Usa, huntsville, alabama, 11 00 a. M. On wall street. And squawk alley is live good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with leslie picker, mike santoli at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange jon fortt is on assignment, Morgan Brennan is in huntsville. The resurgence of rocket city, usa. Morgan reporter hey, carl, thats right. With a population of fewer than half a million residents in huntsville, alabama, one could be forgiven if they dont realize how significant this area has been to modern american history. Before the 1950s, it was watercress capital of the world. The army moved a Ballistic Missile program here in the 1950s, into the 1960s. Nasa was established the Marshall Space Flight center, began to develop rockets for major Space Programs like apollo, and that legacy has continued all the way into today. Theres Something Like 400 aerospace and Defense Companies operating in the huntsville, alabama area today part of the reason this is called rock
Yeah africa australia the americas even parts of the arctic from the looks of this map the world is on fire hi im femi oke a urine stream this is a look at all of the global wildfires burning this year and today we chat with a panel of experts about the rise of these fires and the efforts to prevent them the show and join our conversation you can tweet us at a. J. Stream or leave your comments in our life you tube chad as you could be in the st. Louis Philippe Miller news i prefer sort of the food really diverse it is by your very very true to folks for there was a we were. Across the globe wildfires are raging at record levels the cause Scientists Say is the Global Climate crisis but how is the Climate Crisis contributing to these fires and how do we handle them once they start well joining us to discuss this in scotland Glen Mcdonald hes a geography professor at the university of california los angeles and an expert on the environmental consequences of Climate Change and connecticut
Through our doors first and maybe she will come back here to give a lecture of her own someday. Before spro deuintroducing our im really excited to let you know we have a special guest who was able to join us at the last moment. Her name is marion lee johnson. She was one of the Space Programs Hidden Figures. Ms. Johnson was an engineer at Nasas Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama, working for boeing, the sponsor for tonights event. She worked on the team that determined the path, the parts of the thsaturn 5, would take, the rocket fell back to earth. Their work was vital for safety planning. After boeing and successful career in Computer Technology she now teaches the next generation of computer workers. Please join me in recognizing and welcoming ms. Marion lee johnson. [ applause ] like ms. Johnson, tonights speakers certainly know what its like to blaze trails and defy expectations. Throughout this years 50th anniversary celebrations of the apollo 11 mission ive bee
Appetite for treasuries. Jay powell insists it is not the return of qe. Tension sores in the middle east. Turkey says its forces will move into syria at any moment. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures under pressure, fell. 1 after the s p 500 for two consecutive sessions. Semiconductors taking the biggest hit, they fell the most in about six weeks. We have trade headlines sparking concern about tensions intensifying between the u. S. And china. That is upsetting some of the comments coming from fed chair powell, who left the door open for rate cuts. The dow lost more than 300 points while the nasdaq fell 1. 7 . Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Sophie australian markets have lower, asx 200 opening snapping a threeday gain. Bhp shares among the biggest laggards. Studyssie dollar trading after overnight gyrations on the trade brinkmanship. Confidence numbers for october are due in a halfhour. Nikkei futures pointing to a lackluster start. South kor
Charged. Its a special day, an auspicious day. Were honored to have with us a panel of four important engineers, my personal heros when i was growing up. I was only 14 when you did the miracle back in 1969. I tried very hard to get here and follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could. We have a panel thats going to talk about lunar module landing operations today. If you want to know what that is, theyll tell you about it as we go around. The panel is jack knight, bob nance, harold loden, and bill reeves. Ill have them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did, and then open it up a little bit for questions. By the way, since i didnt introduce myself, im john charles, the scientist in residence here. Id like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight to talk a little bit about what you did here for apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place, and your recollections of that important day. Okay. I was the son of an air force family. We were in various base