My name is theo tyson. It is my distinct and sincere pleasure to welcome you and our speaker christina wolbrecht, this evening. Before we begin, i want you to please take note of the two emergency exits that are marked at the front and rear of the room. If you will also take a moment to please silence your cellphones so that we do not disrupt this fascinating top. While you are doing that, i would love to share with you and installation that i have recently curated on our north while entitled anti suffrage. Using materials from he boston athenaeum special collections, we take a look at how the Suffrage Movement contributed to be designing womens roles and responsibilities and society from various perspectives as they abide for quality. It represents the complexities to secure and protect Voting Rights for women and people of color in the past and today. Please take a look after the top. Id love to hear your feedback. If you have any questions ill be here to answer them. I should also m
We will have some cool down again next week ill pick after today we will have a little warmup but a lot of fog and storms in the mountains erupting the last couple of days. A little overcast and breezy to just a roaring delta wind at some Higher Elevations of 30 . 50s and 60s on the temperatures and there is some sun breaks but thats a pretty decent fog wake when you get 3045 mile per hour wins out there setting the stage for cooler day today. That fog bank is large and temperatures mostly below average today. In the city, do you want to start their . We do want to start in the city. Thats for sure. We have a big problem. A couple of different crashes with one car on fire on 80 westbound right here in symphysis go. You can see that it looks like the bar may be out but the lanes are blocked here from that picture we are showing you from a caltrans camera. I can put it on the map for you here and show you what it is doing to traffic. And slowing all the way across the bay bridge. Here is
Power lunch starts right now. Welcome to power lunch. Hi, everyone. In today for kelly evans. It has been a long road back, but the s p 500 right now is near those record highs from february. About 1. 5 away. But as the nasdaq lags the browder market, check out some of the cloud names under pressure. Cloudflare, dropbox, zoom, and docusign. And you can see these moves playing out the industrial sector slee sector is leading the way as is energy. Tyler. President trump signing a number of executive orders over the weekend to expand relief efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic. As congress failed to get a deal done. Steve liesman looks as what the impact of these executive orders could be. The president s orders over the weekend getting mixed reviews today from economists. In just the past hour, jp more conpublished a report saying, quote, the executive orders could reduce the urgency for congress and the white house could get a more comprehensive deal done. If this is all we get for a f
As millions clean up from an intense Tropical Storm, even more now face dangerously hot temperatures, some in the triple digits. Why it may last the rest of the month and maybe even longer. And one big test. A 15year project to protect 1,500 years of culture is used for the first time. Well take you to venice to see what billions of dollars bought and why it took so long. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The president of the United States told me that he decided to use his extraordinary powers of clemency. Reporter President Trump commuted the sentence of longtime friend and confidante roger stone just days before stone was due to report to prison. The president saying if you lie for me, you cover up for me, i will reward you. Reporter death rates surging in at least ten states with texas extending its statewide coronavirus disaster declaration. Actually the worst is yet come reporter Ghislaine Maxwell is requesting bail. Reporter
Toward the finish line. I look forward to continue to advance us legislation today. And passing it this week. Mr. President. This morning, the long march for equality for lgbtq americans took a step forward. The Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that federal employment discrimination protections do in fact extend to lgbtq americans. Believe it or not, before today, it was allowed, the federal government did not say you could prevent let me say that in a different way. Believe it or not before today, it was not a settled legal matter that you could sue your employer for firing you solely on the basis of Sexual Orientation or sexual identity. In 2020 in america, it was still okay to discriminate against people because of their Sexual Orientation or identity. Is that unbelievable . Twentyfirst century, still alone. Well, now it isnt. Because of the Supreme Court. And, they deserve credit for that case. And one of the cases that formed the basis of todays ruling originated in m