Between president ial candidates in 16 years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before the audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss of a coin. He will have up to three minutes to answer. One followup question will be permitted with up to two minutes to reply. President ford will then have two minutes to respond. The next question will go to president ford with the same time arrangements, and questions will continue to be alternated between the candidates. Each man will make a threeminute stateme
The bottom of the hour. He is traveling today in wisconsin, talking about the economy and jobs. For now, the Postal Service in the spotlight as we inch toward an election where voters where a significant number of voters will be mailing in their balance. Joining us, abigail doolittle, who has been watching the backandforth of the day. No records today. But what were the main drivers . Abigail everybody waiting for that potential record for the s p 500. Stocks really climbing this wall of worry. The s p 500 hitting this area of resistance. The polls fallen short of being able to take out those old levels. S p 500 up about euro. 3 . Nasdaq once again closing at a record high, up 1. 1 , really being helped out by some of those mega cap tech stocks. China, so muchs, for investors to worry about. They are going again toward this years defense of technology. The vix down a little bit today but still relatively elevated. Couldxperts say that we see some sort of pullback after this huge rally
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Leaders struck an Historic Deal on an 859000000000. 00 Recovery Fund. After federal agents are sent to break up protests in Portland Oregon im as of chicago and new york pushback against President Trumps plans to do the same in their cities. And mollys opposition calls for a 10 day pause in protests against the president head of the ija festival. And or the u. K. Government has been accused of actively avoiding looking into evidence of russian interference during the 2016 e. U. Referendum a report from parliaments intelligence and Security Committee says the government failed to take action even after information emerged of moscow trying to influence the 2014 Scottish Independence vote. The offer say its hard to prove that the kremlin sought to meddle in the brics referendum because the government failed to investigate it inquiry also says the u. K. Appears to be a top western intelligence target for russia behind only the us and United Nations on a guy who has the details. In the shad
Referendum costs. We did it europe is strong europe is united after 4 days of discussions a unit is striking Historic Deal on an 859000000000. 00 recovery fund. And a u. S. President donald trump has conceded that the corona Virus Outbreak will probably get worse across america before it gets better it mission came in the last hour as the president gave his 1st televised National Coronavirus Briefing Since april he also said americans should wear masks when they come socially distance but missing from the briefing was the countrys top Infectious Diseases expert dr anthony fat shape americas the worst affected nation in the world with more than one 140000 deaths and when over 3800000 cases in some areas of our country are doing very well others are doing less well it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i dont like saying about things but thats the way it is its the way its what we have you look over the world its all over the world. And it tends to do t