International airport. So much has happened today. Tonight we will take stock in whats happening on the ground, and we will answer questions that you submitted online, about why this happened and what could happen next. From nbc News World Headquarters in new york, im joshua johnston, welcome to the week. Let us begin at the monumental events that took place in afghanistan today. Taliban fighters marched into kabul, Intent On taking full control of the capital city. They faced a little resistance as they entered the president ial palace. They are flag now flies in place of afghanistans flag. Meanwhile, the american flag no longer flies over what was the u. S. Embassy. Diplomats removed, as they an Embassy Personnel were evacuated by helicopter. President of afghanistan has fled the country. He wrote on facebook that he did so to try and spare the city from additional violence. Just in time to. Commercial flights, out of afghanistan are off suspended. That blocks a key escapers, for afg
after yesterday s 2021 trading debut left markets bathed in red, right now, look what charles handed us. the dow, the s&p are drying off right now. the dow up 217, s&p better by just under 1% or 30 points. the nasdaq jumping 110 points. by the way, energy names are leading the charge after oil briefly topped $50, one penny below it right now in the aftermarket. first time we have seen that price since last february. but forget oil for the moment. bitcoin morphing back into rocket fuel. look at it now. it is jumping $2,028 to $33,588 as both jpmorgan which today predicted the crypto will hit $146,000 long term along with the treasury department, which now says banks can accept the stable coins as payment, triggered the bump. those two pieces of news moving bitcoin now above $33,500. as the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing, yet travelers still flooding to airports, on location testing is growing like wildfire. the ceo of the company at the forefront, xpresspa, is
we re paying close attention. energy stocks, look at price of oil today, what was significant about oil, that earlier today it traded above $50. you see it at 49.9. first time it has been above 50 in 10 months, 50-dollar oil. we begin our coverage with hillary vaughn who has been out with the candidates in the final hours of campaigning, she joins us now. how are things shaping up, hillary? reporter: connell, president-elect biden might have more on the line than the candidates themselves, rafael warnock and jon ossoff. biden openly admitted without a democratic majority in the senate his entire agenda is stalled. most importantly pretty much would solidify president trump s tax cuts would be here to stay. that is a problem for biden. that is how he is going to pay for a lot of the stuff he promised when he was campaigning. so i asked reverend rafael warnock, one of the senate democratic candidates today what he would support president-elect biden trying to do on his own? do
good morning, and welcome to the u.s. chamber of commerce and to launch, the space economy, our second annual space summit. events such as this are a team effort and we deeply appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrop, rocket lab, oneweb, hawkeye 360, and ascend. we have been businessy over the past year. from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace, to small satellite encryption and deorbit insurance and commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. we even convened a roundtable with a commandant of the u.s. coast guard regarding the need of greater use of space-enabled surveillance of the arctic waterways. suffice to say the chamber s procurement and space industry council has an ever-expanding set of policy pursuits. fortunately, we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo here at the chamber. after last year s summit tom donahue bro an articwrote an ar which i will quote. he wrote, harnessi
what caused bitcoin to plunge 1,000 bucks in minutes and the surprise winners and losers of the first democratic debate and what big topic surprisingly was missing it s thursday, june 27th worldwide exchange begins right now. afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. i m brian sullivan futures are higher on the dow. your chart of the day already on this thursday has got to be bitcoin. if you have not been following it, it s been a crazy 24 hours for the crypto all right. this is an intraday chart. 24-hour chart of bitcoin yeah bitcoin right now is down $991 all right. we surged past 13,000 here almost touched or basically did hit 14,000 then news that the biggest bitcoin exchange, coinbase, had crashed. nobody was able to trade on coinbase look at that in minutes, bitcoin fell to about 12,000 14,000 to 12,000 in minutes. kind of tried to come back now we ve been sliding throughout the early morning bitcoin down 7% or $1,000 a co