Has joined Founders Fund and where he will invest in the world of Venture Capital. And superconductivity is having a moment and we will explain where a potential breakthrough in technology has been driving both excitement and controversy. Lets get a quick look at the markets. We are treading water with the technology quarters. The nasdaq is flat and earnings are a big part of the story but we see a cell often treasuries. The yield on the u. S. 10 year treasury is the highest in nine months but there is a concern about the cost of bother of borrowing. The Philadelphia Semiconductor index is softer by 0. 3 and a big part of that is all come which is down by 10 . We will get to that shortly. The two big ones we are braced for, apple and amazon report after the bell. We will look ahead and think about what the macro environment for those two names both from the consumer perspective and the cloud narrative. Lastly, microsoft showed slowing growth in cloud which is their biggest direct compe
The u. S. Chamber of commerce hosted an infrastructure conference in washington, d. C. With members of congress, Biden Administration officials and state and local leaders to discuss legislation by the ten year and how it applied to workforce training, manufacturing and the electrical grid. The event began with keynote remarks by the acting labor secretary. This is about four hours. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the director at united infrastructure. Good morning. How is everyone doing this morning. Fantastic. I know the rain just started, so a perfect reason to get everyone started inside. I love seeing a room starting to get filled up with infrastructure nerds like myself. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024. Very exciting. I am supremely honored. Many of you have been with us just twota years ago its fantastic leading this wonderful coalition of organizations and associations and private Sector Companies so many of you are here in this room with us today thank you for your su
That may or may not exist, but certainly, the u. S. Has tried to be as transparent as possible with regard to Space Programs explaining even in the face of narratives that certain of our capacities are weaponized when theyre not, so i would refer you to some of the Good Communications what were doing in space, the clarification and transparency provided both by the space force you can finish watching this at cspan. Org. We are going 0 to take you to an infrastructure conference. Live coverage on cspan2. Inside this beautiful space, thank you all for taking the time this morning to be here with us. I love seeing a room starting to get slowly filled up with a bunch of infrastructure nerds like myself. Thank you, fantastic. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024, exciting, yes, amazing. [applause] im ross, leading from my post at accelerator for more action. And many of you have been with us since we take the rains two years ago, a fantastic two years leading this wonderful coalition of orga
Case. News4s pat collins has that story from rockville. Reporter it took two tries, but they finally got the sentence to life for an executionstyle murder. After two injuries have convicted this guy, to my knowledge he has absolutely never accepted any responsibility for involvement in these killings. Raminder cower, convicted in the shooting death of a 43yearold. Ms. Gava gunned down near her germantown apartment in 2013. Miss gava was walking to the bus stop when she was shot and killed and fell to the pavement here. She was the exwife of cowers husband, and he was tired of paying her alimony. Cower was convicted of murder one already, but she got a new trial when he job. She got a new lawyer and a new trial and got convicted again. This case proves if youre willing to kill, youre willing to lie. This should have never been tried a second time. Reporter the prosecutors have video of cower and her husband buying the murder weapon at a gun store in tennessee. They say she took shooting
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties