Muchemptier House Chamber than were used to seeing, because of limitedandspacedout seating. The meat of the address. Bidens pitches for hugespending plans or investments, if you like, in jobs and families and tax reforms to overhaul the economy. And rebuild the middle class. The middle class was claimed that biden was ground that biden, clearly, wants to reclaim for the democrats. Although, demographics and optics and policies seem to be taking democrats away from that group. Biden, stubbornly, stayed with it. And i say stubbornly in neither judgmental or not. But clearly, it was a message he wants. He laid the groundwork to frame the battle over how to pay for he wants what he wants to spend. Heres a little bit. You know, theres a broad consensus of economists, left, right, and center, and they agree what i am proposing will help create millions of jobs and generate historiceconomic growth. These are among the highestvalue investments we can make, as a nation. Ive often said our great
Betting we cant and i promise you theyre betting we cant. They believe were too full of anger and division and rage. They look at the images of the mob that assaulted the capitol as proof that the sun is setting on american democracy. But theyre wrong. You know it. I know it. But we have to prove them wrong. We have to prove democracy still works, that the government still works and we can deliver for our people. It was in an astonishing statement from an american president made the more urgent because the other party in the chamber last night shows no signs of stopping the quest to undermine democracy. Moments after President Biden finished the address senator scott delivered the republican response in which he vigorously defended and championed the georgia voter Restriction Bill as mainstream and same bill that the states Lieutenant Governor descreens as the direct result of the big lie and baseless concerned of Election Fraud and drew rebuke from major corporations and led the mlb t
That will be taking us through the morning at times the showers will actually be coming down pretty good across the day so roadways are already wet. Weve got even more rainfall to be expected on top of that and pretty regularly over the next few days a quiet view from berkeley right now its nice to see that you can actually see down into the city from the hillsides up about now where we sitting with radar as you can see theres still plenty rainfall out there to be seen across the bay area in fact that heaviest of rain that i mention its worked its way just to the south and east of san jose but if you move to the north and west there are still these scattered showers that i mentioned that are sitting across the rest of the bay area zooming in theres your areas of that heavy rainfall that lot of last night. So this is the bay right here south in particular san jose right at the end of the blue arrow their heaviest of rainfall now working its way just to the south and east of morgan hill
An eye watering loss. Costsosses and rising mean bonuses are set to disappoint. We are seeing u. S. Futures flat. This, of course, after we had the regular session seeing record highs. At one point, topping the record reached in february before the pandemic. Every sector on the s p 500 was in the green. We have nikkei futures moving higher as we have the japanese yen under pressure. We have seen it fall against the u. S. Dollar for the past four sessions. Right now trading around the weakest in three weeks. In sydney, futures higher. We have the aussie dollar listed a little bit higher. We have a softer u. S. Dollar, not to mention higher commodity prices. We have kiwi stocks at the moment gaining ground after seeing the worst day in a month. This as we have rbnz expanding their qe program. Gains in the currency returns, commodity exports, unr holdings qnr holding steady. U. S. And chinese negotiators plan to discuss progress in the phase one trade deal. Pushing toset to be widen the a
Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So lets go ahead so the motion passes. Can we have a roll call on the item itself as amended. Clerk on item 46 as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So the resolution as amended is adopted. Madam clerk, lets call item 47. Clerk item 47 is a resolution to oppose indias exclusionary National Register of citizens and citizenship Amendment Act and reaffirming San Francisco as a welcoming city, expressing the city and county of San Franciscos board of supervisors solidarity with San Franciscos south Asian Community regardless of religion and caste. President yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar colleagues, i know its very late, but i would like to speak to this item because so many south Asian Community members spoke out on this and its important to them. Through this motion, San Francisco is joining an International Movement in condemning indias exclusionary citizenship amendment and also joining cities like seattle,