Good thursday morning to you. Thanks so much. Were starting right here with us, im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Well check in with mike in just a moment. But lets talk to kari right now. Another good day to actually go outside . Yes, it looked so great yesterday and were seeing more of the same today with cleaner air continuing to move in. A lot of green sensors here, once again, meaning good air quality. As we look at the high temperatures, were basically close to where ewwe were yestery afternoon with upper 60s for San Francisco. We head over towards the east bay where well reach, once again, back into the upper 80s. Arm air today, but it will cool going on in this forecast. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Hows it looking as you get ready to head out the door, mike . You know, overall, green sensors, which is great news but you want to slow it down a tad bit. Lets take it out to the maps where the folks are looking at the weather and chp gave a couple advisories, as well
U. S. House here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray, lord, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At a time when so many are worried about business survival, rent payment and unemployment benefits, impell those in our government that are charged with the general welfare to come together to negotiate solutions benefiting all americans in need. Put forth your spirit of wisdom, patience and goodwill upon all the members of congress during these troubling days for so many of our nations citizens. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last
The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
One progress review should happen soon. More signs offers china strengthening rebound. Sales jumped by one third last quarter to 22 billion. The company insists it is no threat to u. S. National security. Lets take a look at how we are shaping up on this final friday session of the day. Lets get over to sophie he was taking a closer look. What are we watching . Vibes coming through with futures largely higher. We could see some weakness in korea following the drop that we saw for the kospi. On the docket today were looking at cpi from japan. Nikkei futures move slightly higher this morning, while the yen is trading below the 106 handle. Pulling up the chart on the terminal, we are watching to see if tech will bounce back in the region after thursdays selloff which saw the kospi with a big loss and the worst day for the regional tech index since march. Samsung took a hit on the south outlook for to prices. Prices. Outlook on chip potential hits on huawei and delayed 5g. That could hurt
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