Yes, this is the last hour of trading on this shortened market day and there are fireworks in the stock market a pretty good start to the second half of the year, right extraordinary we are up 200 points just a second ago alltime intraday high for the dow and alltime intraday high for the transports look at financials and Energy Leading the way, some of the laggards for this year and Tom Mcclellan will tell us later why he thinks the bull run is forar from over a new report this morning says President Trumps chief strategist, steve bannon, is pushing for a tax hike for the upper income bracket well get you those details. Youre on a roll. Do you want me to pick this up tesla, yes, its true the model 3 is on its way and the stock market was higher earlier. Its given up many of the gains here ford and General Motors are powering higher after their auto Sales Numbers came out well tell you whats behind all these moves, coming up in fact, tesla says it looks like it wants to turn positive o
Triggering a massive distribution operation thats expected to see vaccines ship within days. And the latest numbers reveal how desperately those doses are needed right now. More than 291,000 americans have now lost their lives to covid19. And tonight the country is facing more than 15. 5 million confirmed cases. That follows the single deadliest day of the pandemic since it erupted here in the United States in january more than 3,100 americans died in just 24 hours. Also breaking 106 House Republicans have just filed a brief in support of a bogus texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the president ial election. President trump just met over at the white house with state attorneys general supporting this effort. Lets get the very latest on this important fda vaccine meeting. Its critical whats going on right now. Cnns sara murray is working the story for us. If the panel votes to recommend the vaccine, full fda authorization, that could follow very, very quickly, right . Thats right. The fu
Reporter the Fdaadvisory Committee just voted to recommend a green light for pfizers vaccine. I think the safety is is its pretty well demonstrated. And, balance that again over 2,000 deaths a day or 2,500 deaths a day, im comfortable. Our plan is to take their recommendations into account for our decisionmaking. And make a decision shortly, thereafter. Again, it really depends upon the complexity of the issues discussed but we intend to act quickly. Reporter needles and syringes, already, on the move. Nearly 3 million vaccine doses ready to be deployed, within hours, to states. But. Really, really, you know, just fearing whats going to happen over the next several weeks. Hospitals are overwhelmed, people are tired and, quite frankly, people are dying. Reporter yesterday, in america, 3,124 people were reported killed by covid19. The highestdaily toll of the pandemic. More lives lost than 9 11. Get used to it. The cdc forecasts another 70,000, or so, americans could die, from now throug
It the most. The u. S. Is shattering its positivecase records, averaging more than 200,000 new cases, each and every day. Nearly 105,000 americans are in the hospital, today. Another discouraging record. And just yesterday, 2,546 people died from covid. These numbers make tomorrows fda meeting to consider giving emergencyuse authorization for the Pfizer Vaccine even more pivotal. Health and Human Services secretary, alex azar, is predicting a rapid rollout, once the doses are green lit. If everything is on track, it could be a matter of days. Fda approves the vaccine. We would then authorize shipment within 24 hours. 20 Million People should get vaccinated, in just the next several weeks. And then, well just keep rolling out vaccines through january, february, march, as they come off the production lines. Canada has just granted emergencyuse authorization for pfizers covid19 vaccine there. It is now the second nation, behind the uk, to do so. Cnns Alexander Field is live for us in rhod
Who should care. And its a nightmare that didnt even need to happen, at all. Exactly six months and one day ago, the Vice President of the United States, the head of the selfproclaimed wholeofgovernment effort against the outbreak said it would not happen. Heres what ran in the wall street journal six months and one day ago, under mike pences name. The piece is headlined there isnt a coronavirus second wave. Quoting now. Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American People, our publichealth system is far stronger than it was four months ago. And we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy. The truth is, the piece concludes, whatever the media says, our wholeofamerica approach has been a success. Success. That was six months, one day, and more than 190,000 american deaths, ago. 823 americans died, today. Those words appeared in print. Nearly 2,900 deaths, just so far, tonight. On top of more than 3,600, last night. More than a quarte