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on sunday, in separate attacks at voting centres in the central state of puebla, forcing the suspension of voting. 38 candidates running for various positions have been killed during the campaign, making mexico s election one of the most violent in recent history. joining me now is jason marzak, vice president and senior director at adrienne arsht latin america center at the atlantic council. jason, it s been an extremely violent campaign. even today, two people killed in attacks on mexican polling stations. so it s notjust running as a candidate that s risky, it s also participating in democracy? yes, it s been a very violent campaign season, mexico s most violent. and you also have an increase in homicides. over the current six year term. a quarter increase from the previous term. not only the violence today, but someone shot and killed on thursday. a candidate. the polls have now closed. there were some incidents of violence today but it was relatively peaceful. i was conc ....
linked to a deadly disease. and dancing with the players. pro football s top athletes get creative. he s burping the baby. the must see end zone parties shaking up the nfl. they ve got some moves. we got to up her good morning game. next time we ll have a dance. electric slide. a good monday morning to you all. sorry we don t have a dance for you but we have stories including one starting with congress returning from the thanksgiving break with some sexual misconduct allegations. senator al franken says he s going back to work today feeling embarrassed but determined to regain the public s trust and he says that he can still be a champion for women. in the meantime, michigan congressman john conyers is stepping away from his key role on the house judiciary committee as he faces harassment claims. senator roy moore got another boost from the president and kenneth moton has all the details. reporter: good morning. yes, there s a lot happening in wash ....
even the dow transports, big gains. the dow is up 1.5%, up for its best day since march. on pace for the best day of the year. record highs for the dow and s&p 500. 1% up tenths of .8%. the dow is on pace for the best week since 2011, so investors seem to have confidence that tax reform may happen. they may be encouraged by opec reaching a deal to extend the supply cuts. we take a look at the s&p 500 in the bloomberg, it is having its best three days of the year. this is g #btv the 1% move up, move down. we see that yesterday, a tiny move down. today, a 1% move. the first time we ve seen that since september 11. looking at the best two days for the s&p 500 of the entire year. let s break down what is happening the what is helping the s&p 500. trading higher as yields rise. apple bouncing back from yesterday s selloff. microsoft doing the same, impressive there. as for the dow, having its best day since march. above 24,000, more record highs. these are the top perf ....
all of which tend to make us less and less efficient, less and less successful. lessan and less able to do the will of the people. less and less able to really do the things we ve been sent here to do. now we re having a lost complaining about what is goinga on right now but, to make a long story short the democrats were pushing financial system that was bound to take us right into bankruptcy. yeah, we might have have had two more years where payments could be made but we gone right straight to hell as far as being able to handle the matters that are so important to everyone of us in this country. now i have to admit our side has some flaws too. some of our people think that, you know, we should do a better job without any money. or the we should do a better job without any increase in taxes. or we should do a better job without, without the federal government. both sides have been in error. both sides have been from time to time wrong. i have to say a former democrat w ....
championship? no. no. westbrook may not either. but at least he is more box office and he is a better player. finally, any idea what lebron will do after the season? i had all of these dreams and hopes. new york, l.a. i got a feeling akron is going to work for him. yeah. you might be thinking i can t even think of a lebron nickname for the cavs like you ve come up with. but, look. i think it s a great chance. and we just talked about paul george in oklahoma city. the ideal scenario for cleveland is that oklahoma city, it doesn t work over the next few weeks and they come to the conclusion we have to trade paul george to get something for him because he is not going to stay if we are mediocre. i think lebron has a history of attracting smart veteran players looking for hardware. i think paul would consider it. he would give them a great chance to play with golden state. absolutely. no. terrific chance! and he could stay one more year. he has a pla ....