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Quite well. but there are lots of other senate races that they are very focused on, including what you were just talking would be the governor, arizona. they're also starting to worry about new hampshire, where there is an incumbent democrat there and of course there is nevada, which is a place where there is an incumbent democrat in a neck and neck race trying to hold on to that seat. and it's true across the board. >> governor dean, senator bernie sanders has criticized democrats for not having enough emphasis on an economic message for working people heading into the midterms. do you think ...

So the federal reserve is going to look at this and other metrics but it shows the job market is still strong, not a huge, dramatic slowdown but an indication that perhaps some of these interest rate hikes in the past had some kind of impact. >> what mark is describing there is that investors are watching the fed watching the jobs report, maybe hoping for pro vepro versely bad news which would be good news for investors. >> if you saw a slow down, it would mean the fed's rate headachehikes, it a lagging indicator. wage is 5%. wage growth robust by historical standard but below recent months th...

You talked about it, chuck, it's a lagging indicator and it's often several weeks after the fact when transmission occurs. we have seen a turndown in the number of people being tested and access to testing, and more and more people testing and no results, and i don't have a lot of faith in the numbers coming out right now, the number of cases. we are seeing it in a number of countries around the world. >> i am with you, i think all the washington, d.c. positives is because there's a cultural of testing in the federal government we don't have any other places. the waste water, is that a more re...

Seeing a rise in cases. we're expecting that surge. which means you usually have that lagging indicator of hospitalizations increasing. however, for childhood hospitalizations, they're increasing at double the rate, double the pace of what you're seeing in the adult population. and that's the concern you have, because the spread is at a rate that's uncontrollable at this point. we just heard from city leaders, they explained the positivity rate here in chicago is 16%. last week it was 8%. the week before, it was 4%. that's leading the mayor of chicago to really raise some alarm bells. listen t...

Departments where the case numbers come through, from the healthcare facilities to the state public health departments and on to the national level, right now are literally overrun. they'relogged by many weeks. i say the numbers are surely important in the sense that, yes, we have a lot of cases, but we don't really have an understanding of how many. what is going to be important to follow is how many people are hospitalized, and how many are on oxygen. that's going to be a lagging indicator, it will be a week or more behind what is happening. that's going to be the reliable number that the me...