We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
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Provided the video. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for what promises to be a timely, eliminating roundtable discussion looking back on the 50th anniversary of the successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1917, is an 1970,stration marked his administration was part of a wave of political to 1974. Ion from 1967 his history is vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence against george floyd, breonna taylor, and the attempted murder of jacob blake have found a call for black liberation ball raising familiar questions about the roles of electoral politics and black freedom struggles. Electionago, gibsons came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, the Police Beating about unarmed man sparked an uprising against White Supremacy and its enforcers in blue and its enforcers in blue in the jim crow north. Racism,anizing around renewal projects, and countlessl injustice, beatings had gone unpunished
Arrows dow futures indicated down by about 260. Weve seen down 300 this morning. Nasdaq also down sharply down by 200 points and the s p 500 down by about 37 so significant declines after two other days of losses also playing out in the treasury markets as well. If you want to take a look at what is happening there, yields have gone down, right now the ten year is yield iing below 0. a lot of this has to do with renewed lockdowns in europe. Lets get to karen cho who has more on what is happening there. Thank you very much we are witnessing losses across the markets as we contend with more news flow around more severe restrictions. Weve been hearing the last couple hour 24s that there may moves announced later on today, reports from various Media Outlets suggesting that london will move to a tier two restrictions the london mayor has spoken suggesting that the Health Secretary will reveal the changes in the house of commons. No mingling between households currently there is a rule of si