Right now the state says 2. 5 million of the 3. 1 mailin ballots requested, those have been cast and that means received and deemed legally eligible 1. 1 million of those mailin ballots, theyve actually been counted. Here in pennsylvania, all mailin ballots received by friday, 5 00 p. M. Will be counted unless theres evidence that the ballot was mailed after election day mailin ballots, especially those received after the election has been a source of controversy in p. A. , republicans leaders calling on the secretary of state to resign over her guidance on how counties should deal with those ballots and if ballots received after election day should be kept separate from those received by election day a short time ago, the governor addressing that controversy. Pennsylvania will have a Fair Election and that election will be free of outside influences. I will vigorously and we all will vigorously defend against any attempt to attack that vote in pennsylvania. And when it comes to ballot
Mallicoat joins us to take a look and take a deeper dive into the numbers. The numbers are very strong. Nearly 2 as you mentioned. Unemployment went from 13. 2 in july and it dropped 11. 4 in the month of august. California added nearly 100 2000 jobs as well. Of course, all welcome news for what is the 5th largest economy in the world. California near the nation. The u. S. Unemployment rate dropped 1. 8 that month. Now at 8. 4 overall. Californias dropped. The numbers can be former edd director and labor attorney Michael Birbeck says california still has a lot of work today. Todays numbers are really not consistent with all the other Economic Indicators we are seeing. In terms of the new yesterday. California was way above those of the National Rate in terms of consumer spending. Way down in the bay area compared to other parts of the nation. In terms of job postings, here in california, way below what we had in january and below the other parts of the nation. He points to urban areas
Moves its way to the northeast, live to the gulf this morning. Markets this morning trading up, take a look at futures, wild week with triple digit gains for the dow industrials in record territory. Nasdaq up right now is lower but the s p 500 scored a fifth Straight Record high close yesterday and continues higher this morning up another 11 points. Airlines getting turbulence, United Airlines warning 3,000 pilots could be grounded by october. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets are mixed, take a look at european indices. The cac quarante is up 3 points but the dax index in germany is lower by 17, in asian markets big news, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe announcing hes resigning. He announced resignation overnight and the news weighing on japans stock. The nikkei average down 1 and a half percent over night. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump wrapping up the rnc last night officially accepting the gop nomination for president m
Seeking benefits in a sign that economic pain of this pandemic is far from over tax according to an analysis but the chamber of commerce in 59 minutes left of trading in the day. The city says the tax could yeah, tiny leg lower. Result in companies wanting to leave the city and, guys, its down 0. 4 . Not just here in San Francisco only two sectors, energy and but also in seattle. Theres a proposal to tax big staples in the green still coming up, Digital Finance businesses to pay for covid19 company sofi landing the number relief back to you. I mean, could it could eight spot on this years disruptive 50 list encourage companies to leave the well spee with anthony noto worst case, of course, is something that is structured this way is it could encourage formerly of twitter, Goldman Sachs, and the nfl about his Companies Companies to companys efforts to take on the get rid of some of the lower big banks. Were looking forward to that paid workers one. First of all, lets focus on the big st
Caught red handed lying and cheating seems bold but that said what are they lying and cheating about car emissions its like if i sold you a car and guaranteed you it doesnt pollute the environment and youre not going to get fined for driving it ok and then you do for example if you drive a Mercedes Benz right now this may have happened to you investigators say the company that produces Mercedes Benz that produces the 280000 seat class and eat class vehicles that they were outfitted with a trick gadget that fooled people into thinking the car was not polluting when in fact it was what was it it was a special kind of software that allowed it to pass emissions tests by essentially cheating. Thats what it did made it think that there was no pollution coming out when there was more the maker of mercedes has recalled 700000 cars 700000 while the investigation of mercedes continues and were going to drill down on this for you on this investigation volkswagen is still reeling after getting cau