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Testimony from the dhs regarding its decision to ban residents of new york state from trusted Traveler Programs like global entry. Like global entry. On february 5, senior ghs official chad wolfe wrote to new york officials to inform them of the ban, without notifying congress and the members of the new york state delegation who sit on this authorizing committee. Mr. Wolf cited new yorks green light law, a justification for the ban, stating that the law, quote, compromises cbps ability to confirm whether an individual applying for ttp membership meets Program Eligibility requirements. Mr. Wolf then stated, quote, because the act prevents dhs from accessing new york dmv records in order to determine whether a ttp applicant or reapplicant meets Program Eligibility requirements, new York Resident wills no longer be eligible to enroll or reenroll in cbps trusted Traveler Programs. After that announcement, this committee continued to receive inaccurate and misleading testimony that repeated
Caroline you know what . I will go for the interruption technique. No, i am going to play nice. By caffeine and sugar. I tried sweet potato with marshmallow on top, and American American top, an delicacy. Not so sure about it. Onathan a quiet day ahead both sides of the olanta. Caroline of the atlantic. Caroline this is like a black friday of no other. We will have empty stores. Everyone is online. But those traders will still be logging onto their computers. I feel as though perhaps we are going to get a little more activity than we use to. Certainly we sought on the cryptocurrency front. Jonathan we start with equity futures and work our way through the bond market, foreignexchange as well. Equity futures up about seven on the s p 500. We advanced 0. 2 . Outside of that, and the bond market, mentioned the bid into treasuries. Yields coming in on the 30 year to 0. 86 . Eurodollar, some really big calls coming through. Theres a feeling that maybe next year is a repeat of 2017, when we
The most important issue. The blur of information we are getting, the effect on the markets, the effect on the nations politics, it doesnt matter. The pandemic statistics, the cases, the hospitalizations, and yes, rising death rates are front and center. Jonathan couldnt agree more. The conversation is so familiar to everyone sitting in london, in europe watching this play out. You start at 10 00 p. M. Curfew you start to limit dining. Then what . That is the concern for a lot of people this morning. Tom im going to use the hands up. That has proven so effective on radio worldwide. Think of it like three hockey bucks of death in europe. Inis only one hockey puck the United States. Europe is way out front of this, and i am frightened by the idea we will begin to see the deaths expand. The other thing i am frightened by, lisa takes a day off, and rumor has it she left day bear, and i think shes returned a bull. [laughter] jonathan lets see how long this one last. I reckon we can get to a
Too. Rs have eloquence, yesterday our patient suffered a horrifying 144,000 new infections recorded. Overighth straight day of 100 over 100,000 cases being reported. More than six 5000 americans are hospitalized with covid. A new record that threatens to overwhelm our hospitals in rural areas particularly. The devastating milestone of 10 million americans, instead it has been passed. , if they over 100. More than 10 million americans affected. More than 144,000 americans have died. More than 20 million americans america hasloyment one million fewer teachers than a year ago. That is why we keep saying honor our heroes. 8 Million People have fallen into poverty and 17 million children in america are feud insecure. This is a red alert and all hands on deck. It should have been a long time ago. The president and the republicans in congress have ignored by delay, distortion, denial, debts have been cost. What are they doing . Continuing to ignore in spite of these numbers. Hat should be so