This hearing is just under three hours. [background noises] with the committee will come to order. You declare recesses of the committee at any time. Opening statements but before my Opening Statement id like to also request unanimous consent to submit chairman lucas Opening Statement for the record might not recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. I like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing science and technology the Environmental Protection agency. I am pleased to welcome epa administrator Michael Regan for the very first time in front of the Science Committee. In fact this was the first time any epa administrators testified since 2019 so we certainly have a lot here to discuss. So thank you for coming. While ir appreciate you joining us today have to say her testimony was sent to the committee unacceptably late. Work are witnesses to share the written testimony no less than 48 hours ahead of our hearing. This is not an arbitrary deadline for our members t
Field where people were camped out all night. Youre right, there was nobody more surprising event myself. When i was walking up with my photographer, we are on the way to the team shop. We saw an entire line at the ticketat office. They were telling us theyic are here to buy tickets. Turns out there was a little bit a mistake on the Cleveland Indians website. That was a mistake that cost him to open up the Ticket Office here for a little bit, wanton excited, even some brought to tears. That small mistake led to quite the scene outside the box office this morning, accordinge to the Cleveland Indians, story on their website accidentallyia said the tickets would also be on sale at the box office. As a result, some fans camped out here overnight and through theg pouring rain this morning. To be fair, the indians did open bit, in order to sell to those dedicated fans. Word started to spread commandline started to get longer and longer. Not everyone got tickets, but there were still selling
6 00 a. M. , good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. Lets get right to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley. Bill, i heard you say snow shovels, we both did. I think sunglasses will also be in the order for the day as w l well. Youll need sunglasses, in fact, sun glare will rear its evil head in probably about half an hour. It will be bright. Thin, scattered clouds in the distance. This is what well see all day. A Beautiful Day to start march off. Though it is chilly, colder than yesterday. Milldille is just below freezing, down to 33 degrees in pottstown. Thats falling rapidly. When we went on the air at 4 00 this morning, that was at 42. Now 32 in south philadelphia with very little wind or no wind. Dry air, pockets of colder air just like that. Look how quickly it changes. 5th and wharton, 42 degrees. The influence of water wont have much of an affect during the day. The sunshine will. Bright, sunny skies from 8 00 into this afternoon. Th
Currently, it is down just slightly, but still the elevated levels hovering at just 26. Last week it hovered at 36 which gave some investors pause. The dow is down about 6 in august. The s p is off just about 5. 5 . The nasdaq is down close to 6 as well. Year to date, though, the nasdaq is actually the only major average that is positive by close to 2 . So far, this year. Certainly, a decidedly different trade for the nasdaq on the year. Biotech, some of the highflying tech is helping that. But a 2 gain can be fixed quickly as volatility continues. If its up 100, are we going to say its unchanged . I mean, its nothing, right . It was basically unchanged. 100 points, lets get the latest out of china. Overnight, the central bank injecting 220 billion. And now beijing abandoning the chinese stock market on largescale share purchases. Instead, the paper says chinese efforts will step up efforts to find and punish those destabilizing the market. The benchmark shanghai composite closing down
The New York Times, this headline, a day of silence, Michael Browns father pleading low lull. Republicans attempting to woo black voters. The piece points out that the hearts and minds were black voters wont the one or lost in hearts and minds of black voters. Republicans are determined to make a difference in those settings. Theew years ago his book, political mind, he said the key is appealing emotionally, not to rational faculties. I would suspect that the loyalty that the would not be broken by a few simple ideas. Nuven join us on social media or send us a tweet. The republican struggles recruit black voters and candidates offer is joining us on the line this morning. Caller good morning, how are you. Host baucas to the efforts by rance priebus and the gop to break what has been a byanglehold on black voters the democrats. Caller following the election the republican, party sat down and looked at his voter base. I also covered demographics. American america is becoming majority min