Could succeed as aviators. But they proved to be so good at their job that by the end of the war, their services were in high demand by white bomber pilots. While serving in a segregated military, these brave and historic pilots and their support teams fought farb itch abroad and racism at home. I recently had the honor of participating in the celebration of the Tuskegee Airmen at umassboston. Among the airmen honored that the event were Fighter Pilots george hardy both men served in world war ii, korea, and vietnam. Charles mcgee hold it is u. S. Air force record for most combat fight permissions ever flown. 409. Both men now in their 90s, are part of a dwindling group of Tuskegee Airmen. Here is part of my conversation with two of americas best. I tried to figure out what to do. By the time 1942 came, i knew i wanted to fly. The initial guys were college graduates, say. As the years went on, several years, they reduced to that high school graduates. They needed more pilots. More and
Sky fox actually captured crews loading the victim into a medical helicopter from the hanlin school just after 4 00 p. M. And we are told the person was walking down whetherby drive when they were hit near adams street. The driver involved did not appear to be involved in any way and will most likely not face criminal charges. Nearly a month after election day, New Hampshire is seemingly still plays a big role in national conversation. Vanessa donald trump lumped in the Granite State with two others, implicating the results arent serious. Voter fraud in virginia, New Hampshire crystal haynes live tonight in New Hampshire, and crystal, this comes as green party candidate, jill stein is calling for recounts in three states. The reporter the lexington candidate tells me, green party tells me, that she understands this is going to be a massive undertaking to get all of these deadline. Green party candidate, jill stein, tells me, all it took was a news release and a westbound page to raise
Global equity markets looking pretty decent, firming up in europe with the ftse up about 48 points. Futures positive in the United States. Yields on the 10 year, pretty much unchanged at 124 1. 84 . Look out for that. Table at the moment, 146, its a stronger pound. We will get to that. Then imac of about. 4 . The brand down for the sixth straight day. The lira strengthening down to 297, the Turkish Central Bank cutting its rates to 945 . Lets go to indepth coverage of our top stories. Guy johnson in london, where mark carney talks brexit. Matt miller in frankfurt. In brussels, where finance managers meet on greek simin demokan. Jonathan the bank of England Governor Mark carney is testifying this morning. Guy, the momentum seemingly behind the remain campaign. What is mark carney have to say . Guy he has the responsibility to stand up and make clear the risks that are associated with the referendum. Hes not backing down on that. Everything you said today felt very caveated. It wasnt the
Doesnt have much room to rise. Is the crude rally done . Welcome to the program. Half an hour until the market open. Good morning, caroline. Lets talk about whats going on in terms of the equity market. After the volatility of the last few days, today looks relatively benign. We are looking for a reasonably flat open, a little bit of the softer side. 1 10 ofutures, ftse 100 1 higher, Everything Else looking softer. Caroline yeah, and the ripples of the italian concerns seem to be failing as fast as asia. Msci down, the first time we have seen a drop in that market in the week. We are seeking a move to new havens. The dollar is trading lower, yen trading higher, yields really pushing lower. U. S. Treasuries near a record low, aussie bond yields of 1. 94 , crashing to new alltime lows as the rba holds fire for the Interest Rate changes and italy yields are just pushing up slightly. Clearly, concerns once again about the banking system, the need for recapitalization and merkels decision,
Out, you can see that japan, the nikkei was flat, too. The hang seng and shanghai deposit down, too. Japan, the flat market there, japan avoiding a recession in the First Quarter gdp expanding by an annualized 1. 7 . Much more than a 0. 2 increase forecasters had predicted. Take a look at whats happening in european equities, the modest dines for the dax, cac, ftse. Down by 0. 25 . Take a look at crude oil price this morning, kruld is unchanged got all the way up to 48. 31. Brent crude is down six cents to 41. 42. Finally check out currency, across the board after comments from fed officials making it sound like june is actually a live meeting. Well debate this. The euro is at 1. 1266. The yen at 109. 41. Weve got top stories including political news, Bernie Sanders winning the oregon prime but nbc news is reporting that Hillary Clinton is the winner in kentucky. 99 tallied. Shes now within 100 of the delegates needed to clinch the democratic nomination. Goldman sachs downgraded its eq