2020 has been a year of challenge and triumph for americas space agency. The covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations, but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include launching american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. And returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars and preparing the space launch systems sls rocket and orion crew capsule for the first deep Space Exploration Program Mission next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine is here to provide us with an update on the missions and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress on the program is critical to achieving the goals of landing the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024 and establishing a sustainable presence opresent on or around r circus by 2028. Congress has given support for many key components of the arguments, notably
All right. This hearing will come to order. 2020 has been a year of challenge and triumph for Americas National space agency. The covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations, but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include launching american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. Returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars, and preparing the space launch systems, sls, rocket and orion crew capsule for the first deep Space Exploration Program Mission next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine is here to provide us with an update on nasas missions and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress on the art miss program is critical to achieving the goals of landing the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024, and establishing a sustainable presence on or around the lunar surface by 2028. Congress
The concern about the stronger currency, not to worry just yet. We saw that euro jump. Ist weakness on brexit sparking a rebound in the dollar. Your offshore renminbi, we are set to break six weeks of gains. 683 right now. That is below 40 right now. We have copper also and gold on the back foot. Oil prices on track for the biggest twoweek drop since what we saw back in april. Lets get to the first word news, we have Karina Mitchell. Senate democrats have shut down a relief plan proposed by republicans. They failed to get the 60 votes they needed. Estimatedican plan is at anywhere between 500 and 700 billion dollars. The democrats are proposing to. 2 trillion. 2. 2 trillion. Boris johnsons government refused to scrap plans to reignite the divorce accord. The eu is threatening legal action if the u. K. Does not drop the legislation within three weeks. Thes president has painted an optimistic picture. Economic data suggests a strong rebound. They kept policy on hold for Economic Contract
Previous peak on february 19th and all i heard is its because were having a v shaped recovery wrong, wrong, wrong. Not just wrong but laughable in a v shaped recovery the Dow Jones Industrial average would be hitting highs but this move is led by the nasdaq and s p including today the dow lost 67 points as the s p advanced 2. 3 , the nasdaq gained 7. 3 you dont need to be a Rocket Scientist to figure this out look at the stocks that have brought us to these levels they are not the recovery plays. In fact, they are the opposite they are stocks that tend to do well because of what we call secular considerations, not secular like nonreligious but secular as in they are doing well because of trends in their own industries, not the economy. Far from it. Allow me to explain. We had a magnificent v shaped recovery in the stock market, but the stock market is not a great reflection of the voter economy anymore. If anything, the actual economy is in precarious shape now that the government stim
355. The United States is taking no chances evacuating americans on board the ship. Here are the latest numbers from china. They reported 105 more deaths today. There are more than 2,000 new cases bringing the total number to almost 71,000 cases worldwide. Most of those in china. That flight headed to Travis Air Force base is now in the air and expected to land later tonight. Ktvu alyssa arrington is at the airport with details. Reporter they will monitor passengers during the flight and when they arrive here at Travis Air Force base during the quarantine period. If anyone shows symptoms, they will be treated off site. Melanie herring is onof about 300 evacuees who packed up and finally left the quarantined diamond princess cruise ship that had been docked in yokohama, japan, to board a chartered flight back to the United States. She posted videos of her ordeal on social media. Its been very trying and it looks like we are on the second half of this ordeal and there is a kind of bright