Left. Biden taking out a chapter of the president s playbook in buy american plan and take a look at futures pointing to lower opening, down 120 on the tow and s p 500 right now down 11 points. Nasdaq closed at record high yesterday. Dow and s p 500 were in the red as coronavirus spikes raise more concerns about economic recovery. The Supreme Court delivering a mixed ruling for the president saying Manhattan Das Office can get tax returns but denying Congress Access for now, plus this could be the worst tick season ever, many symptoms mimicking coronavirus, what you need to know to stay healthy coming up next hour. Mornings with maria is live right now. Purposan markets look like this. We have gains in europe. Cac quarante up 15 and dax up 47 points. Pretty good positive tone in europe. The two of the uks biggest retailer booth and john lewis cutting more than 5,000 jobs. In asia overnight red across the board. China shanghai composite snapping winning streak after rising nearly 17 in
Several Democratic Senators came to the floor to push for more coronavirus Economic Relief to local and state governments designed Health Emergency workers. Here are the speeches leading up with senator ron wyden of oregon. Senator from oregon. The covid19 pandemic has thrown our country into a nightmare level crisis of joblessness. The congress has not done enough to stop it and has not done enough to save the jobs of our people. I have come to the floor this evening, the distinguished democratic leader, to call for the senate to pass legislation that is all about saving key jobs that form the backbone of our local communities, our firefighters, our First Responders, our teachers, our families, and so many others. They need our help. They need it now. Senate democrats have been warning since march, covid19 cases exploded and our economy went into lockdown, that our states, cities and towns are now facing budgetary disasters unlike anything gone through in recent memory. The shortfall
We take you live to the u. S. Senate where to date lawmakers who will be on a defense programs and policy bill. You are watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will ohm the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and mercy, in these divisive and polarized times, remind us that words have consequences. Help us to remember that we are accountable to you for every idle and careless word we speak. Lord, teach our senators to be obedient to your commands, doing your will as your presence fills them with joy. Today, surround our lawmakers with the shield of your favor, as they labor to deep our nation to keep our nation strong. May they be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Manifest your power through their labors so that this nation will be exalted by righteousness. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of alle
People were late, trains singletracking of course slows everything down. They had crowded platform. I talked to one gentleman who said it took him about an hour and a half to get home yesterday. Normally it takes half an hour. I told him unfortunately we are still singletracking and he was not happy. I have to be at work at 6 30 and im tired of this. Reporter so singletracking between grosvenor and the twinbrook station on the red line. I talked to a worker earlier this morning and they hoped to get things back to normal within half an hour and were keeping an eye on the situation. For the moment bake in some extra time in your commute because things are still slow here this morning. Well let you know as soon as they return to normal operations. With more on traffic, we go over to melissa mollet. Hows it looking . Not so bad. Well check back with megan throughout the hour. Were tweeting about this on first 4 traffic as well. Singletracking between twin brook and grosvenor. And train 30
Spend 285 million a year. Dana mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. What more do we know about this white house meeting with Senate Republicans . Reporter well, dana, i have been told a key focus going in in terms of strategy was to say when they are successful, they focus on the democrats and battling the democrats and not focusing on our senate rules. There were nine Senate Republicans in the oval office today with President Trump talking about this government funding showdown according to a source familiar. Collins, cruz, fisher, grassley, langford, mcconnell, murkowski and purdue. I asked the georgia senator about the tone in the oval office. We heard a president today thats willing to negotiate. Weve also seen that over the last five to seven days. This is all about the democrats backing up from negotiated agreements theyve had. What we should be doing is go to the senate floor and vote this bill. Reporter but there are no signs the Senate Democratic leader is willing to budge. P