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Hardest. This action will give them maximum flexibility to use the guard against the virus without having to worry about costs or liability and freeing up state resources to protect the health and safety of the people in their state. The federal government has deployed hundreds of tons of supplies from our National Stocks pile to locations with the greatest need in order to assist in those areas. I approved the state of new yorks request for a major disaster declaration, something which Governor Cuomo has been asking for and which i agree. We had it done in very rapid fashion. We approved this on friday evening and were working very, very hard to get all of these things, not only signed up but completed and finished and win. The request from the state of washington for a major disaster declaration was approved just a little while ago. Went through the process and we moved it very quickly. The request from the state of california was just received. We will have it approved very quickly.
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Sports world coming to a halt while the happiest place on earth closes its gate. 2020 race impacted by coronavirus as well, Campaign Events canceled. Debates with no inhouse audiences, mornings with maria live right now. Maria we want to check overseas marks right now, take a look, mixed story over in europe. Ftse 100 now turned negative, down 421 points, 7 lower on financial times. Cac request rant is up 150 and dax index in germany up 307 points. 3 apiece. We are looking at those losses extend this morning in the uk. In asia overnight it was red across the board certainly in the heels of wall street but markets in asia actually closed off the lows of the session, worst performer was japan, down better than 6 followed by korea. South korea banning short selling for now 6 months, lets check Interest Rates, the yield on the 10year treasury moving up. The yield is up now 10 basis points at level of. 896 on the 10year, Oil Prices Rising this morning after 2 days of decline as the price wa
Affairs Committee Member looks at what the relations mean for u. S. Taiwan relations. Hello. Welcome everyone. Im walter logan. Im director of the Asian Studies center here at the heritage foundation. I really appreciate all of you coming out, thank you. I want to thank rustle shou for partnering with us on this program today. Im so glad we could work this out. You know, there was a little election over the weekend. I dont know if everyone noticed, but judging by the turnout, perhaps you did. You know, at the outset here i just want to say a couple of things about the elections in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and turn it over to our guests and our Panel Speakers to offer real advice on it, real insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I not only highlight that because i think we all are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, all practical purposes, taiwan is really not a part of