At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
I am in added junk to fellow at the Manhattan Institute and your post for the young leader circl circle. I think all of you for taking time to be at this event a day. Both Young Leaders members in our general membership. I am so sorry that we cant all be together in person. Although i very much hope it will be sometime soon. But in the meantime, its nice to connect this way. And stay tuned, the Manhattan Institute is putting together a ton of virtual content that they will be rolling out over the next few months. So look at her in boxes for information about those events coming to you shortly. In the interim, i am so pleased to welcome my guests, Douglas Murray to our events. This afternoon. Douglas is a journalist. And i am sure many of you, if not all have read his work in the pages of the wall street journal, the national review, and of course the spectator where he is an associate editor pretty is also an author most recently and 2019 book, the madness of crowds. And he was with us
Aggressively moved to contain the outbreak. We are fighting to support and to save our Small Businesses in San Francisco, and im so grateful that we at least can do this and there is definitely more that i want to do. Reporter the mayor ordered garlic noodles with shrimp. The outdoor tables must be six feet apart. Customers are given plastic utensils and offering Hand Sanitizer will be a part of daily practice. Despite todays encouraging news, breed could not ignore the fact that covid cases have been inching up in San Francisco and other bay area counties. Weve still got to be careful. Well be living with covid for a while but we cant continue to allow our county to be closed. Reporter restaurant were supposed to open for Outdoor Dining on monday but breed surprised everyone by moving the date up. It was a scramble. There have been a couple of sleepless nights. Your brain is running around all over the place trying to get ready. Reporter this customer was ready to order takeout from s
The presented of arrayit is to appear in court. They claim that sheena started promoting a covid19 test that could be bundled with the existing allergy tests. This was before the company had developed a covid19 test. And the doj sayshe nations further kusecurities fraud element arrepresented to pandemic. And you might remember that the ability of not showing simples to spread it from the w. H. O. Appeared to be rare. And now the doctor says that she created, quote, a misunderstanding and what she said was based on just two or three studies. And Infectious Disease specialist says that some of the confusion is in the distinction between asymptomatic and presymptomatic. We dont know the exact proportion of infection with this virus that is from someone who doesnt have symptoms, who is going to get symptoms, or who has symptoms now, but there is no doubt that people that do not have symptoms can transmit this virus. No doubt. And the doctor says that it is clear people without symptoms can
Its allies in western media today portraying china as either the victim of disinformation about the wuhan virus or claiming that western nations are using the contagion as distraction from their own policy failures. Even insinuating in one case that the United States is, quote, hiding something. The Trump Administration official telling fox news today they also have reason to believe the chinese have underreported, dramatically underreported the tally of deaths and cases of the virus in their country by a factor of at least 50. Can chinas initial and persistent lies and deception about the dangers of the virus have now caused the infection of 3 Million People worldwide and killed more than 209,000 people. Chinas maligned actions have killed 55,000 americans and infected nearly a million more. Much remains to be discovered, and among those discoveries we await are the dark reasons that motivated the ccp leaders to, first, release the virus and then to carry out can chinas deadly decepti