and let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfort chelsea delaney chelsea good morning we keep hearing let's start with greg that we keep hearing that now it's make or break that we only have days left do the markets reflect that kind of urgency. they really don't i think investors have heard this so many times over the past couple of years that that both sides are ready to walk away there's been a lot of a lot of threats to blow up these banks in negotiations and repeatedly we've seen both sides come back to the table so i think investors are still very hopeful is still very optimistic that we will see a deal at the end of the day. at the end of this year more likely but today we will see some very crucial negotiations happening between u.k. prime minister boris johnson and the head of the e.u. commissioner so evangelion and brussels they are expected to have dinner they have both the really both sides have really indicated that they still remain very far apart on these issues but investors hope that there will be a deal and even if they don't reach one today that perhaps by t

the 1,100-pound weapon was found at a construction site in frankfort. 13,000 residents had to evacuate. >>> police in nashville searching for clues after the murder of a young icu nurse. 26-year-old caitlyn kaufman was shot and killed on the highway last week while driving to work. kaufman's family is baffled that anyone would want to hurt her. >> i just felt like our lives were shattered from that point on, like my heart just sank. >> it's a nightmare. >> reporter: kaufman is the third nurse at that same hospital to be killed since 2016. no connections have been made. police say they're chasing down leads from multiple tips. >>> turning now to the weather, much of maine is still without power after this weekend's nor'easter. more than 80,000 customers remain without electricity. at one point a quarter of the state lost power. >>> time now for a look at your monday forecast. the northeast wakes up this morning with windchills at midwinter levels. those temperatures mean the snow that fell over the weekend won't be melting until midweek. meanwhile. in california high wind and fire warni

and for more, let's bring in conrad who isn't in frankfort, colorado. hello, how much of a shift is this going to be for tesla to adjust the german labor laws? you know, stephen, when tesla opens a new factory in, for example, the united states or in china, it also has to learn about domestic regulation and laws and it has to apply them. i think there's nothing that cannot be solved. what's probably much more important for tesla is the assets of this investment. one of them is location at this location near berlin. it's very central in europe. and at the same time, all the, you know, infrastructure needed is not far away. like, for example, the large berlin airport talent is a big asset. as you know, stephen berlin is really a hub for the high tech industries. so tesla should be able to find the talent it needs. all that is, is much more important for the success of this factory than the potentially strict and difficult german labor laws. the current on the topic of german workers, new figures today, showing that unemployment the country has gone down.

you can see asian shares closed up, london is down, paris and frankfort leaning high on wall street.0. you know, u.s. stocks closed mixed yesterday, even after the fed promised to keep emergency measures in place. the dow fell a little bit, the s&p 500 and the nasdaq rose. the nasdaq, that's a record high there. the central bank signalled it will keep interest rates near 0 until 2023 and keep up stimulus until it sees substantial improvement in the job market. wall street watching lawmakers as they work to pass the badly needed relief package. the fed chief jerome powell predicts the economy should recover by the second half of next year. after a challenging few months, things will improve as more americans get the vaccine. >> the second half of next year should, the economy should be performing strongly. we should be getting people back to work. businesses should be reopening. >> until then, powell said there are two crucial things that will help this economy. >> keep appropriate social distances and to wear masks in public will help get the economy back to full strength. >> powell

i got on a train and i flew from frankfort to russia.i spent the so the next five days in the soviet union, as it was still the soviet union. i was introduced to the new leaders, boris yeltsin five of them. there's list of the soviet union but yeltsin was the president of russia. everybody was talking russia, not the soviet union. russia this and russia that. things were changing dramatically. one of the most interesting sessions was i sat there with all the leaders of the soviet republic. with gorbachev presiding. they were debating the breakup of the soviet union. i concluded during that five-day visit this empire was coming apart and it was the only time in history when it empire come apart without any kind of war at all. there was no military victory as such but the economic system and collapsed. the wouldn't work anymore. so they were coming apart, but the thing that was so dangerous was that they were possessing 30,000 nuclear weapons. they had 40,000 tons of chemical weapons, they had a weaponization of germs, biological program.

i got on a train and went to frankfort and then flew to russia. it was still the soviet union then. i spent the next five days being introduced to the new leaders. these were the yeltsin people because the coup against gorbachev resulted in a shift in policy. yeltsin was the president of russia, and everybody then was talking russia, not soviet union, russia this and russia that. so things were changing dramatically. one of the most interesting sessions, i sat there with all the leaders of the soviet republics, kazakhstan and the other soviet republics with gorbachev preindividualing, where they were debating the breakup of the soviet union. and i concluded during that five-day visit that this empire was coming apart and it was the only time in history that an empire had come apart without any kind of war at all. there was no military victory as such, but the economic system had collapsed. their system was internally -- the system wouldn't work. so they were coming apart, but the thing that was so dangerous was they were possessing, like, 30,000 nuclear weapons. they had 40,000 tons

and unfortunately finding little help from their state government in frankfort. the livelihoods of working families and job creators has been cast aside by power-hungry politicians, and it is delaying our economic recovery. we must do better. we must safely reopen the economy and support our small businesses and workers. with a vaccine on the horizon, the best thing we can do for our economy is to safely reopen. further shutdowns are doing nothing but digging a further hole for our economy to get out of. in kentucky, we can do better. mr. speaker, i rise to talk about the ongoing investigation within the house oversight committee among oversight republicans. the minority, republicans, have requested several hearings unfortunately chairwoman maloney and the majority house democrats are uninterested or unwilling to comply. so we've taken it upon ourselves to inquire and pretty much open up investigations with our staff, with our investigators, and taking data from our whistleblowers and different stakeholders with each investigation. we currently have caught a situ

them, whether or not there are rigged, what did it mean that they went through barcelona spain to frankfortonishing. >> really is, people need to understand that any election fraud carries a 5 to 10-year jail sentence these are felonies, for those people who were driving the truck, driving ballots from -- new york to pennsylvania. you need to understand the consequences. let me ask you about the democrat obstruction because wyoming senator barrasso has op-ed out in the journal noted democrats voted against cabinet nominees after president's 2016 win ham stringing the administration early days pretty much entire presidency so many people acting secretary of this acting secretary of that couldn't get confirmation barrasso wrote joe biden has begun to name men and women he wants to serve key positions don't expect senate republicans to forget how the democrats treated mr. trump's nominees don't expect tens of millions of americans who voted for mr. trump in 2061 and 2020 to forget it either. snoout should republicans retake senate do you expect any joe biden potential nominees to face confirma