Option. We have tried to make it as professional sports back up and running, but to various degrees of success. Coming up here on the 4, how straightforward and understandable as possible. Reporter in contra costa different leagues are dealing county, 75 already vote by with the ongoing pandemic. Mail, but for the 25 that birds chirping dont, they are being notified of the change. A persons signature is like a fingerprint, and we verify the signature on every ballot returned to us, to make sure it matches the name of the voter to whom the ballot was mailed and matches the signature that we have on file. Reporter the county also trying a new Service Provided by the u. S. Post office, letting residents know what kind of mail is on the way. Of course polling sites will still people to vote early. We want to encourage you to vote safe, vote from home. Reporter voting by mail they say is the safest option during the pandemic. It usps having have delays, we encourage everyone to vote early,
Like in the fall. And mothers messages. New moms tell us about living throsi a their hopes for the future. Mothers never give up hope, but first, heres todays effe vaccine and unless something very unexpected happens, our viral enemy will be with us for many months and possibly many years. The former head of the cdc warned the scope of this pandemic is unprecedented. The worst thing that can happen is three to four weeks from now we see the numbers are really going up and then we have to decide whether or not were going to reverse course and ask people to stay home even more. Nearly 3. 17 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. It brings the total to more than 33 Million People over the past seven weeks as lockdown orders started. The president is taking heat for not wearing a mask during his tour of a mask factory in arizona. I actually did have one. I put a mask on i had a mask on for a period of time. We didnt see you in a mask. I cant help it if you didnt see me.
Weve gone from 18,000 on the dow to well above 24,000. Look at this. The dow is going to be up over 700 points this morning, firmly above 24,000. Thats a gain of over 3 . Weve got a 2. 5 gain on the s p and the nasdaq, 1. 7 . Now, that is a friday morning rally. Boeing sure helps. It is reopening plane production at a plant in Washington State. There are major gains all across the board, especially for big tech. We will have details on that in just a moment. But look at this. The price of oil, sinking. We were all the way down to 18 a barrel at one stage this morning and right now, we are back to 17. 77. Just as plans are being made to help the flat on its back energy industry. Gas prices, look at this, down again. 1. 82 is your nationwide average and its still coming down in wisconsin. Can you believe an average price in that state of 1. 25. I will say it again. 1. 25 in wisconsin. All right. Can you believe this. Speaker pelosi says no to more help for Small Business. The money has r
Taken since yesterdays 3,000 point drop jim, you have never been a huge fan of futures, but you think they are especially irrelevant now. Right these are fraught. I got up three, the market looked great it was up like looked like we would make up half of what we lost yesterday i come back, were down. Lets stay focused on individual stocks individual stocks are all being brought down by the indices. The great opportunities, i want to use that word, come from the obliteration of the futures, mean while there are companies who are doing well theres companies doing quite poorly well go over both there will be opportunities today. Theres a lot of give up yeah. I want to get i have a lot of specific questions for you i know you have regeneron tonight. Signs of hope, whether its test kits from roche, therapeutics, you heard gottlieb a moment ago talking about it those three things, test, therapeutics, vaccines we are starting to see very early signs of progress. Absolutely. You look at tesla.
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