Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. The us soldier travis king who was being held in north korea is back in us custody. Us Media Reports say he is now in china. Hours earlier, north korea said it would deport private king who ran into the country across the Demilitarized Zone injuly. He had been due to be flown to the us to face military Disciplinary Proceedings when he escaped his escort and entered north korean territory. Live now to our washington correspondent gary odonoghue. In terms of the very latest, take us through what we have learned over the last few hours . We now know that the last few hours . We now know that the United States has travis king in its custody. We dont know where he is at this moment in time. There are plenty of Media Reports here saying that he exited north korea via china. We cannot confirm that officially at that point in time. We are waiting to hear, i think perh
Good morning. The committee will come to order. We were hoping to be able to move out two of our nominees that are currently pending before the committee. We obviously have to have the requisite number of members here. So, until such time as we have a quorum, we will move to our scheduled full Committee Hearing on infrastructure permitting. If we are able to get the quorum of 12, we will take up the business meeting at that point in time. I would anticipate that it would be relatively quick. So, with that, we have names on the table in front of us, but i would invite you each to come to the table as i provide an opening statement. Mr. Cason, miss fleeingal, mr. Turpin, mr. Brown, caruso and russell. Were here to discuss infrastructure permitting challenges, efforts to streamline federal approvals and opportunities to improve their responsiveness, the transparency and predictability of our system of permit review. I think we all recognize the need to make investments that will both upgr
Move out to of our nominees that are currently pending before the committee. We obviously have to have the requisite number of members here. So until such time as we have a quorum, we will move to our scheduled full Committee Hearing on infrastructure permitting, if were able to get the quorum of 12 we will take up the businessman at that point in time. I would anticipate that it would be relatively quick. So with that, we have names on the table in front of us, but i would invite you each to come to the table as a provide an opening statement. Mr. Casing, ms. Fleagle, astroturfing, mr. Brown, ms. Caruso and mr. Russell if just want to join us there. We are here today to discuss infrastructure permitting challenges ongoing efforts to streamline federal approvals and opportunities to improve the responsiveness, the transparency and the predictability of our system of permit review. I think we all recognize the need to make investments that will both upgrade and modernize our infrastruct
Mining fees set to surge after china crack down on bitcoin operations. Another day, another on bitcoin, right . We cant stop watching the cryptocurrency markets, but so watching lots of Economic Data. I want to just point out one that we had this morning. Jobless claims spiking tota threemonth high. Guys, take my chart. 5444, these numbers can be quite volatile. N september, those jobless on the backrose of the hurricanes. However, as you can see, relatively low still against the back drop of what weve seen in the last few years, isnt really any that there is a turnaround here in the jobs market. This tight labor market es to get tighter and tighter which means, of course, well continue to hiking rates. Yeah. That we n the fact past now eform what does this mean for companies . Saw walmart with news of raising the minimum wage to 11 per hour. Tight in the you cant t exactly add more jobs but aising wages, that will be ey, although there are a lot of questions, how much will that add to
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