[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to ord order. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today we are here to examine the act of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witnesses the facebook chairman and ceo, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebooks plan to create a Digital Currency, libra, and a digital wallet raised many concerns relating to privacy, trading risks, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy and the stability of the Global Financial system i and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks
Unincorporated parts of the county. Pg es website shows where the power is currently out. The purple icons indicate those are the power shutoffs which are under way in the north bay and along the sierra foothills. Pg e said it would start turning off the power at 3 00 p. M. Today although some people told us it started earlier than that. Outages will begin in San Mateo County around 1 00 in the morning. Pg e hopes to restore power by the weekend. A total of about 35,000 pg e customers in the bay area are affected by these Power Outages and that is why we have Live Team Coverage tonight. David louie will join us in a moment and we have Team Coverage in the north bay as well, which will bear the biggest impact. Before we go to Laura Anthony, lets hear from liz kreutz who is life in santa rosa. Liz. Reporter good evening. Roughly 27,000 customers are without power right now in sonoma county. Many of them here in santa rosa. Now, i want to show you where we are. We are inside the citys Eme
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Hello im Adrian Finnegan this is counting the cost analysis serial weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the way we pay for health care millions of people in the us go without medical insurance many file for bankruptcy because they cant afford to pay their medical bills. Or the chances of rolling out universal health care in an Unequal World will take a look at Zimbabwes Health care system which is on the brink of collapse. Plus the Tech Companies have a solution to the way that everyone accesses health care well talk to an investor and c. E. O. Of a diagnostic camp. Now just because you are the richest nation in the world and spend more than any other nation on health care doesnt mean the outcomes are better or that more people will Access Health services more than half a 1000000 people turn to bankruptcy in the us because they cant pay their medical bills and more than 27000000 people are without medical insurance in the poorest nations the weakest dont have ac
A much bigger gap and it looked like president ever moralise was going to win outright without a runoff thats really cool indignation for the people here for a lot of people across the country there have been protests in other cities it doesnt look like its running out any time soon the challenger Carlos Messer said in a News Conference to react just a couple of hours ago that if they want to keep pressure on the government and they have to keep out in the streets and people seem to basically be taking the advice the organization of american states is all so weighed in saying that there should be a 2nd round to give some certainty about whats happened here so far president raul is is resisting that he said that its only a matter of time before the electoral tribe you know because its an outright win thing here without any need of a 2nd round. Meanwhile anti protest and to government protests in chile have become more of the some of the largest and most violent in any 30 as at least 800