Please call the phone line and make sure youre in a quiet location and that you mute any tvs, or radios. Item number one, call to order. role call . And we do have a quorum. Thank you. Well welcome to those who are watching this remotely. I hope you are all well at home. It imany are coping with lost js and keeping your family and children safe. Before we gip begin, i would lio thank the staff under the direction of bob beck who has kept the facility running and we appreciate your dedication and i know that several of you have had to be on site at the island on a regular basis. So bob, thank you in particular for your diligence. And also thank you one Treasure Island who has been coordinating with the San Francisco food bank for the delivery of free groceries for people who need it. Thank you to the staff and thank you to the San Francisco food bank and also, thank you to the School District for continuing to deliver meals to School Children on Treasure Island so they can eat three mea
The Libyan Government in tripoli say theyve seized control of a major air base for more Khalifa Haftar. Antigovernment protesters emerge from course in hong kong after being charged in relation to mass rallies. And its a big part of tourism in kenya how corona virus is affecting its wildlife as a. Im going to go with sports as live go for turns to the u. S. Worry mcelroy Dustin Johnson with a Charity Match behind closed doors in florida raising more than 5000000. 00 for the fight against coronavirus. Now the country at the heart of the corona Virus Outbreak thats now infected nearly 5000000. 00 people around the world is defending its handling of the pandemic and chinas president says beijing supports an inquiry but only once the virus has brought under control had the World Health Organizations annual meeting she jinping also pledged money to fight the covert 19. China will provide 2000000000. 00 over 2 years to help with the global covered 1000. 00 response and to help with economic
Welcome to new york. Its been waiting for you. Welcome to new york. Welcome to new york. Welcome to new york. Its been waiting for you. Welcome to new york. Welcome to new york. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. What a shot of times square, getting ready for the big ball drop today. Thank you for joining us, im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone. Lauren final trading day of the year e investors are looking at what could be the best year in six, even after yesterdays selling, dow up 17, nasdaq up 4 andahalf, volume expected to be light today. Cheryl asian markets, they have closed the books on 2019. Thanks to progress in the u. S. China trade war, the shanghai index had the best year since 2014. The nikkei, kospi are closed. The shanghai, slightly higher. Hang seng under pressure. Lauren in europe we have red on the screen. The ftse is down 1. 1 , the German Market is closed. Cheryl lets take a look at how the major averages performed over the last decade. Look at this, f
Not to say were on fire ten times this morning, but i need new words for all of this, the dow is up 95 in the premarket. You had a historic day on wall street, all three major averages hit record highs last night. The nasdaq marked a milestone, closing above 9,000 for the First Time Ever on the nasdaq. Jack, your reaction to what youre seeing . If youre a Football Team youre playing good special teams, offense and defense right now. The market is really on fire. And its incredible to see. When i saw the numbers come out after the holidays, that was impressive. To see the consumer so strong, people are going to work, people are finding jobs. I got so many friends that have two jobs now. Folks that dont make a lot of money, their education levels arent that high but yet theyre able to provide for their family and i think thats what really matters is the middle class is getting a boost right now in this economy. Cheryl what youre saying is that people have jobs but theyre not their wages
This House Committee on the modernization of Congress Heard from congresswoman nita lowey chairs the committee. This hearing was announced before congresswoman low we announced he would retire from Congress Following this term. Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is titled recommendations for approving the budget and appropriations process, a look at the work of the select committee on process reform and i recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. The 104th congress which convened in 1945 was the last to pass Appropriations Bills. That was almost 25 years ago. Most house members serving today have never seen a process that works the way it was supposed to where stand alone bills were passed on time. And established by the bipartisan budget act of 2018. The committee was charged with making recommendations to significantly reform the process. It was acknowledgment th