Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
A final assault on the city of mccarrick. To graham forces refused to step aside late, u. S. President donald trump has accepted that a formal transition can begin for joe biden to take office. The head of the General Services administration told biden that the process can begin acknowledging him. As the president elect trump said in a tweet that hes directing his team to cooperate, but is promising to keep up the fight. Joe bidens Transition Team has welcomed the freeze up millions of dollars for the president elects new administration. And bidens team can now work with federal officials on the Pandemic Response and on National Security. We have political hay who is standing by for us live in washington, d. C. Patty. So this is not an official determination of the winner, but obviously a very significant development, especially when we consider Donald Trumps response. I think that is by far, one of the more significant parts of the story. Donald trump. Lets keep in mind since the elec
Ads about trump and urges people to wear masks. After 6 days of fighting armenias government says its ready to discuss a cease fire. U. S. President donald trump has been moved to a military Medical Center of a treatment a day after testing positive for corona virus the white house doctor has released a statement saying the president isnt requiring supplemental oxygen but has been given to experimental 19 drugs mike hanna is outside the hospital and he begins our coverage. Dressed in a suit and wearing a mosque president trying to marine one on assisted. Minutes before he tweeted out this video over to thank everybody for the tremendous support. Or think. We were going to make sure that these were the 1st ladys doing. So thank you very much appreciated. They are. Here i put the ball to retail and once again walked unassisted to a waiting car on his way to a special suite to the hospital where his staff say he will continue to work for the next few days democratic challenger joe biden s
Wait a minute four weeks from be its own super spreader, i am today is election day. We dont know if all the votes will be in. Curious as to whether things are it is a good bet it could take going to change and whether you some time to count them all up. What is at stake a month before think they will change or they should, what is your thinking . The big day . We are all over it. Were also all over the yesterday certainly there president back at the were a number of white house individuals who were quarantined white house, first time in three days after being at walter reed maryland. People are saying its a good thing. Others say it is a risky thing. That the president s behavior returning to the white house raised a number of worrisome and because of the number of things. People who have tested positive blake burman following all the within the white house. If you walked into the press fast moving developments right house after Kayleigh Mcenany tested positive it was completely empty
Setting off investigation orders and and warnings at this hour. At least five different fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties. You know see the big plumes of smoke from the air above the fires. There are now Evacuation Orders in the area of Butano State Park, and people who live in the communities deer born park be under evacuation warnings. Altogether, these fires have burned about 1,000 acres, and right now there is zero containment. All right. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin now. What are firefighters dealing with, and is there in any positive news . Well, what theyre dealing with, frank, we have a live picture of the hennessey fire in napa. What they are dealing sat two and a half days of lightning strikes in the bay area. Unprecedented from my tenure of 35, 40 years in the bay area to have that much lightning that much over adoration over that large of an area. All bears counties had some strikes. Weve seen numerous fires. So cal fire is in a situation where