peoples ar
95 points higher. you know liz mentioned this down the stretch of her show, russell 2000, the small cap stocks, dow transports they both closed at records today as well. that is kind of day. a lot of green and really big day for stocks. i m connell mcshane. we welcome you to after the bell. those are the numbers at the close. time now for the news that s happening at this hour. . we have fox business team coverage with jackie deangelis in the new york newsroom, blake burman reporting from washington, also get to hillary vaughn in wilmington, delaware, president-elect biden just wrapped up there remarks on the economy but blake, let s start with you. that is the big news today. that moderna vaccine. tell us about it. reporter: they expect, connell, moderna does to apply for the eua, emergency use authorization in the next couple weeks. maybe distribute the covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year. when you look at numbers on the clinical trials it is about as good as they ho
launching that service here in the u.s. later this month. we are staying at home and we want our groceries and other purchases delivered and quickly. and we are on that story throughout the program today. as for the overall market, dead flat following a selloff on tuesday but keep in mind the dow and s&p are up 40% from their march lows and the nasdaq is up 50% since then. pretty impressive. president trump says he will pressure governors to reopen schools in the fall. this is a major step in getting the economy back on track. kids go back to school, parents can then go back to work. that, of course, will be an issue for sure in the election, where joe biden has the lead in all of the polls, if you believe them, and even some wall street firms are apparently preparing for a biden win. but we have a democrat pollster coming up in a few minutes who says the race is a lot closer than the polls would indicate. just wait until you hear what congresswoman ilhan omar wants to
know, guys. about 2:30, shots were fired and two males were hit. we have behind us, still very much an active scene. this is at 61st place near lowell. the oakland police crime sing technicians and sergeants are coming the scene for evidence we understand these two men, we don t have their ages, were taken to the hospital and are expected to survive. i can from with officers that know suspects are in custody but we do not know a motive but this happened about 2:30 near 61st and low. i want to call your attention to we spoke to jeremy peterson who they witnessed. jeremy, can you tell me what you heard and what you were doing at the time? i work across the street right here at sbi global partitions and we were at the warehouse ready to get our guys out here and we heard a single shot we thought it was maybe a car or someone moving materials. we came around the bend to see what we saw and noticed there were two people running from the gunshot that we had heard and when they
city with more on how officers a neighbors tried to help the victim. reporter: heather and alex, it happened in the backyard with the home behind the. it is the home left of the greenhouse. police arrived and had to save the man s life so did with they had to to stop the threat. the family of the victim showed us with a bloody attack happened. in his own backyard is where a 30-year-old daly city man was bitten by a rottweiler. around 7:00 in the morning they received 9-1-1 call s from a neighbor informing a man was being attacked by a dog . at first i thought they were playing and i looked to see the dog, the little dog here and blood down his arm so i ran into call 9-1-1. he was screaming around 7:00 a.m. and we tried to help him but we threw him a knife because he asked for a knife. neighbor said the victim s father his son was attacked in the yard although he is not sure what the man was doing prior to the dog crashing through this hole in the fence. neighbors who