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And this month with congress on the summer recess, the cities tour is on cspan each day at 6 00 p. M. Today we tour the literary life of waco, texas, with the book about gospel music from the civil war to the civil rights movement. The story of the 1917 lynching of a black 17yearold and the history of the first africanamericans in the space program. Today at 6 00 p. M. Eastern time. A hearing now on new technologies to improper the safety and efficiency of the nations Transportation Systems. Off...

Even how we hail a cab. We have opportunities to dramatically reduce Public Safety, address infrastructure problems in creative new ways. The federal government can be a key player in helping to advance and utilize the developing technologies. Lets take a look at safety. While trafficrelated fatalities injuries continue to decline, over 30,000 people each year still die on our highways. We continue to see trains that derail too frequently. Putting enormous burdens on our first responders. In the...

Can. Tomorrow galveston is supposed to get whacked inforecasts are wong that could impact the refining industry, which is already hurt. Most of the refineries are about three, four miles that way a bunch of them are shut down. An estimated, lets call it 15 of Refining Capacity offline we dont know exactly for sure, marathon petroleum, for example, was cagy, said we dont give updates. We drove by the refinery today there wasnt many cars around. Thats why were seeing oil drop because if youre not ...

From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling...

Continues. Host Professor John yoo is a former Deputy Assistant attorney general and the george w. Bush immigration and the coauthor of a new book. Want to start by getting your thoughts on how those emerging weapons technologies you talk about in your book could be applied to the threat now of a nuclear north korea. Guest great to be with you. We should keep in mind that north korea is probably our most Eminent National Security Threat that President Trump and his National Security team at the ...

A big show coming up and we are already remittance into the u. S. Trading sessions. Julie hyman is here to give us a rundown. More negative when you look at the nasdaq here today. Rundown. We have appear the 10 year yield. We seeing some buying but not much as the 10 year yield fluctuates above and below unchanged. Im talking about the 10 year yield. Interesting here, we are seeing a change in session and for the u. S. Treasury market. Take a look at the bloomberg in terms of positioning. Asset ...

The back of extra stimulus on the ecb. The dax has bounced. Weakness in the euro we are looking slightly red leaning into the other side. Banks at the top a lot of earnings around, too. As investors react to corp rates. In terms of in the basket itself, some bright spots for the likes of dior, lucxotica basic resources as well, a negative reaction to glen cores numbers trading down 2. 3 . Some of our viewers are particularly interested in glencores numbers health care trade weaker by 1 3 of a pe...

6,000 for the First Time Ever this past week. The white house calling it the biggest individual and business tax cut in american history. The proposal will cut Corporate Tax from 35 to 15 . It doubles the standard deduction individuals can take and simply supplies into three tears. The proposal would also repeal the death tax and alternative minimum tax it eliminates all deductions besides mortgage interest and charitable donations. Nafta negotiations. President trump telling the leaders of cana...

Markets are trading higher, taking their lead from asia. And i sit down with the man who makes hollywood blockbusters without the hollywood budget. Jason blum tells Me Why Making Movies On The Cheap gives him more freedom to make betterfilms. And as the boss of] crew says he underestimated how technology would revolutionise retail. We want to know how has it tech changed the way you shop . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. Do get in touch about you...

Ranks about whether republicans can get their act together to get that tax cut done before the year is out. Let alone we have what, seven or eight legislative days left before the july 4th he recess. Theyre out the entire month of august. Tomorrow is where speaker ryan is supposed to outline where they all stand. He is talking about getting import tax, border adjustment tax what they like to call it. He and only couple Republican Leaders are only ones interest in it. President trump does not lik...