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You know, and the nasdaq, of course, moving ahead here. But right now the dow and the s p are the ones poised for a gain on the week. And we got that hand count underway right now in the peach state as Networks Finally do what fox has done and call that race in arizona, indeed, for joe biden. So that is not going down well with team trump. Well take a look at whats happening on the count, where he might place his bets right now in this increasingly unlikely bid to secure another four years of the white house. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis first i off on those spikes in cases right now that just get bigger and bigger and more worrisome literally by the day. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Well, presumably, the president will be briefed on that. Its supposed to happen i any moment now regarding operation warp speed. But, of course, its a closed briefing, and man ....
The swing state of pennsylvania. How will voters react one week from the election . Its the final sprint to november 3, joe biden will leave his house to attend to events in georgia and when questioned about his relaxed schedule, he said every day is a 12 hour day. The president keeps up eight torrid pace heading to three states today pulling in huge crowds with tens of thousands attending the three events in pennsylvania yesterday and by the way, 62 million have already voted, 20 million in person and 40 million by mail. To the markets, way down yesterday, closing down 650 with the most modest of bounces this morning no bounce at all actually the dow jones will be down a couple points. Lots of corporate profit reports, they remain strong and we will bring in the highlighted a moment. The big earning report comes as afternoon. Microsoft reports and that may set the tone for the markets. As always, a big show for you with the president on the campaign. Rachel campos who wants her nine k ....
Should be defunded, the left is worried that the president may rally the countrys morale and they cannot have that, Speaker Pelosi, treasury secretary mnuchin, they will talked again about the stimulus plan, the far apart on the size of the package but they agree on extending emergency payment, they are still talking, nbc held a town hall for joe biden last night, no questions about packing the court, offering statehood to puerto rico in washington, d. C. , who the democrats were put on the Supreme Court, it really was soft ball city, maybe that changes in the Vice President ial debate tomorrow night, mike pence faces off against Kamala Harris, plexi glass screens will separate them. 910 minute segments, the president s leadership on covid and mike pence pushing hard ....
And the u. S. Keep talking trade, we dont know when this thing ends or how much further it goes. Sit back and enjoy the ride, today is august 25, the dow of 378, yesterday up another 150th opening bell today, the s p record high close up some more this morning. The nasdaq looks like its going to be down a few points. Were going to show you apple, premarket trading worth 2. 15 trillion and there is speculation that there is iphone production to mexico, more of that in a moment. At the convention the republicans attacked the biden harris ticket as a looming disaster. Dynamic speeches from tim scott and nikki haley and the president as surprise appearance and a vocal audience preview will see it. Day two, melania speaks tonight, rand paul, eric and tiffany trump, you will see that too. I gotta say this, our heart goes out to louisiana, mississippi, texas and neighboring states. Marco faded but here comes laura. Landfall probably tomorrow, could be a cat two or three storm the people of ga ....
Could be a fullcourt press at least on the administrations part working through the coronavirus folks saying look, the worst of this could be behind us. That is one of the reasons why the president has been stipulating, he thinks all kids in this country should go back to school in the fall. That has earned him the wrath of Governor Andrew Cuomo who is also addressing reporters right now saying what about the kids, are you thinking of the welfare of the kids . The back and forth goes on and on. Speaking of governor cuomo, sometimes around august 1st, august 7th, he will have a financial decision on status of schools, whether they reopen in the empire state or do it on a tiered basis. Some do, some dont. Could add likely to parents confusion to all of this. Edward lawrence is monitoring all of these developments. Edward, what do you have right now . Reporter neil, the Cor ....