A Ballistic Missile was launched words from territory held by iranian backed with the rebels the u. N. Has criticized saudi arabia as a blockade of yemen calling it catastrophic saudi arabia has blocked all your many air land and sea ports in response to the missile attacks from across the Border International aid groups are calling on riyadh to provide access fuel prices in yemen have increased more than sixty percent and cooking gas prices have doubled. The situation is catastrophic in yemen its the worst food crisis were looking at in the world today seven Million People on the brink of famine millions of people being kept alive by our human to turn over ration so this is lifeline that must be continued every single day if the supplies pipeline comes to a halt Food Insecurity will deepen and we will be confronted with an even greater humanitarian crisis food fuel and medicine imports must continue to enter the country the u. S. State Department Says it expects saudi arabias anticorr
A solution to the north korea crisis called on china to apply more pressure on young and one of its Nuclear Weapons program but he said there is Common Ground on how to deal with it we agreed on the need to fully implement all u. N. Security Council Resolutions or north korea and to increase economic pressure until north korea abandons its reckless and dangerous path all responsible Nations Must Join together to stop arming and financing and even trading with. The murderous north korean regime. Well earlier the two leaders announced a two hundred fifty three billion dollars in business deals between u. S. And Chinese Companies donald trump said the u. S. Trade deficit with china was one sided and unfair and vowed to fix it step lassen has more from beijing. The United States and china have actually signed an amazing amount of trade deals of two hundred fifty billion u. S. Dollars and of course that could be seen as a sort of trade off on the north korea issue which is a lot more diffic
Health care, decreased wait times and modernize the va i. T. System. Good morning here today were pleased to welcome back our good friend dr. David shulkin, the new secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs. The last time you appeared before our committee you were v under sector for health. Now youve been kicked upstairsp after a Unanimous Senate confirmation vote, we become unanimous and that says a lot in this political environment so congratulations. We come with your background i know you a great background inph philadelphia. I just learned you certainly bring a lot of experience to the job. Although im sure these days the challenges are very daunting for you. We realize this ring is a bit unusual. Ua rather than a typical budgeting where you have at this time of year we are limited tod discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget mentors that omb sent to the hill in march. The two page entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities or plan
Points. Nasdaq advanced 4. 6 . The big story is that the industrials are stalling out here. Thats right. Theyre stalling out while the techs are head rot. What does that mean . You can easily interpret this action on an hour by hour basis, suggesting that we need to be worried about an economic slowdown. But i think that would be a mistake. To me the teches are roaring while the industrials languish, because investors keep gravitating toward the companies that have the most up site in the second half. Now that it looks like the trump steam roller has run out of gas. Remember, is stock market is a forecasting machine, it looks ahead about six to nine months. We thought that the president would repatriate foreign assets, tax cuts and lots of deregulation. Wall street is enamored of him. Which means the stock market likes him very, very much. Now were getting deregulation in spades. Just last week, the president presented two men to the regulatory commission, trumps already put in regulat
About if youre using metro. Well get to those as well as your commute. First though, lets check in with chuck and sheena. Weve already had our first 90 degree day. We havent had any 90ed here in the month of may. That is about to take an ugly term. Near record highs in the forecast. That starts tomorrow. Today the warmup does start with temperatures warmer than yesterday. Currently youre about to walk outside it is cool enough for a light jacket. Once the sun comes up shortly after youre not going to need the jacket for very long. 46 dulles, 44 manassas. 56 degrees in the district. As you head out for your commute, sun glare by 7 00 a. M. By noon, dry roads. Temperatures in the low 80s. Looking good. How does the traffic really look . Well, right now actually were not so bad here this morning. Let me kind of show you whats going on as far as the beltway goes. So we did have this avenue with the right lane blocked and, sheena, that is now out of the way. The rest of the beltway is looki