Debated as did sarah palin and joe biden. Nothing has been anything close to this debate and what we have seen leading up to. The pressure on donald trump tonight is enormous. He has come under immense fire with several demanding that he withdraw from the ticket and allow mike pence or rnc to select somebody else. There were reports that mike pence would be seeing how donald trump before he decides his course forward. We should point out that the polls before this incident with the audio that we have seen and cable news, we are heading the wrong direction for donald trump. On the flip side you have Hillary Clinton who is dealing with the wiki leaks emails and all of the different transcripts and speeches to wall street firms that specifically Say Something completely different than what she said on the primary frailtrail. Not only that. Trump has raised the stakes by having the Facebook Event with four women, three of whom are accusing bill clinton of having sexually assaulted them. No
Virginia in nebraska did in fact go to polls today with the republican race. Threecus is instead on general election battlegrounds, florida, ohio and pennsylvania. That is because quitting up university is up with you Quinnipiac University is out with the polls that run counter to clintons current lead over trump in Many National polls. In pennsylvania, clinton and trump are statistically tied. The same is and true in florida, which is a must win state for almost any future president and finally, in ohio, quinnipiac has trump up 43 to 39 for clinton which is within the margin of error, but there is a lot in here to dig into sheer, but as we know polls like this do two things. They reflect reality and they create reality. Begin with the first thing polls do, reflect reality. What reality do they reflect . Mark lets not overreact to one set of polls. The quinnipiac is a good pollster, and the states are obviously critical for determining which one of these lands. Wins. All three of them
Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost alongside Morgan Brennan who is in for sara. Happy tuesday. Our top story the president ial debate. Hillary clinton and donald trump sparring on a range of topics from taxes and trade to homeland security. Under my plan ill be reducing taxes tremendously from 35 to 15 for companies, small and big businesses. Thats going to be a job creator like we havent seen since ronald reagan. The kind of plan that donald has put forth would be trickle down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country that weve ever had. Much more on the highlights from last nights debate in a minute. First lets get up to speed on the market action. This morning 10 out of 11 s p sectors in negative territory. For each of the three main indices, banks the worst performers dragged down really by banking performance in europe but also just a continue jays of the vola
High, but most will be back in their banks this weekend. We should be dry today although the pesky system to our east will return a bit for tomorrow. Today, though, we will be mainly sunny and breezy with north winds at 10 20 mph. Highs will be in the mid 60s to low 70s. We do have some rain in the forecast. Ill have system to ourt you in a few minutes. As iowa continues to recover from flooding some are wondering if theyll be getting help from the federal government. Storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert joins us live in clarksville was one of the worst hit towns by flooding. 150 homes were damaged by water. Some people still cannot return to their properties. Fema will be in town today to look at things. Its important to remember that if you do live in town. They are not here to provide assitance yet. But if you do need help. Churches in the area have everything from gift cards to groceries. Lunch and dinner ar daily at the Lutheran Church many young volunteers have also been helping out
Of supervisors for thursday, march 17, 2016, madam clerk call the roll. Thank you supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum thank you ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you madam clerk any consumption. There are no communications to report madam president colleagues, any changes to the march 15, 2016 regularly Meeting Minutes or the 2016 Budget Finance Committee minutes seeing none, is there a motion to approve motion by supervisor farrell and supervisor avalos colleagues, can we take that same house, same call . Well take that without objection. Those Meeting Minutes pass after. Madam clerk please read our first item the special order the postpones by the hon