Washington journal continues. At the table this morning is kevin kuhlman, he is the Vice President for federal government relations. Thanks for being here, it is National Small business week. Describe what it is like right now for Small Businesses postpandemic. Guest thanks for having me today, happy Small Business week to the more than 33 million Small Businesses, it is the nations leading Small Business efficacy organization, we advocate on behalf of nearly 300,000 Small Business owner members in all 50 state capitals in washington dc, the guiding principle, our Mission Statement is to promote and protect the right of Small Business owner members to own, operate and grow their business to promote and to protect the right of our Small Business members to own and operate their businesses. Its great to be here this Small Business week. Small businesses do face and under certain future and has some economic challenges still, coming out of the pandemic. Inflation and workforce shortages w
i told each one of them, my conversation separately, whatever they need. sincerely, whatever they need, contact me directly. joining me now jamie rome, acting director of the national hurricane center. good to have you with us this hour. we saw in the most recent update, the 2:00 p.m. update that the storm was rapidly intensifying. the major concern at this hour seems to be the storm surge and also just how long this storm could sit. what are the areas that you re most focused on at this hour? i think water is going to be the big issue with this storm, both the incredibly heavy rainfall. you can see it starting to sweep over the southern portions of the florida peninsula. and the storm surge near to the east of where the center makes landfall, and those two when they combine together, it creates a lot of flooding issues. speaking the the mayor of tampa in the last hour, she was pointing to the separate saturation that they re already seeing on the ground there that they
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We had these purchasing managers indices out of china. Gauge, fiveyear highs the unofficial passion days,n manufacture slipping to 51. 6. The prithe deficit that has from the official one. We have some of these large firms distorting things. Large firms are feeling bullish. So. L firms less tailored toa move shore up the economy. Pboc announcing it will reduce the amount of cash the banks must hold in reserve. The economy where it has been scarce. Its not the only pmis we have had. The few places in asisa, asia, the markets are trading. Most closed for a public holiday. Pmi in japan. Haidi we had the pmi data from the nikkei business morning. We had japanese stocks building on gains. Boding well for corporate warnings in Japan Corporate earnings in japan. We we ending higher and sellingng for seleign for chinese stock g for ringgit stocks down. Is sliding except for the hong kong dollar. They could be under pressure given the retreat we are seeing in oil. Falling after setting the two