With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well call to order the subcommittee communications and technology and i want to welcome everyone here today and wish a very good morning to chairman wheeler and commissioner pay, delighted to have you back before the subcommittee again this year. We appreciate the work youre doing at the fcc and i look forward to your testimony and our opportunities to pursue some issues. At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, however i continue to be concerned with the commissionys failure to adhere to sou
Secondary sanctions on foreign entities doing businesses with entities remain listed with terrorism and human rights issues. The problem is the laudable positions have not been made public and they are only effective if they are aggressively publicized and equally enforced. The fact is as u. S. Officials will concede in private conversations that the administration suffers from a trust deficit. Whether one believes this is deserved or not. It is there. And the fact is that not only are none of the positions listed just listed clear within the deal, the deal could easily be read as prohibiting each and every one of them. Failing to make these positions public not only undermines the utility, it makes people question whether the administrations intention is to act on those positions moving forward. Those are Critical Issues not open to interpretation under the iran deal. The task force issued the last statement identifying iran with a region which poses risk to the Financial System. They
Morning. Health care taxes will meet with members of the house ways and Means Committee at the white house as the administration moves forward with its plan for tax reform. Ahead of tomorrows big unveil coming up the markets look like this this morning. Features indicate a mixed opening for the broader averages. Nasdaq up 10 after a really tough day yesterday for technology. Investors watching tech stocks enduring correction territory down 10 from its most recent high. It is up this morning, but tech certainly was the problem for markets yesterday. Take a look at the light indices here. Down five points. The cac and dax are up about a quarter of a percent. In asia overnight, stocks were closed mixed this morning. The nikkei average down a third of a percent. The cost the average down a quarter of a percent and the hang seng shanghai actually higher. Tragedy in new york at a Police Officer shot in the face after being ambushed by gunmen. Latest on her condition this morning. Polls are s
61 points. Whats happening across the pond in the european markets, and its a mostly lower day as you can see. The ftse bucking the trend up one third of one percent see where Interest Rates are heading today and theres 236 on the 10year and crude is holding there. The road map starts with the largest proxy fight ever Procter Gamble shareholders deciding whether nelson peltz should get a seat on the board plus, the e commerce play, walmart remodeling stores andaging digital experiences and betting online sales will grow by 40 honnywell, shares rising after they spin off the home and transportation units front and center, Procter Gambles annual meeting getting under way. Shareholders whether to give nelson peltz a seat on the board. He has been seeking changes and p g officials are opposing saying their Growth Strategy is on track of the lobbying on both sides has been intense sara eisen will have exclusive interviews with nelson peltz and Procter Gamble ceo, david taylor first, jim cra
Did not, 88 people are still listed as missing in Sonoma County, and it is expected that some of those people were killed when the fire swept in over the week ago. Tens of thousands of evacuees are headed home bow throughout the fire zone. The number of people who are out of their homes is at 40,000 which is down from 100,000 over the weekend. Almost 11,000 firefighters remain on the fire line. Authorities say they are making Good Progress on the pocket fire at the top left corner of your screen. They are focusing on the northern section of that fire. Officials say they are attacking a section of the tubs fire after it jumped an containment line. That is in the middle of your screen. The tubs fire is now 70 contained. The nuns fire is holding a 50 and the atlas fire is that 68 contained. The Redwood Valley fire is that 50 and the pocket fire is that what contained. We have live team covered from the fires in north bay, the latest on the weather condition, and the story of a roommate wh