All safe. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 10th. Thank you for starting your week with us. And we do begin with schools ng a as coravirus cas millionaon be Holding Classes online today and tomorrow, while the building is disinfected following an outbreak among students and staff. In bigtime College Football, the power five conferences may be considering moving their season to the spring. Meantime, the pandemic has prompted some top ncaa players to call for the creation of a union. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter the u. S. Now surpassing 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Kansas city among nine cities warned by the White House Task force they are in danger of becoming new hot spots. Were seeing a lot of activity that has been against Public Health advice. House parties of up to hundreds of people, a lot of backyard parties. Reporter chicagos mayor threatening to shut down the lakefront, posting these images on social media after witnessing what she
Story. 963, this woman sherry finkbine, a student, not her real name, was featured in a life magazine article. You see her in the article. The story was about a choice her family was facing. She was pregnant. Her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug called thalidomide. The drug you see here behind me had not been approved for use yet in the United States of america and was available in many European Countries and used to treat a number of Different Things, anxiety, insomnia and nausea. Nausea here is key. So women began taking it to aleave morning sickness. And sherry finkbines husband had been in europe and acquired these pills and brought them back home for her and shes pregnant and takes 40 of them early on in her pregnancy. She and her husband did not know that thalidomide causes birth defects but then she writes an article about the drug and found out a little bit more and called her doctor and she started to learn more about what thalidomide can do, fo
In an Ongoing Investigation that now has its principle player dead. But first stocks in and out of session lows. Though not as low as we were earlier on, on the first hint of trouble in hong kong, the 10th straight weekend involving the airport. Susan li at the new york stock exchange. Hey, susan. Susan neil with all the uncertainty we have investors running into safety. 10year treasury testing a new threeyear low. 166 basis points, that is below the borrowing rate from the u. S. Federal reserve. Industrial, energy, consumer cyclicals all those names being sold off. In rather what i would call you a thin volume summer trading day. Some of the moves might be more exaggerated. Mcdonalds, home depot, accounting for 1 3 of the dows losses. The vix surging above 20. 20 is not out of the realm possibilities. It is not panic levels. We have to look at volatility. Goldman sachs getting all buzz on the trading floor. We started out with goldman putting out a note, chances of recession have now
First lady for the choir, for donnie and marie, tonight, every step of the way, please give the good governor and the first lady a round of applause. [applause] gov. Herbert were honored to have everybody here and thank you. Welcome to utah, this has been a great event so far. I appreciate the little gift i just got from my good friend, governor of montana. Its a monocle. It allows me to see the fine print when i sign legislation. [laughter] for the last year, ive had the distinct honor and privilege of representing americas 55 governors of our states and territories. Couldnt be more pleased witch the work we have done together. Governors all across the country are on the frontlines and their states each and every day. Theyre serving constituents, coming up with Real Solutions. Unfortunately for us, fortunately for us, we have support from the National Governor association along that way as well. Nga staff has been especially helpful to me throughout my tenure as governor of montana. I
Taking a look back at the people who impressed and inspired us and twenty seventeen people who saw me supernatural powers dared to take on new challenges in old age flee from their homeland fight for Animal Rights and who fearlessly put their faith first. One of the special people is the monk make a call of he lives and worships high up in russias urals were a battle of biblical proportions is taking place david versus goliath his tiny wouldst monastery has taken on a mighty still Corporation One that has their sights set on the monks a little piece of enlightenment yet the company has no spiritual deeds in mind their interests are purely economic. Her insured tripling morning begins with meditation. In a cloister high on mount country we meet with young buddhists men and women who live in accordance with buddhist teachings. Holmes this guy has been peacefully meditating here for twenty years but the peace and quiet could soon be disturbed because the mountain here contains iron ore an