Kennedy space center in florida for a nasa news conference. Tomorrows launch of spacex has been delayed until sunday. On cspan two. Harrison is with us. The Defense Budget analysis director for the center and we will get to the discussion of the Defense Budget, what may be ahead in the Biden Administration at work yet to do. , todd good morning harrison. We wanted to start with your thoughts on the quick firing of the defense secretary earlier this week. It is certainly within the president s prerogative to change how members of his cabinet, but it is highly unusual to see a firing like this during a transition period. It was widely expected secretary esper would not continue secretary of defense into a second trump term, but given the way the election came out, i think there was an expectation he would finish out the term until january 20. That has been custom that most of the senior people within the administration, president ially appointed people, would normally continue until from
Enough is enough is enough is enough. So i want to be really clear that what happened to Breonna Taylor was part and parcel and pattern of the war that is waging in our lives and weve got to Start Talking about it. Reporter for these women, what happened to taylor is extremely personal and staying silent is not an option. I wont tell you our lives matter. You know our lives matter. So what we need to garner is the power to demonstrate that our lives matter. This gathering came after hundreds of people marched through down oakland hours after the grand Jury Announcement in kentucky. So far in oakland, the protests around the Breonna Taylor decision have been entirely peaceful. Wednesday night, police say there were no arrests and no reports of damage. Some demonstrators did walk on to interstate 980 for a time. Protesters and car caravans vowed to take their message to bay area bridges and even airports. Its a time to provide safe places and safe spaces for the freedom of speech. For th
Progress on u. S. china trade talk as the worlds biggest economies discuss technologies consumption, investments and exports fall sharply during the height of the pandemic President Trump accepts the Republican Party nomination taking aim at the democrats accusing them of, quote, trying to steal the election. We have to be very, very careful. This time they are going to try to do it in the whole post office scam. You can see them setting it up watch them carefully we have to win this is the most important election in the history of our country. Some breaking news coming out of germany this morning. From the eve o from t from the ifo data. 92 92. 6 versus the forecast of 92. 2 you may recall back in april when we saw many lockdowns the data started to cross then and we are seeing recovery in those numbers. The ifo Current Conditions is 87. 9 in august forecast was lower and what we are also seeing in the ifo Expectations Index is up to 97. 5 in august versus a forecast of 98 so slightly
A poorly placed arrow on my part. That hopefully is placed on the shoulder. Well get updates. Back to you. All right. Breaking news and new overnight, a triple shooting at a san jose motel. This happened a little before 1 00 this morning at the allura inn. Our crew at the scene tells us officers cleared the area within the last 20, 40 minutes or so. Police say none of the people shot suffered life threatening injury. The shooter or shooters remain atlarge. This morning we focus on High School Seniors finding themselves in a unique position. For those in the class of 2020 interested in Higher Education the pandemic may have them exploring other options, maybe even taking a gap year. Today in the bays jackie ward has more from a College Counselor to help out with the pros and cons of making this decision and this is something weve seen more kids do, even prepandemic. Reporter thats right, marcus. Good morning to you. So lee, a consult at at Bay Area College consulting says that more than
Salesforce also up higher. A lot of those secondtier tech names also did well. 10, 15 or more. They are looking for what they think will be the next leg up in this market. Taylor we do a lot of analysis here that abd traditional models dont work anymore. But over the weekend, i was reading about the fed model, ifating around an idea that you use the fed model, equities could march higher than where they are right now. That is a note in the midst of some of the optimism, that catches my attention. Romaine jack, lets pick up where taylor left off, specifically around this idea of how you evaluate market and whether some of the core metrics for valuation really matter in the timeframe we are in. Into this next earnings season really paying attention to some of those more traditional metrics . Jack i think some of those more traditional metrics make sense still as long as you compare them to other metrics. I dont know if the core price to earnings ratio on the s p 500 tells me a whole lot