Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
The governor of texas warns of a massive outbreak. The imf adds to the gloom, further lowering its Growth Outlook, saying the pandemic will cause even more damage than first feared. Haidi that lead really playing into the downside we are expecting in the asian market session. Lets get it over to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for a look at what we are expecting. Board, pulling up the asian futures pointing to losses of 1 or more amid the imf. Warnings of a deeper recession with japan and the Growth Outlook taking a hit. 1. 2 in theup by red this morning. A down day with trade disruptions back on the table alongside virus risks. Flipping the board, we are seeing bonds on the advance. Aussie tenure yields off by four basis points. Treasury futures to the upside after the overnight flattening we saw in cash yields as the bond market is signaling a more cautious outlook than we have seen in stocks. Check out the dollar extending gains against g10 peers with increasing u. S. Trade tensions
A complete lockdown following a surge in the number of covert 19 cases and the wilds west humanitarian crisis the u. N. Calls for an immediate truce in yemen 5 years after a Saudi Led Coalition started the war. On bumpy disturber to do sporty trillion officials believe a Champions League football match could be courtly responsible for the spread of coronavirus in one of the oldest cities well hear from. People who gave 0. Now the European Unions chief says the coronavirus is too big for any one country to handle alone the comments from us live on the land come as spain and france struggle to cope with another surge in cases the e. U. Is calling for unity saying that saving lives has to remain the top priority now spain has had more. More than 600. 00 deaths in just 24 hours g. 20 leaders are holding a meeting through a Video Conference in order to step up the fight to contain the spread of the virus and despite the u. S. Senate approving a 2 trillion dollars package unemployment has no
The 2020 election. Republicans, we want to know what you think about russians trying to interfere in the election. Your number will be 202 7488001. Democrats, we especially want to hear from you on this topic. Your number will be 202 7488000. Independents, your voice counts two, so your voice will be 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us your opinion. That number will be 202 7488003. And we are always reading on social media. , and oner at cspanwj facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, this story was broken yesterday by the Washington Post. We will read a little bit from what the post story says about this this morning. U. S. Officials have told senator Bernie Sanders that russia is attempting to help his president ial campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the democratic contest, according to people familiar with the matter. President trump and lawmakers on capitol hill have also been did thin informed about the russian assistance to the senator, said people
Intervene in a state matter and say stop the state plea because it is insufficient. Reporter i want to ask you a question about the office of professional responsibility. Earlier this year, it was disclosed that they are doing a review into how you and other prosecutors in your office handled this matter. What is the status of that, what exactly are they looking at, will you submit to an interview even though youre no longer with the Justice Department and if they find any misconduct, will you resign . First, i dont know what the status of that is. I would refer that to the office of professional responsibility. I dont speak for them. I will clearly submit for an interview even though i dont have to. I think what they do is important. The office of professional responsibility will have access to the full record. They will have access to all the facts. They will have access to the fbi reports. Theyll have access to the victim interviews. They can look at this matter in its totality. And