Winter is showing signs in what we call 2020. Early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. The global war against coronavirus continues as the war has topped 44 million covid infections 8. 2 million and 75 million and 52 million respectively. Theres a dramatic rise in new infections available icu beds are critically low in some states. Heres nbcs gabe gutierrez. Reporter frances, wisconsin is among those states seeing a Record Number of covid cases the state had already opened an emergency Field Hospital near milwaukee. Now this new drivethrough testing site as demand for testing soars. The parking lot of a Major League Ballpark transformed into wisconsins newest drivethrough testing site the cars started lining up an hour before testing started. On friday they saw a Record Number of covid cases, nearly 3 rkds 800 what are your symptoms ive had a pesky cough since saturday and fatigue we all want to get back to work and have life as normalal as possible
Points the s p which is then up five out of the last six weeks and up the last six sessions in a row is up by 5. 5 this morning and then the nasdaq which has been this incredible out performer for months on end is the other performer this morning its down by 13 points but remember nasdaq was only down friday after being up for several sessions in a row. Setting a new high every one of the closes. The s p is less than 1 from its all time high. Its up back in february the treasury markets youll see right now. The treasury yields are where they have been the ten year is at 0. 556 . Melissa. We have an update on the pandemic the United States surpassed covid cases. It took just six weeks for u. S. Covid cases to double. The growth appears to have leveled off at an average of 54,000 per day over the last week in College Sports news over the weekend the mid american conference scrapped its all football season delaying all fall sports until the spring of 2021 the logistics were too complicate
President donald trump set off alarm bells in america last week when he talked about delaying the upcoming election after the corona virus Pandemic Public Health officials recommended that people avoid long lines at polling stations and mail their ballots and instead the trumpeters juggernaut media machine have been relentless in discounting the credibility of mail then ballots climaxing in a tweet last week where he floated the idea of actually delaying elections day which is set for november 3rd that idea was quickly killed by the white house but the fears remain especially after he said that hell wait and see if he accepts the Election Results today were joined by someone whos been involved in american politics for decades Sidney Blumenthal is a veteran journalist whos worked with leading publications like the New York Times the new republic and the guardian and hes an author whos writing a landmark series of books on the life and times of americas 16th president president Abraham L
A. Current affairs. Countersteering. Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question about americas elections what would lincoln do lets get to the bottom line. U. S. President donald trump set off alarm bells in america last week when he talked about delaying the upcoming election after the corona virus Pandemic Public Health officials recommended that people avoid long lines at polling stations and mail their ballots and instead the trumpeters juggernaut media machine have been relentless in discounting the credibility of mail than ballots climaxing in a tweet last week where he floated the idea of actually delaying elections day which is set for november 3rd that idea was quickly killed by the white house but the fears remain especially after he said that hell wait and see if he accepts the Election Results today were joined by someone whos been involved in american politics for decades Sidney Blumenthal is a veteran journalist whos worked with leading publications like the New York Time
Much stronger than the headlines is brickandmortar to emerge, which would be a good fit for your portfolio, will the s p 500 finish the week at a new alltime record high . While Congress Goes home to practice, while we assess what happens with the economy, were gonna take a look at whats going to happen, lets say they dont do anything until september, we have a great economies joining us soon and President Biden blasting joe biden romans ago for not giving american households a lifeline, you heard the numbers and wait till you hear what President Trump will do, then theres the masked debate, has tails wagging, could it hurt his election chances in a major milestone the sum of the president harsh critics agree is huge, were talking about middle east taken a giant step closer to ever elusive goal of having peace in the region, all that and so much more on making money. Charles all right, the markets, they put the rally on pause, the dow is higher, the s p is close, congress is taken a re