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And unrest happening in minneapolis in response to the death of mr. Floyd. Gov. Walz good morning, everyone. This has been the most difficult week in minnesota in recent history and maybe in our entire history. Our community, especially our black community, is hurting beyond words. Minneapolis and st. Paul are on fire. The fires are still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, much like we failed unheard, much like we failed to hear george floyd as he pleaded for his life as the world watched by people sworn to protect him, his community, our state. Philando castile, silenced, unheard, so many other friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers senselessly died in our street. And now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world, and the world is watching. One of the first people i called after seeing the video was valerie castile, philandos mother. We have become friends since the killing of philando. For thos
Im the president and ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience. And im pleased we are also Live Streaming program this evening and we will be on book tv and live on forever and ever. The founding members of the museum and members of the Revolution Society and people that are great supporters. We are pleased to partner and see them up on the screen. I know Tim Gillespie but all i can see is darkness. Tim and Joe Maclachlan so lets thank them. [applause] welcoming doctor Vincent Browne as is sometimes the case that not all that often in the exhibitions for the museum here so long before the shuttle was in the ground and the steel began rising in philadelphia it was exciting stories and a professor of africanAmerican History at Harvard University. The garden that won the prize and the award if there was an opportunity right now and the slave revolt in jamaica in 1761 and it is a narrative you can go online and you may be spe
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Above 24,000 keeping an eye on whats happening with this. The dow has been up. The First Time Since february. If the dow is up again for the fifth session, the first time that has happened since the middle of january. Crude oil has been a big concern. That is down 11. 5 to 11. 85 you are looking at energy being the best performing for april even despite these big swings we have other energy news back with bp out the energy giant reported a 67 slide. Ceo Bernard Looney that the company had a good quarter tough environment here to date it has just been historic and went negative for a while. Back to 12. Crazy. Which is relative how many acres do you have there. You could store oil. Could you put a tank in the ground or just fill the pool we could probably do both we could do a whole oil field here no one Takes Delivery you would think given the challenges that uber is having, they would be doing oil delivery the other thing i told you to buy with all that land is live cattle instead, we