A quorum is present and i know for the subcommittee and from florida and michigan and texas and tennessee michiga michigan, kentucky, wisconsi michigan, kentucky, wisconsin,. Pennsylvania, mr. Johnson of south dakota and pennsylvania they all have committed to participate in todays hearing that the questions will only come after the subcommittee of workforce protections on both sides of the aisle are present either in person or via remote participation due to House Resolution 965 and the accompanying regulations and had an opportunity to question the witnesses the subcommittee is meeting today for a hearing on examining the federal governments actions to protect workers from covid19 both in the hearing room and for those members participating remotely you will be kept muted as a general rule to avoid any unnecessary background noise members will be responsible for and muting themselves when they are recognized to speak or when they seek recognition a rollcall is not necessary to establ
Every 24 hours, it doesnt mean that the number of people that i just reported as having died died in the last 24 hours. There is some lag in reporting and sometimes people die and test is pending and its not until the test comes in positive that that death is then reported to us as a covid19 death. Sometimes i think people are tested completely after they have died. And so we are going to try to start reporting at least personally the number of people who actually expire over the previous 24 hours so that we can take a look at that. The reason thats important is, as i mentioned last week several times, the real numbers that were paying most attention to about covid in louisiana arent so much the testing numbers, but the number of hospital admissions and deaths. Because we know there are a lot of asymptomatic people out there. We dont know what that percentage is that have covid19. But theyre not going to be tested. But we know from data gathered here in the United States and in other c
Investors are not so sure. A Virtual Reality platform picked up for oculus. We are live in san francisco. Lets get to sophie forecheck on markets. Sophie aussie shares are unchanged after a threeday gain. Kiwi shares building on gains after topping 11,000 on tuesday. Nikkei and cost be futures kospi are lower. Slide despite the enthusiasm we saw for alibaba shares, which closed about its issuance price. Lets check on housing bonds, which are gaining ground after the rba governor the move tracking treasuries. Aussie yields falling 35 basis points across the curve. The three years left below the rba cash rate. A bond rally expected to push the 10 year to 50 basis points with unconventional easing expected in the second half as the australian economy slows. The kiwi holding its threeday gain. This morning, we heard from the rb governor. Mentioned rbnzso is working with westpac after the findings in australia. Paul thanks very much. Lets check in with first word news. Chinaly indicators sh
There we have the east west splits across europe not just in terms of clear skies and then cloudy skies but also the time which a 1st well lets talk about this crowd and the rain because it has been coming in with a bit of a vengeance and certainly dumbing down the skies into Southern France this is nice is one brave soul doing their best to enjoy the weather despite the fact the rain is coming down more of a monday quite heavy at times as well through the southeast of france bushing on into switzerland and also northern italy meanwhile across Northern Europe what a bank of chad against the more showers quite cool 15 celsius in madrid meanwhile 24 in bucharest so this is about 6 degrees above the average for the time here i mean it is about 5 degrees below quite a bit of cloud across the central but areas on shes day and thats when the rain is really very heavy through eastern as a spain we could actually have some localized flooding from that system so 1st of all monday were going to
Coming up, your calls and reaction on Robert Muellers testimony before the house judiciary and house Intelligence Committees yesterday. Washington journal is next. Did you actually totally exonerate the president . No. Your report states a did not exonerate the president. It does. Your investigation actually found multiple asked by the president capable of exerting undue influence over Law Enforcement investigations, including the obstruction and russian investigations. Correct. Can you give me an example other than donald trump where an investigated person was not exonerated because innocence was not conclusively determined . I cannot. I will tell you why, it doesnt exist. Host good morning. We will begin today with your reaction to Robert Muellers testimony yesterday. The former special counsel sitting and fielding questions for nearly seven hours with lawmakers questioning, what stood out to you . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. Join us on