Pbs newshour special. Woodruff good evening and welcome to this pbs newshour special, on the night joe biden has been declared the next president of the United States. Im judy woodruff. In just a moment, president elect biden and Vice President elt Kamala Harris will appear before cameras in their first remarks since the winn was called. Its been four days since the nation gathered at tv sets and smart phones to watch election returns, only to discover the vote count would take longer. Weve been waiting patiently nce then, and late this morning, the Associated Press called the state of pennsylvania for biden, putting biden above to become president. Tes needed his running mate Kamala Harris is breaking three glass ceilings at once becoming the firstwo n, the first black american, and the first Asian American to serve as Vice President. We expect both of them to speak shortly in wiln and to see some of the celebration to follow. Well talk with analysts and with our correspondents, inclu
Icu admissions up more than 27 . He suggested some counties are poised to move backward in the states fourtiered reopening system. Take seriously how deadly this disease continues to be. Averaging 44 deaths every single day in the state of california over a sevenday period. This disease continues to be deadly. And a vaccine will come, but its not going to come soon enough. Health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley says that private household gatherings are a major source of spread. Health officials urging the public not to let their guard down at this point. Businesses that dont follow the proper safety protocols to help reduce the spread could also be in for a rather rude awakening. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen with the story from the south bay. Reporter with the holidays fast approaching, Santa Clara County Health Officials are on high alert after seeing a sharp uptick in covid19 cases. The rate of change has been very steep, and that is a certain. Weve seen this before
Over by 250 points and this morning you are seeing green arrows for the s p 500 and nasdaq, nasdaq right now up by about 122 points in the future market and that is pretty impressive you are now talking about four days in a row that you have seen gains for the major averages all are within 5 of their 52 week highs and in fact the transports set a new alltime high yesterday too. Right now the dow futures are indicated a little down by about 61 points. Were watching a lot of things that have been happening including news with Johnson Johnson, and earnings are coming out too. And if you want to take a look at the treasury market, right now you will see that the ten year seems to be sitting just around 0. 759 . So not far from where it has been yep, earnings are supposed to take the baton from stimulus hopes, which i dont know whether those are fleeting or not. But supposedly the earnings might be pretty good yesterday kind of weird all the stay at home new age tech stuff was strong as i t
Territory in a single trading session. For some, it was even worse than that check out shares of apple down it lost 180 billion in market cap. That is the largest oneday lost for a u. S. Listed company on record if that isnt enough to get your attention. Apple lost more in market cap yesterday than the individual market capitalizations of 470 of the companies in the s p 500 it wasnt just apple microsoft, alphabet, microsoft and even tesla saw their market caps shrink. Microsoft down by 115 billion amazon off by 93 billion. This morning, things look a little better. You still have the dow down 150 points right now, it is reverse that up 300 points the nasdaq saw the biggest declines, up 27 points right now. We have to keep that in context a few things in here as well talking to people all day yesterday, here is the list. Youll want to know exactly what happened it was the nasdaqs largest drop you dont go up 400 and down that will be highspeed trading. That would matter until they do. Va
Half an hour ago pretty good turn around yesterday. Interesting, cramer, the night before said it would start at 230. But he said it would get sold out the day before i watched as the dow improved. The s p was stopped. I was like, figures. At the end of the day, thats called in the money. In the money in the tacos now, you change the story. I said it from the get go joe, it will cost me a lot less to buy the tacos. But you have to listen to me. You are used to that. Becky, what do i get . I get to not buy you a dog somehow. You won you were complaining about this you are such a welsher you set up the terms of the deal and came up with the whole idea. Suddenly, you got your whole dog expense. Oh, well. Did you talk about yields did you see oil . I didnt. I saw now that it is above 27 a barrel still the june contract. Yield on the 10year around 0. 6 the oil prices watching this, the wti Contract Trading now that is something we have been watching closely because of the overall demand pic