Has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the world foodd program for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflictaffected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The World Food Program was founded in 1961 and is the Worlds Largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. The Nobel Committee says the coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge inn the numberr of vicis ofof hungerr in the worldld and ququoted the wfp whichch said, l there is a medical vaccine, food is the best vaccine against chaos. In 2019 the u. N. Branch provided assistance to close to 100 Million People in 88 countries affected by Food Insecurity and hunger. The wfp thanked the Nobel Committee for the honor on twitter adding the award is a powerful reminder peace and zero hunger go hand in hand. Next, a typhoon is now barreling toward japan. Weather Off
Odonnell good evening, and we are going tjoining us. We are going to begin tonight with the final 14 days to the election, and the frantic moves tonight by President Trump, who is tied or trailing in nearly every swing state poll. Tonight, the president is not only ramping up his Campaign Schedule with plans to make as many as five stops a day in the final sprint to november 3, hes also ratcheting up his rhetoric. Before heading to pennsylvania tonight for a rally, the president cut short a scheduled interview with 60 minutes correspondent lesley stahl. Earlier in the day, he demanded his attorney general investigate his campaign rival, joe biden. And he continued his assault on both the format and the moderator of the next president ial debate, a woman, and that debate is scheduled for this thursday. A recordshattering 33 million americans have already cast their ballots, either by mail or in person, suggesting this years turnout could be the largest in american history. And tonight,
1. 5 ct for the s p tumbled and the nasdaq hit harder in a couple of minutes. Treasuries and the yen gain. Money floods into safe hane assets it is a president s positive test acts as a wakeup call for markets. Good morning. Just under an hour away from 60 minutes away from the start of cash and equity trading in europe. We do see drops more than 1 in European Equity Index Futures. We were looking at some positive numbers just an hour ago. Take a look at the u. S. Futures. Down with the nasdaq underperforming. 1. 9 . And dow off anna we see reaction to these stunning headlines that have taken the markets by storm. Gripped the market. Dictating many over the moves that were seeing. Beware many of the markets in asia are closed. What we have open in asia is japan, australia and indonesia. We saw instant negative reaction. Nasdaq futures down by as much as 202 in the initial place where we saw the news breaking. We do see negative riskoff reaction. We see money going into the dollar and c
Affect the president s reelection message particularly when it comes to cope with. What we know is that the president is trying to put a positive spin on all of this the fact that. He has been trying to convey the message that things are back to normal that the economy is bouncing back and thats why weve seen kind of a 2016 Campaign Style message but the same time the president will not be able to do that moving forward given the fact that he himself has tested positive several senior officials have confirmed negative tests including secretary of States Michael pale blues in croatia he says hes still plans to go ahead with his settled asia trip next week Vice President mike pence has also tested negative. Democratic House Speaker nancy pelosi says plans for continuing government are in place and she says that though it is tragic trumps habit of going into crowds without a mask was a brazen invitation for something to happen and trumps democratic rival joe biden has sent his best wishes
Us out but really only going to be helping a few of us out closer to the coast and in areas like berkeley and oakland. But welcome definitely at that. A couple of touches the fog right at the coastline aside from that though todays another Crystal Clear day and that cool ocean breezes not going make its way inland. So yet again hot weather for the vast majority of us impeach heat advisories again in effect today and of course ap and Solano County or how to spot today excessive heat warnings remain in effect. Temperatures are currently coolest at the coast and a pretty comfortable right along the bay concord in pittsburgh as well as fairfield some of your warmer spots, currently in the 70s its going to take no time at all for temperatures to climb a little later on this morning out again into the 80s 90s and spur some back into the triple digits. Antioch back at one 02 today which just one degree cooler than yesterday, not enough of a difference to really make it feel any better conquer