It is election day in the u. S. 226 million americans cast their ballots in one of the most among jewish u. S. President ial elections in recent history. One of the most tumultuous u. S. President ial elections in recent history. Hillary clinton held a narrow lead in most preelection polls. Her campaign has and armed by federal probes into her handling of classified emails, questions about her familys foundation, and public doubts over her trustworthiness. Republican real estate magnate and reality tv star donald trump, defeated 16 primary opponents and promises to drain the swamp of washington corruption. He has faced criticism for his treatment of women and denunciations of immigrants. We bring you the analysis you need on this historic day. I am joined by bloombergs politics and economics editor, Michael Mckee. In london, we are joined by Alexander Friedman for the first half of the program. Alex, good to have you on the program. First, lets get to the bloomberg first world news. Th
Supervisor farrell supervisor kim not present supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president kw0u789 thank you ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledges and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk any communications. I have none to report madam president colleagues, any changes to the october 17th special Board Meeting and the october 18th regular Board Meeting minutes seeing none, a motion to approve those minutes motion by supervisor avalos and seconded by economy supervisor farrell colleagues without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will be passed after Public Comment. Madam clerk read the consent calendar. Items 1 through 6 are route. Roll call vote. On items 1 through 6. Supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowe
National committee behind me bringing this convention into session. Its a convention with high stakes for the Republican Party because donald trump is trailing Hillary Clinton. If you look at our nbc the wall street journal poll just out over the weekend, shes leading him 46 to 41 . Donald trump leads only in the south, trails every other region. Hes got to make up some ground. And hes got a task to both identify a broadly appealing message and also persuade voters that he is up to the job of being commander in chief. Interestingly though as at a time when donald trump is trying to unite the party and his choice of mike pence as running mate was a step in that direction, his Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort has taken a strong stance against the antitrump hold out. This morning he said Governor John Kasich ran against donald trump was not speaking at this convention, was embarrassing his state. Also said people like kasich, like mitt romney, like the bush family members who are not comin
Why it is not a normalcy . What aspect of it is not quite normal . Ms. Sullivan i will invite jerry bell to answer your question. You are talking about a range of probabilities, and this is potentially reinforcing factors which make this year more uncertain than others. But, jerry, do want to answer that . Seasonl we have three classifications, nearnormal refers to a range of activity defined by the overall season strength, as well as the numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms. We used near normal instead of oftentimesple think as the mathematical average, and we are not talking about the mathematical average here, we are talking about the middle third of the seasons with a certain level of activity. Ms. Sullivan each one of the season designations is a range of prospects, not a distinct number. Either the lower range, the nearnormal range, or the higher range. There are uncertainties, like. Ou said bell yes. If somebody could address, talk more about the signals we might be activat
University and yes, having some trouble getting name brand republicans to attend the convention. Hillary will bash him on every subject possible. And have you ever seen an election like this . So try this one, saudi arabia will invest over 3 billion in uber. Makes sense. Saudi women use uber a lot because theyre not allowed to drive. Varney company is about to begin. Knit night secretary clinton arriving here and putting you on my snapchat. Welcome to jersey. To be here in jersey. Stuart Hillary Clinton dancing away in new jersey and shes on to california making her big Foreign Policy speech. Shes going to take some direct shots at trumps Foreign Policy and his stance on nato, nukes, torture, all will be in the spotlight from hillary today. Check out the market, this is thursday morning. Where are we going . Slightly lower. Down about 50 points when that opening bell rings. A look at the price of oil. Remember, opec meets today and output cap is on the table, but not getting that much