Results. We will get congressional insight all morning long. We will hear from georgia congressman earl buddy and connecticut senator rand paul. Loss of 100 points on dow futures. Markets extending slump from yesterday as more lockdowns and the threat of them offset positive news on vaccines. Its also been a big week for retails, bjs and macys reporting this morning all the numbers as soon as they hit the tape. Working from home may not save you money. Why paying a new tax while working remotely. A little holiday decorating can carry you through some tough times making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen european markets feeling the sting of more lockdowns, red across the board in france, england and germany, all down about 1 . Mixed story in asia overnight with fractional moves there. Kospi and south korea shanghai to the plus side. Cheryl casone has all the news that you need right now, good morning, cheryl. Cheryl good morning to you, dagen. United stat
Often focusing on test positive, accurately so. We have seen this number come up from what ha been below 3 just weeks ago to now a 14 positive o14 positive of 5 and a 7 day up to 5. 6 . We have a goal to keep this as low as possible, continue to test the communities to find cases to wrap around the cases, avoid one case becoming many. This number is one of caution and one that intense identifies our inintensifies our role. We knew we were at 3. 3 a few weeks ago. It has risen nearly 52 increase in the past two weeks. I know it feels like its just a small difference between 3. 3 to 5 but its a significant difference in the increase which is when we focus open not justin creases in rates but this idea of rate of rise in two weeks to have a 52 increase is quite concerning to us across the state. Hospitals, we talked to you about hospitals all the time that we know that 12 of todays cases will be in the hospital in two to three weeks. That helps put these numbers in context. We have seen a
One of the windows of the capitol. She was also accused of using a bull horn to direct rioters. This all comes as were days away from the start of trumps second Impeachment Trial. One person we wont be seeing or hearing from, however, is donald trump himself. His defense team confirming trump wont testify. A new reaction this morning from congressman ruben gallegos. Well, this is more a typical trump move. This is not about defending his presidency, its not about defending his actions, its about, again, dividing america. Its a very cynical move because he believes and he understands the Republican Senate is not going to hold him accountable. Theres a lot of new information to run through with the trio of nbc reporters and we will begin with nbcs mike memoli, joining us from wilmington, delaware, where President Biden is spending his weekend. Mike, welcome to you. In the past few minutes were learning more from the white house on the former president and intel briefings. What do you kno
Nasdaq up 151 points and looking to open about 31 points higher it has been a wild ride for investors all week the dow and s p are down over 2 the last three trading sessions the s p on pace for its worst twoweek performance the nasdaq has been a big mover. A lot to chew on after a tough week true, andrew. Tough in that it had been up so much we sort of glossed over september 11 19 years when you say it, dont you say, oh, my god, september 11 for you, it is about half your life for me, about a third of my life it went really quickly 19 years i remember so well mark hanes and Everything Else that happened. Year after year, constantly on september 11, it is amazing how quickly time goes. Since last year, weve seen our share of tragedy as well up until this pandemic, well see how history looks at all of this i would argue that 9 11 was the most consequential thing that happened in the past 50 years, maybe 100 years with security and how we live. You can define the world in many ways by th
Tear gas is being fired at lebanese demonstrators trying to reach parliament while others managed to storm the Foreign Ministry. They have the right to be under that and furious not just because of that. Lebanons Prime Minister says people have a right to be angry after decades of what he calls unbelievable corruption. Ridiculous and barbarous china condemns u. S. Sanctions on hong kongs leader its police chief and other officials. Now the deadly port explosion in lebanons capital is now igniting a wave of anger towards the government thousands are demonstrating in central beirut right now with some protestors able to storm the Foreign Ministry just a very short time ago police have now 5 tear gas to disperse people outside Parliament Politicians are accused of corruption and in action which led to choose days devastating blast that. Killed 158 people and wounded 6060 people remain missing around 300000 lebanese are now homeless because of the damage that was caused 3 m. P. s from the