Good morning, and a warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc i am wilfred frost. Seema mody. We saw the s p 500, up 0. 6. Encouraging given a lot going on last week. This morning we are pointing a little low, the dow lower by 22 points, nasdaq by 12, s p by two points gasoline futures sharply higher, harvey knocks 15 of capacity off line more on that in a moment weve got gas prices up around 4 this morning. The latest on the situation in texas following Hurricane Harvey these are pictures from the houston area, much of the fourth large city is underwater flood waters swallowing entire neighborhoods as they race to help stranded residents. Heres the latest. More than 20 inches has fallen in houston in the past 24 hours, more expected in the coming days two deaths blamed on Hurricane Harvey more than 218,000 people are without power. Some 13 million from san antonio to lafayette, louisiana are under flood watch warning. The white house announcing that yesterday President Trump wil
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Number to call is 202 5853882. You can send us a tweet cspanwj or join us on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email. Already many of you are weighing in on this topic on facebook. A couple of comments from josh saying keeping our Young Americans out of pointless wars keep it up, president obama. Bonnie says what Foreign Policy . He has none. Good morning on the sunday. We want to begin with an assessment of where the president is after his weeklong trip that included stops in brussels, the netherlands and italy. Joining us here in washington is fred kempe the president and ceo of the Atlantic Council will stop we appreciate you being with us on this sunday morning. Guest it is a pleasure. Host let me begin with the broader if it issue, the president beginning a significant amount of time in europe, trying to realign our relations in light of what is happening in ukraine. Guest steve, first of all we have got to remember that president s do not choose the moments
Is there to debate the topic on trial for the blind horse on it the eye. Its an extraordinary session of the osce is underway. Indiana to sow it with reports that there is just that a decision to send one hundred civilian monitors to you crying while more details on this development as they can and one reason for that theres unrest in the countrys east and just across the border of Russian Troops are conducting movements enforced no Washingtons National security adviser susan rice as the us is monitoring the situation has grown skeptical about russia assurances that these are simply military exercise in these developments come as the interim government in kiev moved to bind ukraine more closely to the European Union its a rare demonstration of european unity. Eu leaders signed the political section of a Partnership Agreement designed to bring the block and ukraine closer together it includes concrete aid for ukraine and it sends a strong signal to russia. Russia is a strong and success
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, on this vote, the ayes are 54, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, the senate will r resume legislative session. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 333, h. R. 3979, an act to amend the Internal Revenue code of 19 8 1986 and so forth, sigy 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. Is it the sense of the senate that debate on the motion to proceed to h. R. 3979, an act to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986, to ensure that Emergency Service volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Pat