Folks, i guess we are going to start here. So, thank you so much for coming and i hope you are comfortable because im going to talk for a bit here. My name is Mark Pendergrass as a about a third of the people in the audience do because that is their name, also. They are related to me. This is the bookstore i love to come to all independent bookstore with great hearts and is also close to where the pendergrass enclave has lived for many many years. I grew up he or in atlanta. I live in vermont, now. I come back here frequently to see my mother who is right here in my father who was very much involved in my research for this book. Read most of the manuscripts and who died last year at the age of 99 and a half and i just want to dedicate this whole talk to him. He was a wonderful, wonderful, kind, generous man and i dedicate the book to him into my mother into my made, my africanamerican maid whose name was willie mae and whom i call me and i will be talking about her maybe i should talk
Our investors are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We were asking about under armor earlier too. More on that is coming up. The socalled fang stocks, those that yuld used to be the hottest in the tech sector. Two have been losing their bite lately. Well look at whats behind the decline of their names and wherever they can recover. And well talk about the future of cable and well speak exclusively with the president of Cox Communications coming up. Meantime one of the stories that set the stage for this morning, we had home depot dropping despite an earnings beat. Courtney reagan here to make sense of it all. Hi, there. Bill. Home depot again posting Quarterly Results Strong Enough to beat analysts expectations for profit and revenue and its most important quarter of the spring. And for extra positivity, it raised its earnings forecast. They grew more than 7 in the u. S. , more than 6 when you add in mexico and canada. However, comes did decelerate each month of the quarter to
[indiscernible] finishing up with former cia Deputy Director michael morell. We will air this again later in the program schedule, or you can watch it again shortly online at cspan. Org. We do have more life events coming up today. Joe manchin will be speaking at the Brookings Institution this afternoon. He will be talking about governing from the middle. Watch his remarks live at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan3. Later, its more from the road to the white house with Hillary Clinton. She would making her second appearance in iowa. She is talking about ideas to expand small business. You can see that live at 3 45 eastern also want cspan3. President obama is traveling today, he will be in new jersey this afternoon to talk about Community Policing here it he is expected to talk about a drawdown in the amount of military equipment being provided to Law Enforcement. That starts at 3 10 eastern. Youll be a watch it online at cspan. Org. The president is expected to acknowl
Maybe they got up early just in case there was a bart strike. The good news is there is no strike this morning. The bad news is there still could be a strike come monday morning. They are working on that. Negotiations continue and we will have coverage on that, thank you for joining us waking up with us on friday morning, october 11th, i am pam cook. Good morning, i am dave clark, we will check weather and traffic, steve is right over there. I am, low clouds around, a cooler day by the coast, you friday forecast temperatures coming down a little bit. Not too much. Mainly by the coast. We will see upper 50s or low 60s. Inland temperatures mainly low to mid 70s or upper 60s really. 40s some, 50s others, there is a chill in that morning air so kind of bundle up a little bit. Jacket weather or layer weather, thick fog, cool, i knew i had to cough, i could feel it coming, just trying to get through that. Mostly sunny, a little breezy later on today. It happens, hey, it happens. You can see
Done. I know to my friends and colleague i have been a pain and to one guy i need to say a special thanks and step up here for a minute and this is important. I spent 18 hours on a plan and bugging him about the grants and were in the middle seats and six and a half ride from dc and all he did was smile so i want to say thank you for believing in us and going after the two grants and everyone thank you very much. Its our absolute pleasure. Yay giants. Yay 49ers, the commissioner is here as well and thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. roll call . Commissioner harrison. Commissioner arata. Here. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner martin. And commissioner levitan has an excuse, absent. Well start i have a couple of announcements as part of my report and then well move on with the regular agenda. This is the recreation and Park Commission meeting of september 20, we welcome everyone here today and we ask that you turn off Electronic Devices that may sound off during these p