Really good afternoon, everyone. Right. Apologies for the delay. We had the administrator was actually briefing the president in the oval office. So we wanted to make sure that she was ready to go and the president got the briefing that he needed before we came out. So apologies for a late start in the briefing. So in a minute, you will hear directly from the fema administrator on how the Biden Harris Administration has mobilized a robust whole of government response effort to support immediate and long term rescue and Recovery Efforts in maui. Hawaii. First, as the president said yesterday, we are praying for those who lost so much who lost loved ones, their community, their businesses, their households. We are also incredibly thankful to the First Responders and also the the very brave firefighters who are on the front lines who are dealing with this response and recovery effort. Early today, we announced that the president and the first lady who will be traveling to hawaii on monday
And message next week. You see the ten year there at 430. Small cap, russell 2000, up slightly today. Off 2 for the week. We have some soft guidance from adobe. Thats weighing on the software sector. Pulling down the nasdaq by almost 1 . While energy shows pep on a strong run for crowd prices this week crude prices this week, happening on a quarterly session featuring heavy index rebalancing at the close in less than an hour, as well. Which takes us to our talk of the tape. Is all this churn just about an overheated market cooling off a bit after a rapid spread higher, or is it the start of what would be the first notable broad pullback in some five months . We posed this question to cic wealth executive Vice President and contributor, malcolm, welcome. Good to be here. Were up 16 of 19 weeks in the s p. Havent had a 2 pullback on a closing basis in one of the longest stretches in history. Which leads you to say, okay, were due for some chop. On the other hand, you know, theres the arg
Exchanged views on matters of interest in the region and the islamic world, including the palestinian issue. A statement in which the Islamic Republic of iran and the republic announced that they will resume their political relations with the foreign minister of lebanon, who is also the foreign minister of our country , emphasized the importance of the palestinian issue and irans constant support for the resistance in lebanon and palestine against the threats of the zionist regime. Africa south, whose country is one of the founders of the brics organization, expressed his satisfaction with irans membership in brics and described this organization as an organization for future global developments. The Islamic Republic of iran discussed and exchanged views with the negotiating parties of the countries under negotiation, as well as the future plans and actions. Met and talked with ali rajabi of the United Nations Broadcasting Agency in new york, the minister of science announced the concl
Power system in the northeast and mid atlantic due to increasing Winter Weather events, including the bomb cyclone. I would like to start by calling on the Ranking Member to give her opening statement. Thank you, chair, and good morning to everyone. Im sure that senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people may know, a 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska, impacting co kodiak and parts of the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings that were issued for activities that were expected, and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. So, impa want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker, for being here and many of the staffs that people have here that were glad were back in operation. So we look forward to hearing from all our witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid. And its performance. Last year, secretary perry
Here shortly, and obvious knows that 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off of the coast of alaska and the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings for activities that were expect and warnings for the tsunami waves were recalled but i am sure that the sen or the is dealing with items related to and that other h issues. I want to thank the chairman mr. Mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here, and many of the staffs that are going to be hearing that we are back in operation. So we look forward to hearing about the sun jek the subjec reliability. And last year we looked at the reliability of the electric grid in light of the mixing fuel change. We have carefully distinguished on the issues of new items to have renewable renewals and also frequent response and also to adopt resilient metrics that needed to be developed. Fortunately when the secretary perry filed the report as a proposal to furk, i was more alarmed. It was the conclusion of the departments own staff, and it was a transparent attem