And let's start in texas. Health officials there have
confirmed the first known U. S. Death of
somebody diagnosed with monkeypox. Now it's not clear yet
if that virus was the cause of the death.
But an investigation is underway. The texas Department of
Health is saying that that person was an adult who
was quote severely immuno compromised. Last month, spain
and brazil reported their first monkeypox related deaths outside of
africa. Well it looks like one is a goal
for try number two. Nasa will try again saturday
to launch the inaugural flight and the Artemus mission.
Now it was first planned for monday morning but had
to be scrubbed when the team had trouble cooling one
of the rockets four engines. Now engineers there have
now made some changes to the propellant loading procedure and
are ready to try again. This first flight is
an unmanned mission to test Nasa's newest space system which
is slated to land another U. S. Astronaut
on the moon for the first time and more than
50 years. So fingers crossed there. Yeah exactly
. Meanwhile the world of politics waking up this Wednesday
and it's waking up a day after President biden called
for an assault weapons ban. Let's go to aerial
Hickson in Washington to bring us more on this Good
morning Ariel Good morning baker and Shannon President biden traveled
to pennsylvania on Tuesday and delivered a speech on crime
. The centerpiece of his remarks was his safer american
plan plan. A sweeping crime prevention plan which is
the center of a ban on the sale of assault
weapons like the ar 15 which is a con weapon
among school shooters. In addition to the call for
a ban on assault weapons, biden again rejected the
common refrain from the left flank of his party to
defund the police. The slogan has drawn some criticism
from republicans and moderate democrats. Biden joined in on
the critique on Tuesday when it comes to public safety
and in this nation, the answer is not defund
the police. It's fund the police, fund the
police and give them we expect them to do everything
. We expect them to be protect us to be
psychologists and to be sociology. I mean, we
expect you to do everything Biden also took a more
aggressive tone with Republicans. He attempted to draw a
contrast between his accomplishments on crime, like the bipartisan
gun reform bill and the position some Republicans have on
the January six attack on the Capitol. Take a
listen, let me say this to my Maga Republican
friends in Congress. Don't tell me support law enforcement
. If you won't condemn what happened on the 6th
, Don't tell me, biden went on to say
of those republicans, quote, you can't be pro
law enforcement and pro insurrection. The entire speech was
an effort to reshuffle the deck on crime. An
issue that is among the worst polling issues for democrats
. Just 10 weeks out from the november midterms and
every other president was much more confrontational with republicans in
his speech. Can we expect to see a little
bit more of that fire as midterms approach. Oh
, absolutely. The President and his White House team
are very interested in drawing a contrast between democrats and
republicans. The President's party usually has a tough time
in midterm elections. So biden and his team will
try to frame the election as a choice between two
parties rather than a referendum on his job so far
as a president. We'll see soon enough whether that
works alright. Ariel Hickson live for us this morning
in Washington. Ariel, thank you. Well,
the last leader of the soviet union, Mikhail Gorbachev
has died. Now, according to Russian news reports
, the former soviet president succumbed to a serious and
long illness. Gorbachev was the eighth and final leader
of the soviet Union before it collapsed in 1991 following
the Cold War, he was 91 years old.
Let's move south. Now there's a water emergency in
Mississippi's capital. 180,000. Jackson. Mississippi residents are
without safe drinking water and officials are saying they have
no idea when they're going to get it back.
The state's governor says the city of Jackson's main water
treatment facility was damaged in recent flooding and until it's
fixed. The city won't have enough water to fight
fires or even flush toilets, drinkable and non drinkable
water is being distributed to residents, The governor declaring
a state of emergency and the National Guard has been
activated. Well, donald trump's truth. Social app
is reportedly being banned from Google play store according to
to Axios report. Now, Google says that the
app violates the play store's standards for content moderation.
A source tells Axios that Google's concerns relate to content
such as physical threats and incitement to violence. Google
says that it has notified true social about the violation
and the ops team is working on a solution.
The restriction means that 44% of smartphone users in the
U. S. Can't download it and let's move
to twitter. Elon musk lawyers now say the recent
whistleblower report by Peters at twitter's former security chief is
more of a reason for must to drop his$44
billion twitter takeover deal twitter fire back though saying the
musk's attempt to terminate the acquisition is quote invalid and
wrongful. Now Tuesday musk asked a judge to delay
that trial for a month. That while lawyers investigate
the whistleblower claims, twitter is suing must to force
the deal to move forward. A trial is scheduled
for october and as always we are keeping an eye
on the markets as Wall Street wakes up this morning
. So let's get to your market minutes stock futures
are almost flat this morning with all three major markets
circling that flat line that's as disappointing investors plan for
more rate hikes from the Fed. Now Wall Street
saw its third straight day of losses on Tuesday,
the dow lost more than 300 points. The S
and P and the tech focused NASDAQ both saw a
1.1% drop for the day and now today is a
big day for economic data as payroll service provider.
ADP releases a New month report that could rival the
federals, the federal first or monthly jobs report.
That's what everybody's been waiting for and talking about now
. This first release will detail 12 years of week
by week historical data and could change the way policymakers
assess the labor market. Now, that's it for
this market minute. But don't worry, we're gonna
come back with about 30 more minutes for another check
of those markets.