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Of opalaka, alabama, gary fuller. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure to be with you. thank you. >> charles: before we talk about your visit today, give us an update on your town. i know you have about 30,000 folks there. how devastating was it and where are you now? >> well, thank goodness, charles, it did not touch okalaka, we're about 13 miles from the community of beauregard so the storm was south of ope k opelika and auburn. because of the density of the population here or in auburn would really -- it's bad enough as it is with 23 lives lost. but it would have been really a terrible,...

Their own personal fortunes improving. >> it goes across the board. it's from large multinational industrials so a small business owner like myself that, to gary's point, sees that better regulatory environment, the better tax environment that we've seen. and that didn't help kind of unleash that next level of growth that i think everybody kind of is waiting for here, even trade deal or not. so i think that's really good. and i like susan's point, too, about kind of the cleanest dirty shirt in the basket here. and i'll throw another one to her. you know, the u.s. is still kind of like the stro...

Foundation involved with the creek indians to pay for the burial of all of those deceased. >> charles: we've got less than 30 seconds. i have to give you a shoutout in the midst of all of this. you secured a pretty good deal for your town. almost $6 million deal with the indian automobile manufacturer. just quickly, you know, talk to us because we've been -- there's a theme in this country about businesses coming to america. >> charles, we think everything starts with good paying jobs. my friend could have taught me that. these folks, young son automotive made the great decision to locate here...

Far in 2019. but that all hinges on getting a u.s.-china trade deal. last night, we saw exports really falling off a cliff. down some 20% in a month. don't forget, that is the bread and butter of the chinese economy. if that's going down at this point, you can imagine they are looking at a very sharp downturn and they want to sign a deal as soon as possible. so maybe the u.s. and the trump administration has the upper hand when it comes to signing possibly a trade truce. >> gary, you know, you brought up the federal reserve again, you know, powell, let's give him credit for sinking the market ...