Cnn breaking news good evening. I m abby phillip in new york. Our special coverage continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category four storm that is now moments away from making landfall in florida. At this moment, it was too late now for folks along the coast too evacuate. Officials warned that the winds and the storm surge will be be catastrophic in some areas, the word that they are using is unsurvivable helene could be the strongest storm on record for the big bend region. And we are already starting to see a major surge in these cities. So we have our anchors and our correspondents. They re fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have chad myers as well with the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. Let s go first to john berman. He s out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, what s happening where you are right now? yeah the winds have really started to pick up abby over the last half an hour. The rain really coming down here, you can see
Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
About how his company is positioned. And speaking of 5g, the chip industry stands to benefit from it all i talk to a guest on everything from trade to more. First, Steve Mnuchin downplayed the chances of a stimulus deal before the election. Lets get the latest on Market Movers with abigail doolittle. Emily it was another topsyturvy day and officially a bearish reversal third stocks open higher prior to Steve Mnuchin getting those comments around stimulus target to reverse lower. Once those comments were out, a stronger leg down to investors a little unnerved by the idea stimulus may not get done the election but there are nuances suggesting maybe some of the skinny deals will get done. 7 the500 is down nasdaq down. 8 . The data transport really helped out by the airline. Perhaps again on hopes around the idea that some sort of deal for the airlines could come through even though some sides are saying that cannot happen. Crude oil also happening so you could bring in the idea of a reope
The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h. R. 5322, the ensuring diversity in Community Banking act, as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 5322, a bill to establish or modify requirements relating to Minority Depository Institutions, Community Development Financial Institutions, and impact banks and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. Sherman, and the gentleman from sk, mr. Timmons, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Sherman. Mr. Sherman mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks on this legislation, and to insert extraneous material thereon. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Sherman i yi
September. What is interesting, with the this on the screen, unconventional transaction of tesla. Additional 5an billion of shares geared toward perhaps the nonmainstream, the nonwall street crowd. Tesla is interesting because people using bubble with stocks. 2 tesla. Tom a recent secondary, even with moonshot on the markets. This will not be publicly offered. It will be Equity Distribution and distributed by banks as tesla chooses. Somewhat akin to what we saw with lesser successes. Here,l be widely studied the why of this transaction as well as the need for 5 million they are looking for. Here andarkably up big still elevated from where they were. What else are you looking at . Ina the story today markets, aside from tesla, is the dollar and the question of whether people are going to say this is the end of dollar supremacy or if this is just an indication of the low yield, the negative real yield and this idea of global trade. It is the two sides of the story. Tom not only yields do