And extreme weather warning the u. N. Says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. Hello thanks for joining us a divided u. S. Senate is pressing ahead with confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court nominee any tony barrett just 3 weeks from the president ial election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the courts conservative majority Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barretts confirmation have been chanting outside the courts that see became vacant after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacements to be chosen after the president. Election of Lindsey Graham is the republican chair of the Senate Judiciary committee and he defended the timing of barretts nomination though the Republican Majority Senate 4 years ago refused t
Extreme weather warning the u. N. Says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. And then school of the bron james and the l. A. Lakers back on top of the boss cable world the lakers have ended their 10 year wait to win the n. B. A. Championship. Hello a divided u. S. Senate is pressing ahead with confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee any kone barretts just 3 weeks from the president ial election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the courts conservative majority the Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barretts confirmation have been chanting outside the court in the pouring rain now the seat became vacant of course after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacements to be chosen after the president ial election Lindse
33 points and nasdaq is up 92 and the s p is up 8 points. Yesterday the dow industrials snapping a 4session winning streak with decline of the session with 135 points and nasdaq down 76 and s p lower by 11. Warning on china that i reported here first, attorney general bill barr calling out American Companies for caving into the pressure from beijing. Bombshell allegation, 15 employees of the Washington Redskins said they were harassed for years. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria in europe mixed moves, the ftse 100 is up 21 but cac quarante is down 15 and dax higher by 42. In asia overnight markets mostly higher with the exception of japan, nikkei average overnight down a third of a percent and the other fractionally moving across the board. Some of the top stories we are watching right now, John Hopkins University reporting over 77,000 new cases yesterday. 10,000 higher than the previous high. 969 deaths were also reported. Florida, South Carolina and texas all reporting the
A pandemic entire households in south africa are struggling to afford enough food. Lockdown measures are reinstated in parts of china after a new cluster of corona virus infections. Around santa how much now have all the Sporting Community a look at how Major League Baseball is aiming to start its delayed season and to why. We begin this news hour with a global plea from World Leaders calling for covert 19 banks seen to be distributed free of charge to all countries in a new open letter more than 140. 00 current and former leaders Nobel Laureates and i could emic a call for the global sharing of data and technologies related to the virus and that when a vaccine is developed its district. Equally and according to need comes as French Pharmaceutical Company said it would give the u. S. Preference to buy the vaccine because it was the 1st to fund the research but the french government has said this is unacceptable the World Health Organization has warned the virus may never be wiped out w
Politics. Awaiting the mistakes of the past World Leaders call for any cause at 19 vaccine to be free and available to everyone. For Testing Facilities and examine means the number of covered 19 cases could be much higher in a country already ravaged by war. 2 vs later and still behind bars Human Rights Group calls on saudi arabia to release a group of womens rights activists. In this news hour with jobless figures out of the United States 3000000 people a file for Unemployment Benefits in the past 7 days brings the nationwide cigarette to more than 36000000 since coronavirus lockdowns began at mid march shell White House Correspondent can be how could joins us now live so kimberly how do these numbers add to the picture that were see. Well thats a very bleak economic picture because these layoffs are happening across all sectors of the u. S. Economy and what were also starting to see now is in issue only these were in sort of the Restaurant Industry or retail but now as businesses rea