Speaker who we aree so honored o have with us, senator tammy duckworth. Senator duckworth probably needs no introduction to most of you watching. She is an iraq war veteran, a purple heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the u. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and napa yes, senator for the state of illinois. For both of us working in our security, certainly for those of us who are women in National Security, when you think about people who are breaking down barriers ahead of you, store duckworth is the top of the list when the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom cup first u. S. Senator to give birth while in office, and particularly relevant to todays event the firsts member of congress was born in thailand and the first asianamerican who was elected to congress from the state of illinois. In addition to the work shes done of defense and Veterans Affairs, senator duckworth spent a lot of time thinking about the military cha
And we are pleased to have with us senator tammy duckworth. Needs nouckworth introduction. She is an iraq war veteran, former assistant secretary at the department of Veterans Affairs and now u. S. Senator for the state of illinois. Illinois. And i think for those of us working and National Security, certainly for those of us who are women and National Security. We think about people are breaking down barriers, et cetera duckworth is at the top of the list. One of the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom. First u. S. Energy given birth while in office. And particularly in todays event the first member of congress he was born in thailand in the first asianamerican he was elected to congress and the state of illinois. So in addition to the work shes done on defense and Veterans Affairs, et cetera duckworths spent a lot of time thinking about the military challenges we face in the pacific. She has really been an advocate for the alliance
1. 5 ct for the s p tumbled and the nasdaq hit harder in a couple of minutes. Treasuries and the yen gain. Money floods into safe hane assets it is a president s positive test acts as a wakeup call for markets. Good morning. Just under an hour away from 60 minutes away from the start of cash and equity trading in europe. We do see drops more than 1 in European Equity Index Futures. We were looking at some positive numbers just an hour ago. Take a look at the u. S. Futures. Down with the nasdaq underperforming. 1. 9 . And dow off anna we see reaction to these stunning headlines that have taken the markets by storm. Gripped the market. Dictating many over the moves that were seeing. Beware many of the markets in asia are closed. What we have open in asia is japan, australia and indonesia. We saw instant negative reaction. Nasdaq futures down by as much as 202 in the initial place where we saw the news breaking. We do see negative riskoff reaction. We see money going into the dollar and c
Physically in the classroom, but we hope and expect our learning every day. The issues of equity, the issues of access and availability, laptops, computers, screens. Issues of connectivity as it relates to internet and broadband. All of those issues, vaccines, even on the natural but particularly under the circumstances made more acute and more foundational in terms of our ability to not just promote the promise of education during this time but to actually deliver on it. Ive been very proud of the work that many folks have done from the superintendent of Public Education to the president of the state school board, linda darling hammond, both of which are on the phone today but ive also been very blessed by someone that i know very well, and thats my wife, the first partner of the state of california. She, in partnership with members of my team, ben cheetah and others, have been working hard over the last few weeks to build on the announcement we made a few weeks ago about those 100,00
Governor newsom giving his Daily Briefing on the covid 19 response, right now number wise we know there are 31,000 cases in california and close to 1200 people so far have died from coronavirus in the state and here in the bay area there are more than 6400 confirmed cases with close to 200 people who have died. Now lets go to Governor Newsom right now with just stepped up to the microphone. We have been able to organize this and help support our 6 million kids not physically in the classroom but we hope and expect are learning every day. The issues of equity and the issues of access and availability of laptops and computers, screens, issues of connectivity as it relates to internet and broadband, all of those issues we see on the natural but particularly under the circumstances made more acute and more foundational in terms of our ability to not just promote the promise of education during this time to actually deliver on it. I have been very proud of the work that many have done from