Cocktail made by regeneron lets get to meg tirrell with the details. Reporter we just got confirmation from regeneron itself as well that they provided this experimental drug to the white house at the request of the president s physician on whats known as compassionate use. That is a way to access experimental drugs outside of Clinical Trials. Now this is the drug that we just saw the first data on, i believe on tuesday afternoon i think i said it was last week, but thats because time is of no normal consequence right now so it was just earlier this week that we saw the initial data from Clinical Trials on this antibody cocktail from regeneron for covid19 it was 275 patients and it was promising data but very early. It showed in patients who have covid19 but are not yet hospitalized with more mild to moderate disease, that the drug reduced levels of the virus and also helped improve symptoms they said it showed positive trends in potentially avoiding the need to go to the hospital they
And iraq now committed to reduce the number of american troops in that country can we really expect that to happen though and if it does is it going to create a power vacuum in that region all right its time to move through news i. Q. Today marks the 21st consecutive day of nationwide protests following the death of george floyd over in minneapolis minnesota but now a Deadly Police shooting involving a black man in atlanta is triggering even more demonstrations all of this as new congressional legislation is being introduced to address Police Tactics across this country fronsac is outside of capitol hill with more on these developments there. Now and also in that building behind me Senate Republicans theyre getting ready to push out a package thats going to be all about policing. And what Police Officers can and cannot do now this is all coming forward from the only africanamerican republican in the Senate Senator tim scott of South Carolina which President Donald Trump has signaled hi
Ready for storm brexit . I am on good morning from bbc london. Im sonja jessop. Detectives have launched a murder board one support vessel in the investigation after a 17 year old thames this morning to find out. Boy was stabbed to death in broad in sport, an 8 goal thriller daylight in westminster. On the south coast a double from jadon sancho police were called to edgware road just before two helps secure victory over kosovo in the afternoon yesterday. As englands march to euro 2020 so far no arrests have been made. Continues. From lust for life to the death of his friend david bowie, we hear from the godfather of punk, iggy pop. And after a bit of a cloudy and damp shopkeepers across london are to be start to the day in the uk things visited by police to try to persuade them to sign up to a new deal aimed are set to turn that bit brighter at tackling knife crime. Later but for some it will be gusty. Called the responsible retailer agreement, it would see them i will have the full fo
Point. This is a critical connector and this closure could last for hours. Its a short section, but critical. Month ray is the biger roadway, 7th and monterey is the closer. There was a pursuit by chp. They had to pull off the pursuit because of speed and safety, but there was a crash reported by san jose pd, and it turns out to be the same vehicle. Just a few weeks after that mass shooting at the nearby garlic festival. Bob redell joins us live outside the campus where students may be able to get help if they need it. Reporter the gilroy unified the district is crisis counselors, and the 134 other schools in the district, so basically for the first week of school, which starts today. The district wants to offer assistance to students who might have been at the festival, or who know people who were shot or hurt there. Students might also feel anxious giving the site of the shooting is less than a mile away from the high school. The district is encouraging parents, if they havent alread
Visit the war zone as he heads to israel tomorrow. And Vladimir Putin lands in beijing for a closely watched sit down with xi jinping. It is tuesday, october 17th, 2023. You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im frank holland. We kick off the hour with the check of the u. S. Stock futures. Take a look. Red across the board right now. The dow looks like it will open 85 points lower. Sn s p and nasdaq is opening lower. We are coming off a strong monday session and this is the russell 2000 showing strength rising more than 1. 5 yesterday for the best day since july. You see the moves right here. Big swing here. Same story for the dow transports coming off a nearly 2 gain. Take a look. Up 2 . Big swing right there. All this on the back of falling treasury yields. You can see a rate sensitive sector getting a benefit. We are seeing a rise in the treasury yields this morning. The tenyear at 4. 74. Moving higher this week. The long bond