The president s Team Planning legal challenges, all of this as the president s chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus and the u. S. Is hit with the most cases ever. Who will be the next president to handle the pandemic . And will today be the day a president ial winner is declared . America is watching and waiting, today, saturday, november 7th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. Peter and i are so happy to be joining you from new york. Typically of course we would be in d. C. , but here we are in our election headquarters as we watch and wait for results today. Thats right. We had election day that turned into election week. We welcome you to election weekend. You were in wilmington, i was at the white house. Were in new york for as long as it takes to get you results. It
Purple creates where the power is shut off intentionally. Pg e expects to restore power in some areas by 10 00 p. M. 90,000 currently impacted by this power shut off. High wind over night and today will lots of damage. Branchs came crashing down. Winds threatening to spread small fires that started popping up across the bay area. One of the most recent fires sparked a few hours ago. Off highway 12. We have Team Coverage tonight. Well begin with tom in lafayette. About 17,000 customers have been without power since 8 last night. There were some fires but fortunately the winds were not as wickedly strong as some predicted. However pg e just put out a notice to a lot of customers here in lafayette who have lost power, thousands of people. That their power will not be restored until tomorrow at least. Because of high wind. They said they were not able to get helicopters in to fly equipment. To make sure there was no serious damage that could cause more fires. Also because there were not su
The dow industrial average, remember that apple is a dow jones stock. This loss 220 points roughly at the opening bell, that wipes out yesterdays game. Smp on the downside and nasdaq down about 1 . The loss they are because of tech stocks. The virus is also a negative with severe restrictions on travel and businesses in france, italy, germany and spain. Their resurgence has a stalled not good for us. Youre at home a record i think 882,000 new cases reported yesterday and restrictions are spreading, thats not good for this market. Four days till the election and even joe biden is picking up the pace going to three states today come i will, wisconsin, but will he answer questions about hunter maidan repacking the Supreme Court or the influence the socialist have on his campaign . Politico quoting three sources saying Elizabeth Warren wants to be and is the front runner for treasury secretary. The president goes to three states as well, michigan, wisconsin and minnesota as he frames the e
Alphabet seeing outsized gains and treasury yields are under pressure giving back some of their recent pop, thats weighing on the financials the Kbw Bank Index is down around 3 with 59 minutes left in the session, banks one of the few decliners, sara, broader markets ripping up. We have a great lineup of guests over the next two hours to help make sense of the election, the market and your money. In just a few moments Guggenheims Scott Minerd will join us with his take on the rally and later we will hear from long time pharma exec fred hassan about the impact of the election on health care, those stocks zooming higher, plus kyle bass with a take on what all this means with the u. S. Relationship with china and bob diamond will weigh in on the banks. Lets get straight to the market rally that is happening. Mike santoli tracking all the action. You see a move like this, its very sudden, very dramatic in response to a widely watched known catalyst and you have two things, one is whats the
Might have ohio in play. President trump arent storming across the country, North Carolina, a key senate race. Also going to be making stops in florida, in pennsylvania, iowa, where he is trying to give a lift to senator joni ernst in the senate. All of this comes at a time in which there are now a new report about how both of the candidates to be spending their Election Night. I spoke with a source close to the president s Reelection Campaign early this morning who told me the president will be having a close circle of prominent notable names surrounding him on Election Night at the white house, where he likely could give some type of national address, whether or not he declares victory, whether or not joe biden declares victory, we dont know. The president suggesting he is preparing his team for there to be not just a long night ahead of them, but along several days after the election. Guy we are talking david we are talking about election week. Looking forward to spending that week