With our partners at Elliott Bay Book company. Our civic series in our inside out theories at town hall is a special year for reasons i make clear in a moment supported by the true brown foundation. Our civics programs are sponsored by boeing, the Realnetworks Foundation and partnership. Doctor white will speak 35 or 40 moments and will have time for questions. The mike will rotate that way and be available to you for the q and a later. I would ask you keep your questions concise and in the form of a question so we get to as many folks as possible over the course of the evening, youre sure to have many questions. We have copies of the republic for which it stands available for purchase purchase and Richard White of signature back there. It is a big book, he will cover a lot of material with plenty left unread and unheard. If you dont want to pick up a copy, that is a sales pitch, it is the truth. I want to acknowledge the obvious, this is not townhall. It is a townhall program. As you
President trump calling on congress for 1. 5 trillion bill to help fix the country crumbling infrastructure tomorrows report, apple gets a downgrade, disappointing iphone demand and the s p 500 the worst day since may of last year despite the sell off though. Almost, six decades heading into the trading section of the month, each 5. 5. Nasdaq is up 7 for the month. 14 record s p 500 closes is the most since 1955. I have to go back, thats seven years. I heard the speech last night, not only the president , hes literally taking credit for the stock market and hesdone lot to make it so that this rally makes sense. You look at the boeing quarter today. You everyone is skeptical and some of them is antitrump. Come on, this economy is thnot that good. You look at the electricity number, they dont lie and you come back and say listen, what do you want how for real do you want it to be what do you need to see . A 6 gdp number . It is real you can make an argument that it is reflected in stock
A fire grew to three alarms overnight. Destroying a tampa business. It broke out at the big and deals supercenter on east hillsborough avenue just after 9 last night. Crews arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the single story as it was upgraded to a secondalarm because of the size of the building. The roof wasnt stable. So crews had to fight it from the outside. They also called in 2 helicopters. Nearly an hour in. The fire was upgraded once again to 3 alarms. No injuries have been reported. Fire marshals will start their investigation once its safe to go inside. Also developing this morning. A man is critically injured when two cars crashed. Causing one to hit a covered bus stop in saint pete. It happened on 4th street south. Just north of 21st avenue around 7 30 last night. The drivers of the cars were not seriously inju a step forward in the Punta Gorda Citizens Academy shooting investigation. You man remember the case from august. A woman was accidentally killed by a Punta Gord
Clearing condensation from his windshield and did not see the woman and children. The two other children werent hurt. It is exactly three weeks until the president ial election. And for the first time Melania Trump breaks her silence on allegations that her husband sexually assaulted a number of women. Foxs Garrett Tenney reports oh how latest scandals and controversy are affecting voters. Hillary clinton might be up in the polls but her email controversy seem in addition to we can leaks releasing new batch of hacked emails from Campaign Chair john. The f. B. I. Has also released a documents which include claims that in 2015 a Senior State Department official proposed a quid pro quo to the f. B. I. In an attempt to change classification of at least one of Hillary Clintons emails. Both agencies say deal never took place. We looked into this. There was no quid pro quo. Even suggested there wasnt even an inkling of that but that president ial nominee donald trump from calling this latest
Read book so people across the country are able to have conversations about that experience, Kao Kalia Yang is one of the best to take us there. Her new book the song poet, a nice companion piece to a memoir about her father and his role in keeping history alive through the oral tradition. I thought both books were moving, giving me such insight into the role of culture and family life, made me think about how it works. Without further a do, help me welcome Kao Kalia Yang. [applause] can you all see me . Okay. Can you all hear me . Even if you cant see me. Thank you for being here. Im delighted to be back. Two years ago i was here with the late home, her and i am glad to bring you the song poet. I am incredibly proud of this. Im working on speaking slower. People told me i speak too fast. You give me some feedback afterwards, okay . The song poet came out of a conversation i had with my father a few years ago. I asked my dad how does a song poet become . He looked at me a little bit an