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Fascinating conversation and content out of those interviews. Cant wait to see them all. I amme to daybreak asia, haidi lun here in sydney. Betty i am betty lou at the Global Headquarters in new york. Before we get to the great therviews, a recap of markets. We sell the dollar gain, oil markets higher, oil touching above the 50 a barrel level. That led to stocks rising. Lets pull up the board to show where markets closed. The dow added on 40 points. S p gaining. The nasdaq higher, as well. We co...

Reporting, what exactly chinese banks are and are not doing Going Forward with north korea . Sure. First of all, thank you for bringing it up. I think its an important topic. I did have the opportunity to go with the president to the u. N. General Assembly Last week. It really was an incredible experience, sitting in the General Assembly and listening to his speech. He also signed last week in new york an executive order, which gives the Treasury Department the most extensive powers on sanctions...

Cable companies and is brought by your cable or satellite writer. Provider. The communicators visited several Technology Fairs this year, heres a look at two of them beginning with researchers at microsoft washington, d. C. Headquarters. Ati am a researcher microsoft researcher guest research. The reason we think about that is 60 percent to 70 75 were caused by pathogens maintained an animal populations. Ebola and sars are examples. People [inaudible] do you monitor its action bats and figure ou...

Epidemics are caused by pathogens maintained in animal dna. Theyre difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola has a reservoir in egyptian fruit bats. How do you monitor in the environment the population of egyptian fruit bats and whether or not they have ebola . Its a very hard thing to do. So we imagine using a mosquito as a device because they bite all sorts of animals, taking little blood samples. They bite everything from animals from amphibians and...

Live hearing start this week in russia and the u. S. Elections. Tomorrow executives from google, facebook and twitter will testify on russias use of social media. That will be before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee meeting. Live at 230 eastern on cspan2. Hearings continue wednesday is a social Media Executive text to fight for two committees. The first is at 9 30 a. M. Before the Senate Intelligence committee and later at 2 00 p. M. Eastern before the house intelligence committee. Both live on c...

Microsoft technology fair. Former president bill clinton talks about the opioid emepidemic. Hillary clinton rallies supporters at the home Rights Campaign and jeff bezos receives an award for his work fighting for samesex marriage. The the communicators visited several Technology Fairs this year. Heres one of two of them at microsofts washington, dc headquarters. My name is jackson, im a researcher at milwaukee research and work on project premonition which is using mosquitoes as devices to pred...

Security committee. On preventing terror attacks on Transportation Systems. By modernizing security screening equipment and improving work force training. The hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. Committee will come to order. The committee is meeting today to hear from the administrator of the transportation security administration. David. On his plans for leading a work force of 60,000 employees. The security operation of nearly 450 airports. Throughout the United States. The federal air marshall...

At el was son. And reporting. Bloomberg. Com. Thank you for your time. The Senate Finance committee begins work on the tax bill monday. With live coverage on cspan 3. You can watch online at cspan. Org. Or listen on the free radio app. Next. Tsa administrator testifying before the House Homeland Security committee. On preventing terror attacks on Transportation Systems. By modernizing security screening equipment and improving work force training. The hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. Committee...

Security committee about preventing terrorist attacks against u. S. Transportation systems. Committee will come to order. The committee is meeting today to hear from the administrator of the transportation security administration. David. On his plans for leading a work force of 60,000 employees. The security operation of nearly 450 airports. Highway, railroad, ports, mass transit systems and pipelines. I recognize myself for opening statement. Today our Committee Meeting to discuss tsa role in k...