America now has more cases of covid 19 than anywhere else in the world new york is the at the center. California is not far behind new york and new jersey and right now weve been monitoring the governor of new york speaking live updating his state about the terrible a state that they are in there and is warning everyone that they are a sign of things to calm because he doesnt believe those numbers as horrible as they are going to apax until 21 days from now so thats what california is worried about becoming the next new york and that is why we are continuing social distancing and shutdowns here in the bay area. Im darya folsom, ive got the latest for you on the virus which is showing. No signs of slowing down John Lawrence has more. The covid 19 pandemic is growing exponentially we see cases doubling every 3 to 4 days for 4 consecutive days this week the us had its deadliest day of reported deaths due to the virus mrs. Day 5 of corn gene in day 5 of widow, good for me. Were clicking of
Including the implications of changing its drug schedule listing and the potential of Cannabis Research. Witnesses from the food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement agency testify on current marijuana policy, the Health Effects of cannabis, and what steps congress can take to allow for more research of cannabis compounds and products. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Welcome to everyone thats here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. According to the department of health and Human Services National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. 33 states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and 11 states and the District Of Columbia have legalized cannabis for adult use. But state laws and federal policy are a thousand miles apart. As more states allow cannabis, the federal government still strictly controls and prohibits it even restricting legitimate medic
The best performer across europe and in the cac 40s sanofi after it said it would give up on diabetes and some Heart Research , and would concentrate on cancer research. That has that stock higher. Barclays lower 1. 7 . That has the european stoxx 600 down about 0. 5 . The ftse 100 down 0. 5 ahead of the election in a couple days. The british pound up 0. 2 . We are joined by christian lawrence, rabobank Senior Market strategist. It is baked into this market . Christian i think its fair to say that a conservative majority is pretty much baked in. The real surprise would be if we didnt see that emerge, so if the conservatives get a minority or if the opposition were to win, but i think that is very unlikely. For me, the major risk is that we could actually see a correction to the downside if the market is disappointed by that number of seats for the conservatives. Alix is that a gradual vonnie is that a gradual move to the downside, or could we see com some kind of got movement . Christi
1890, when wyoming was seeking statehood, members of the senate were outraged. Some people say senators are always outrage. They said wyoming cant join the union unless they rescinded suffrage for women. Famously tabled back to d. C. And said, quote, we re not coming in without our women. Wyoming is very proud of our trail blazing heritage. Im tremendously proud and honored to represent wyoming in congress and very grateful you us this morning to help commemorate. Thank you very much for that. We have a few other things we want to talk about as well. Id like to start by turning things over to the republican ways means committee, mr. Brady, to talk about usmca. Brady good morning, everyone. The announcement of the the United Statesmexciocanada agreement major win for american america. President trump and ambassador have fought hard and delivered hard for a progrowthed a modern trade pack with our north american neighbors after much delay by democrats. Ow its time for congress to pass th
Democratic leaders announced the deal with the white house on the usmexico canada trade agreement and this is half an hour. Good morning everyone. This is a day we all had been working to and working for. We were in rain for a while but until we could cross a certain threshold of enforcement for our workers rights and environment and for the drug issue, as you know there were three of the areas that we had put out there. I want to thank our chairman, richie neil, chairs of the ways and Means Committee and eight members of the task force and i will acknowledge momentarily by thinking them for their leadership in negotiating on different segments of the legislation. I also want to thank richard, president of the aic iop he was persistent and knowledgeable and he really got us to a place which has moved us from our distance with the proposal given to us. There is no question, of course, that this trade agreement is much better than nafta. But in terms of our work here it is infinitely bet