Took until 1920, over 72 years later for women to earn the right to vote. During those years, organizations would form creating a national movement, yet it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. From a Newspaper Agency to a woman for protesting on the white house lawn. You will learn how western territories and states were on the leading edge of the movement and you will hear how a letter from a mother to her son would lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. We begin syracuse, new york, where an author talks about one of the movements lesserknown figures. Lucretia mott is the most important female white abolitionists and one of the most important women in American History, yet she has not received the same amount of historical attention as others. She is not a household
Comfort comes in to pier 90 here in midtown manhattan, a sign that more help is on the way. We are expecting news conferences shortly from the mayor bill de blasio and new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo here, sara. Contessa, ill take it. Remarkable pictures as you said of the Field Hospital in the park and the comfort. Well be watching for the governors briefing we think in the coming moments good monday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt, as we continue to practice social distancing as a precaution here at cnbc. Markets have been enjoying a relatively stable day. Weve been in a range of probably plus t2 or 300 points n the dow. Boeing one swing factor, but overall rates coming down, guys, as we see at least some relative stability in stocks and the degree to which that helps us repair other markets will take time to understand eamon javers is going to remind us of a political story from a couple weeks ago he has that this morning as well hey, eamon yeah. It se
The big week for the bulls technique up 2 . Transports up more than that the semis, soaring the stocks to snap up right now. Time to take on. Why investors are checking into delta and American Airlines. Its our call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go, the Halftime Report starts right now and it certainly is good to have you with us on this friday. Our investment comphoot is steven rice, jon neg jarron, Jim Lebenthal and megan. Thank you we begin with the markets, all 11 sectors, 100 there in the green for the week four of them including technology up about 2 transports and some of the chip names, guys, soaring and doing very, very well. Joe terranova, we talked about it yesterday are you surprised by how strong the market has been this week . Where did this market scum after an august to forget . I wouldnt characterize it as an incredibly strong market. I think its a market that finally has broken out of a consolidation range when youre talking about equity postPreside
Deals. If they go through, it would total 100 billion. First up the big one. Last night we told you about Royal Dutch Shell in talks to buy bg group. Today, shell pulled the trigger saying that it would buy bg for 70 billion making it the biggest deal in that industry in more than a decade back when chevron bought texaco in 2000 for 36 billion. Shares of shell finished the day lower by 3. 5 . Jackie deangelis has more on what this deal means tonight. Reporter a big deal announced in the energy patch today. Royal dutch shell buying bgs roughly 7 billion. Its the latest energy deal this year and one of the larger of the last decade rivaling when exxon bought mobile in 1998. Bg known for both oil and gas assets. The addition of those assets will boost shells portfolio by about 25 . For shell, the purchase of bg increases their oil and natural gas reserves as well as their Oil Production while bg brings to the table storage and tunnelling assets as well as tankers to move natural gas aroun
279,701 customer accounts were affected in the thefts. Lets say these were largely american customers who were calling spanish or Foreign Language call centers overseas. They say that at t will be required to notify all customers who have been affected in this scam. Guys were so used to seeing Cyber Threats and cyber data braechz now, heres an example of just good oldfashioned insider employees allegedly frc. It doesnt seem too worrisome for the stock. Barely moving on the news. Eamon, well continue to follow it. Thank you. Major deals and potential deals. First, this morning we learn that shell bought bg. A major deal in natural gas space. Then milan, this afternoon, announcing it was offering to parago to buy it for 28. 6 billion. Nearly 30 billion deal. Jackie deangeles covering the energy deal. First, though to meg terrell who is here at hq on this breaking announcement in the middle of the afternoon. It was kind of unusual coming out right in the middle of the trading day that mil