First time in decades. Going there for more from beijing is bloombergs selina wang. Give us an update on the situation in terms of the death toll and some of the evacuations from the ships, and also what we have heard about potential delay to the National Peoples congress. Selina we heard from the head hospital that he turning point may be reached, but we did see the number of , so it looks like the virus has not reached a peak yet. Outside china, countries have been stepping up evacuation efforts from these cruise lines. The diamond princess cruise ship in japan reporting the number of infections jumped to 454 after another 99 new cases right in the fight. In beijing, you can still feel the effects on the local economy, with stores and restaurants still closed. There has been a slight uptick in activity as people have resumed work, but only about 40 to 50 of the economy has been running at capacity this week. In beijing, anyone returning from the city has been ordered to self quaranti
President trump, live, unfiltered coverage, on cspan 2, on demand at cspan. Org impeachment. Listen with the free cspan radio app. Next, testimony from financial regulators on oversight and other issues, including Digital Currency, banking liquidity rules and the impact Climate Change could have on the financial industry. Held by the Senate Banking committee, this is an hour and 40 minutes. The committee will come to order. Today, we will receive testimony from the honorable randall quarrels, the honorable mcwilliams, chairman of the fdic and the honorable rodney hood, chairman of the ncua. Welcome to all of you. This hearing provides the committee of supervisory activities of these agencies. Its been over a year now since the Economic Growth regulatory relief and Consumer Protection act and the work of the agencies to implement most of the provisions, including the tailoring rules for u. S. Banks and foreign banks. Your agency should also carefully review the supervisory frameworks an
Bushs legacy, where the bush exhibit chronicles their love affair with maine, president ial years, and the bush connection with une. Withare the wisdom insightful individuals who visit. Today, we had the Incredible Opportunity to examine a Pivotal Moment in american history, and of americas educational system. We gather to learn about and to commemorate the 30th anniversary of president bush convening all 50 u. S. Governors to create a unified set of National Educational goals. This work brought data and research at long last into the process of crafting educational policy. Our event today will undoubtedly shed light on the strides we have made since september 27, 1989, when this historic meeting took place. Oo on thehed light t work left to be done. To introduce the event further and to introduce our special guests, i invite the chairman of the george and Barbara Bush Foundation and a nephew of president and mrs. Bush. [applause] thank you, president herbert. Lovely moment of remembra
About voting press club and the investigations editor in washington for the associated press. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to follow along on twitter using the hash tag npclive. In the audience were members of the general public so any applause or reactions are not necessarily from the working press. Id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all of the head table guests werere introduced. I have the president of the public news all bids and member of the Headliners Team. The former president of the National Press club and we have Eleanor Clift Political Columnist with the daily beast. H e National Reporter at the washington post, beside wesley is michael holloman, Deputy Communications director for faie fight and alex, the political reporter nbc news. Skipping over the podium, to my right is donna, president at the dc media strategy and former president of the club and cochair of the mpc Headliners Team in the skipping over th
I want to mention a couple of upcoming events. On december 4th we have a news maker with Sheldon White house and on december 9th a headliners coffee and conversation with lonnie bunch. And i would like to present miss abrams with down of the most highly coveted items in washington d. C. A National Press club coffee mug. And finally, before your race, one of the things you were known for was writing romance novels. Is there another novel in the works . Oh im glad you asked. I technically still have to write the third novel in the trilogy that i stopped writing when i became democratic leader. Im going to get that one done, because i dont want to hear from my mom or sister again about this. Im working on a new legal thriller, and that should be coming out sometime in the near future. But its going to be under stacey abrams, because the other name is kind of known. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. And we are adjourned. good morning, everyone. The committee will come t