it rallied a long with the overmarket up .7% coming up this hour we will talk to the ceo of hologic,ncrease in demand after receiving emergency use authorization to test asymptomatic people for coronavirus. >>> first, we will talk about markets. welcome to a.j first, we kick it off with mike santoli on the strength -- the continued strength at one point we were on record high close watch for the s&p 500 for what, a percent or so away from that? >> just a little over a percent. it made it up in a hurry market late last week broke slightly above this range it had been in for a few weeks. it got a lot of people personed it was going to take off to the upside that said today's action is different than what we had seen in the recent weeks when the market was getting comfortable with the cyclical turn in the economy, perhaps getting stimulus broadening out the rally from the summer. today it was grabbing and paying up for options and stocks for the fan favorite glamorous tech stocks not to say that changes the story, but i think you are already on watch for a market that's getting just a l

joining me now is the ceo of hologic, steve mcmill long, which is the producer of leading mammographyorning. thanks very much for being here. tell me about this alarming trend. what are you seeing out there? >> sure. thanks so much for having us, maria. if you take a step back and think about the incredible progress we've made over the last 20 or 30 of years, back when i was a kid we had black and white tv, no cell phones, the tv has a little rabbit ears. when you heard the word cancer, somebody, a neighbor, family member had breast cancer, it was equated with a death sentence and we've made so much progress because of the early diagnosis. and so the annual mammogram and for that matter the annual pap test, they have dramatically improved our ability to identify the cancer early and then you can treat them. and what's happened since the pandemic is clearly, especially in that march through june period but still hasn't come back, just in march to june it was estimated about 285,000 women put off their screenings. and the major thing we have to do is get people in early, when you can pi