School tours to the weeks and the world war ii section. In this area we have set up represents the buildings we quickly put up at the start of world war ii. The reason we had to cook up with them up as we were not prepared for war. The u. S. Military had less than 350,000 soldiers at the outbreak of world war ii. The army, navy and careens and marines combined. By the end of the war we had about 17 million people. To do that we had to put Training Centers all over the country and expand what we had. We had to put Training Centers all over the country and use those types of buildings that are represented. Now, if you notice this is a friend of mine. His name is richard. This is him in september of 1942, when he started his training in georgia. Im wearing boots, coveralls, just the way they did to train. One reason they issued coveralls to train with was world war ii was truly a global war. We were fighting in the pacific in the islands, we were in africa, we were also in europe. So we w
Elections. A little after 1400 hours g. M. T. Which is 2 pm in london 10 am in washington d. C. Keeping an eye on all the updates on the coronavirus pandemic as it stands right now sudan has confirmed its 1st case ukraine is barring all foreigners from entering the country u. S. Markets which you saw a moment ago have rebounded early d trade after they had their worst one day fall in 30 years and as we also mention the e. U. Setting up a 41000000000. 00 fund to help european economies that will be taking a hit. In this outbreak so heres the team at this hour lawrence lee in london keeping an eye on developments across europe also kristen salumi of the New York Stock Exchange starting there with kimberly in washington d. C. Kimberly the story coming out of the u. S. Seems to be the issue of who is being tested or rather who isnt being tested. Yeah absolutely even some members of congress saying they cant get a test despite the fact that they have been meeting with their constituents thi
I will use another strong word. Panic. That is justified. Late yesterday, panicked investors drove the dow down 1191 points. Thats the biggest oneday point loss ever. Okay, thats the backdrop. Now todays reality. The dow at one stage early this morning, futures were down over 600 points. Right now we are down over 400 points. The s p down 50. The nasdaq composite, way down, another 2 lower, off 166 points. Today on this show, we will ask when do we get a rebound . Where are the bargains that longterm investors might go for . Now look at this. This, what you are seeing, is a worldwide rush to put money into ultrasafe u. S. Treasuries. The yield now, 1. 19 . At one stage earlier it was 1. 16 , an historic low. That is a classic flight to safety. Heres what happens when the Global Demand for oil falls out of bed. Sharply lower prices. At this moment, we have got, what, about i think its 45 per barr barrel. That is on the price of oil. Thats the latest on the market action. Now the latest
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Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and