The president doesnt resolve the Voting Rights battle first. In the middle of all this comes another big push from the president. Minutes from now he will speak on a new gun Crime Prevention and Public Safety plan. But will politics get in the way of this too . Cnn chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill for us. An Infrastructure Meeting is about to kick off with white house officials 30 minutes from now. Where do those talks stand . Reporter the white house meeting is with the Bipartisan Group of senators. Theyre trying to figure out exactly whether they can reach an agreement on how to finance this package. The democrats who were involved in these talks told me today that they believe it is essential today to try to figure out a way to get an agreement on how to pay for a 1. 2 trillion package over eight years. There are still disagreements about how to do that. At the same time there is pressure from the left, particularly from progressives like Elizabeth
Also coming up Box Office Battle odeon zone enters urgent talks with water brothers over its decision to make all of its films available to stream instantly next year. And our welcome to the program saudi arabias foreign minister says he is hopeful a deal could soon be reached to end the bass a dispute with qatar its been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt imposed a land sea an Arab Blockade on cata for ministers of Catherine Quaid also say theres been progress towards resolving the crisis. Now reports. Crucial days ahead for gulf nations talks aimed at and in the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have achieved significant progress kuwaits foreign minister whose country has been be generally mediate again and to the crisis says hes confident. A constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the inte
Flames. A lot of smoke in that area. Topper five was overhead, the fire sent up a column of thick black smoke, it was seen for miles. Seven street between fay on east alma avenue have been shut down. Pg e and santa clara Emergency Responders are also on the scene. No reports of any injuries. Traffic alert on the peninsula. A big rig overturned on interstate 280. It flipped over at about 6 30 this morning as it was heading north. It for stay shut down of the two right lanes. Chp is asking drivers to avoid the area. To our coronavirus coverage. Statewide in the last 24 hours there were more than 22,000 new cases. The Positivity Rate now over 7 . Hospitalization rate taking a huge day today jump, more than 9500 patients are in the hospital. Governor newsom is responding with a region by region crackdown. We are live in san jose with where things stand right now. Reporter here in the south bay we are keeping a close eye on this graph. This shows the number of icu bed at least high availabi
A motion to boost uranium enrichment just days after the killing of a Top Nuclear Scientist driven from their homes now living hand to mouth ethiopian refugees fight hunger and uncertainty in sudanese refugee camps and covering it japans relationship with the Face Covering the new exhibit billed as a theme park for masks. And sport around madrid could be set for an early exit from the European Champions League defeat against shakhtar dont yes has put reality on the brink of elimination. Donald trumps bid to overturn the u. S. President ial election result has suffered another major blow with the attorney general saying there is no evidence. Of widespread voter fraud bill barr told the Associated Press that the Justice Department investigation has in his words not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected at different outcome president elect joe biden be trumped 53062232 votes in the Electoral College and more than 6000000 votes in the popular vote well alan fisher is following eve
Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have