Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 77. The nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Mr. Cotton mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for arkansas. The presidin the presiding officer under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actio actions. The senator for arkansas. Mr. Cotton i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cotton mr. President , 20 years ago this week, joe biden and other politicians in both parties gave a gift to the communist party permanent, most favored nation status. Permanent most favored nation status is a trade privilege we grant to most countries who are members of the world trade
Vaccine. If you want to understand this market, including today, the dow tumbled 354 points s p lost 1. 23 and the nasdaq plunged 2. 29 with many bigcap tech stocks taking it on the chin. You have to recognize things will never be the same in this country or around the world until we get a vaccine the pandemic, not the fed they know nothing not the election is the most important driver of the stock prices thats right we get a vaccine sooner than expected, we save the economy. But if the process drags on and we dont have any stimulus, were going the need to adjust to the slow to no growth huddle at home normal therefore, our fate is in the hands oh of a few dozen companies. Whoever get there is first is going to make a lot of money thats why we decided to do something new. We surveyed 92 drug analysts, the best we could find, state and local level, to handicap the chances of each of the main players. We dont bet on at least we dont like to bet on lifethreatening situations. This is a te
Bay nursing home. It comes as two more residents of the gateway Nursing Center in hayward have died of the nas, bringing the total there to 13. The Alameda County District Attorneys Office has opened an proceeding that facility and its handling of the outbreak. 41 residents have tested positive, and 26 Staff Members have been infected. County Health Officials say they are deanly concerned about the situation at gateway. San francisco launching a new plan to quickly track and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Wilson walker ows us how Contact Tracing really works. We can have people tested. We can have people tested that may have been in contact with someone who has been infected. Reporter mayor london breed said tracking every single positive case is the goal, and today the city rolled out a plan for that. The app will allow people to keep track of their symptoms and to check in with people who are monitoring their condition. It will allow for swifter, more efficient communication.
Lanes blocked by an overnight crash and jammed up toward aza and jammed at popular and then lanes closed toward highway 92. As we mentioned, it was a Good Samaritan. Bob, someone died as a result of the crash. They werent even in the car. Why was someone standing on the freeway out there . Reporter they were trying to help the person who was in the initial accident and that is a Good Samaritan. And he was hit and killed by a hitandrun driver. Well have more on that. His shoes are out here in the nidal of southbound 101 and if you pan up and tilt up, you could see that blue scion van, that was the initial vehicle. That driver has been taken to the hospital with major injuries. That driver bounced off the side wall and ended up here in the southbound direction of 101. A couple of other cars hit him. The Good Samaritan pulled up in his bmw and saw what was happening and trying to help the diver but when the Good Samaritan got out of the car another driver in a blue or gray scion sadly sim
So warmer tan yesterday and a breezy wind. Well talk about what is ahead for the weekend coming up. Mike, youve been tracking some breaking news still happening on the peninsula. In fact, that is haking is making us alter our report. A very pleasant friday for almost all of the commute, as you expect light at 6 01. At the peninsula where we have the continuing situation. Bob redell had been out there talking about the deadly crash and reporting the clean kw th cleanup and the investigation. A Good Samaritan was hit and killed after stopping for a previous kra previous crash and then the distraction northbound, southbound, bob redell has been asked to move the crew which indicates theyre clearing the lanes any minute so were looking for relief but el camino is a bet surface street and 92 toward the san mateo bridge and well follow that as we follow the backup, right back to you. Thank you very much. Well this morning there is a new interim top cop in oakland. The assistant police chief