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Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy a ....
Zimbabwes military and police enforce a ban on government protests. Dozens have been detained. News, yet another Major League Baseball team is hit by coronavirus. And nba basketball returns with social justice high on its agenda. We will hear from lebron james. Anchor coronavirus has already had a profound impact on the global economy, changing the way we live, work, and travel. The World Health Organization says this will reverberate for generations. In a meeting, the director general said the pandemic was a once in a Century Health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come. More optimistic news from americas top Infectious Disease expert. Dr. Anthony fauci believes a vaccine could be available within months. We are also st ....
Cable Television Company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host representative Yvette Clarke is a democrat from new york. She is vice chair of the energy and Commerce Committee and is also cochair of the smart cities caucus. She is our guest this week on the communicators. Congresswoman clark, thank you for being here to be too be with you, peter. Host what is the smart city caucus and how you envision smart city . Guest we decided to establish a bipartisan smart city caucus originally darrell [inaudible] was my chair and it is now congresswoman from indiana. We knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. Its a utility we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future. That w ....
Host congratulations. Your book is a major comp which meant. It is a significant scholarly work. I think it is fair to say you moved the seal. Guest thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david. Thank you so much. Host how does it feel . Guest like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the works to make this book and so its a relief than just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and cigarettes Richard Kluger who won a Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Guest amazing. It was really a pageturner. Host allen grant the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette industry and the deception of the industry and in trepidation. When you started here had giant oaks out there and you took a risk. Guest ....