Decision to extend federal funding past the december 11 deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown. Your watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Bay black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who in your wisdom has so ordered our earthly lives that we must walk by faith and not by sight, increase our trust in your sovereign care. Remind our lawmakers that no problem is too difficult for you to solve. Lord, give our senators a faith th triumphs over despair, love that triumphs over hate, and courage that triumphs over faintheartedness. Empower them to be bold participants rather than timid spectators in meeting the daunting challenges of these times. We we pray in our powerful name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I edge allegiance to the fla of the United States of erica, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
And the recent peak last week up more than 80 . Some investors taking trips off the table. The 10 year yield down. It does not feel panicked. It seems more orderly. If below that, it could get disorderly but right now, orderly selling. You mentioned froth the market when it comes to tech. Any indication that comes out so far question mark they are still so far . They are still relatively high. Relative to technicals, it seems the buyers are trying to step in even with the sellers at work. Nasdaq 100 holding its moving average. Apple has not touched that support line. We could see some selling pressure but we are likely to see the market hold up so long as they are in place. Tech has taken the spotlight away from oil. Oil is down today more than a percent. It is something to keep in mind. It is risk off but oil is very sensitive to the economy. This is one time investors may be nervous around the economy. But overall, orderly and risk off. David lawmakers return to washington with a ful
Clearly, his bright light will continue to shine. Rest in peace, ronnie chapman. You will be missed. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, im introducing a resolution along with supervisor ronen urging the association of bay area governments, abag, in its up coming Regional Housing needs allocation, or rhna, to maintain their current housing level needs in San Francisco. The California Department of housing and Community Development recently assigned the bay area a new region wide rhna Housing Production goal that is 2. 35 times more than our existing one, or our goal of producing nearly 500,000 new homes in eight years throughout the bay area. San francisco should take a position on how the numbers will be allocated to local jurisdictions, as it will have a real impact on Speculative Development in our city if the goals are not met. If our housing goal is artificially too high, it will trigger s. B. 35. We know that socalled streamlining woul
Strikes. Look at that picture. Now, lets go back for 24 hours or so to sunday night, and look at this. Now, this is something ive never seen before in the bay area. Okay. Here comes the first wave. This is what woke you up, right . Strike, strike, strike, strike. A little bit of a break, and then a second wave, equally as strong in not stronger, 6 00 a. M. Wait, im not done. And then you keep going. 7 00 a. M. These are lined strikes, many cloudtoground, and then you get into sunday morning . Look at this. Okay. Then we get into the afternoon. It brakes off a little bit. Not bad. Get a little bit of a break. Thunderstorms die down, and then next wave comes through. That started late last night early this morning, and youll see this. Ive never seen backtoback storms like this. Here comes the next wave, next wave, and next wave. Look at this. So no wonder we have spot fires. No wonder cal fire is returning around just crazy out there. That has to do with all of the spot fires. Now, we ar
Discussion on racial justice. Here is Actress Eva Longoria leading off the first day of the convention. Ms. Longoria good evening. And eva longoria guest on welcome to the 2020 Democratic National convention, uniting america. Every four years we come together to unite our democracy. This year we come to save it. It is going to take all of us, so tonight we stand together united by the values we cherish decency, respect, justice, and the opportunity to rise up. We always hear that line about this being the most important election of our lifetimes, but this year, it really is. The past few months have tested us all. We have lost more than 170,000 family members and friends to covid. This tragedy is compounded by the loss of jobs and income. But it is not just the past few months. The past four years have left us, as a nation, diminished and divided. And yet in the middle of the fear and sorrow and the uncertainty, people have come together. Because they know we are better than this. Amer