Mr. Axelrod admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. Dad flew that for about two years during the war. But my grandfather also served in world war i and i
No one knows them better than dan tillman. Plus, working from home, bitcoin and more. And demand for electric vehicles. We hear from the ceo. We have to get back to the markets. This is the top story of the markets ending the day near the session highs. Stocks tech stocks are ending high. President elect nominate janet yellen to be treasury secretary. So much news on the day. There is more positive news around vaccine. We have this big, cyclical valley. That brings another record high for the small caps. As you are pointing out, it has taken a few years for them to get a record high. Day, hitting the alltime high. The energy index is up. It will be interesting to see what is there and what happens in the future. Some are saying that the excitement around the iphone 12 is priced in and the buyers are stepping away. Nominate is likely to janet yellen, the former fed chair for treasury secretary. The markets took a move up. There was a moment where the s p 500 dipped ever so slightly. The
To it from all angles in fact, heres the San Francisco Police Department so looks like they brought out their mobile unit as well the command center at this location so it looks like they obviously will be part. The investigation whether or not this was intentional or not you can clearly see 13th street here and im located at 13th and harrison you can see the signs that they have blocked this off to allow trucks from the Fire Department, the Police Department to arrive at the scene without anybody getting in their way. This is an area that is very busy south of market as you talked about robin, a tropic is only moving from the left to the right from this way so this is as close as people. Are allowed and as we speak right now it looks like its not just my imagination right it looks like the smoke is now turning a little bit wider which is a good sign that they have turned the corner when its thick and his black in its just hard to see through that means that the fire is reaching new ma
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