Going home for thanksgiving because theyre already living there. The highs and lows of being und are the same roof with their parents again. First, heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. This is a really dangerous critical time over thanksgiving. Make a better choice. Thats all im asking. If you dont have to travel, dont travel. The u. S. Suffering its deadliest day in the pandemic in more than six months. This is not a normal thanksgiving, and to act like its a normal thanksgiving is to deny reality. President elect joe biden addressing america ahead of the thanksgiving holiday uging urging people to stay united amid the coronavirus pandemic. Were at war with a virus, not with one another. President donald trump has pardoned Michael Flynn. Democrats call it a brazen abuse of power. And soccer great, died at the age of 60. Diego maradona. Nick sabin has once again tested positive for the coronavirus. He will quarantine and miss the iron bowel. The baltimore pittsburgh game
Losers. As york city has a curfew they are poised to reopen after months of flock down due to the covid19 pandemic. Meantime, the markets ending the day up, somehow disconnected from all of this chaos. I want to bring in our markets reporter, abigail doolittle. On top of this, u. S. China tensions flaring up. Why do investors seem unconcerned . It is puzzling, especially with the degree of unrest in the u. S. It kind of is offensive in a way that you see stocks climbing higher. Today, almost a giddy feeling to the session. That kindhat you have of trading action, it does not seem to make sense but, again, it tells you that investors are looking past these unfortunate, sad, surreal events and making the assessment that it is unlikely to affect the economy on a longerterm basis. We have Something Else going on beyond the weak dollar. We have had a move over the past few weeks into cyclical stocks, recovery stocks out of the stayathome stocks. Up top, the nasdaq 100 and index. Take a look
Super tuesday voting begins in about 48 hours. Welcome to this sunday edition of washington journal. Joeill get your take on bidens victory in that democratic primary. We want to get your reaction to it. If you are a democrat, call 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001 is your number. Isependents, 202 7488002 your number. We have a separate line just for South Carolina. Voters, tell us about your experience and react to the victory of joe biden. Here is your number, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text, 202 7488003. With that, please add your name and the town you are calling from. You can also weigh in on social media. Http twitter. Com cspanwj you can post a comment on twitter were on cspan. First 2020d courier, ahead of super tuesday, joe biden wins the rise of Bernie Sanders. Here are the figures from the voting yesterday. Joe biden, 48 point 4 in the primary, translating to 200 and 55,000 votes. Bernie sanders, 19 point 9 . Almost a 30 point difference. Tom steyer, 11. 3 . He
Independents 202 7488002. If not by phone, you can use your phone to give us a text. 7488003. Comment ono post a social media. You can post a comment on facebook. We look forward to hearing from you. Here is an article we found recently that starts to highlight all of this. Can policy make it more affordable to have a family . They write that the annual American Family survey has been released recently. It suggests that while most americans considered cultural concerns the most important problem facing families, they now see economic concerns the most pressing issue. Not surprising that young couples report having fewer children than they would like for economic reasons. Last year, a morning consul parents said they expected to have fewer children than they considered ideal. Three of the primary reasons were child killed expenses, financial instability, childcare expenses, financial instability, and the general state of the economy. Families need to raise about a dollars,f a million 23
Much doing a lot of but if fantastic work in the sense that television is a great excuse to write about everything, and it reflects whatever people are are interested in or best with, so i wrote about reality tv, i wrote about the news, ive, you know, could write about this. [laughter] if, you know, the circumstances were right, so a pretty vast field. How much time dow do you spend now with the networks as opposed to netflix, amazon, hulu, et cetera, et et cetera . Theres vast drop now in content ocean. You know, it used to be, you know, every fall, the big three or four networks would release the content, the shows they were going to premier for the coming season, that was what you were going to be concerned with all year and now Television Among many, you know, so much on netflix, so much on amazon, hbo, showtime, basic cable, premium cable, so what we used to think of as tv, its a tinny amount of what is television now, television that i write about is not on what we call televisio