I mean what is happening in my city is worrying me. Because my mom is a lively city and see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen. Airport has now suspended all flights its neighboring airport now restricted to running only domestic flights but that hasnt stopped people attempting to get away. Fearing further contagion leaders of italys southern regions have warned hundreds of thousands of its citizens who went to work or study in the north of the country not to return home but groups of people continue to arrive from milan arriving with their masks on but there was no one to test them for covert 19. The harsh restrictions are designed to slow down the spread of the disease but there are fears that it may be too little too late hospitals in the affected region have been inundated and sick residents are now being asked to stay at home a stretched Health Care System is struggling to keep up with the increasing numbers there are no more
Maria we want to get a check on Global Markets this morning. A lot of action, rally in europe as well as the u. S. Right now. Take a look at european indices, cac quarante up 72 and dax up 147 points. Euro zone purchasing managing index better than expected. The spread of the coronavirus is expected to cause weakness going forward. Remember, the outlook thats materially changing right now. We continue to see the numbers today pretty strong. In asian overnight markets are mostly higher. Take a look, the weak spot was hong kong. The others fractionally moving although korea was up 2 and a quarter percent. We do have more bad Economic News out of china. The service purchasing manager index slide to go record low overnight. February car sales plummeting 80 year over year. South korea announcing stimulus package to fight coronavirus. People are saying if he has to cut 50 basis points before meeting, what does he know that we dont know. Maybe its a lot worse that we thought, as a result the
Surprised he was Kamala Harriss exit. I felt like she had one of the clearer pathways to the nomination and i was surprised about her early exit. The other thing that may not be the surprising is remarkable stability of joe biden and Bernie Sanders throughout this process. Biden has remained consistent in National Polling. Different in iowa and New Hampshire. Bernie has been relatively consistent. Then you have to look at mayor viablemerging as a very candidate coming out of basically nowhere. The mayor of south bend and now he is leading the polls in iowa and New Hampshire. He has a real good chance to win both of those states. Those are some things that surprised me the most. Host who do you think has the easiest path right now . If you look at the nomination i think it is biden. I think biden has demonstrated the ability to have the broadest older africanamerican voters, africanamerican workingclass white voters, bluecollar white voters. I think if you look at his strength nationall
For now, democratic consultant. Atg starts by looking back 2019, what surprised you the most about where we ended up in the democratic president ial primary . The first thing that surprised he was Kamala Harriss exit. I felt like she had one of the clearer pathways to the nomination and i was surprised about her early exit. The other thing that may not be the surprising is remarkable stability of joe biden and Bernie Sanders throughout this process. Biden has remained consistent in National Polling. Different in iowa and New Hampshire. Bernie has been relatively consistent. Then you have to look at mayor viablemerging as a very candidate coming out of basically nowhere. The mayor of south bend and now he is leading the polls in iowa and New Hampshire. He has a real good chance to win both of those states. Those are some things that surprised me the most. Host who do you think has the easiest path right now . If you look at the nomination i think it is biden. I think biden has demonstra
Particular has a monumental role. It endeavors to guard the values and architecture of liberty, equality, and solidarity found in the constitution. It does so against the excesses of majority rule, partisanship, or president ial overreach. The Supreme Court, however, is made up of nine individual human beings. Each with her or his individual perspective on the balances struck in the constitution, and on the precise guideposts on decision making. We are most proud to have one of these nine with us this evening. Stevenslecture is honorable elana kagan, associate justice of the United States of Supreme Court. [applause] mr. Anaya notably, Justice Kagan replaced Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court after the late justice announced his retirement and president barack obama appointed her to the court. Justice kagan served as the first female solicitor general of the United States and in that position, she argued a number of important cases to the Supreme Court. She had a storied legal career