Before we do now as we call off each crirn, they will stand and well have old glory, the flag thats been taken around the world, presented to each one of them and theyll be saluted for their service. Presenting the flags is a father and son team, jason atiri from the national defense. Iversity and his son r. Garnett h. Hammond. Mr. Hammond enlisted in the u. S. Army reserves Officers Training corps while attending howard university, as an army soldier, he served in the you apparent theater in world war ii serving in england, france, and germany and was a tech 5 sergeant and served as a mail clerk until receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1946. After the war, mr. Hammond worked as the United States National Postal museum in washington, d. C. For 35 years. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Garnett h. Hammond. Second is mrs. Burt bresher, serving with a woman accepted for volunteer emergency service, the waves, a unit of the United States naval reserve, mrs. Dresser was stationed as pontiff point
You. First thing is first, we always check the markets. On whates us guidance investors think. The Federal Reserve continuing to drive a rally in the dollar. Asian shares falling, u. S. Equities higher. The topix finishing at the highest since december 2015. Yen was lower. Tokyo shares jumped after the dow at 21,000. Little bitocks a unchanged after closing at the highest level in more than a year yesterday. The dollar extending some of these gains after brainard became the latest fed official to support the case for an Interest Rate hike. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra the u. S. Justice confirmed that attorney general Jeff Sessions had conversations with russias ambassador to the u. S. While he was a surrogate for Donald Trumps campaign. He said during his confirmation hearing that no contact occurred. Sessions said in a statement that he never met with russian officials to discuss the campaign. The news has prompted Top Democrats to call for him t
They will be saluted for their service. Nting the flex is a presenting the flags is a father and son team from the National Defense university. As an army soldier, he served in the theater of operations during world war ii, serving in england, france, and germany. He was a sergeant and served as a mail clerk until receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1946. After the war, he worked as a u. S. Postal museum in washington dc for 35 years. [applause] second, a woman serving with Overture Service waves, the unit of the u. S. Naval reserve. She was stationed at rhode island from 1943 to 1946, working in the war bound office. [applause] the next, a chief Master Sergeant in the army in world war ii and was a prisoner of war. During his 18 months in activity in captivity he escaped 3 times from the germans and wants from the russian liberators. After the war he tried to join the army to go back to germany to find the nurse who kept him alive by sneaking him food. Unfortunately he was not allowed
First of all, we have a great show aligned up. Joining us for the hour is allia nz chief Investment Officer and ceo. It will be great to get an update. First thing first. Lets check on the markets. We also have a little bit of breaking news from south africa. This is what european stocks are doing, down 0. 5 . Dollar strengthening against all thets major perrs oers on prospect of a u. S. Interest rate hike. Japanese shares, weighing whether better than expected Economic Growth reduces the need for stimulus. Then we had the cpi figure in south africa rising. In line with what economists were expecting. The finance minister, that may be putting pressure on the rand, 15. 81 against the dollar. Lets get to first neword news. In governments and Consumer Spending compensated for slighted Business Investment. Gdp expanded by 1. 7 to the end of march, exceeding all forecasts. Meanwhile, the october to december quarter was revised to 1. 7 contraction, worse than previous estimates. Suzuki motor
Arrange for on overflow room and again, if youre occupying a seat for that item youll be sitting here for sometime okay. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner wu we expect commissioner johnson to be absence today commissioners, the first item on your agenda is our items proposed for continuance item o1 Market Street preliminaries negative declaration is proposed until march 16 and item 2 post street also known as as peace plaza suit 3 hundred conditional use authorization is proposed until march 2016 and item 3 at van ness conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance until march 17 and item 4 somerset street conditional use authorization has been withdrawn and finally item 5 Fourth Street avenue conditional use authorization it, too has been withdrawn i have no other items proposed for continuance and 3rd strei h speaker cards. Any Pub