Lord, give our law lawmakers aing this upper for your words and a desire to apply your knowledge in their daily work. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell the eyes of the nation are on the senate. For days now weve been engaged in intense, bipartisan talks to build emergency relief legislation on an historic scale to push resources to our Health Care Heroes and American Workers and families. Democrats and republicans sat down together. We crafted this version of the proposal together. This compromise package would push tens of billions of dollars to hospitals and Health Care Providers. It would send direct checks to
Back with more. The markets hanging on to just a slight gain at this point. The dow is being helped by walmart, dragged down by cisco. With that, well turn it over to scott wapner and the halftime. Thank you so much. Well keep our eye on things taking place in the nations capital. The market, a nice little comeback after the worst day of the year for stocks. The dow only up about 17. 5 points, s p up less than 4. It is the nasdaq up 20 points, still hanging above 6000. With us for the hour today, joe, josh brown will be along in a moment, kevin oleary is mere and Mario Gabelli is here. Its good to have you back, mario. Oh, its a privilege to be here. Joe, nice to see you as well. So that was it. Kevin, 400 points down for the dow and here we are. Why no followthrough . Because it was just noise. The washington circus is really disconnected from the market and i think most people are pretty comfortable with that idea. Even today listening to wilbur ross after all that chaos, the adminis
Tell me they are ready to listen and work with people. It is a very busy area. There is a lot of contract traffic. Business owners are worried if they will be able to survive the construction. An area already congested with traffic. Business owners around mill avenue have mixed feelings about the street car. Some are excited about progress but others worry if they will be before the big lunch. Business owners worry about losing valued customers who do not want to deal with the traffic. At this barbershop on broadway, customers pop in for a quick cuts during lunchtime. Its a good business. People come in between 12 noon and 1 pm. People do not have time to sit in traffic during the construction. Reporter people have learned a lot by watching similar projects in other cities. Just like the light rail in phoenix. A plan that will help them be prepared for construction and help the mother that. Here is a look at the 3 mile route. It will go around downtown to dorsey lane. On a 3 million, a
Voting on monday. They were within 15,000 votes this morning. By 1 00 they had closed that gap to about 5000 so. Democrats hoping that the big ground game that they have built will help Hillary Clinton take her over the finish line. The key weekend is this weekend. They have done well in the weekends in the early vote so they are hoping to have a big turn out. Hillary clinton here today and hoping to urge her supporters to thank you very much, evan. And breaking news in sarasota, two people are dead after a house fire near the home that you see in the live picture from skyfox t is at skyfox and prudence. And one person is hurd. Kimberly kuizon has more now. Reporter the call came in just before 3 00 this afternoon, firefighters responded. They were able to save a person. The neighbors say first they saw the smoke then they saw the flames. It was a big fire. The first thing that came across their minds was concern for their neighbors. They say a husband and wife lived there with their a
Pictures from passengers inside the plane. Authorities are telling them another Security Check is needed. Theyve asked them to let them know if anyone received luggage from a third party. Local police and inspectors are on the tarmac and passengers are getting off the plane to go through a screening process again. Spas engineers tell nbc bay area that it was a bomb threat that forced the air France Flight from sfo to paris to make an Emergency Landing in canada. Weve reached out to authorities for more information and as soon as we get them, we will bring it to you. Police out of new york say theyre investigating a suspicious death there. At least one person is being detained at this hour and well continue to follow the developing story and bring you the latest as we get it. We could be politically correct and we can be stupid, but its going to get worse and worse. Were hearing it from president ial candidates like donald trump and in hateful messages left for local islamic groups. The