Many years, which is an attack on gods house. Reporter with the suspected arsonist still at large, Church Leaders in and around st. Louis urged Community Members to remain vigilant. Call the authorities if you see anything that doesnt look right. Reporter since october 8th, six churches in predominantly black neighborhoods have been set on fire. The New Life Missionary Baptist Church was so badly damaged, it Held Services outside sunday. Authorities dont yet know who sparked the flames or why but believe the crimes are connected. In each case, an accelerant was used to light the churches on fire. The buildings were all unoccupied at the times of the attacks. There is an alarming pattern to the fires. We dont want them to get out n reporter the churches are not far from ferguson, missouri, an area still reeling from riots that erupted following the shooting death of 18yearold Michael Brown by a white police officer. Authorities believe whoever is behind the fires may be struggling with
Governor, jerome powell. Those stories and more in just a moment but first, we have breaking news on halliburton. Lets go to our chief market correspondent, scarlet fu. Halliburton, the Oil Services Company is cutting 6. 5 percent to eight percent of its workforce. No layoffs planned due to the baker hughes deal, but this is because of the Challenging Market environment. Those were the exact words used by the company. Total had come total headcount at halliburton is about 80,000. The Houston Business Journal reported halliburton would be cutting between 5000 and 6000 jobs. Oil prices have plunged from their highs of last year. If you look at how halliburton shares are performing, take a look at the bloomberg terminal. This is the intraday chart and you can see we opened lower and have been on a little bit of a recovery and yet when the news hit we had our lows of the day, down 2. 8 at the moment. Thank you. Lets return to washington and our chief washington correspondent, peter cook, w
Host welcome to washington journal. If you happen to have one or many past here or present, we are interested in hearing from you about your political hero, if you have one. Heres how you can call in this morning. You can also tell us your thoughts on your political hero on twitter this morning, or our facebook page. You can also send us an email. It was in the light of mayor cuomo, that cbs posted quotes from many leaders. The new York Attorney general said this got us thinking about this idea of political heroes, and if you have one. Again, you can let us know who your political hero is. It can be a political a present day hero, or from the past. All we would ask is that you take the line that best represents you. If you would, please turn on your television when youre on the air, and tell us why that person is a political hero. To give you a little bit of background this was released by gallup. They look at problems in 2014, look at concerns about the top political problem. In the t
It is keeping folks, residents in San Francisco. Put San Francisco back to work. Bring warriors back home where they belong. Im old enough to remember them playing at the cow palace that, is where i first saw them. They need to be back in San Francisco, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, supervisors. Thanks for having me today. My name is ryan row. Im a San Francisco resident. Im also a graduate of San Francisco state university. While in school i had the opportunity to be an intern with the Golden State Warriors. That was an opportunity im thankful for. I think its helped me in my career. Being able to stay here in San Francisco. I think having the warriors in the city will bring those types of similar opportunities to students and kids and families that i was able to have and make it more important to have internships with the teams and move their careers along. I think the warriors should be in San Francisco as well. I think the opportunity is there for students will be more
I appreciate that commitment, thank you. Thank you. If there are no questions open the item up for Public Comment. Im going to be calling from stack of speak of speaker cards. When you hear your name line up against the wall. Each person will be given two minutes. For those who have finished speaking if i ask you to perhaps leave the room and go to overflow to allow for another members of the public to come in and speak, that would be wonderful. Why dont we begin. Here are the namesly be calling. Karl jones. Huey lu. Rachel w, manual hernandez, eddie james, karen woods, ron miguel, jeffrey leibowitz. If you hear your name line up. I will ask the first speaker to come up. Hello, good afternoon. Karl jones come on behalf of seasoned Ticket Holders for the Golden State Warriors. We question that you look at the project and get it going. Also a retired union man so definitely looking forward to it being built and getting jobs to Union Families in San Francisco. Also we need to have the pro