The nomination of the white house budget director. A vote on that is exacted at 5 30 p. M. Eastern today. This week Senate Lawmakers are expected to continue work on the Defense Authorization for 2021. This is live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O lord, as our lips are open in prayer, so may our hearts be open to receive your holy spirit. Help us to bow to your will and live lives devoted to your providential leading. Lord, we thank you for your providence that brought us the gift of representative john lewis. Were grateful he was a drum major for justice, truth, and righteousness. May his exemplary life and legacy remind us of the Transformative Impact one dedicated person can make on our nation and world. Today, please our senators in their work. Let faith, hope, and love abound in their lives. May they seek to heal the hurt in our world
Johns Hopkins University data shows california has about 1200 more cases now the new york. However, new yorks 72,000 deaths are by far the highest total in the country. And 9 times more than people who have died in california. Today theres a new covid testing site opened in alameda and you get the results in 15 minutes kron fours reyna harvey is live at the testing site with the details good morning lena. Good morning. Daryn other lot of things i can think of that you can do in 15 minutes and now you can get a coronavirus tests. Right behind me this line that you see this is for people who are arriving at the location who do not have an appointment and its not as are like let me correct myself this is the line of people who have an appointment so you can see the line is not that long right next to that line is the line for people who do not have an appointment and it is significantly longer now they just started doing the testing. A few minutes ago actually at 9 oclock that is when the
He is the chief officer building capabilities for the military and department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. Thank you for being with us today. Just to start, what led you to do this book . I know you have been thinking about these issues for a while and it is something you have encountered a lot on the Armed Services committee and senator mccains policy advisor, but what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and writing the entire book . Great question. I ask myself that constantly. Why did we get into this every day i was working on it . Basically two things. Both of these were a product of many years i looked at these issues, just thinking about this on a daytoday basis but the first was the growing realization that we had a fundamental problem i felt was underappreciated that people didnt appreciate that we were losing competitive advantage, we werent where we needed to be from a technological standpoint or operational standpoint
Together how well are we weathering the crisis how will the pandemic reshape our world thats all focused on made in germany today welcome for germans and germany enthusiastic this is news but it cant be stress enough how much germanys small and medium sized businesses are the absolute backbone of the economy and many fear that they are at much greater risk of going under because of the freeze and Economic Activity than the bigger well known Companies Report them into a smith has been tracking the fortunes of a few Small Business owners a rollercoaster ride few have ever experienced before. Lets target the last few days have been an emotional roller coaster. As a fund for and i went from thinking ok i quit to and i cant face this and im just going to ride it out to good lord whats happening in the world. But life goes on life always goes on. Here to an abandoned work place. Alexander manufactures machines to make ice cream but now theres no market for them across germany fat grounds and
In march and april. Yeah, and, you know, the market if you want to talk about it being the index certainly is doing that its been steady naturally the most heavily weighted stocks also happen to be the ones that are in th strongest trends they are covering up for a lot of, i think, softness under the surface. Youre not seeing this latest push higher really have the participation of the airlines and all the kind of socalled epicenter sectors that now are under a little more question about a stutter step in the reopening process. I do think the market is trying to be rational about it. Its unclear what would stop these trends, why would apple and microsoft stop going up today when they havent stopped until now except the fact that the nasdaq does look really stretched once again compared to the rest of the market there does seem to be a little bit of frothy speculation happening in some pockets of this market but thats been the case periodically for the last several weeks i guess you wou