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112 points, 0.75 of 1%. nasdaq picking up steam at 3952. and s&p 500, a new all-time high for the standard & poor s of 1771, just under 1772, with a gain of about 10 points. another day, another record for the s&p. the dow also hitting a milestone of its own. bob pisani running through the numbers. green on wall street today, ahead of the two-day meeting, bob. yeah. we just hit the closing record high for the dow. 15,676, that s what we had to get over. put the board up. we made it by four points. also new highs on all the other major indices, s&p 500, dow transports and small cap russell 2000 at new highs. we ve been describing this as the great stock sector rotation. that is every day a new sector moves forward, another falls back. the largest sectors in the s&p 500 are financials, tech and health care, in that order. look all three are up roughly 5%. these three sectors are 50% of the s&p 500. you see what i mean? one falls back, the other one moves forward. these ....
do, we have a customer service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and we ve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and it s not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. w we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, we re prioritizing them. and also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the typically shelter in beaumont. we have three shelters open, they will not at capacity until they started to get at capacity, we ll look at opening another shelter. a shelter, you don t just put up there and ask people to come. you have to have supplies, cots, blankets, and someone that knows how to run it. and the red cross, because of all the devastation in texas is very, very limited resources for them, too. so i think that would ....
morning joe. it is thursday, august 23rd. joe has the morning off. he will be back tomorrow. we have donny deutsch with us along with professor at princeton university and column at new york post and contributor editor of weekly standard john and sam stein and washington anchor katy kay and benjamin. good to have you all onboard with us on another very busy morning. we begin with the very latest in president trump s former lawyer implicating him in his guilty plea yesterday. trump appeared to acknowledge his attorney s campaign finance violation and then walked it back in an interview all while maintaining it s not a crime and say he blamed attorney general jeff sessions for his former lawyer s prosecution. the president tweeted, michael Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. didn t come out of the campaign and that s big. but they weren t, it s not even a campaign violat ....
when i tell people my story, they don t believe it. i guess i wouldn t believe the story if someone else were telling it, but i m telling it. and it s true. every word of it. it started when i was born. 56 years ago. but the real story began when i was 19 years old when i went to college. it was 1980. it was the first day of school at sullivan county community college up in the catskills about 110 miles from where i grew up. so i drove up there alone. i at least had this really old car. it was a volvo and it was a 1970 volvo. had like 130,000 miles on it. the car was burgundy and the hood was green. actually, the car was called the old bitch. but the old bitch got me there. sullivan was a community college. this wasn t some longstanding institution of higher learning. all these station wagons are dropping kids off. i was nervous. i just got to the school. i didn t know anybody. i was a freshman. i was never the captain of the football team in high school. so i was nev ....