Me here and everyone. I have had an amazing todays. Left, a few people were saying im going to have a great weekend because im going to go to iowa. I was like suckers, because they are going to be so cold. This is my third time as a national cochair and im incredibly excited to be part of that includes everyone who wants to send our country in the right direction. When i was in middle school, i went to a tiny town, about 100 went to a middle school in iowa and i had a long wayride, 45 minutes each and one day i was in middle school and a bus was driving through athens and it has a tiny town square and the bus came to because there was an honest to god traffic jam in aston, iowa and the bus was stopped in kids started to get rowdy. , she shut the back and some smart alec shattered of course it is closed, it is 4 00 because remember back then, those were the hours. What i understood it when i got home and saw the crowd of people standing in front of the locked doors was that the bank was
29,297 the close on the dow. Economists are blaming big slowdown on trade pressure and tariffs, what do you say, john . There you go, this is as expected, china was much more vulnerable to imposition of trade war and u. S. Economy, china has a very strong incentive as ambitious as it might be. Dagen one thing i will point out that we have a record in the stock market here in the United States, in the meantime the democrats are trying to remove President Trump from office, we will get to that in a second but there are good numbers coming out of china, the index jump today highest level since 2015, this is probably a better leading indicater than Economic Growth, the wall street journal writes also about this, the price of copper is up more than 7 in the past 2 months, again, industrial metal used around the globe, another bellwether for Global Health and surveys of purchasing managers in the euro zone have shown continued weakness, new export orders have been going up, the market is tel
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University. I am pleased to welcome you to tonights events presented in part o worship with politics and prose bookstore and the third in the George Washington University President ial distinguished events series. We launched the series last semester to give our students the opportunity to hear from renowned leaders of the individuals that bring illuminating dialogue, insight and inspiration to the campus. In the heart of the nations capital, the university is fortunate to be surrounded by the many governmental nonprofit and International Agencies and organizations that make the decisions that affect each of us every day. Our location here allows us to be part of those decisions. It allows our students access to the uniquely dc experiential learning opportunities and it allows our faculty to provide rigorous and highquality scholarship and problem solving and iproblemsolvingand it alloo serve as a hub for timely discussions that are important and relevant to all of us. Tonight, we are
Lets go straight to the meteorologist, we are seen rain, hail, and a lot of snow up in the mountains just today. Quite a bit of snow in the sierra. Locally, if you thought it was cold enough to snow, you were right on, with dropping snow areas in the bay area to 22,500 feet. You can see a little bit of a dusting of snow. So yeah, the snow levels continue to drop here in the bay area. A Winter Weather advisory in fact toward the big sur coastline for today into tomorrow. What about those rainfall totals . Those numbers really adding up. San francisco 1. 14. San jose,. 86. Oakland,. 70. Concord, just over half an inch of rainfall. These were measured today around 17 and 20 inches. Snow still in the forecast for today. Heres what it looks like on the satellite, and the radar as we come in closer. Today, we still have some scattered showers, in fact the possibility of some thunderstorms showing up. Some areas experiencing a bit of a break in the clouds, but right now, you can see activity